Drccr's Garden Calendar. 



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SUPPLEMENTARY LIST 



OF VARIETIES OMITTED IN THE GENERAL LIST, AS WELL AS 



NOVELTIES OF 1875-'76. 



The descriptions of ttie Novelties are as given by their respective growers. 



I'lT packet. 



ALONSOA LINIFOLIA. This flax-leaved variety grows \\ ft. 



high, bushy and c()m])act, with pretty dark-green and graceful 



foliage, covered with light-scarlet flowers. It is easily grown 



either for pot or out-door culture, and when planted in masses, 



produces a beautiful effect; half-hardy ; 25 



Myrtifolia. This myrtle-leaved variety grows 2} feet high, 

 vigorous and exceedingly lioriferous. The flowers are larger 

 and of intenser scarlet than Alonsoa Linifolia. It will be found 



of great service for large beds ; half-hardy 25 



AMARANTHUS IIENDERI. Of graceful pyramidal growth and 

 brilliant colors, height 3 to 5 ft., producing a striking sub- 

 tropical effect; when young the leaves are brown, madder, and 

 bronze; as they grow larger, each plant assumes its distinctive 



colors; leaves long and drooping; half-hardy 20 



ANEMONE FULGENS {Scarlet Windflowcr). This splendid 

 novelty is almost unknown in horticulture; no plant can com- 

 pete with it, in beauty and brilliancy of color, in the early 

 spring. Flowers large, of a dazzling vermilion, valuable as a 

 bouquet flower, a hardy bulbous-rooted plant; during winter 



protect the young plants with leaves or long manure 25 



ASPERULA AZUREA 

 SETOSA. A hardy dwarf 



annual, profuse bloomer, j^MSW 



with clusters of small light 

 blue sweet-scented flowers, 



fine for bouquets 10 cl?. ^^^asv/—-*' "If 'jj|1M1\^ 



AQUILEGIA CCERU- j^^m( ^ lL//.=, 



JjF.A. {Rocky 3Iountain Co- T JUMUiHIH ^P^^^^f^ ^-J^^WM^^M^^-^ 

 hunbine). Among hardy ^____________ 



perennial plants this may ^l^^jS^^^^. € "^^^ML, 

 be ranked as one of the ^^^^^^^m\ ^^^fe^^-^ ^-r^\ 



finest. The flowers measure ^^^^^ ^I8*!;*^^=''^<'*^^ 



3 inches in diameter; the 



outer five petals, as well p M |i|| | ^ ^ ^ g«««?!£f^''"^J/ta 

 as the long s}>urs, are of a J^MmKB/KS^^^^-* 

 beautiful violet blue ; the ^^^HHHH^S^^ ■^~- 

 inner petals are pure white, 

 forming a pleasing con- 

 trast 20cts. 



AQUILEGIA CHRY- 

 SANTHA {Golden Spur- UK MffBIW l/i 



red Columbine). A hand- 

 some hardy perennial from 



the Rocky Mountains, a III //M^ 11^ 



strong growing species, m /Mr m 



forming bushy plants 4 ft. 

 high, producing freely all ....-js*^^ 



summer an abundance of ^"^^mI 



bright golden-yellow flow- <^ IL 



ers 25cts. 



kocKir Mountain Columbine. 



