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Title: Dreer's wholesale price list : flower seeds for florists plants for florists bulbs for florists fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, implements, etc
Identifier: dreerswholesalep1916henr (find matches)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies 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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68 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST Choice Hardy Shrubs—continued
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JAPANESE MAPLES Kalmia Latifolia. A fine lot of cultivated bushy plants, 18 inches high. $7.50 per doz.; 160.00 per 100. 75cts. each; Japanese Maples (Splendid Pot-Grown Plants). Japanese Maple. Polymorphum Atropur- pureum (pot-grown) Japanese Maple. Polymorphum Atropur- pureum Dissectum (pot-grown) Japanese Maple. Japonicum Aureum (pot- grown) Magnolias. Pot-grown, 2 to 3 feet high 5-inch pots, 15 inches high, $6.00 per doz. 6-inch pots. 18-24 inches high, $12.00 per doz. Grandlflora. Alba Superba. Bushy plants, 3 feet high Conspicua. Bushy plants, 3 feet high Kobus. Pot-grown, 2 feet high Soulangeana. Strong plants, 5 feet high l.ennel. Strong plants, 3 feet high Steltata. Bushy plants, 2 feet high , Each $0 35 2 00 2 50 35 1 50 2 00 1 50 Mahonia Aquifolia. A dwarf shrub, with shiny green prickly foliage and clusters of yellow flowers in May, followed by bluish berries. Bushy plants, 15 to 18 inches high, 40 cts. each. Osmanthus Uicifolia. A compact, dense evergreen shrub, with deep-green spiny- toothed shining Holly-like leaves. A useful plant to use in con- nection with Evonymus, Berberis and similar subjects in sheltered positions at porch corners or in building recesses. Bushy plants, 15 inches high, 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. Osmanthus Delavayi. A valuable new dwarf evergreen shrub introduced from Yunon, where it grows at an altitude of 9000 feet, therefore perfectly hardy. The small foliage is of a deep green color, and fragrant pure white tubular flowers are borne in terminal clusters at the end of the branches in early spring. 75 cts. each. Rhododendron Punctatum. A distinct native species of compact spreading habit, splendid for exposed positions, being absolutely hardy, producing masses of medium sized purplish-rose colored flowers. 75 cts. each: $7.50 per doz. Hardy Rhododendrons. We offer below but a limited list of hybrid varieties, which, how- ever, is selected from the hardiest sorts of the Catawbiensis type. Album elegans. A fine white. Candidissimum. A fine white. Caractacus. Purplish crimson. Catawblense Grandiflorum. Soft violet mauve. Chas. Dickens. Dark purplish crimson. Delicatissimum. Blush white. Everestlanum. Light rosy lilac. F. D. Godman. Crimson. General Grant. Aniline red. Kettledrum. Crimson. Parsons Grandiflorum. Rosy purple. Roseum elegans. Bright rosy lilac. We can furnish any of the above in strong, bushy plants, well set with buds in the following sizes; varying according to habit of variety: , Height Each Doz. 100 12 to 18 in., according to habit of growth . . $0 75 $8 00 $65 00 15 to 24 " . 1 25 12 00 90 00 18 to 30 " . 2 00 20 00 150 00 Scarce Parson Varieties of Hardy Rhododendrons. Professor Charles S. Sargent. Rich crimson. 24 inches high, $1.50 each Henrlette Sargent. Clear pink, with yellowish green blotch on the upper petal. 15 to 18 inches high, $1.00 each 18 to 24 " " 1.25 " Ignatius Sargent. Light red. 24 inches high, $1.50 each Mrs. C. S. Sargent. Soft rosy-pink. 24 inches high, $1.50 each Spiraea Sorbifolia Stellipeda. A splendid improvement on the old Mountain Ash-leaved Spiraea, with which it is identical, except that the white flowers are pro- duced in immense pyramidal panicles, frequently 10 inches wide by 15 inches high; these, backed with the bright green ferny foliage, appear like large bonquets of bloom. Flowers during July and Angust. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. New Viburnum Carlesi. A Korean variety of recent discovery, bearing large corymbs of sweet-scented white flowers, resembling somewhat in shape a Bouvardia. The plant is of bushy habit and is a most valuable addition to the family. Pot-grown plants, 60 cts. each; $6.00 per doz. New Viburnum Rhytidophyllum. A beautiful Chinese introduction with almost evergreen foliage which is from 8 to 9 inches in length by 2 to 2!4 inches broad, of a dark green, much channeled, making it most valuable as an orna- mental foliage subject; the vigorous growths are terminated by yellowish-white flowers which give place in September to dark red berries. Strong plants, 75 cts. each.

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