DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



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£iicliaris Amazonica. 



A splendid hot-house plant, blooming nearly the entire 

 season. It sends up stalks bearing several pure white, star- 

 shaped flowers, 4 inches across, delightfully fragrant. It 

 is very highly prized in bouquets, baskets, etc. Pot in light 

 rich soil, well drained ; water freely in the growing season, 

 giving a slight rest in fall. 30 cts. to 50 cts. each. 



Lapageria. 



Most beautiful greenhouse climbers, bearing large pend- 

 ant waxy flowers. 



Lapageria Rosea. Eich crimson. $2.50 each. 

 — Alba. Pure waxy white. $4.00 each. 



Magnolia Fuscata. 



{BANANA SHJiUB.) 



A most desirable greenhouse shrub, succeeding admira- 

 bly as a window plant. It produces its small flowers in 

 the greatest profusion during late winter or early spring 

 months. These are of the most exquisite fragrance, simi- 

 lar to a ripe banana. 50 cts. each. 



New Durarf Justicia Velutina." 



This New Dwarf Justicia, so highly praised by Mr. 

 Louis de Vilmorin in the Revue Horticole, is really a much 

 finer and dwarfer plant than our engraving, made from an 

 imported specimen, suggests. Everyone knows the tall, 

 lanky, straggling habit of the old Justicia Rosea. This 

 NEW sort, which is now grown so extensively by Parisian 

 florists, begins to bloom when the plant has only three or 

 four leaves, and is never out of flower afterward. If 

 pinched back occasionally, it makes a very dwarf, stocky 

 plant, frequently covered with 20 to 50 large pink flower- 

 heads, lasting a long time. The foliage is also more per- 

 sistent and highly ornamental, being heavy in texture 

 and very velvety. 30 cts. each ; $3.00 per doz. 



Maranta. 



Valuable decorative stove plants, remarkable for the 

 richness and beauty of their varied foliage. 

 Makoyana. $1.00 to $1.50. 

 Massangeana, 50 cts. ; Zebrina, 50 cts. to $1.00. 



Nepenthes. 



(PITCBER PLANTS.) 



We grow sis choice varieties of these interesting plants. 

 They succeed best planted in baskets suspended from the roof 

 of the greenhouse or conservatory. They should always be 

 thoroughly shaded and furnished with an abundant supply 

 of water. $2.50 to $3.00 each. 



Lotus Pelyorensis. 



{COMAL GEM.) 

 This charming jilant seems to be unknown in this coun- 

 try, yet it is so well thought of abroad that a prominent 

 horticultural journal color-plated it. The Garden says of it : 

 ' 'Its slender, branching habit is most striking, and the silvery 

 foliage even more so. "Without its flowers it might almost 

 be described as a silvery Asparagus ; but the bright coral- 

 red flowers, measuring 2 inches in length, are really beauti- 

 ful, greatly reminding one of the rare and beautiful Clian- 

 thus or Glory Pea, so diflicult to giow, while this gem is of 

 the easiest possible management. Its drooping habit also 

 makes it useful for hanging baskets. " It is nearly hardy. 

 20 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



Maranta Massangeana. 



"Am so much pleased tvlth the ffrowth of plants you have sent 

 that I enclose cheque for another order, which I hope will be sent 

 ifith your usual promptness." 



ANNIE E. McMAHON. Hospital Carmen, 

 Feb. 26, 1896. Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico. 



