60 Dreer' s Gai'den Calendar. 



Per ftacket. 



PORTULACA. Plants of easy culture, luxuriating in an exposed 



sunnv situation : flowers large and of rich shades of color, and 



produced througliout the summer in great profusion ; fine for 



massing in iDeds ; 6 in. For assortments of Portulaca, see page 61. 



Alba. White. Caryophylloides. Carnation striped each 5 



AuRAXTiACA. Orange. Splexdens. Crimson purple each 5 



Thoeburxi. Yellow. THELLrsoxi. Scarlet each 5 



EosEA. Ptose-colored. Mixed, all colors each 5 



Graxdifloea Flore-Plexo [Douhle-floicering Portidacn). 



There is no plant for the flower garden more desirable. A 

 bed of double Portulaca, when seen under a mid-day sun, pre- 

 sents sttch a glow of brilliant colors as to excite the admiration 

 <jf all ; the flowers are perfectly double, of the most brilliant 

 scarlet, crimson, white, variegated, buff, yellow, orange and 

 rose, admirably adapted to withstand the influences of heat and 

 drought. Seed saved from all double flowers, and a large pro- 

 portion will prove double 20 



POLYAXTHUS (Frimula Elatior). ShoAry early spring-flower- 

 ing plants, fine for pot or otit-door culttire ; finest English 



varieties; hardy perennials; 1 ft. ; mixed colors 25 



Good Mixed Varieties. All colors 10 



POPPY {Pcipaver). Showy and easily cultivated flowers. Sow- 

 early in the spring ; they will not bear transj^lanting: 2 ft. 



P.EOXY-FLOWERED. Large and very double ; mixed colors 5 



Raxuxculus-floweeed. Double-fringed; mixed colors 5 



Carxatiox. Double mixed. Mixed Varieties, all colors..each 5 

 POTEXTILLA AUREA. Profuse-flowering herbaceous plants; 



hardv perennial; 1+ ft ; vellow, vrith pink eve 5 



PRIMULA VERIS (English Cowslip). Hardy perennial; 6 in. 



Mixed colors 10 



RHUS COTIXUS (Purple Jlist Tree). A hardy ornamental dwarf 



tree, beautiful when in lull bloom, resembling mist 10 



SALPIGLOSSIS. Xeat and beautiful plants, with penciled and 

 marbled funnel-shaped flowers; suitable tor pot-culture or the 

 flower-border, blooming all summer ; half-hardy ; li ft. 

 Large-flowered Varieties. Very splendid ; mixed, all colors: 10 



Fixe Mixed Varieties. All colors 5 



SAXVITALIA PROCUMBEXS FLORE-PLEXO. This double- 

 flowered variety is much larger than the single flowers ; a valua- 

 ble bedding plant ; 6 in.; bright golden yellow 10 



SAPOXARIA. Beautiful compact-growing plants, with masses of 

 miniature cross-shaped flowers, blooming throughottt summer 

 and late aitttimn ; 6 in. 



Choice Mixed Varieties 10 



Ocy:moides. A hardy perennial variety, one of the finest plants 



for covering rock-work, etc.; rosy pink flowers 10 



SCABIOSA (Jlourning Pride, or Siceef. Scabius). Plants with 

 beautiful double various-colored flowers ; fine for bouquets. 



Fixe Germax Varieties. Mixed, all colors; 2 ft 5 



Dwarf Varieties. Double mixed, all colors; 1 ft 10 



Caxdidtssima Plexa. Double, ptire white flowers 20 



SCHIZAXTHUS. A splendid class of plants, combining elegance 

 of growth with a rich profusion of flowers ; half-hardy; 2 ft. 

 Graxdifloeus Occulatus. Various shades with blue centres... o 



PIXXATUS. Pinnated-leaved; purple and yellow spotted 5 



Fixe Mixed A\\eieties. All colors ." 5 



For Seeds of Everlasting Flowers, see page 70. 



