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DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



PANDANUS. 



(SCREW PINE.) 



Pandanus Utilis. This is one of the most useful 

 of our ornanieptal foliage plants ; excellent for the 

 centre of vases and baskets, or grown as a siugle 

 specimen ; for in or out-door decoration. Fine 

 young plants, 50 cts. to §1.50 each. 



— Veitclili. This is one of the most attractive 

 plants. The leaves are light green, beautifully 

 marked with broad stripes aud bands of pure white 

 and gracefully curved. $1.50 to $10.00 each. 



Parrot's Feather. 



(MYRIOPHYLLUM PROSERPINACOIDES.) 



An aquatic hanging plant is a novelty indeed, and 

 we have it to perfection in this dainty little jewel. 

 Its long trailing stems are clothed with whorls of the 

 most exquisite foliage, as finely cut as the leaves of 

 the Cypress Vine, and much more delicate. Plauted 

 in a water-tight hanging basket, so water can be 

 kept standing on the surface, it will trail finely. 

 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



Passiflora Quadrangularis 

 Variegata. 



A pretty variegated variety having large foliage, 

 which is mottled with bright golden yellow spots and 

 light colored, almost white flowers. 15 cts. each. 



Peperomia Maculosa. 



A pretty dwarf growing ornamental foliage plant, 

 exceedingly useful as a pot plant for the window or 

 for planting in baskets or vases ; it has thick fleshy 

 foliage of a bright green color, veined with silvery 

 white 25 cts. each ; 5 for $1.00. 



OLEA FRAQRAN5. 



(SWEET OLIVE.) 



An old favorite greenhouse shrub succeeding admir- 

 ably as a house plant, producing small white flowers 

 which are of the most exquisite fragrance, continuing 

 to bloom almost the entire winter. 



50 cts. each ; $5.00 per dozen. 



Pontederia Crassipes Major. 



(WATER HYACINTH.) 



A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers 

 of a delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. 

 The individual blooms are 2 inches in diameter. It 

 should be grown in about 3 inches of water, so that 

 the ends of the roots can enter the soil. 35 cts. each. 



Pittosporum Tobira Variegata. 



An evergreen shrub, excellent as a house plant, 

 standing the dry atmosphere of a room without 

 injury, with dark green foliage, which is prettily 

 variegated with white ; flowers white, fragrant. 

 50 cents each. 



Peperomia Maculosa. 



STROBILAKTHE; DYERIANUS. 



Strobilanthes Dyerianus. 



A new and attractive plant now offered for the first 

 time, suitable for growing in pots for house decoration 

 and for bedding out in summer ; it forms a compact 

 bush 18 inches high with leaves 6 to 9 inches long 

 and 3 to 4 inches wide, of the most intense metallic 

 purple color, shading into light rose with a light 

 green margin, a combination unapproached by any 

 other plant. The flowers are of a violet blue and 

 very pretty. It is said to make an excellent bedding 

 plant, having been planted at the gardens of the 

 "White House the past summer, where it attracted 

 considerable attention. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



" Plants arrived yesterday mornivg early, in perfect order, and icere set out at once, 

 disturbed from their native soil. Many thanks." May 31, 1895. 



They look now as if they had never been 

 H. ARDISSOY, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



