114 % Dreer's Garden Calendar. 



PRIMULA— Chinese Primrose. 



This florist's flower is held in great esteem, and one of the most desirable winter-blooming 



plants, flowering during the winter and spring months. Choice varieties, 25 cts. ; $2.50 



per doz. 



Primula Flora Pleno Alba. Very free flowering double white variety ; a single 

 specimen often yielding 500 flowers. 75 cts. to $1. 



Primula Acaulis Alba Plena. A hardy variet}'^, blooming in the early spring in great pro- 

 fusion ; requires a slight protection. 25 cts. ; $2.50 per doz. 



PUNICA GRANATUM— Pomegranate. 



Beautiful plants of symmetrical growth which can be advantageously used as bedding or pot 

 plants, and as they are deciduous, after blooming, they can be kept in a cellar or under the 

 staging of a greenhouse until they start to grow again in the spring. Quite hardy in the South. 

 They produce quantities of flowers, which on a well-grown plant of six feet high by three feet 

 in diameter, present a magnificent appearance. 

 Alba Plena. Creamy white flowers ; very double. 50 cts. 

 Legrellei. Eeddish yellow, bordered with white ; very double. 50 cts. 

 Nana. A dwarf variety, flowering profusely while only a foot high. A peculiar shade of 



brilliant orange scarlet, double flowers. 30 cts. 

 Rubra Plena. Double crimson flowers. 50 cts. 



PYRETHRUM AUREUM— Golden Feather. 



Used largely for massing or ribbon edging. The leaves are of a golden yellow color, delicately 

 cut; the color is retained all summer in the brightest sun. The flower shoots should be taken 

 off when they appear to preserve the shape of the plant. 15 cts. ; $1 per doz. ; $6 per 100. 



RHODODENDRON. 



The Rhododendron is one of the most valuable of our hardy decorative plants. The leaves 

 .are broad, green and glossy, and when planted in groups, or belts, or alone, give a summer 

 landscape in the midst of winter. Did it produce no flowers, it would be the most desirable 

 hardy plant known for every style of lawn planting. In June, when the masses of rich and 

 igloss'y green are surmounted by scarlet, purple, and white clusters, each cluster large enough 

 for a bouquet, the display is worthy of any expression of admiration. They bear pruning well, 

 :aHd can be kept down to two feet, or allowed to grow six or eight feet; as standards, they are 

 [particularly fine. 



They require only a good garden soil, which should be dug at least two feet deep and mixed 

 with some leaf mould or peat; it is also well to mulch the ground during the summer, and a 

 protection of leaves and brush during the first winter will be beneficial. The finest varieties 

 ;are the Hybrids of Catawbiensis. Plants from 18 to 30 inches high, bushy, well established, of 

 which we offer the following choice-named collection, besides fifteen choice varieties. 



$1 each; SlO per doz. Plants set with buds, $1.50; $15 per doz. Nearly all these varieties 

 can be furnished in bud. 

 Alarm. White centre, edged Avith deep car- j John Waterer. Brilliant carmine; im- 



mine. mense truss. 



Alexander Adie. Very bright rosy crimson. { Joseph Whitworth. Rich dark lake, dark 



Blandyanum. Deep rosy crimson. 



Brayanum. Scarlet. 



Broughtoni. Bright rose, 



COMTE DE Gomer. Beautiful white and 



crimson. 

 Concessum. Rosy carmine; fine, 

 CURRIEANUM. Dark rosy lilac; immense 



bloom. 

 Elfrida. Deep red, with large spots ; pretty. 

 EvERESTiANUM, Rosy lilac ; crimped petals ; 



fine. 

 Fastuosum. Double lilac, with large trusses. 

 II. H. HUXNEWELL. Very dark rich crimson, 



splendid truss, 

 Hendersoni. Purplish crimson ; late 



bloomer. 

 . jEWEisS. Rosy purple with black spots. 



spots. 



Lady Eleonor Cathcart, Fine rose, beau- 

 tifully spotted. 



Lord John Russell. Dark chocolate, beau- 

 tifully spotted. 



Lord Napier. Very dark pure lake. 



Michael Waterer. Late crimson, splendid 

 truss. 



Mrs, John Clutton. Beautiful clear white, 

 exquisite shape. 



Mrs, John Waterer. Bright rosy crimson. 



Perfection. Very beautiful blush white; 

 fine truss. 



Sir Robert Peel. Bright scarlet crimson, 

 dark spots. 



Surprise. Light rosy lilac, chocolate spots. 



The Queen. Very fine blush white, perfect 

 form. 



RICHARDIA ALBA MACULATA. 



A dwarf variety of the " Calla Lily ; " flowers smaller, of same snape, leaves covered with 

 pure white spots. It flowers freely during the summer months, planted out in the open border. 

 30-cts..; $3_per doz. 



