150 



dreer's garden calendar. 



FRENCH HYBRID GLADIOLUS. 



Tliey are the most state- 

 ly and effective of the whole 

 genus ; being of a robust 

 nrect growth, with green 

 Sword -shaped leaves and 

 magnificent liower- scapes, 

 rising from two to four feet 

 in height. The colors com- 

 prise the most brilliant of 

 orange, scarlet, and vermil- 

 ion tints upon yellow and 

 orange grounds, including 

 a graduated scale of inter- 

 mediate shades, from white 

 and rosy blush and salmon 

 rose tints, to a salmon red 

 a^vl nankeen; from blush- 

 white w'th purple crimson 

 throat, and marginal streak 

 of pink, tolight rosy salmon 

 grounds, with flakes of deep 

 carmine. A succession of 

 bloom may be had from 

 July to Sept'r, by planting 

 at intervals from xlpril to 

 June, reserving the strong- 

 est bulbs for the latest 

 planting. Their culture is 

 very simple: they will grow 

 in any ordinary garden 

 mould, but succeed best in 

 good earth, manured with 

 well-rotted horse -dung. 

 The bulbs are taken up in 

 the fall and placed in a dry 

 cellar, protected from frost. 



A discount of ten per cent, from catalogue prices will be made, 

 when one dozen varieties are selected. Twenty per cent, on one 

 hundred varieties. 



This collection received First Premiums at the Exhibitions of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in 1870, 1871, 1872, & 1873. 



GLADIOLUS, in Assortments — Invariablt/ our Selection. 



No 



Price. 



1...12 good old varieties for $ 1 50 



2. ..12 choice old varieties for 2 50 



3. ..12 very choice varieties for 5 00 



4. ..12 new and rare varieties. ..10 to 20 00 



No. Price. 

 5. ..100 with names, 25 choice varie- 

 ties 20 00 



6. ..100 without names, mixed.- 4 OO 



7...12 with'in^t n:inies, mixed 75 



No. 8. ..12 very fine white and light colors, mixed, $1.50. Per hundred, .$6.00. 

 Our mixture contains many, us good as some of the better named sorts. 



