90 dreer's gardex calendar. 



HOT-HOUSE PLANTS. 



"We have a select assortment of the most popular, comprising such 

 varieties, as: 



Achrmenes, Croton, Lmiandra, 



Alamanda, Cypripedium, Pleroma, 



Bletia, Dracena, Piicairna, 



Begonia, Eranthemam, Passiflora, 



Bignonia Venusia, Euphorbia, Rochea, 



Caladiums, Eicus, StreUtzia, 



Centradinia, Ghxmia, Tliunhergia Laurifolia, 



Cissus, Hibiscus, Toreiinia, 



Coleus, Hoya, Ferns, and 



Clereodendron, Lycopodiums. 



Summer Flowering Bulbs, 



The most prominent in this section are the rare and beautiful 

 FRENCH HYBRID GLADIOLUS. 



They are the most stately and effective of the whole genus ; being 

 of a robust erect growth, with green sword-shaped leaves and magnifi- 

 cent flower scapes, rising from two to four feet in height. The colors 

 comprise the most brilliant of orange, scarlet, and vermillion tints 

 upon yellow and orange grounds, including a graduated scale of inter- 

 mediate shades, from white and rosy blush and salmon rose tints, to 

 a salmon red and nankeen, from blush-white with purple crimson 

 throat, and marginal streak of pink, to light rosy salmon grounds, 

 with flakes of deep carmine. A succession of bloom may be had from 

 July to September, by planting at intervals from April to June, 

 reserving the strongest bulbs for the latest planting. Their culture is 

 very simple : they will grow in any ordinary garden- mould, but succeed 

 best in good earth, manured with well-rotted horse-dung. The bulbs 

 are taken up in the fall and placedin a dry cellar, protected from frost. 



A discount of ten per cent, from catalogue prices will be made when 

 one dozen varieties are ordered. Twenty per cent, on one hundred 

 varieties. 



GLADIOLUS IN ASSOETMENTS. 



Where the choice of varieties is left to us, the purchaser will 

 generally fare better as to quality and price — as we have often a large 

 stock of some of the finer and high priced varieties which we can 

 include in these assortments. We olfer the following assortments. 



Invariably our Selection. 



No. 1. Twelve good old varieties for ..$ 2 50 



" 2. Twelve choice old " " 5 00 



" 3. Twelve very choice " " 10 00 



** 4. Twelve new and choice varieties from $20 to 30 00 



Will be forwarded by mail, carefully packed^ without additional cost. 



