DREER'S SELECT 



Hardy Perennial Plants 



For many years Hardy Perennials have been one of our principal specialties and our stock at the present time is unquestionably the 

 most complete both in quantity and variety in the country. 



Many planters not thoroughly familiar with this class of plants have an idea that nothing but a large, field-grown clump will give 

 satisfactory returns the first season. This, as experience has taught us, is in most instances a mistake. A vigorous plant of proper size 

 will, in nearly every case, give quicker and better returns than the best so-called "field-clumps" that can be procured. This fact is 

 particularly appreciated by the leading Landscape Architects throughout the country who use Perennials in large quantity, the majority 

 of whom give preference to the Dreer pot-grown plants. It will be noticed that the majority of the stock offered in this list is described 

 as being 3, 4 or 5-inch pots. This does not necessarily mean that the plants have been altogether pot-grown, but that they have been 

 field-grown and dug and potted up during the Fall and early Winter months, and such stock can be planted even late in the Spring, 

 with practically no loss, which, in the case of clumps, is often quite serious. 



Acaena. (New Zealand Burr). 



Per doz. Per 100 

 Microphylla. 3-inch pots $1 75 



Acanthus (Bear's Breech). 

 Mollis Latlfolius. S'/z-inch. pot-grown 2 00 



Achillea (Milfoil). 



Aconitum (Monkshood). 



FIscherl 



Lycoctonum 



Napellus 



BIcolor 



Spark's Variety 



Wllsonll. A recent introduction from Northern Chi- 

 na, of strong, stately habit, growing 5 to 6 feet high, 

 with large light violet-blue flowers in September . 



1 50 

 1 50 

 1 50 

 1 50 

 1 50 



2 00 



Adenophora. 



Potaninl. 3-inch pots 1 50 



Adonis. . 



Amurensis. 3-inch pots. 40 cts. each 4 00 



" flora plena. 3-inch pots. 40 cts. each 4 00 



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ACONITUM NAPKLLUS 



$15 00 



Boule de Nelge. An improvement on " The Pearl," . 



85 



6 00 



Eupatorium. Strong, 4-inch pots 



85 



6 00 



Flllpendula. Strong. 3'/2-inch pots 



85 



6 00 





85 



6 00 



" Cerise Queen. 4-inch pots 



85 



6 00 





85 



6 00 





85 



6 00 



10 00 

 10 00 

 10 00 

 10 00 

 10 00 



15 00 



10 00 



ACHILLEA (The Pearl) 



y^gopodium (Bishop's Weed). 



Per doz. Per 100 



Podagraria Variesata. Strong 3-inch pots $1 00 $7 00 



Aetheopappus. 



Pulcherlmus. Brilliant rose-colored flowers not un- 

 like a Royal Sweet Sultan. 15 cts. each 1 50 10 00 



Agrostemma (Campion). 



Coronarla. 3-inch pots 



Flos Jovls. 3-inch pots 



85 6 00 

 85 6 00 



AJuga (Bugle). 

 Reptans Rubra. 3-inch pots 100 700 



Alstromeria (Chilian Lily). 

 Chllensls. 3-inch pots 100 7 00 



Alyssum. 



Rostratum. 3-inch pots 125 8 00 



Saxatile Compactum. 3-inch pots 85 6 00 



The New Anchusas. 



The Improved Varieties of Italian Alkenet or Bugloss. 



These wonderfully improved Anchusas have proven most valu- 

 able additions to our limited list of blue flowering hardy perennials, 

 and particularly so as they flower from May to July, a time when 

 this color is only sparingly represented in the hardy border. 



The habit of the plants while strong and vigorous is not at all 

 coarse, they form many branched specimens from 3 to 5 feet high, 

 each branch of which is terminated by a large, graceful, pyramidal 

 spike of blue flowers. 



Dropmore Variety. Rich gentian-blue I *, cn ^p- joz • tlO 00 oer 100 

 Opal. A splendid lustrous light blue I '^'^ 



Anchusa Myosotidiflora. 



A distinct new species from the Caucasian mountains, growing 

 but 10 to 12 inches high, producing during April and May sprays of 

 beautiful Forget-me-not-like flowers of rich blue. 35 cts. each; 

 $3.50 per doz. 



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