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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. 



GiBSONi. Large leaves, marbled green and 

 black ; very ornamental. 30 to 60 cts. 



Jenningsi. Glaucous green, blotched black. 

 25 cts. 



Macro RRHiZA Vaeiegata. $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 flowers, as it does not drop its blossoms as in the 

 single sort. 20 cts. ; $2 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 G inches high, and admirably adapted 

 for edgin.^s to flower-beds or ribbon lines, their beautifully variegated foliage of crimson, purple, 

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

 15 cts. ; $1.50 per (Joz. ; $8 per 100. ' v 



Amabilis Tricoi.oR, Orange, crimson and dark green. 

 Am(ENA Spectabilis. Crimson, })jnk and brown ; the finest and brightest. 

 Versicolor. Foliage ovate, olivej 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 titem, 2 to 3 feet high, The tubers, maturing the second year, produce 

 flowers like tJie " 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 kept over winter like Dahlia 

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



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 

 Joara, They produce showy lily-shaped flowers, from two 

 to ten on a stalk. 



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

 FORMOSISSIMA (Jacobaja 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. Foucbet, Paris. 

 White ground, lined and striped with red and rose. $1.50. 

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



JOHN.SONL Scarlet, striped with white, very large bloom. $2. 

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

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



Hybrids of Vittata 



AMARANTHUS SALIOIFOLIUS-Fountain Plant. 



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

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

 m the plants mature the branches assurae a bright orange red color; highly ornam_ental; plants 

 ready May 15th. 20 cts. ; |2 per do2. 



