DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS. 



HYACINTHS IN PACKAGES. 



The following are put up in packages of six roots each, with names and colors marked, and 

 are sold at lower prices than the same quality of roots can be when selected from the Catalogue. 

 They are all free-blooming, choice varieties. Nos. 1 and 2 are double, 3 and 4 single, 5 half 

 double and half single. 



Also, packages of six roots each, with colors marked, but are not named. No. 6, double ; No. 

 7, single ; No. 8, half double and half single. 



No. 1. — Si. 00 per package. 



CONTAINS : 



Anna Maria, white, red eye. 

 General Antink, light blue. 

 Grossfurst, pink. 

 La VlRGINlTE, rosy white. 

 M.EHEMED Ali, dark blue. 

 Panorama, dark red. 



No. 2. — $1.25 per package. 

 contains : 

 Blocksberg, porcelain blue. 

 Bouquet Tendre. dark crimson. 

 Czar Nicholas, rose. 

 Lord Anson, rosy white. 

 Mignon Yon Drufhout, dark blue. 

 Prince of Waterloo, pure white. 



No. 3. — $1.00 per package. 

 contains : 

 Baron Van Tiyll. deep blue. 

 Emicts, deep blue with white eye. 

 L'Amik nir CfEiR, crimson. 

 Mrs. Beecher Stowe, pure white. 

 Norma, pink. 

 Voltaire, rosy white. 



No. 4.— $L25 per package. 

 contains : 

 Blue Mourant, dark blue. 

 Emmelink, pink. 

 Grand Lilas, porcelain blue. 

 Grand Vedette, pure white. 

 Grandeur a Merveille, rosy white. 

 Madame Hobson, crimson. 



No. 5. — $1.25 per package. 



CONTAINS 3 DOUBLE AND 3 SINGLE. 



Bocquet d'O range, orange. 

 Lord Wellington, bright blue. 

 Princess Royal, rich crimson. 

 Grand Vainqueur, pure white. • 

 King of Holland, orange. 

 Prince of Saxe Weimer, dark blue. 



No. 6. — 85 cts. per package. 

 contains (double.) 

 Bed and pink, blue and porcelain, white and 

 rosy white. 



No. 7.-85 cts. per package. 



CONTAINS (SINGLE.) 



Bed and pink, blue and porcelain, white ano. 

 rosy white. 



No. 8. — 85 cts. per package. 



CONTAINS 3 DOUBLE AND 3 SINGLE. 



Red and pink, blue and porcelain, white and 

 rosy white. 



The Tclif, of all bulbous flowers, is 

 the most celebrated, popular and bril- 

 liant, and has always been prized by 

 florists, as the most decorative and 

 showy of spring flowers ; and not sim- 

 ply for effect alone, for many of the 

 choice kinds have a delicacy of pencel- 

 ling, and richness of tinting,which excel 

 all other plants. They are easy of cul- 

 ture, both in the conservatory or parlor, 

 (for which the early varieties are re- 

 commended) and the open garden. They 

 will thrive in almost any good soil. A 

 sandy, soil enriched with rotted cow 

 manure, is, however, preferable — and 

 being perfectly hardy,they can well claim 

 a prominent rank among* hardy bulbs. 



Their cultivation is yet so limited, 

 that their real beauty is not generally 

 recognized. A few bulbs scattered here 

 and there produce but little effect, but 

 when planted in masses, or in small 

 groups, they become at once grand and 

 brilliant, and eclipse, in real variety of 

 coloring and picturesque effect, almost 

 any other flower. 



