. Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1895 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. OLEA FRAQRAN5. (SWEET OLIVE.) An old favorite greenhouse shrub succeeding admir- ably as a house plant, producing small white flowers which are of the most exquisite fragrance, continuing to bloom almost the entire winter. 50 cts. each ; $ per dozen. Pontederia Crassipes Major. (WATER HYACINTH.) A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers of a delicate lilac rose in truss
. Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1895 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. OLEA FRAQRAN5. (SWEET OLIVE.) An old favorite greenhouse shrub succeeding admir- ably as a house plant, producing small white flowers which are of the most exquisite fragrance, continuing to bloom almost the entire winter. 50 cts. each ; $ per dozen. Pontederia Crassipes Major. (WATER HYACINTH.) A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers of a delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. The individual blooms are 2 inches in diameter. It should be grown in about 3 inches of water, so that the ends of the roots can enter the soil. 35 cts. each. Pittosporum Tobira Variegata. An evergreen shrub, excellent as a house plant, standing the dry atmosphere of a room without injury, with dark green foliage, which is prettily variegated with white ; flowers white, fragrant. 50 cents Peperomia Maculosa. STROBILAKTHE; DYERIANUS. Strobilanthes Dyerianus. A new and attractive plant now offered for the first time, suitable for growing in pots for house decoration and for bedding out in summer ; it forms a compact bush 18 inches high with leaves 6 to 9 inches long and 3 to 4 inches wide, of the most intense metallic purple color, shading into light rose with a light green margin, a combination unapproached by any other plant. The flowers are of a violet blue and very pretty. It is said to make an excellent bedding plant, having been planted at the gardens of the "White House the past summer, where it attracted considerable attention. 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. " Plants arrived yesterday mornivg early, in perfect order, and icere set out at once, disturbed from their native soil. Many ; May 31,1895. They look now as if they had never been H. ARDISSOY, Saratoga Springs, N. Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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