DREER'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BULBS, ETC. 21 



Ornamental and Winter-Blooming Plants, 



SUITABLE FOR THE GREENHOUSE, CONSERVATORY, OR WINDOW-GARDEN. 



{For sorts not noted here, see " Dreers Garden Calendar.'' 1 ) 

 ABUTILON. 

 Ornamental leave?, flowering freely iu the greenhouse or garden. 30 cents each. 

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ACACIA. 



Plants of graceful habit and abundant bloomers ; leaves useful for decoration. 50 cents 

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 Cfltriformis. Paradox a. 



Linearis. Pobescens. $1 to $2.50. 



LOPHANTHA. 



ACALYPHA TRICOLOR. 



Large foliage, irregularly mottled with crimson and named with red. 75 cents. 



AGAVE. 



Nn plants are more decorative or more effective than these : and for the conservatory in 

 winter, or lawn and garden in summer, presenting a highly picturesque as well as tropical 

 aspect 

 Americana, of all sizes. 50 cents to $10. 



Variegata, of all sizes, variegated, >l to $10. 

 VEBSCHAFFELTI. One of the finest and rarest varieties, with short, almost heart-shaped 

 leaves, and black spines. $1.00 each. Large, $5.00. 



ALLAMANDA. 



Of sort*. 50 cents to $1. 



ALOCASIA. 



Macrorhiza. laree green leaves. 50 cents. 



variegata, mottled green and white leaves. $1.00. 

 Metallica, large, dark, bronzy leaves. $1. 



ANTHURIUM SCHERTZERANIUM. 



Producing beautiful scarlet floral spathes, each of which remains two to three months 

 fresh and brilliant. $1 to $2. 



ARALIA. 

 Guilfoyli. Avery showy plant of erect habit; green foliage, margined with white, 

 deeply serrated. $1.50. 



Papyrifeea. An effective and picturesque plant, with very large palmate leaves on 

 long steins, covered all over with a silvery pubescens. Fine for sub-tropical gardens. 

 25 to 50 cents. 



ARDISIA. 

 Ceenflata. A very ornamental greenhouse shrub, bearing red berries. 25 to 50 cents. 



With berries, 75 cents to $1. 

 Crenflata Alba, white berries. 50 cents. 



ASPIDISTRA ELATIOR. 



Variegata. A desirable variegated-leaved plant for baskets, ferneries, etc. 50 cents. 

 Punctata (rare,. $1. 



ASTILBE JAPONICA (Spirea Japonica). 



This is one of the prettied of herbaceous plants, growing about eighteen inches high, 

 with neat foliage and dense spikes of pure white feather-like flowers. For winter forcing 

 and flowering it is very valuable; the foliage, as well as flowers, being alike ornamental. 

 25 cents to $1. 



AUCUBA JAPONICA. 

 Blotched, dark green and yellow foliage. 25 to 75 cents. 



