Dreer's garden calendar - 1881 (1881) (20412262103)

Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1881

Identifier: dreersgardencale1881henr (find matches)

Year: 1881 (1880s)

Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs

Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer

Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Dreer 's Garden Calendar. 101 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 AssortmentsâInvariably 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. â 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

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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

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