Dreer 's Garden Calendar. 



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FRENCH HYBRID GLADIOLUS, 



They are the most stately and effective of our summer flowering bulbs, being of a robust erect 

 growth, with green sword-shaped leaves and magnificent flower-scapes, rising from two to four 

 feet in height. The colors comprise the most brilliant of orange, scarlet, and vermilion tints 

 upon yellow and orange grounds, including a graduated scale of intermediate shades, from white 

 and rosy blush and salmon rose tints, to a salmon red and nankeen ; from blush-white with 

 purple crimson throat, and marginal streak of pink, to light rosy salmon grounds, with flakes 

 of deep carmine. A succession of bloom may be had from July to September, by planting at 

 intervals from April to June, preserving the strongest 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 io 

 a dry cellar, protected from frost. 



Gladiolus in Assortments — Invariably our 

 Selection. 



We have made these selections with refer- 

 ence to contrast of colors, time of flowering, 

 and quality of bloom, and will serve as a 

 guide to those unacquainted with the sorts. 

 The seedlings offered abound in the finest va- 

 rieties, which compare favorably with the 

 higher-priced named sorts. The mixtures 

 contain many good sorts. 

 ■ Price. 



1-12 varieties named $1 (JO 



2-12 



3-12 

 10-12 

 11-12 

 12-12 

 13-12 

 14-100 ' 

 1.5-100 ' 



2 00 



3 00 



" mixed 5o 



" " light colors 1 0u 



" " seedlings 1 DO 



" " " very choice 1 50 



" '. 3 50 



'• li light colors 6 00 



Not less than 5u at 100 rates. 

 On purchaser's selection 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. 



Price. 



Achilla. Currant-red, white lines 30 



Adonis. Eosy salmon, carmine margin. 15 

 Alcyon. "White, flamed carmine rose... 

 Apollon. Rosy lilac, with a large stain 



of light rose ; fine 



Argus. Long spike; glittering fire-red 

 centre, and lower divisions pure white. 



Abistote. Rose, crimson stripes 



ARSINOE. Fine satin rose, flamed with 



bright crimson 



Berenice. Pink, flaked with cherry ; 



maroon stripes ".. 



Bernard de Jussieu. Violet, shaded 



cherry and purple 15 



Bertha Rabourdln. Pure white, car- 

 mine stain 20 



BiJOU. Cherry, flamed scarlet 15 



Brenchilien.sis. Rich scarlet 10 



Calypso. Rose, blotched with carmine. 15 

 Canary. Clear yellow, shaded with 



rose 20 



Canova. Long spike of very large 



white, carmine spotted flowers 75 



Celine. White and rose ground, car- 

 mine stripes 20 



Ceres. Pure white, stained with pur- 

 plish rose 35 



Charles Dickens. Light rose, blazed 



and striped with carminate rose 20 



Cherubini. Large flower, perfect shape, 

 with ground largely blazed with car- 

 minate violet 40 



Citrines. Light yellow, lower petals 

 dark yellow 35 



50 



20 



French Hybrid Gladiolus. 



Price. 



Clemence. White, with crimson flakes. 20 

 Comte de Morny. Dark cherrv, white 



blotches 20 



Couranti FuLGENS. Dark crimson 10 



Cuvier. Amaranth, blazed with purple. 25 



Daphne. Light cherry, dark stripes 20 



De Candolle. Cherry, blazed with red. 50 

 De Lamarck. Light cherry color, 



blazed with red; white stains $1 25 



Delecatissima. White, slightly tinged, 



with carmine lilac 50 



Diana. White, flaked with red 30 



Didon. White, suffused with lilac 75 



Don Juan. Orange and fire-red 10 



Dr. Lindley. Light rose, blazed with 



cherry 50 



Due de Malakoff. Orange red, blazed 



with lighter stripes 20 



Edith. Rose carnation, dark stripes 15 



Eldorado. Pure yellow, red stripes 20 



Elvire. Pure white, flamed carmine; 



very delicate 50 



Erato. Pale rose, carmine stains 25 



