DREER'S WHOLESALE PRICE LIST. 



FLOWER 5EED5. 



We give close attention to the Flower Seed department of our business, which is probably the largest in quantity 

 and variety in this country. 



Our constant aim is to procure the very best strains obtainable, both of home and foreign growth, and we spare 

 no pains or expense with this object in view. We call special attention to our choice strains of Asters, Cineraria, 

 Carnations, Calceolaria, Cyclamen, Gloxinia, Pansy, Petunia, Primula, and Verbena, which are acknowledged by leading 

 growers to be superior in all respects. Our trade packets contain a liberal supply ; where smaller quantities are wanted, 

 buyers can select from retail catalogue at a discount of one-third. 



A FEW NOVELTIES OF SPECIAL VALUE TO FLORISTS. 



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Late-Flowering Branching Astek. 



Asters. Late-Flowering Branching. 



A selection of Semple's Branching Asters, which for size 

 of bloom, freedom of flowering, and other good qualities, 

 we have never seen equaled. The plants form strong, 

 robust bushes about 2 feet high, bearing profusely, on long, 

 strong stems, handsome chrysanthemum-like flowers, many 

 being over 6 inches in diameter. The form of the flowers 

 is beautifully shown in the illustration ; they have none of 

 the stiffness usual to most Asters, making them particularly 

 desirable as cut flowers. They come into flower from two 

 to three weeks later than most sorts, filling in the gap 

 between the general run of Asters and Chrysanthemums. 

 We offer three distinct and beautiful colors : 



Trade Pkt. Per Oz. 



Pure "White 40 $2 00 



Shell Pink 40 2 00 



Lavender Blue 40 2 00 



Mixed 30 1 50 



Double-Flowering Cyclamen. 



(C. persicum grand iflorum, fl. pi.) 



We are glad to be able to offer this, a really double-flow- 

 ering Cyclamen, coming quite true from seed ; the flowers 

 are produced with the same freedom and in the same beau- 

 tiful colors as in the single-flowering sorts, and they last 

 much longer when cut, and, when left on the plants, con- 

 tinue in good condition for over two months. A valuable 

 acquisition. 



Price, 25 cts. per packet. 



Dwarf Early Large Flowering Cosmos "Dawn." 



Cosmos. Dwarf Early "Dawn." 



This valuable novelty originated in the garden of one 

 of our customers in Northern New York, who writes about 

 it as follows : " Originated from seed purchased from your 

 firm four years ago. We got only one plant out of the lot 

 and saved the little seed therefrom to try another season. 

 All the plants raised from this seed began flowering in July, 

 and none of them reverted to the original late-flowering 

 type ; it has acted this way ever since, and is certainly a 

 great improvement on the original for our Northern coun- 

 try, as we rarely can flower the common kind, they being 

 cut down by frost before fairly in bloom. Plants of the new 

 variety grow no higher than 4 feet 6 inches, while the late- 

 flowering kind is more than 7 feet. It grows more compact 

 and bushy. The flowers are as large as in the old variety, 

 the petal being rather broader, which makes the flowers 

 appear rounder ; it is a very free bloomer, color pure white 

 with a tinge of rose. Begins to bloom in July and lasts 

 until frost cuts it down ; it is always loaded with flowers, 

 and is not apt to be blown over by the wind as the old tall 

 variety." 



Price, 17 cts. per packet ; 6 packets for $1.00. 



Primula Obconica Grandiflora 

 Fimbriata. 



A fringed variety of the well-known large-flowering 

 Primula Obconica, and, like that sort, is a most profuse 

 flowering and easily grown variety. The flowers are as 

 finely fringed as the Chinese Fringed Primrose, and are de- 

 lightfully fragrant. Most useful for cutting, lasting well. 



17 cts. per packet. 



