Drear's Garden Calc?idar. 



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DENDROBIUM NOBILE. 



A. beautiful orchid of easy culture, producing green, yellow and pink flowers, 

 peaty soil, and during growing season plenty of heat and moisture. $1. 



It requires 





ECHEVERIA METALLICA. 



A fine and stately plant, with very large shell-like leaves of a beautiful metallic, lilac hue, 

 with tall flower-stems covered with bell-shaped, yellow, and scarlet flowers, strong. 30 cts. 



Stapelia Variegata. A curious erect-growing plant, resembling a cactus or succulent. The 

 square stems and branches with their prominent four angles are dull green, covered wit h 

 grayish spots; flowers are full an inch in diameter; star-shaped and of a peculiar reddish 

 purple. 50 cts. 



EPIPHYLLUM TRUNCATUM— Lobster-leaved Cactus. 



A very useful winter-flowering plant, flowers in different shades of purplish crimson to scar- 

 let. Our stock is grafted on the Pereskia stock, and will succeed where those on their own 

 roots fail ; the plants are large and bushy, two and three years old. 75 cts. to $1. 

 Cruentas. Brilliant crimson. I Spectabilis. Magenta scarlet. 



Salmonium. Salmon. i Truxcatum. Salmon red. 



Salmoxioi Coccix'eum. Salmon scarlet. ' Violacea. Violet. 



ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI— Coral Plant. 



A magnificent plant, producing its scarlet and crimson pea-shaped flowers on spikes 18 inches 

 long. Plant them in the garden in May, and they will flower profusely three or four times in the 

 course of the summer. They may be taken up in the fall, and kept in perfect preservation 

 during the winter in a dry cellar, the roots covered with half-dry earth. 25 to 50 cts., accord- 

 ing to size. 



ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. 



A perfectly hardy Ornamental Grass, from 9 to 12 feet high, throwing up from thirty to fifty 

 flower spikes. It resembles the Pampas Grass, but blooms much more abundantly, and with 

 the advantage of being hardy, making it a desirable plant for the decoration of lawn's. 30 cts. ; 

 clumps, 75 cts. 



EUCHAR1S AMAZONICA. 



A splendid hothouse plant, blooming nearly the entire season. It sends up stalks bearing 

 several pure white, star-sharjed flowers, 4 inches across, delightfully fragrant. It is very highly 

 prized in bouquets, baskets, etc. 50 cts. to $1 ; $5 to $10 per doz. 



EULALIA JAPONICA VARIEGATA. 



A very graceful, tall, ornamental, hardy plant from Japan. Long, narrow leaf blades, striped 

 green, white, and often pink or yellow. It throws up stalks from 4 to 6 feet in height, termi- 

 nated with a cluster of flower spikes ; the flowers are surrounded by long silky threads, which, 

 when fully ripe, expand not unlike an ostrich feather when curled. These dry flowers are 

 valuable as parlor ornaments, as they retain their beauty for a long time. 30 cts" ; $3 per doz. 

 Clumps, 75 cts. ; $9 per doz. 



EULALIA JAPONICA ZEBRINA. 



The most distinct hardy ornamen- 

 tal grass sent out for many years, an 

 introduction from Japan. It pro- 

 duces long blades, which are marked 

 with broad yellow bands across the leaf 

 instead of longitudinally. It grows \ 

 from 4 to 6 feet in height, forming a 

 striking and graceful plant, its mark- 

 ings being unlike anything that we 

 know of in cultivation. It makes a 

 very attractive specimen plant for the 

 lawn, and will not fail to arrest atten- 

 tion. It bears elegant large tassel- 

 like plumes, in the autumn, white, 

 shaded with pink, which make hand- 

 some parlor decorations; strong 

 plants. 30 cts. to 50 cts. Clumps, $1. 



