DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS. 



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CROWN IMPERIAL. 



A very s h y plant ; is quite hardy, and when the bulb is once planted in any 

 common gard o soil, it needs no other culture. Autumn is the proper season for 

 planting, as the bulbs will not keep long out of the ground. 



EACH. 



$1.25 

 2.00 



Double Red 



Yellow 



Single Orange 75 



" Red 50 



Single Variegated foliage, red $ 75 



" Yellow 125 



" Mixed 35 



LILIUM. 



The Lily has always been a favorite flower. Some of the varieties are truly 

 magnificeut. The Japan Lilies, Liliurn lancifolium, are among the most beautiful, 

 and are delightfully fragrant ; imparting a vanilla perfume, and are suited for either 

 pot culture or the garden ; their period of blooming is during the months of July 

 and August They are all hardy, and the bulbs can be planted either in the Au- 

 tumn or Spring. 



Brownii, (true) white shaded on 

 the outside with brown, immense 

 trumpet- shaped flowers, a superb 



Lily. 2 ft $6.00 



Bulbiferum Umbellatum, orange 



red 



Candidum, double white 



single " 



•' fiore alba speciosum, 



white crim. spotted. 

 ■' flore alba striatum, 

 white ; purple spot- 

 ted 



Chalcedonicum, brilliant scarlet, 



very effective for bedding 50 



Croceum Aurantiacum Major, 



large orange flowers 25 



Fulgens AtrosanguineumCtrue) 



orange red 



Fulgens Umbellatum Erec- 

 tum, yellow, with brown and 



daik orange, very showy 



Fulgens Umbellatum Grandi- 

 florum, very fine, free flowering 

 Fulgens Umbellatum Incom- 

 parable, finest and most showy 



variety .... 



Giganteum, the tallest of the Li- 

 lies, growing ten feet high, with 



50 

 50 

 25 



30 



50 



25 



30 



a spike of white trumpet-shaped 

 flowers, with carmine streaks 



Lancifolium Album, splendid 

 white 



Lancifolium Roseum, white ; 

 spotted with rose 



Lancifolium Rubrum, white, 

 spotted with crimson, superb 



Lancifolium Monstrosum ru- 

 brum, red spotted ; large clus- 

 ters of flowers 



Lancifolium Monstrosum, Al- 

 bum, pure white ; large clusters 

 of flowers 



Longiflora Japonica, large and 

 beautiful, snow-white, trumpet- 

 shaped blossoms 



Peregrinum, showy wLite flow- 

 ers ; native of the Levant, per- 

 fectly hardy, rare 



Superbum, a beautiful red spot- 

 ted drooping Lily '. 



Tenuifolium, drooping scarlet 

 flowers; with fine cut leaves, 

 hardy, very rare 



Thunbergianum Aureum Mac 

 ulatum, orange spotted- 



Tigrinum, orange-salmon, (Tiger- 

 Lily j 



$6.00 

 60 

 40 

 40 



1.25 



1.25 



1 00 

 25 



8.00 

 40 

 25 



LILIUM AURATUM, OR GOLDEN JAPAN LILY. 



The most magnificent of Lilies ; the flower measures ten inches in diameter ; 

 color, white ground, with purple spots, flaked and striped with gold ; flowers of 

 exquisite perfume, Price SI. to $3. each, according to size of bulb. (See Illustration.) 



FUNKIA, (Day Lily; 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants with Lily-like flowers. 

 50 cents each. 

 Funkia Japonica— White flowers. 

 " " Blue flowers. 



" plataginifolia— Dwarf, with variegated foliage, 

 lanceolata — Variegated foliage. 



