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DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS, ETC. 



AZALEAS. 



Too much cannot be said of this splendid and striking flower. During the flowering 

 season, which is April and May, the heads are covered with attractive and beautiful blooms, 

 which vary in color from the most delicate white to brilliant rose and carmine, spotted and 

 striped. Of late years they have become popular window-plants, and most justly too ; for, 

 with their profuse masses of flowers, they make every window or balcony a bower of bloom. 

 For a succession of bloom, which can be kept up from February to May, store in the cellar, 

 and bring them one by one to the window, where they will be forced into bloom. We have 

 a splendid collection of the finest and rarest varieties. Good plants, 50 cents. $5 per dozen. 



Trained Symmetrical Heads. Strong. $1. $10 per dozen. 



" " " Extra strong and fine. $2. $20 per dozen. 



A. AMCENA. A profuse flowering variety ; bright crimson flowers. 25 to 50 cents. 



BEGONIA (Ornamental-leaved). 



Soft-Avooded plants, of great beauty. In great variety. 30 cents. $3 per dozen. 



BEGONIA (Winter-flowering Varieties). 

 Very valuable sorts, constantly in bloom, of dwarf habit and glossy leaves. 30 cents. 

 $3 per dozen. 



Foliosa. Light pink flowers. Sandersoni. Scarlet flowers. 



Multiplora. Rosy pink blossoms. Weltonlensis, Waxy pink flowers. 



Weltoniensis Alba. White flowers. 



BLETIA TANKERVILLLJE. 



An easy-growing orchid, producing large showy flowers in long spikes. 75 cents to $1.50. 



BOUVARDIAS. 



Large plants. 50 cents. 



Hl'MBOLDTI COR YMBI FLORA 



Humboldti CORYMBIFLORA. The present variety will be found the greatest acquisition 

 yet made to this now charming tribe of plants. Its free growth, large flower truss, pure 

 snow-white color and rich aromatic odor by day and night, produced at a season when 

 flowers are most valuable and most sought for, leaves out no feature that is essential to a 

 miscellaneous group of autumn and winter-flowering conservatory plants. The splendid 

 flowers of the purest white are borne on corymbs containing 8 to 10 and more ; tube nearly 

 three inches in length, and measuring across the florets about If inches (our own measure- 

 ment), exhaling a mild orange-like fragrance while in bloom. 



Candidissima. Growth comparatively dwarf, with neat small rich green ovate leaves, 

 pure white blossoms ; the florets being about twice the size of Davidsoni, pure in color 

 and fragrant. 



Davidsoni. One of the best white-flowered varieties. 



Elegans. Salmon-scarlet. Extra large and fine. 



Leiantha. Fine scarlet. 



