HENRY A. DREER, Inc. 

Hardy Perennial Plants WHOLESALE CATALOG 

Dreer’s Hardy Garden Chrysanthemums 
No plants in our gardens attract more attention in the fall of the year than these Hardy 
Garden varieties. 
Blooming, as they do, after practically all other garden flowers have passed 
away, they enliven the autumn landscape with their brilliant flowers so profusely displayed. 
With reasonable care they are absolutely winter hardy and their acquisition brings a per- 
manent addition to the garden. 
In the following lists we present the result of over a quarter century of painstaking 
selection and hybridization. 
characteristic. 
commerce. 
While many old favorites may be missing, you may rest assured 
that they have been replaced by varieties which 
have proved superior in some desirable 
We believe we have the most worthwhile collection of this class of plants in 
Wholesale prices quoted are for strong 2-inch pot plants ready for delivery after March Ist. 

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Jasper Spoon 
Rose Spoon 

Orchid Spoon 
Silver Spoon 
Golden Spoon 
. Five New Spoon 
Chrysanthemums for 1941 
These splendid new varieties for 1941 greatly widen 
the color range of this artistic new type of hardy Chry- 
santhemum which may be relied upon to give a profusion 
of flowers when the season comes to a close. 
Golden Spoon. A compact grower and profuse bloomer 
covered with masses of well-rounded, medium-sized, 
semi-double blooms of a glistening bright golden 
' yellow color with a delightful apricot sheen. 
Jasper Spoon. Highly artistic blooms 2-2% inches in 
diameter. They are nearly double and of pincushion 
effect. The long tubes are straw yellow with the 
small spoons at the tips creating an effective contrast 
by their brilliant jasper red color. 
Orchid Spoon. Exquisite flowers 214-3 inches across 
presenting a lovely orchid shade—light pinkish lilac. 
Almost double and very free flowering. 
Rose Spoon. Showy large flowers 3 inches across of an 
appealing luminous old rose color. The tubes rise up- 
ward from the center forming a bowl-shaped flower 
while the long flattened spoons at the ends are grace- 
fully reflexed. Vigorous and free blooming. 
Silver Spoon, Vigorous bushy plants laden with attrac- 
tive semi-double pure white flowers accentuated by a 
small yellow center. Of needle or spider-like effect. 
Any of the above 2-inch pots: 28c each; $25.00 per 100. 
Three Spoon Chrysanthemums 
Introduced in 1940 
Pink Spoon. Graceful flowers with several rows of nar- 
row tubular petals with bright pink spoons. 
White Spoon. A very fine, fully double, white flower 
with a rich creamy tint in the center. 
Yellow Spoon. Straight needle-like tubular petals of 
rich deep yellow forming an elegant double flower. 
Any of the above 2-inch pots: 18¢ each; $15.00 per 100. 



Bronze Cydonia 
Outstanding New 
Chrysanthemums for 1941 
We particularly recommend these new varieties as 
every one of them represents a decided improvement 
over older sorts. The two Dreer introductions Avalanche 
and Bronze Cydonia are particularly fine. Be sure to 
include them in your order. 
Acacia. Myriads of small, glittering, delightfully fra- 
grant, Acacia-like blossoms covering the plants from 
late September on. The semi-double sulphur yellow 
flowers are about an inch in-diameter. 2 ft. 
Autumn Lights. Semi-double coppery bronze blossoms 
with a gleaming orange overcast. The compact vig- 
orous bushes are simply covered with flowers in late 
ty tea A variety of more than average hardiness. 
Avalanche. A marvelous new pure white of extra large 
size. The densely double flowers are high crowned 
and of almost ball shape measuring 4 to 5 inches 
across aS grown in our fields without disbudding. 
Flowers in early October and carries its magnificent 
blooms on strong wiry stems so that it is aS good a 
cut flower as a garden variety. : 
Bronze Cydonia. A sensational sport from Cydonia with 
well-rounded fully double blooms combining the or- 
ange-mahogany color of Cydonia with a lustrous 
bright bronze on the tip-third of the petals. 
Gleam O’Gold. This splendid primrose yellow aptly 
named fairly gleams in the mellow October sunshine. 
Blooms early October. 2 ft. 
Goblin. A distinct warm golden bronze attaining per- 
fection for Hallowe’en decoration. Of airy graceful 
habit. 2 ft. 
Pomponette. A dwarf compact grower literally covered 
with charming yellow pompon flowers. 
Roberta Copeland. 
tures aS a salmon bronze. 
starting about middle of September. 2 ft. 
Rose Glow. Appealing old rose blooms borne in great 
profusion on plants reaching about 2 feet high. Blooms ~ 
about October 5. 
Sandra. This admirable dwarf crimson-red variety is 
of “Amelia” extraction and comes into bloom early in 
October. The flowers measure 1% ifiches in diameter 
at are well placed on bushy plants 12 to 16 inches 
tall. 
Any of the above 2-inch pots: 18¢ each; $15.00 per 100. 
62 Dreer’s Pot-Grown Perennial Plants will give you immediate effects. 
A very unusual rose-red which ma- — 
It is an early bloomer 


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