Drcers Garden Calendar. 



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DENDROBIUM NOBILE. 



A beautiful orchid of easv culture, producing green, yellow and pink flowers. It requires 

 peatv soil, and during growing season plenty of heat and moisture. $1. 



ECHEVERIA METALLICA. 



V fine and «=tatelv plant, with very large shell-like leaves of a beautiful metallic, lilac hue, 



wi^th tall flower-stems covered with bell-shaped, yellow, and scarlet flowers, strong. 30 cts. 



'=Jtapeli\ Y\fieg\ta ^ curious erect-growine plant, resembling a cactus or succulent. The 



square stems and branches with their prominent four angles are dull green, covered with 



grayish spots; flowers are full au inch in diameter; star-shapea and of a peculiar reddish 



purple. 50 cts. 



EPIPHYLLUM TRUNCATUM— Lobster-leaved Cactus. 

 A very useful winter-flowering plant, flowers in difi'erent shades of purplish crimson to scar- 

 let. Our stock is grafted on the Pereskia stock, and will succeed where those on their ovm 

 roots fail ; the plants are large and bushy, two and three years old. /o cts. to ^51. 



Spectabilis. Magenta scarlet. 

 Tru>'CATUM. Salmon red. 

 ViOLACEA. Violet. 



Ckuen'Tas. Brilliant crimson. 



Salmonium. Salmon. 



Salmoxium Coccineum. Salmon scarlet. 



ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI— Coral Plant. 



A ma^mificent plant, producing its scarlet and crimson pea-shaped flowers on spikes IS inches 

 long Plant them in the garden in Mav, and thev will flower profusely three or four times m the 

 course of the summer. Thev mav be taken up' in the fall, and kept in perfect preservation 

 durine the winter in a dry cellar, the roots covered with half-dry earth. 25 to oO cts., accord- 

 ing to size. 



ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. 



\ perfectly hardy Ornamental Grass, from 9 to 12 feet high, throwing up from thirty to fifty 

 flower spike's. It resembles the Pampas Grass, but blooms much more abundantly, and with 

 the advantage of being hardy, making it a desirable plant for the decoration of lawns. 30 cts. ; 

 clumps, 75 cts. 



EUCHARIS AMAZONICA. 



A splendid hothouse plant, blooming nearly the entire season. It sends up stalks bearing 

 several pure white, star-shaped flowers, 4 inches across, delightfully fragrant. It is very highly 

 prized in bouquets, baskets, etc. 50 cts. to $1 ; $5 to $10 per doz. 



EULALIA JAPONICA VARIEGATA. 



A very graceful, tall, ornamental, hardy plant from Japan. Long, narrow leaf blades, striped 

 crreen white and often pink or yellow. It throws up stalks from 4 to 6 feet in height, termi- 

 nated'with a cluster of flower spi'kes ; the flowers are suiTouuded by long silky threads, which, 

 when fully ripe expand not unlike au ostrich feather when curled. These dry flowers are 

 valuable as parlor ornaments, as they retain their beauty for a long time. 30 cts. ; $3 per doz. 

 Clumps, 75 cts. ; $9 per doz. 



EULALIA JAPONICA ZEBRINA. 



The most distinct hardy ornamen- 

 tal grass sent out for many years, an 

 introduction from Japan. It pro- 

 duces long blades, which are marked 

 with broad yellow bands ccross the leaf 

 instead of longitudinally. It grows 

 from 4 to 6 feet in height, forming a 

 striking and graceful plant, its mark- 

 ings being unlike anything that we 

 know of in cultivation. It makes a 

 very attractive specimen plant for the 

 law'n, and will not fail to arrest atten- 

 tion. It bears elegant large tassel- 

 like plumes, in the autumn, white, 

 shaded with pink, which make hand- 

 some parlor decorations ; strong 

 plants. 50 cts. to $1. 







