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DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 



Globe Amaranth, Nana Compacts. 



Everlasting Flowers. 



All of the varieties offered below are popularly known as Everlastings or Straw Flowers. Mot only do they make 

 handsome plants for beds or borders, but are desirable as pot-plants, their neat growth and pretty flowers making them 

 well adapted for this use. When the flowers are desired for drying for winter bouquets they should be cut before fully 

 expanded and hung up in the shade to dry. per pk 



ACROCLIN1UM. Charming border annuals with beau- 593 ' 

 tiful flowers, growing freely in any good garden soil ; 1 ft. 

 5030 Acroclinium, Single flixed. Per oz. 40 cte. . . 5 



5025 — Double Mixed 10 



5114 AMMOBIUM ALATUM GRANDIFLORUM. A 

 pretty border annual much used as an everlasting 

 flower for winter bouquets ; pure white 5 6460 



QLOBE AMARANTH (Gomphrena.) Bachelor's But- 

 tons. 

 5896 Globe Amaranth, Nana compacta. Red . . . 10 6760 



5900 Mixed. Per oz. 40 cts 5 



5799 Imported Collection of Everlasting Flowers ; 12 varieties 



PER PKT- 



HELICHRYSUM. Exceedingly effective double 

 flowers, making a fine display in beds or borders ; 

 they succeed in any rich garden soil ; hardy an- 

 nuals ; lift. Mixed 5 



HELIPTERUM SANFORDI. A very pretty 

 border annual of dwarf habit, bearing large glob- 

 ular clusters of bright golden yellow flowers ; 1 foot 5 

 RHODANTHE. Mixed. A charming annual; 

 succeeds in a light, rich soil and a warm sheltered 

 situation ; valuable for pot culture ; 1 foot . . . . 10 

 XERANTHEMUM. Superbissimum, Mixed. 

 Showy double free-flowering border annuals ... 10 

 50 



Ornamental Grasses. 



The Ornamental Grasses serve the double purpose of rendering the mixed flower-bed or border attractive during 

 the summer, and for the use of the spikes or panicles in a dried state in winter bouquets. 



For large beds or groups on lawns nothing gives a finer effect, and they are now largely used in prominent positions 

 in many of the finest public parks^eta The following are the most^popular varieties : 



5167 ARUNDO DONAX VAR1EGATA. Long, grace- 

 ful drooping leaves, variegated creamy white and 

 green ; stems 10 feet high ; fine for specimens on 

 lawns or for massing ; hardy perennial 10 



5313 BRIZA MAXIMA. (Quaking Grass). A beautiful 

 variety, in great demand for ornamental work and 

 brass bouquets ; annual ; 1 feet. (See cut) .... 5 



5316 BROMUS BRIZ/EFORMIS. A graceful variety, 

 with drooping panicles resembling the Briza Max- 

 ima ; hardy perennial, flowering the first season . 5 



5591 COIX LACHRYM^E (Job's Tears). With broad, 

 corn-like leaves and hard, shining, pearly seeds ; 

 annual ; 2 feet. (See cut). Per oz. 20 cts 5 



5782 ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. Hardy perennial, ex- 

 quisite plumes resembling the Pampas. Fine for 

 lawns ; flowers the first season if sown very early . 5 



5919 Collection of Grasses, containing one package of each of the above 11 varieties 



5802 Eulalia Jap. Variegata. Striped white and green. 10 



5803 — Zebrina. Light green barred with creamy 

 white. Variegation runs across the foliage. (See 

 cut) 10 



5913 GYNERIUM ARGENTEUM (Pampas Grass). 

 White silvery plumes, half-hardy perennial, blooms 



the second season from seed. (See cut) 5 



LAGURUS OVATUS (Hare's lail Grass). Beau- 

 tiful small white heads or spikes of bloom, excel- 

 lent for bouquets ; annual ; 1 foot 5 



SETARIA MAGNA {Bristly I<ox-tail Grass). A 

 handsome grass, growing 10 to 12 feet high, bear- 

 ing dense spiked panicles 2 to 3 feet long 10 



6586 STIPA PENNATA (leather Grass) Hardy peren- 

 nial, beautiful, delicate, white, feathery bloom ; 

 flowering the second season from seed ; 2 feet . . 5 



5988 



6556 



50 



Ooix LachrymaB. 



Briza Maxima 



Gynerium Argenteum. 



Eulalia Zebrina. 



