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DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 



FERTILIZING PETUNIAS AT OUR NURSERIES AT RIVERTON, AUGUST, 1893.— (From a Photograph.) 



We have long been celebrated for onr magnificent strains of double and single Petunias, which we 

 endeavor to improve from year to year by careful hybridization and selection. 



PETUNIA. 



For out-door decoration or house culture few plants are 

 equal to this class. They commence flowering early, and con- 

 tinue a mass of bloom throughout the whole season, until 

 killed by frost ; easily cultivated, requiring rich soil and a 

 sunny situation. Of late years the single-striped, mottled 

 and double varieties have been greatly improved. The strains 

 we offer of our own growing, we can safely say without con- 

 tradiction, are the best that can be procured either in this 

 country or in Europe. 



PER PKT. 



6284 Dreer's Double Large Flowering-. Beauti- 

 ful varieties in finest mixture 25 



6280 Dreer's Double Large Flo wering Fringed. 



Saved from our own unrivaled collection; will produce 

 a large percentage of double . flowers of the largest 



fringed varieties in bright colors and tints 50 



6290 Dreer's Single Large Flowering Fringed. 

 A choice selection ; the flowers are of very large size 

 and beautiful shape, deep throated, and of varied and 

 brilliant colors, many being beautifully fringed 25 



6285 Giants Of California. Flowers very large, in 

 great variety of colors and markings, with broad deep 

 yellow throats, veined 25 



6287 New Double Violet. A beautiful new double 

 Petunia from Germany, with very large deep violet 

 colored flowers. This is a novel and distinct variety, 

 and will prove an acquisition 35 



6275 Dwarf Inimitable. Star Petunia, beautiful com- 

 pact growing variety, flowers cherry-red with a white 

 centre 10 



6274 Pure White, Single. Desirable for cemetery 



beds, or where large masses of white are wanted 10 



6300 Striped and Blotched, Mixed. All colors. 



Per oz. §1. 00 10 



6310 Fine Mixed. Oz. 75 cts 5 



6299 Collection of Petunia, Large-flowering 



Single, 12 varieties SI. 00 



6309 Collection of Petunia, Double Fringed, 



12 varieties §1.25 



// is well known that the double Petunia grozun from seed 

 produces but a small percentage of double flowers. The balance 

 in single flowers of the same ?-ich shade. The weaker seedlings 

 should be carefully selected, as these always produce double 

 flowers. 



PASSIFLORA. 



(Passion Flower.) 



Indispensable climbing plants, for the garden or green- 

 house, bearing a profusion of attractive flowers. 



PER PKT. 



6250 Passiflora Mixed. Choice varieties 20 



6248 — Insignis (Tacsonia). Remarkable for its mag- 

 nificent flowers, which measure from 6 to 8 inches 

 across; color crimson purple; filaments blue mottled 

 with white ■ 25 



PARDANTHUS. 



(Blackberry Lily.) 



A hardy perennial, bearing showy lily-like flowers. 



6254 Yellow, Red and Orange Spotted 10 



PENTSTEMON. 



One of our most beautiful and attractive herbaceous plants; 

 bearing long, graceful spikes of rich-colored flowers ; will bloom 

 the first season if sown early in March, and planted out in May ; 

 half-hardy perennials; 2 feet. 

 6260 Pentstemon, Mixed. Crimson, purple, etc. . . 10 



ft 



Your seed of double Petunia has proved to be the best I ever had and with the largest percentage of double flowers. 



M. R. CUSHING, Cohasset, Mass., Jan. 25, 1893. 



