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THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD COMPANY. 



Our Seedlings. We make a specialty 

 of choice Amaryllis and grow a great 

 many hybrid seedlings every year. We 

 have strong blooming bulbs of the Em- 

 press of India type, crosses on California 

 hybrids which are superb. Large flaring 

 flowers 7 or 8 inches across, with broad 

 petals, most brilliant shades of scarlet, 

 lined, flushed and penciled; beautiful 

 flowers with 'an absence of the green 





Amaryllis Bella Donna Major 



throat. Large selected bulbs $1 each, $10 

 doz. Choice mixed 25c to 50c each; $2.50 

 to $4 doz. Choice young bulbs. V 2 to % 

 inch in diameter 15c each, $1.25' doz.; $8 

 hundred; 50 at $1 rates. This is a fine 

 opportunity to obtain rare bulbs at very 

 low rates as our young seedlings are from 

 our very choicest strain. 



Aulica or Lily of the Palace. Summer 

 and autumn bloomer. Broad foliage and 

 large spreading wide open flowers of rich 

 crimson-scarlet, lined and penciled white 

 and maroon. Blooming bulbs 25c each, 

 $2.50 doz.; larger bulbs, 50c to 75c each; 

 monsters, $1.50; $4 to $G doz. 



Defiance. Immense trumpet-shaped 

 sweet scented flowers; very broad petals, 

 rich red, lined through the center with 



white penciled maroon. A grand variety 

 that blooms at intervals through the 

 year. Large bulbs from 50c to $1; mon- 

 ster bulbs, 3 to 2>y 2 inches in diameter, 

 $2. 



Formosissima or Jacobean Lily. A beau- 

 tiful variety that blooms at intervals dur- 

 ing the year. Brilliant scarlet, and has 

 two upright and three drooping petals; 

 attractive and graceful flower, for borders 

 and lines; fine for pots. 10c to 25c each; 

 monster bulbs, $2 and $3 doz. 



Bella Donna, the Lovely Pink Bella Don- 

 na Lily. One of the most satisfactory 

 oearing on long stems clusters of 8 or 

 10 superb large pink, lily-like flowers. 

 Pure pink, with a fragrance like ripe 

 apricots, which keep for two weeks. It 

 blooms in June and July, after the foli- 

 age dies down. Monster bulbs, 50c each; 

 2d size, 25c; 3d size, 15c; $1.50. $2.50 and 

 $4 doz. 



Bella Donna Minor. Like the above, 

 only the flower stem is shorter, and the 

 flowers have a white center; petals beau- 

 tifully feathered pink; it blooms the lat- 

 ter part of August and September. 25c 

 to 50c each; $2.50 to $4 doz. 



Small Bella Donna seedlings, 25c per 

 doz.; $2.00 hun. 

 NER1NE Sarniensis or Guernsey Lily. 

 Showy bulb, a native of Japan. The sta- 

 mens are long, which give a soft pretty 

 effect. It blooms in September and Octo- 

 ber. 15c to 25c each, $1.50 to $2.50 per 

 doz. 

 VALLOTA Purpurea or Scarborough Lily. 

 An evergreen bulb producing splendid 

 spikes of brilliant large scarlet blossoms. 

 It is one of the most showy of the Ama- 

 ryllis family, is easily grown and blooms 

 many times during the year. Blooms 

 well in pots. 15c, 25c, 50c. 



Zephyranthes. 



Rosea. Flowers large, bright pink, lily- 

 like, on slender stems. 5c each; 50c doz., 

 postpaid. 



Alba. Valuable for pots, and for open 

 borders; is evergreen, easily grown, in- 

 creases fast; a border of the large star- 

 like white flowers in bloom is handsome. 

 Flowers keep for a week or ten days. 25c 

 doz., $1.50 per hundred. Postage 35c per 

 hundred. Add postage 5c to 10c on all 

 large bulbs. 



BOUGAINVILLEA LATERITIA. This su- 

 perb terra cotta scarlet climber is at once 

 the admiration and despair of every one 

 who sees it; despair because its beauty 

 makes it desirous, above other plants and 

 the stock is so limited every where, that 

 it is hardly to be purchased for ''love or 

 money." It refuses to become common 

 like the magenta varieties, which start 

 quite readily from cuttings. Every year 

 the florist lives in hope that it may be 

 more yielding, and we hope this season, 

 though it will be quite late, to have the 

 plants. T. B. S. Co. 



