DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS. 



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Splendid flowering bulbs, suitable for greenhouse or for room culture. They should be 

 grown in pots, well drained, in a soil of equal parts of peat, leaf mould and loam ; then 

 started in heat, and must have attention after flowering, to ripen ofl' the bulb, by discon- 

 tinuing to water as the foliage shows signs of dying off; when at rest, store away in a dry, cool 

 place, but leave the bulbs in the pots. They are showy lily-shaped flowers, producing from 

 two to four on a stalk, and bloom early in the spring or later if desired, by starting at a 

 corresponding later period. 



EACH 



Aulica. Dark crimson, shaded green..$2.50 

 Johnsoni. Scarlet, striped with white; 



very large bloom 2.00 



Prince of Orange. Bright orange ; 



large and handsome 2.00 



Choice Hybrids, imported from Ghent.. 1.25 



Vittata. White, striped with bright 

 rose $1.25 



Vittata Hybrids, white ground, striped 

 with red 1.25 



Vittata Hybrids, red ground, striped 

 with white 1.25 



CYCLAMEN 



GLOXINIA. 



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This class of beautiful variegated foliage plants, margined and delicately traced with 

 various rich colors, and elegantly spotted and mottled, are exceedingly handsome when alone 

 or intermingled with other plants. As a decorative plant, they are unequalled, for the 

 greenhouse or conservatory in the summer months. They require a moist, warm temper- 

 ature; great care must be taken in their earlier stages of growth, to prevent decay of the 

 tubers, or damping off. The tubers can be best preserved during the winter in charcoal 

 dust in a wnrm room, and must be started, in the spring, in a warm house or hot bed 

 with bottom heat; they also do well planted in a shady situation out of doors in June. 



25 cents. $2.50 per dozen. 



Argyrites. Small leaf, white and green 



spotted. 

 Auber. Green, spotted white and pink. 

 Baron Rothschild. Green, spotted and 



veined with orange crimson. 

 Beethoven. White, mid-ribs rose. 

 Belleymei. Green, mottled with white. 

 Bicolor splcndens. Deep crimson, with 



broad green margin. 

 Boieldieu. Orange crimson, green margin. 

 Brongniarti. Large green and crimson. 

 Due de Ratibon. Green, shaded white, 



with crimson spots. 

 E. G. Henderson. Green, spotted rose. 

 Enekei. Green, spotted with pink. 

 Endlicherianum. Green, large rose centre. 



Hercules. Gray centre, and red spots. 

 Houlletti. White, gray and green. 

 Lamartine. Olive green, crimson spots. 

 Maculata. Green, blotched white. 

 Meyerbeer. White, mid-ribs red. 

 Milton. Red veins, gray centre, crimson 



spots. 

 Napoleon III. Green, crimson centre. 

 Newmani. Green, spotted rose. 

 Reine Victoria. Dark green, spotted with 



white aad crimson. 

 Rossini. Pale centre, pink ribs, red spots. 

 Rubra maculata. Green, orange spots. 

 Wighti. Light green, crimson and white 



spots. 



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Few plants are more showy than the Cyclamen; bl«©m»ing in the winter and early spring 

 months in the greenhouse, the flowers being singular in shape, of various colors, with beau- 



