DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR. 67 



Per packet. 

 TAGETES SIGNATA PUMILA. A dwarf, globular, compact, bushy plant, with beautiful delicate fern- 

 like leaves, densely covered with bright yellow single flowers, with a reddish-brown stripe through the 



centre of each pctil, valuable for borders as well as beds; half-hardy annual; height, i foot f/a 5 



Pumila Golden Ring. This beautiful new selection from Signata is of an attractive rich orange color ; 

 shorter and more compact than its progenitor, ver>- free-flowering and a really good golden orange-col- 

 ored bedding plant ; 10 inches 25 



TORENIA FOURNIERI. A very fine new distinct tender annual variety from Mexico, having large sky- 

 blue flowers, with three spots of a dark blue, and a bright yellow centre. A splendid pot plant for vases, 

 hanging-baskets, green-house, or for growing out of doors ; they make beautiful flowering plants, covered 



until late in the season with one mass of bloom ; 15 inches 20 



Bailloni. A valuable species, distinguished from all other Torenias by the size and charming color of its 

 flowers, which are bright golden yellow with a brownish-red throat. Associated with Torenia Foumieri 

 a most beautiful eff"ect may be obtained ; 15 inches. We can highly recommend both varieties to every 



lover of flowers 20 



TRACHELIUM CCERULEUM ( Tkroatwort). A hardy herbaceous perennial plant, with blue Campanula- 

 like flowers blooming in August. Sow in a hot-bed in the spring, and plant out in April in a light, rich, 



sandy loam : 2 feet lo 



VALERIANA, MIXED. Very showy "border plants, or for mixing with shrubbery ; growing in any garden 

 >oii, doing well in the shade ; producing large corymbs of small bright red and white flowers mixed ; 



hardy perennial ; 2 feet 5 



VERBENA HYBRIDA. An indispensable popular trailing bedding plant ; half-hardy perennials, or treated 



as hardy annuals they bloom freely the first season from seed, with beautiful dazzling self-colored, 



striped, and variegated flowers. When a quantity is wanted, they are more readily produced from seed, 



than to grow them from cuttings ; 1 foot. 



Candidissima. This new variety is a decided improvement on the old White Verbena, producing large 



trusses of the purest white flowers, and invaluable for florisu' use 25 



Coccinea. A beautiful scarlet-flowering variety ^5 



Dreer's Striped. Beautiful striped varieties of brilliant shades of colors 25 



Auriculaeflora. Beautiful colors of auricula-eyed varieties 25 



Extra Choice Mixed. Selected from our large collection of the newest and finest named varieties and 



riche>t colors. Per oz., $3.00 20 



Fine Mixed Varieties. All the colors of the older varieties. Peroz.,g3.oo 10 



VERONICA SYRIACA. Very ornamental plants for garden or pot-culture, and make extremely pretty 



t-'igings for small beds, mixed of light-blue and white flowers; half-hardy annual ; 6 inches jo 



VINCA (Madagascar Periwinkle). Ornamental free-blooming bedding plants, or green-house, evergreen 

 shrubs, with shining green foliage, requiring at all times a high temperature, and treated as tender 

 annuals they flower from seed, if sown early, the first season, continuing until late in the autumn, or 

 may be potted for the house before frost; height, 2 feet. 



Rosea. Rose, with a dark eye 10 



Rosea Alba. White, with a crimson eye 10 



Rosea Alba Pura. The flowers are of a beautiful pure white 10 



Rosea Mixed. Of the above three colors. Peroz.,$2.oo _ 10 



VIOLET {Viola Odorata). Well-known fragrant early spring blooming plants for edgings, groups, or 

 borders; thriving best in the summer, in a shady situation, in a rich, deep soil ; now so extensively used 

 by florists for forcing for cut-flowers during the fall and winter months, and can be had in bloom nearly 

 all the year ; hardy perennials ; 6 inches. 



Single Blue {Odorata. Semperjlorens). Very sweet-scented blue flowers 10 



Single \Vhite, The Czar (Odorata Flore Albo Le Czar). A beautiful new sweet-scented white variety 



of great merit 10 



VIRGINIAN STOCK iCheiranthus Maritimus). Beautiful free-flowering little plants, very eff"ective in 



small beds, edgings, or baskets, growing in any soil ; mixed of all the colors ; hardy annuals ; 3 inches. 5 

 WALL-FLOWER {Cheiranthus Ckeirij. Well-known deliciously fragrant garden plants, blooming early 

 in the spring, with large conspicuous spikes of beautiful flowers ; they should be protected in a cold 

 frame in the winter, and planted out in May ; are much prized for bouquet-flowers ; half-hardy perennials. 

 For assortments, see page 44 



Finest German Double Varieties. Double mixed, of all choice colors ; 2 feet 10 



Choice Single Mixed. Single mixed, of all the best colors : 2^ feet 5 



WHITLAVIA. Charming hardy annuals from California ; fine for ribboning, mixed borders, or shady 

 spots, with delicate foliage and clusters of beautifiil bell-shaped flowers, growing freely in any garden 

 soil, also good for baskets, vases, etc. ; i foot. 



Grandiflora. Fine, large, violet-blue, bell-shaped flowers 5 



Grandifiora Alba. A beautiful white variety of the above 5 



Gloxinioides. A splendid variety, with beautiful large Gloxinia-like flowers, pure white corolla, with a 



delicate blue lip 5 



ZINNIA ELEGANS, FLORE PLENO {Youth and Old Age). Double Zinnias are quite an acquisition 

 to our list of garden favorites ; of branching habit and splendid brilliant-colored double flowers, rivalling 

 in beauty and form moderate-sized Dahlias. .Summer and fall-flowenng plants, producing a great pro- 

 fusion of rich and varied-colored flowers until killed by frost. The seed can be sown early in the hot- 

 bed and transplanted, or later out m the open ground ; half-hardy annuals : 2 feet. For separate colors, 

 see assortments of Double Zinnias, page 44. 



White Well-shaped pure white flowers, fine for florists' use :o 



Extra Choice Mixed. Saved from selected double flowers. Per oz., $1.00 5 



Pumila Flore Pleno. A new choice strain of dwarf extra-double varieties, quite distmct from the above, 



of splendid rich colors mixed i foot 10 



Haageana A splendid double variety flowers deep orange, margined with yellow, keeping its color when 



dried as a winter flower 10 



