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DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



Azaleas. 



Strong plants with well shaped crowns, consist- 

 ins; of the most desirable sorts. The standards we 

 offer are 12 to 15 inches high and are from the best 

 foreign growers. 



First size. 81-00 each ; $9.00 per doz. 



Gloiee de Sceaux. 



Begonias. 



Metallica. A fine erect growing variety with 

 dark, rough leaves ; the surface is a lustrous 

 bronze green, veins depressed and dark red. 15 

 cents. 



Semperflorens Gigantea. The flowers of this 

 new sort are brilliant carmine red. and are borne 

 in large panicles. It is one of the best of the 

 new Begonias, and possesses vigorous habit. 25 

 cents. 



BEGONIAS.— Continued. 



Gloire de Sceaux. One of the finest flowering 

 Begonias introduced for many years ; it is of up- 

 right habit, producing during the entire winter 

 large, open, flat flowers of a soft silky pink, con- 

 trasting well with the rich bronzy green foliage. 

 50 cents each. 



The set of 3 varieties for 75 cents. 



Begonia Rex. 



We have a most beautiful collection of this justly 

 popular pot plant in twelve very handsome varieties. 

 25 cts. each ; §2.5C per doz. 



Begonia Conntess Louise Erdody. 



The leaf, which has a metallic lustre, appears dark 

 silvery in the centre, shading into coppery rose toward 

 the margin, which is broadly and evenly edged with 

 the same hue, but darker and more brilliant. The 

 striking peculiarity, however, which distinguishes it 

 from all other Begonias, is that the two lobes at the 

 base of the leaf do not grow side by side, but one of 

 them winds in a spiral-like way until in a full-grown 

 leaf there are four of these twists lying on the top of 

 the leaf nearly two inches high. 50 cts. each. 



