HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST 



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DREER'S SELECT DAHLIAS 



All varieties are supplied in strong dormant roots except those specially noted, which can only be furnished in green growing 

 plants ready after April 25th. As the season advances our supply of dormant roots of some of the varieties becomes exhausted, in 

 which case green growing plants are sent instead. These will give equally as good results as dormant roots, flowering just as freely, 

 and many experienced planters prefer them, and by the time they are cut by frost they will have produced strong roots which can be 

 carried over in the usual way. 



Special Varieties of Dahlias. 



New Show Dahlia — Dreer's Yellow. 



We take pleasure in offering and endorsing this as the best 

 yellow Show Dahlia yet introduced. In general form and make-up 

 it resembles Dreer's White which suggested its name, but the 

 flowers are larger, frequently over seven inches in diameter, but 

 without any coarseness, it having a refined appearance in all 

 stages of development, the flowers when full ripe are perfect balls 

 in shape, with back petals firm and tight and lasting in good con- 

 dition for several days after fully developed, these flowers are held 

 rigid and erect on long stiff stems well above the foliage. The 

 blooming season is long and continuous, the flowers being as good 

 at the end of the season as at the beginning. The cut blooms were 

 shipped to the Pittsburgh markets from August 27th to November 

 1st, and reports received were that Dreer's Yellow were without 

 question the finest yellow Dahlias ever received in that market. 

 Roots, 75 cts. each. 



Giant and Colossal Cactus Dahlias. 



Etendard de Lyon. Everybody admires this 

 beautiful carmine-rose giant, which we con- 

 sider one of the most distinct varieties for gar- 

 den decoration. The flowers are of a hybrid- 

 cactus type, distinct in shape from all others; 

 the petals are broad, curled and wavy 

 and form a flower fully 6 inches in 

 diameter and 4 inches deep, a very 

 large flower, yet without any stiffness 

 or formality. Plants ready in April. 50 

 ots. each; 15.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. 



Nibelungenhort. This is another dis- 

 tinct introduction which is greatly ad- 

 mired, with flowers from 7 to 8 inches 

 across, composed of rather broad, more 

 or less curled and twisted petals of a 

 beautiful shade of old-rose with golden-apricot suffusion. 

 Very free-flowering on long stems; a fine cut flower. 

 Roots, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. 



Nerthus. The centre of the flower is a rich, glowing, 

 bronzy, orange-yellow, passing to a carmine-rose at the 

 tips, the whole suffused with a glowing golden color, 

 which gives it an iridescence which it is not possible to 

 describe. 

 Roots, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Rhelnkoenlg. Pure snow-white flowers of splendid form, 5 

 inches and over in diameter. These are of great sub- 

 stance, lasting splendidly when cut; they are borne on 

 long, stiff stems held well above the foliage, making it as 

 valuable for garden decoration as for cutting. 

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



Wodan. Bold, large, but not coarse flower, frequently 7 inches in 

 diameter, a graceful arrangement of semi-incurved tubular petals 

 of a pleasing, delicate salmon-rose color, shading to old-gold in 

 the centre. 

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



Wolfgang von Goethe. Large, gracefully-arranged, perfect flow- 

 ers of a rich apricot, with carmine shadings. 

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



Paeony Flowered Dahlia. 



Mondschelbe. Among the many Psonv Flowered Dahlias, nearly 

 all of Iwhichl are desirable cut flowers, this fine yellow is par- 

 ticularly Eworth singling out, it being an exceptionally large 

 flower or good stems and one of the most prolific bloomers. 

 Roots, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. 



SHOW DAHLIA "DKKKR's YELLOW' 



