DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 



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CARNATION. 



Carnation, Chaubaud's Perpetual. 



Carnations are general favorites for their delicious fragrance and richness of colors. 



They are indispensable, both for greenhouse culture in Winter and for the garden in 



Summer. 



PER PKT. 



5430 Fine Double Mixed. The best for garden culture § \0 



5426 Finest Double Mixed. Saved from extra fine flowers 25 



5423 Early Flowering Vienna. Double mixed colors 10 



5426 Perpetual, or Tree. Choicest mixed colors 25 



5437 Chabaud's Perpetual. Raised by a famous French specialist. 



Blooms in five months after being sown and continues to flower in the 



greatest profusion indefinitely. (See cut) . . . 25 



5429 Imported Collection of 12 finest varieties 1 00 



5427 Imported Collection of 6 finest varieties 50 



Marguerite Carnations. (See page 62.) 



CELOSIA, OK COCKSCOMB. 



Free-blooming annuals, growing best in rather light soil, not too rich, producing 

 ornamental comb-shaped flower's ; make grand border plants and are attractive 

 for pots. 



Cristata, or Crested Varieties. 



5441 Queen of the Dwarfs. This we consider the finest of the dwarf-grow- 

 ing Cockscombs. The plants grow only eight inches high, with beautiful 

 dark rose-colored combs, measuring under good cultivation two feet across . 10 



5442 Glasgow Prize. Immense showy dark crimson combs. (See cut) . 10 



5443 Empress. Combs of colossal proportions ; they have been grown 

 measuring 45 inches from tip to tip ; rich crimson 10 



5440 Variegata. Variegated with crimson, orange, green striped, etc:, of 



the most brilliant hues ; 3 feet 5 



5450 Dwarf, Mixed. Fine dwarf varieties. Per oz. 75c 5 



5449 Imported Collection of 6 dwarf Cockscombs 25 



Feathered Varieties. 



Make fine plants for large beds or groups, 

 and the plumes or flowers can be cut and 

 dried for winter bouquets. PER pkt. 



5444 Thompson's Superb ( Triomphe 

 de V Exposition). This variety has 

 attracted general attention in the public 

 gardens of Paris. Pyramidal in growth, 

 attaining a height of a little more than 

 two feet, and produces beautiful large 

 spikes of the most brilliant crimson. In 

 sunlight the rich color of the flower 

 spikes is beautifully contrasted with the 

 bronze-colored foliage. (See cut) . .10 



5447 Golden Plume. Pyramidal habit. 

 Flowers bright golden-yellow .... 10 



5445 Plumosa Superba. A beautiful 

 feathered variety ; mixed colors . .10 



Celosia. Glasgow Prize. 



Celosia. Thompson's Supekb. 



CENTAUREA. 



White=Leaved, or Dusty Miller Varieties. 



Fine for bedding, vases, hanging-baskets and pots ; also exten- 

 sively used for margins. Sow the seed from December to April. 



5457 Gymnocarpa. Fine cut silver-gray foliage; li it. 

 Per 1,000 seeds 50 cts . . 10 



5454 Candidissima. Silvery white, leaves broadly cut. 



Per 1,000 seeds 50 cts. ....'..'. 10 



Flowering Varieties. 

 Favorite annuals does well everywhere. Fine cut flowers. 



5463 Cyanus Blue [Kaiser Blume, Corn Flowers or 

 Blue Bottle) 5 



5462 —White 5 



5460 —Mixed. U feet 5 



5464 — Double Flowered 5 



5465 — Dwarf Victoria. Forms very pretty globular bushes, 



8 inches in height, covered with dark blue flowers . . .10 

 Giant Flowering Varieties. 



These may be described as gigantic cornflowers, and are of 

 the same easy culture, succeeding everywhere. But as cut flowers 

 they are greatly in advance of the old Centaurea Cyanus, the 

 flowers being from 2 to 4 inches in diameter, of graceful form 

 and very sweetly scented. A sowing made out of doors in May, 

 June and July will furnish an abundance of bloom until Novem- 

 ber. They can also be grown in-doors through the Winter. 



5461 Chameleon. Pale yellow on opening, turning to 

 lilac, and finally to a beautiful rose color. Exquisite . . .10 



5458 Odorata. Reddish lavender, highly fragrant . . .10 



5459 Margarita;. Snow-white blossoms. (See cut. ) . .10 



Centaurea Margarita. 



