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Per packet. 

 NEMOPHILA [Grove Love). Of neat, compact, uniform habit of growth, comprising varied and beautiful 

 colors ; blooming freely all summer if plained in a rat.ier cool, shaded place, and in not too rich a sod ; 

 hardy annuals ; height i foot. 



Insignis. Bright blue flowers with a white centre ".....Jo 5 



Maculata. White flowers, blotched with purplish violet 5 



Fine Mixed. All the varieties and colors mixed. Per oz., 50 cts 5 



NIGELLA Lave in .1 Mist, or Devil in Hie Bush). A compact, free-flowering plant, with finely cut foliage, 

 Curious-looking flowers and seed-pods ; of easy culture, growing in any garden soil ; hardy annual ; 1 foot. 



Damascena Ccerulea Plena. Pretty double light blue flowers 5 



Damascena Alba Plena. A pure white double variety of the above 5 



NIEREMBERGIA FRUTESCENS. A half-hardy perennial, slender growing plant, with an abundance 

 of almost p.-rpetud bloom, flowering the first year if sown early : for the green-house, baskets, vases or 



bedding out; flowers white, tinted with lilac; 1 foot IO 



OENOTHERA GRANDIFLORA ODORATA (Evening Primrose, or Sun Drops). A hardy, perennial 



garden plant, with large, fragrant, showy yellow flowers ; blooms the first season from seed ; 3 feet 5 



OXALIS ROSEA. BeautTful small plants, suitable for the green-house, rock-work, baskets, or out-door 

 culture ; fl )wering the first year if sown early, with clusters of rose-colored blossoms ; half-hardy 



perer.n'al ; 9 inches IO 



OXYURA CHRYSANTHEMOIDES. A pretty little Branching neat plant, producing daisy-like yellow, 



white-edged flowers; hardy annual ; iJ4 feet 5 



PANSY ( Viola tricolor maxima). This attractive plant is too well known to require any description, as it 

 is a favorite with all ; the seed can be sown from September to March ; if grown in beds, ribbons, or 

 massing, they are very effective. The best blooms are obtained from seed sown in the autumn, and pro- 

 tect 4 , during the winter; these flower early in the spring. The plants from spring sowing should be 

 planted in a shady border ; they produce fine large flowers in the autumn. They require fresh soil, well 

 enriched with decomposed manure; hardy p.:renni.ds ; 6 inches. Special directions how to cultivate 

 Pansies sent with the seed when desired. For assortments, see page 44. 

 Dreer's Premium Varieties. Seeds saved from first-class flowers only ; of beautiful shades and the best 



fancy colors mixed 2 S 



Odier (Five-blotched,. A beautiful strain of various colored large handsome perfect formed flowers, with 



dark spots on each petal, like the Pelargonium 2 5 



Emperor William. Large handsome flowers in great profusion, borne well above the foliage, brilliant 



ultra-marine blue, with a purple violet eye l 5 



Faust ( King 0/ the Blacks). The flowers, are almost black, the darkest Pansy known 15 



Purple Splendid purple white-edged flowers I 5 



Light Blue. Pure Yellow. Pure White Each *5 



Snow Queen. The flowers of this new variety differ from the ordinary IVJiite. They are very large and 



of a satiny white, tinged with yellow in the centre 25 



Best Imported Varieties. Mixed of all beautiful colors. Per oz, $4.00 2 > 



Good Varieties. Of all colors mixed. Per oz , $1.00 10 



PENTSTEMON, MIXED. One of our most beautiful and attractive herbaceous plants for the borders, 

 with an abundance of long, graceful spikes of rich-colored flowers, from May until frost ; will bloom the 

 first season if sown early in March in a hot-bed, and planted out in May; half-hardy perennials. Choice 



varieties and colors mixed; 2 feet to 



PETUNIA. For out-door decoration or house-culture f ;w plants are equal to this class. They commence 

 flowering early, and continue a mass of bloom throughout the whole season, until killed by frost ; easily 

 cultivated, requiring rich soil and a sunny situation ; and are of a trailing habit. Of late years, the 

 Single-striped, mottled, and spotted as well as the Double varieties have been greatly improved ; half- 

 hardy perennials, blooming the first year, even if sown in the open ground, but not before July unless 

 started in the hot-bed or house, and are treated as hardy annuals ; 2 to 3 feet. For separate colors, see 

 assortments of Petunias, page 44. 

 Hybrida Flora (The Star). Beautiful flowers of various shades of red and purple, with five white bars, 



resembling a star _ 11 



Grandiflora Venosa. Large-flowering veined varieties, the finest shades of colors beautifully veined 10 



Grandiflora Kermesina. Very large rich crimson showy flowers ia 



Grandiflora Kermesina Intus Alba. Splendid extra large crimson flowers, with a white throat 2a 



Grandiflora Superbissima. This new variety has very large attractive flowers, of rose, crimson, and 



purple, with a beautifully tiger-spotted throat 20 



Dreer's Hybrid Extra Mottled Varieties. The finest strain of mottled, spotted, and striped large- 

 flowering varieties, of beautiful shades and the best colors mixed 20 



Splendid Hybrid Varieties. Mixed of all colors. Per oz., $3.30 10 



Fine Mixed. Of good old varieties. Peroz.,$i 50 5 



Hybrida Nana Compacta Multiflora. This new variety is a really dwarf, and profuse bloomer. 

 Plants 5 to 3 inches high, by the same in diameter. Of a cherry-red color, with a regularly formed 



white star; effective for massing, etc., and f r pot culture 20 



Hybrida Brillantrosa. A distinct new variety, producing handsome brilliant rosy carmine flowers, with 



a light-colored throat ; 1 foot ia 



Dreer's Double Hybridized. Fecundated with the greatest care, saved from our very choice collection ; 



a fair percentage will prove handsome double flowers 25 



Grandiflora Fimbriata Flore Pleno (Double-Fringed Varieties}. This new and beautiful strain of large, 

 double-fringed Petunias, are of the richest and most delicate tints of the finest colors and shades of car- 

 nations, and perfect double flowers ; the result of most careful fecundation with the largest blooms of the 

 single-fringed varieties, and cannot fail of giving satisfaction in at least one-fourth of fine double flowers. 25 

 PHACELIA CONGESTA. A curious and interesting hardy annual plant of easy culture, good for bee 



food. The flowers are produced on one-sided racemes, of a beautiful azure blue color ; 2 ft. Per oz., 2octs. / 



