32 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA. PA.. WHOLESALE PRICE LIST 



PENNISETUM CUPREUM 



New Hydrangea Avalanche. 



Described and offered on page 31. 



New Hydrangea Mme. Emile Mouillere. 



Described and offered on page 31. 



Various New Hydrangeas. 



The following varieties we can supply in 2 '/4-inch pot plants after 

 April 15th. 



Botaniste Peltereau. Enormous flowers of a pretty mauve-rose, 

 fringed, exquisite shape and color. 



Bouquet Rose. Large trusses of well formed flowers, rosy amber 

 turning to bright pink. 



La Lorraine. Very large flower, pale rose turning to bright pink. 

 Mme. A. Riverain. Superb bright rose color, very vigorous and 

 floriferous. 



Mme. Raymond. Large trusses of perfect round flowers, of a 

 transparent white, passing to tender rose. 



Mme. Maurice Hamar. Large delicate flesh-rose color, a pleas- 

 ing shade. 



Mile. Agnes Barillet. A splendid creamy white, flowers large and 

 freely produced. 



Mont Rose. Immense panicles of a clear flesh rose 



Ornement. Large pretty mauve-pink flowers. 



Ronsard. Large rose tinted white flowers, passing to rose. 



Souvenir de Mme. Chautard. One of the prettiest, robust habit 

 medium sized corymbs of bright rose colored flowers. 



General de Vibraye. Very large heads of bright rose, a splendid 

 forcing variety. 



2'/i-inch pots of above ready April 15th. $1.50 per dozen; $10.00 

 per 100. One each of the 12 sorts for $1.50. 



Pandanus Veitchi. 



A grand lot of well colored, perfect plants. 6-inch pots, fine speci- 

 mens, $1.00 each. 7-inch pots, fine specimens, $1.50 each. 



Pelargoniums. 



Crimson King. An intense rich crimson. 

 Duke of Cornwall. Reddish crimson bordered light salmon. 

 Linda. Salmon feathered and blotched maroon. 

 Mme. Thibaut. White-blotched crimson-maroon. 

 Mrs. R. Sandlford. Pure, glistening snow-white. 

 Sandlford's Best. Pink bordered pure white and white throat. 

 3-inch pots, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



New Everblooming Pelargonium, ** Easter 

 Greeting." 



This variety is remarkable for its early and free-flowering habit, 

 and while its principal crop of flowers is produced in early spring, 

 it is the first variety introduced which, in a favorable season, con- 

 tinues to bloom throughout the summer and fall months. Its flow- 

 ers are of large size, of a bright amaranth-red, each petal marked 

 with a large black blotch. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 



Pennisetum (Fountain Grass). 



The Pennisetums are now largely used as borders to beds of 

 Cannas, Caladium Esculentum and other tall growing plants and 

 are becoming more popular each season. 



Cupreum. A cross between the fine leaved P. Rueppelianum and 

 the red leaved P. Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum. It originated 

 with Prof. Cowell at the Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, N. Y., and 

 combines the good points of both of its parents. The foliage 

 is somewhat wider than P. Rueppelianum, and it has the dark 

 coppery bronze color of P. Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum, the 

 plumes are of a tawny crimson color. It grows 3 to 3'/2 feet high. 

 A distinct and valuable addition to our list of tender grasses. 

 Young plants ready April 15th ; $1.25 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



Macrophyllum atrosanguineum (Crimson Fountain Grass). Foli- 

 age of a pleasing, dark, metallic, coppery bronze. Ready April 

 15th; $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. 



Rueppelianum (Purple Fountain Grass) . A beautiful variety, grow- 

 ing about 2'/2 feet high, producing long, graceful green foliage 

 and purplish plumes. 2'/i-inch pots, ready May 1st, 75 cts. per 

 doz.; $5.00 per 100. 



See page 45 of this Catalogue for illustration and description of 

 the new hardy Fountain Grass— Pennisetum Japonicum. 



Watsonia (Bugle Lily). 



Ardernel. A bulbous plant closely allied to the Gladiolus, and 

 that will succeed under similar cultivation, or it may be grrown 

 under glass planted out like roses or carnations. It grows about 

 4 feet high, bearing many long-tubed, open flowers 2 inches 

 across, which are of the purest glistening white and a fine cut 

 flower. Extra strong bulbs, started in pots, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 

 per 100. 



PANDANUS VEITCHI 



