DREER-S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS. 



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Scarlet. 

 Hortensis, red. 



SINGLE ANEMONES. 



Price 8 cents each. 80 cents per dozen.] 

 Hortensis, violet. 

 Mixed, various colors. 



C0L0CASIA or Caladium Esculentum. 



One of the most beautiful and striking of the Ornamental Foliaged Plants in cul- 

 tivation, either for culture in large pots, or for planting out upon the lawn ; it will 

 grow in any good garden soil, and is of the easiest culture ; when of full size it 

 stands about "five feet high, with immense leaves, often measuring four feet in 

 length, by two and a half in breadth ; very smooth, of a light green color, beauti- 

 fully vei led and variegated with dark green. The root should be preserved in 

 dry sand, in a cellar, during winter, out of reach of frost. Price 50 cents to SI. 00 

 each, according to size of bulbs. 



CALADIUMS 



•. Price (5.00 and $10.00 per dozen. 



Thi:- class of beautiful variegated foliage plants, margined and delicately traced 

 with var ous rich colors, and elegantly spotted and mottled, give them a rare beauty, 

 when alone or intermingled with other plants. They are of the easiest culture, 

 growing in almost any soil or situation, but a rich loam and shaded position is 

 more desirable. Can be planted in the open ground by the first of June in the 

 vicinity of Philadelphia, and will spread their leaves, glowing with the rich color o'' 

 the tropics, until faded by frosts, when the bulb should be taken up, kept dry an I 

 warm during the winter, to be again planted in the spring. We offer the following 

 varieties, packed and forwarded by mail cr express prior to April 1st, or plants in 

 pots after that date. 



Argyrites, green and white, distinctly marked, dwarf habit | 50 



Belleymei, snow white, ground tinged with lake, and beautifully veined with 



green ; one of the best 1.00 



Bicolor, pale red, shaded and margined with green 50 



Bicolor Transparens, light red translucent centre, green margin 1.00 



Chantini. green ground, red and white spots ; extra fine 50 



Due de Nassau, clear red leaf stalk, centre of leaf beautifullv shaded ;. extra 



fine ., 1.C0 



Hsematostigma, blue-black, shining stalks, leaves rich green, few white 



and rose spots 50 



