DREER'S GARDEN CALENDAR. 67 



Per packet. 

 TAGETES SIGNATA PUMILA. A dwarf, globular, compact, bushy plant, with beautiful delicate fern- 

 d with bright yellow single flowers, with a reddish-brown stripe through the 



uable for borders as well as beds ; half-hardy annual ; height, i foot \ - 



Pumila Golden Ring. This beautiful new selection from Signata is of an attractive rich orange color ; 

 shorter and more compact than its progenitor, very free-flowering and a really good golden orange-col- 

 ored bedding plant : 10 inches 2 - 



TORENIA FOURNIERI. A very fine new distinct 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 for vases, 

 hang: - j-een-h' use, or for growing out of doors ; they make beautiful flowering plants, covered 



- the season with one mass of bloom ; 15 inches 



Bailloni. A valuable species, distinguished from all other Torenias by the size and charming color of its 

 flowers, which are bright golden yellow with a brownish-red throat. Associated with Torenia Fournieri 

 a most sautifiil effect may be obtained ; 15 inches. We can highly recommend both varieties to every 







TRACHELIUM CCERULEUM Tkroafmorft. A hardy herbaceous perennial plant, with blue Campanula- 

 > .vers blooming in August. Sow in a hot-bed in the spring, and plant out in April in a light, rich, 







VALERIANA, MIXED. Very showy border plants, or for mixing with shrubbery ; growing in any garden 

 soil, doing well in the shade ; producing large corymbs of small bright red and white flowers mixed ; 



hardy perennial : 2 feet - - 



VERBENA HYBRIDA. An indispensable popular trailing bedding plant ; half-hardy perennials, or treated 



as h - :hey bloom & ran seed, with beautiful dazzling self-colored, 



I red flowers. Wnen a quantity is wanted, they are more readily produced from seed, 



than to 1 5m from cuttings ; 1 foot. 



Candidissima. This new variety is a decided improvement on the old White Verbena, producing large 



the purest white flowers, and invaluable for florists' use -jc 



Coccinea. A beautiful scarlet-flowering variety 25 



Dreer's Striped. Beautiful striped varieties of brilliant shades of colors 25 



Auriculaeflora. Beautiful colors of auric ula-eyed varieties 23 



Extra Choice Mixed. 5-Iected from our large collection of the newest and finest named varieties and 



richest colors. Per oz., $-00 



•Fine Mixed Varieties. Ail the colors of the older varieties. Peroz.,^3.00 : 



VERONICA SYRIACA. Very ornamental plants for garden or pot-culture, and make extremely pretty- 

 edgings for small beds , r t-blue and white flowers ; half-hardy annual ; 6 inches 1^ 



VINCA (M'adagj.scar Perizuinkle). Ornamental free-blooming bedding plants, or green-house, evergreen 

 shruh= ng green f-.liage, requiring at all times a high temperature, and treated as tender 



annuals they flower a early, the first season, continuing until late in the autumn, or 



may be potted for the house before frost; height, 2 feet. 



Rosea 10 



Rosea Alba. White, with a crimson eye 10 



Rosea Alba Pura. The flowers are of a beautiful pure white 10 



Rosea Mixed. Of the above three aolors. Per oz., 52.00 •. i_ 



VIOLET {Viola Odoraix . We fragrant early spring blooming plants for edgings, groups t 



borders ; thriving best in the summer, in a shady situation, in a rich, deep soil ; now so extensively used 

 by florists for forcing for cut-flowers during the fall and winter months, and can be had in bloom nearly 

 all I . ;hes. 



Single Blue [Odorata Semperjloren ^-scented blue flowers ic 



Single White, The Czar {Odora-ta Flore Albo Le Czar). A beautiful new sweet-scented white variety 



reat merit - 10 



VIRGINIAN STOCK Che ; ranthus Maritimus). Beautiful free-flowering little plants, very effective in 



'-. edgings, or baskets, growing in xed of all the colors ; hardy annuals ; 3 inches. = 



WALL-FLOWER Cheiranthus Cheiri<. Well-known deliriously fragrant garden plants, blooming early 

 : conspicuous spikes of beautiful flowers ; they should be protected in a cold 

 frame in the winter, and planted out in May ; are much prized for bouquet-flowers ; half-hardy perennials. 

 For assortments, see page 44. 



Finest German Double Varieties. Double mixed, of all choice colors ; 2 feet 10 



Choice Single Mixed. Single mixed, of all the best coloi 5 



WHITLAVIA. Charming hardy annuals from California; fine for ribboning, mixed borders, or shady 

 spots, with delicate foliage and clusters of beautiful bell-shaped flowers, growing freely in any garden 

 soil, also good for baskets, vases, etc. ; 1 t 



Grandiflora. Fine, large, violet-blue, bell-shaped floi»ers 5 



Grandiflora Alba. A beautiful white variety of the above = 



Gloxinioides. A -p.endid variety, with beautiful large Gloxinia-iike flowers, pure white corolla, with a 



delicate blue lip ' 



ZINNIA ELEGANS, FLORE PLENO (Youth and Old Age \. Double Zinnias are quite an acquisition 

 to our list of garden favorites ; of branching habit and splendid brilliant-colored double flowers, rivalling 

 in beauty and form moderate-sized Dahlias. Summer and fall-flowering plants, producing a great pro- 

 fusion of rich and varied-colored flowers until killed by frost. The seed can be sown early in the hot- 

 bed and.transplanted, or later out in the open ground ; half-hardy annuals ; 2 feet. For separate colors, 

 see assortments of Double Zinnias, page 44. 



White. Well-shaped pure white flowers, fine for florists' use 10 



Extra Choice Mixed. Saved from selected double flowers. Per oz., $1. 00 = 



Pumila Flore Pleno. A new choice strain of dwarf extra-double varieties, quite distinct from the above, 



of splendid rich colors mixed. 1 foot 10 



Haageana. A splendid double variety; flowers deep orange, margined with yellow, keeping its color when 

 dried as a winter flower - io 



