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Dreer 's Garden Calendar. 



AKEBIA QUINATA. 



A perfectly hardy and beautiful evergreen climbing plant, growing 20 feet high, with tri- 

 foliate leaves and dark brown flowers,- highly fragrant. One of the best hardy climbers. 25 

 cts. ; $2.50 per doz. 



ALOCASIA. 



GiBSOXi. Large leaves, marbled green and 



black ; very ornamental. 50 cts. 

 Jenningsi. Glaucous green, blotched black. 



25 cts. 

 Maceorkhiza Yaeiegata. $1. 



Metallica. $1. 



Odorata, or GiGANTEA. Gigantic upright 



green leaves, growing 8 to 10 feet high ; 



flowers like a Calla, green and very fragrant. 



$1. 



ALOYSIA CITRIODORA— Lemon Verbena. 



Always admired and prized for the delicate odor of its graceful and neat foliage, invaluable 

 for bouquets. 20 cts. ; $2 per doz. 



DOUBLE WHITE SWEET ALYSSUM. 



Dwarf, compact growth, covered throughout the entire summer and autumn with masses of 

 snow-white blossoms; very valuable for cut flowei-s, as it does not drop its blossoms as in the 

 single sort. 15 cts. ; $1.50 per doz. 

 Single Sweet Alyssum. $1 per doz. | Variegated Sweet Alyssum. 20 cts. ; $2 per doz. 



ALTERNANTHERAS. 



Beautiful dwarf plants of compact habit, growing about 6 inches high, and admirably adapted 

 for edgings to flower-beds or ribbon lines, their beautifully variegated foliage of crimson, purple, 

 yellow, pink, and green forming rich masses of color, always attractive and highly ornamental. 

 15 cts. ; $1.50 per doz. ; $8 per 100. 



Amabilis Tricolor. Orange, crimson and dark green, 

 Amcena Spectabilis. Crimson, pink and brown ; the finest and brightest. 

 Versicolor. Foliage ovate, olive, crimson and chocolate ; when used for edgings they are to 



be frequently sheared like box edging, when the young tips will assume the most brilliant hues. 



AMORPHOPHALLUS RIVIERL 



A new Ariod, of easy out-door culture, producing a solitary palm -like leaf on a rose and 

 olive-green speckled stem, 2 to 3 feet high. The tubers, maturing the second year, produce 

 floAvers like the " Calla Lily; " the outside of a similar color to the leaf stalk, the inside deep 

 blood-red, veined with black. Tubers are planted out in May, and kejDt over winter like Dahlia 

 roots. Large tubers, 75 cts. ; small tubers, 25 to 50 cts. 



AMARYLLIS. 



Splendid flowering bulbs, suitable for the green-house 

 or room-culture. They should be grown in pots, well 

 drained, in a soil of equal parts of peat, leaf-mould and 

 loam. They produce showy lily-shaped flowers, from two 

 to ten on a stalk. 



AlTLiCA. Dark crimson, large and fine. $2.50. 

 FoEMOSiSSiMA (Jacobsea Lily). Crimson-velvet color, 

 flowering early in the summer. The flowers have a 

 most graceful and charming appearance. To be planted 

 out in May in rich ground ; the roots are preserved like 

 Dahlias during the winter. 20 cts. ; $2 per doz. 

 Hybrids from the celebrated collection of Mr. Louis Van 



Houtte. $1.50; $15 per doz. 

 Hybrids of Vittata, from the celebrated collection of 

 M. Fouchet, Paris. 

 Hybrids of Vittata. "White ground, lined and striped with red and rose. $1.50. 



" " " Red ground, striped with white. $1.25. 



JoHXSONi. Scarlet, striped with white, very large bloom. $2. 

 PRIXCE OF Orange. Bright orange, large. $2. 

 Vittata. White, striped with dark rose ; extra. $1.50. 



AMARANTHUS SALICIFOLIUS— Fountain Plant. 



This plant grows in a pyramidal form, from 3 to 5 feet high, branching close to the ground. 

 The leaves in the earlier stages of growth are beautifully undulated, of a bronzy green shade; 

 as the plants mature the branches assume a bright orange red color ; highly ornamental ; plants 

 ready ]\Iay 15th. 20 cts. ; $2 per doz. 



