Dreer's Garden Calendar. 61 



Per pkt. 

 SCHIZAXTHUS. A splendid class of plants, combining elegance of growth with a rich 

 and various-colored profusion of flowers, fine for greeu-house or out-door culture; half- 

 hardy annual ; height 2 feet. 



Grandiflokus Ocl'Latus. Various shades of colors, with a beautiful blue centre 5 



Fixe Mixed Vakieties. All colors of the tall-grf)wing varieties mixed 5 



PiNXATUS, Tom Thlmb. This is a new dwarf variety, 1 foot high, of pyramidal shape, 



and covered with pretty, black-eyed purple flowers..' .'. 10 



SEDUItt, 3IIXED [Stone-Crop]. A pretty and useful little plant, growing freely on rock 

 or rustic -work, hanging-baskets, etc.; during the sunmier they expand their' brilliant 

 star-shaped flowers in great profusion ; hardy perennial ; mixed colors and varieties ; 



3 inches ' 10 



SEXECIO, or JAC0B.*:A, MIXED. Free-growing plants, producing gay-colored 

 double flowers in profusion, for beds or ribbon-gardening, delighting in a light, rich soil ; 



hardy annual ; beautiful mixed colors; 1 foot 10 



SENSITIVE PLANT i Mimosa pudica). Curious and interesting plants, with pinkish 

 white flowers, the leaves close and droop when touched or shaken; they require a mixed 



soil of peat, loam, and sand ; tender annual ; 2 feet 5 



SILEXE iCatchfly}. A beautiful, early free-blooming plant, adapted for beds, borders, 

 or ribbon-gai-dening; of easy culture, growing in any garden soil; hardy annual; 1 ft. 



Mixed Coloks {S. Armeria]'. Eed, white, and rose, colors mixed Per oz., 6u (;ts 5 



Pexdula Floee-Pleno. Producing charming double rose-colored flowers in profusion. 10 

 STOCKS (JIathiola annua.) The Stock Gilly-flower is one of the most popular, beautiful 

 and important garden favorites ; whether for bedding, massing, or pot-culture, it is un- 

 surpassed either for brilliancy and diversity of color or profusion and duration of bloom. 

 The TEX- WEEK STOCKS (JIathiola annua) are generally cultivated, and bloom from 

 ten to twelve weeks after being sown ; they grow from to 15 inches high, and when 

 grown in light, rich soil, and occasionally watered with weak guano water, they throw 

 out an immense quantity of lateral spikes of bloom, so that each plant forms a periect 

 bouquet of delightful fragrance. For early flowering jdants, start the seeds in a green- 

 house or hot-bed. We ofl'er the following varieties, imported from one of the best 

 Prussian growers ; half-hardy annuals, unless otherwise mentioned ; 1 foot. For separ- 

 ate colors, see assortments of Stocks, page 76. 



Dwarf German Ten-Week. Double, of choice mixed colors 10 



Dwarf Bouquet Ten- Week. It flowers in the shape of a bouquet, with beautiful 



double flowers of various shades and colors mixed; 10 inches 20 



Perpetual Dwarf Ten- Week (J/. Semperjlorens). A double constant-blooming variety, 



with fine double flowers of various colors mixed 10 



Large-flowering Dwarf Ten-Week. The following are the best double varieties, 



and most desirable colors for cultivation : 

 Dwarf Ten- Week Royal Gem. One of the finest large-flowering Stocks; of the 



richest dark crimson color, and very double flowers 20 



Blood-red. Crimson. Light-blue. Purple. Pure white Each 10 



Mixed Colors. Of all the double Large-flowering Dwarf Ten-Week Stocks, produc- 

 ing a beautiful variety of colors 10 



Intermediate or Autumnal-flowering. Very beautiful ; choice double flowers, of 



fine mixed colors, for late autumn-flowering; 2 feet 10 



Brompton or Winter. Half-hardy biennial, bushy plants ; producing a beautiful dis- 

 play of double flowers; mixed colors ; 2 feet .' 10 



Perpetual or Emperor. Half-hardy perennial; double large-flowering; of choice 



colors mixed; H feet 10 



SWEET MTLLIAM (Dianthus barbatus). A well-known attractive, free-flowering 

 plant, Avhich has been greatly improved of late years ; producing a splendid efiect in 

 beds, and shrubbery borciers, with their extreme rich and divers-colored flowers; hardy 

 perennial ; 2 feet. 



Double-flowering. Of the finest mixed colors 10 



Auricula-flowered Perfection. Choice single flowers of this beautiful variety of 



all colors mixed. Per oz., si 10 



Fine Mixed. A single varietv, good old colors mixed. Per oz., 50 cts 5 



TAGETES SIGXATA PU^IILA. A dwarf, compact, bnshy plant, with beautiful 

 delicate fern-like leaves, densely covered with bright yellow single flowers, with a 

 brownish stripe through the centre of each petal, valuable for borders as well as beds; 



half-hardy annual; 1 foot 5 



TOREXIA 'FOURXIERI. A very fine new tender annual variety from Mexico, having 

 large sky-blue flowers, with three'spots of a dark blue, and a bright yellow centre. A 

 splendid" pot-plant ibr the green-house, or for growing out of doors, they make beautiful 

 flowering plants, covered until late in the season with one mass of bloom, and we can 



highlv recommend it to everv lover of flowers ; 15 inches 20 



TOURX'EFORTIA HELIOTROPOIDES (Summer Heliotrope), A beautiful plant 

 resembling the Heliotrope, but without its fragrance ; adapted either for bedding or pot- 

 culture, of atrailintr habit; bluish lilac flowers; half-hardv annual 10 



TRACHELIUM CCERULEUM (Throatwort). A hardy' herbaceous perennial, with 

 blue Campanula-like flowers blooming in August. Sow in a hot-bed in the spring, 



and plant out in April in a rich sandy loam ; 2 feet 10 



VALERL4AA, 3IIXED. Very showy border plants, or for mixing with shrubbery; 

 growing in any garden soil ; hardy perennial ; mixed red and white flowers ; 2 feet 5 



