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PaSSiflora (Passion Flower) 



Pfordti. The best variety for outdoors in summer; flowers light blue, 

 suffused with rose and borne quite freely. 50 cts. each. 



Princeps. This is one of the best greenhouse climbers, a rare and showy 

 variety with bright red flowers. SI 00 each. 



PennisetUlTl (Fountain Grass) 



Tender ornamental grasses, valuable either as individual specimens in the 

 garden or for massing, while as border plants for beds of Cannas or Caladiums 

 nothing equals them. 



Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum {Crimson Fountain Grass). Foliage 

 gracefully recurved of a pleasing dark metallic, coppery-bronze and tawny 

 crimson plumes, attains a height of about 4 feet. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per 

 doz.; §25.00 per 100. 



Cupreum. Similar in the dark coppery-bronze color of its foliage to the 

 variety above, but with much narrower leaves; grows about 3 to 3j feet 

 high. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 



Rueppelianum {Purple Fountain Grass). Grows 

 about 3 feet high, producing long, graceful green 

 foliage and purplish plumes. Young plants 

 ready in May. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; 

 $12.00 per 100. 



Pentstemon Gloxinioides 



As bedding plants these rank in importance 

 with Petunias, Phloxes, etc. They grow 

 about two feet high, bearing 10 to 12 inch 

 long spikes of Gloxinia-like flowers throughout 

 the summer. We offer a fine strain of large- 

 flowered varieties in choicest mixture, including 

 rose, red, carmine, cherry, pink, lilac, and purple 

 shades. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Dreer's Superb Single- 

 fringed Petunias 



_^ Our own strain of the finest large-flowering 

 single-fringed sorts of this useful bedding plant 

 and invaluable for porch and window boxes, 

 flowering continuously from early in the summer 

 till frost. Ready May 1st. 15 cts. each; 

 $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Sansevieria Zeylanica Laurenti 



Dreer's Superb Single-fringed Petunia 



Crimson fountain Grass (Pennisetum) 



Phyllocactus 



Ackermani. Brilliant scarlet flowers. Day 

 flowering. 50 cts. each. 



Latifrons {The Queen Cactus). The attractive 

 delicate creamy white flowers 6 to 8 inches long 

 expand at night. 50 cts. each. 



Named Hybrids. Beautiful flowering plants 

 closely allied to the Cacti, with thornless leaf- 

 like stems. The flowers, which often measure 

 eight inches in diameter, are long, somewhat 

 trumpet-shaped, consisting of several rows of 

 petals, which in color range from pure waxy 

 white to deep crimson, and are freely produced 

 on well-ripened stems in spring. They are 

 of easy culture, should be confined to small 

 pots and sparingly watered. We offer a choice 

 selection of 12 named varieties. 50 cts. each. 

 Set of 12 for $5.00. 



Plumbago 



Capensis. Flowers at all seasons. . A fine plant for pot 



culture or the border; producing spikes of pretty, light 



blue flowers. 

 CapensisAlba. Identical to the above, but with pure 



white flowers. 

 Coccinea Superba. Long spikes of showy satiny 



carmine flowers; a fine pot plant for the window garden. 



Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Salvia Splendens "America" 



(Scarlet Sage) 



This is the finest of all the Scarlet Sages, being the 



earliest, freest and most continuous bloomer. It is also 



the most uniform in habit of growth. One of the most 



effective bedding plants in cultivation. Ready May 1st. 



20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Sansevieria 



7eylanica Laurenti. This variety, in addition to 

 the variegation shown in the ordinary sort, has a band 

 of creamy yellow varying from J to J inch on each edge 

 of the leaves, which adds greatly to its decorative effect. 

 4-inch pots, $1.00 each; 5-inch pots, $2.00 each; 6-inch 

 pots, $2.50 each. 



Dreer's Select Dahlias are offered on pages 140 to 154 



