DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS. ETC. 



EPIPHYLLUM (Cactus). 



These are both curious and beautiful plants; very showy flowers. Grafted plants on the 

 Pereskia stock are more desirable than on their own roots' Of sorts including varieties of 

 .Night-blooming Cereus. 50 cents to $1. 



EEANTHEMUM PULCHELLUM. 



A pretty blue-flowering plant, blooming in April. 50 cents. 



EUPATORIUM RIPARIUM. 



One of the most valuable of winter-flowering plants, recently introduced, of dwarf habit, 

 and remaining a long time in flower. 25 to 5'J cents. 



EUPHORBIA. 



Splendid plant for winter-blooming, valuable for cut flowers in baskets and decorating. 

 50 cents to -SI. 

 Jacquiniflora. Producing racemes of brierht scarlet flower-. 

 Poinsettia Pulcherkima. Stalks tipped with clusters of brierht scarlet leaves. 

 Poinsettia Pulcheerima Carminata (New). Pipped with carmine leaves. $1. 

 Poin.settia Pulcherrima Plenissima. fXew, $1.00 to $2.50 each. See page 31. 



FICUS. 



A fine old plant which is becoming very popular in this country, not only in the hot- 

 house, hut as a decorative plant for the drawing-room or flower-garden. Its thick leathery 

 leaves make it especially valuable in consequence of doin? perfectly well in the dry air of 

 inhabited rooms; and this will enable many to enjoy a fine-leaved plant in house who have 

 no glass-house. 



Chauverl $1.50. 

 COOPERI. $1.50. 



Elastica India Rubber Plant). 



cts to $2. 



Paecelli. $1. 

 Radicals. $1. 



Pepens [creeping). 25 cents. 



FUCHSIA. 



We effer a choice collection of single and double corolla varieties. The varieties marked 

 with a * have double corollas. Price. 30 cents. $3 per dozen. Fur description and other 

 varieties, see "'Dreer's Garden Calendar." 



SDNRAY. A very showy novelty, the foliage of which, in the spring, is of a rich bright 

 e rimson, white and bronzy green ; fine form. 



*Alpha. 

 Arabella. 

 Carl Halt. 

 cokspicua. 



Duchess. 

 *Elm City. 

 *Emperor of Brazil. 



Empress,. 



^George Felton. 

 *Graf Andrassy. 

 Inimitable. 



Lady Heylesbury. 

 ■La Xeige. 

 Lustre. 



^Marksman. 



Margin' ata. 

 *Mostbose. 

 ^Princess of Wales. 

 *Prixce Leopold. 

 -Purple Prince. 



VlRGILE. 

 *VOIX L'U Peuple. 



FERNS AND LYCOPODIUMS. 



Fern« and Lycopodiums cannot be di^pened with in parlor or conservatory decoration ; 

 by careful manasement they add much to the beauty of an apartment. A Wardian case or 

 fernery is the best protector against the dry, hot atmosphere. The following is a list of the 

 eRsy-erowing varieties suitable for ferneries, \Yardian cases, baskets, etc. 25 cents. $2.50 

 per dozen, except where noted. 

 Adiantum. 



Amabile. 



ASSIMILE. [Maiden Hair.) 



Concinnum Latum. 



C u x E a t u m . ( J fa iden Ha ir. ) 



I) I a pita NUM. 50 cents. 



Farleyense. The most maenificent of 

 Maiden Hair ferns. $1 to $3. 



Formosum. 50 cents. 



Gractllimum. 50 cents. 



Pube.scens. 



Trapeziforme. 50 cents. 

 Alsophila Australis. Australian tree 



fern. 50 cents to $2. 

 Athyrium Goringianum Pictum. A 



beautiful variegated Japanese fern. 

 Cheilanthes Hirta. 



Dick.sonia Antarctica. Australian tree 



fern. 50 cents. 

 Gymnogramma Tartarea. Hardiest sil- 

 ver fern. 

 CHRYSOPHYLLA. (Golden Ft 

 Laucheana Gigantea. Finest golden 



fern. 

 Ochracea. Creamy white. 

 Peruviana Argyrophilla. Finest 



silver fern. 

 SULPHUREA. (Sulphvr F'rn.) 

 \Vettenhalliana. The finest sulphur 

 fern. 50 cents. 

 Lomaria Falcata (New). 50 cents. 



Gibba Crispa (rare;. 50 cents. 

 Lastraea Patens. 



