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Freesias, Henderson’s Superior 
Freesias are popular for pot culture, flowering in the winter and spring in the 
_ conservatory or window garden. 
; Culture. Plant in deep pots, for the new roots which form below the others go 
deep; plant ten bulbs in a five-inch pot. 
After being potted do not store, but place in an indirect light in the dwelling or 
under the bench in the conservatory until growth shows above the soil. 
Never force, but grow in a fairly cool temperature. Flowers appear in 5 or 6 
months after planting. 
Apotheose. Beautiful pink tinted lavender, long stems. 
i Price, 80c per doz.; $6.00 per 100. (See letter B.) 
Elder’s Giant White. The finest white variety, beautiful pure white flowers. 
Price, $1.00 per doz.; $7.50 per 100. 
# General Pershing. A beautiful shade of pinkish-lavender with yellow lip tinted 
bronze. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100. (See letter C.) 
Golden Daffodil. A great improvement over any other yellow sort, the color is 
rich daffodil yellow. The large flowers are borne on long, rigid stems. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100. (See letter D.) 
Marie Louise Fischer. One of the best blue varieties. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100. 
Mrs. Marc Peters. Rosy salmon with orange blotch on lower petals. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100. 
Olivette. Beautiful carmine red with yellow throat, yellow blotch on lower petals. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100. (See letter A.) 
Purity. Produces large sprays of snow-white flowers deliciously fragrant; free 
blooming and of great value for forcing for cut flowers. 
Price, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1,000. 
Mixed Hybrids. 60c per doz.; $4.00 per 100. 
Freesias, New Giant Double Flowering 
Elder’s Double White. Early flowering, having many petaled, deliciously fragrant 
gardenia-like flowers. 
Price, $1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
Elder’s Doubie Yellow, ‘‘Judy.’’ Beautiful golden yellow; fragrant flowers. 
Price, $1.35 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
Fritillaria Meleagris 
Dwarf spring-flowering plants bearing large pendant, bell-shaped flowers o! 
various colors, yellow, white, purple, striped and checkered in the most curious 
i ways. They are fine for pot culture and 
look well when grown in large groups 
in the garden. 
| Mixed Varieties, 
F~$4.00 per 100. 
Grape Hyacinths 
When naturalized in little colonies 
*swhere they can remain undisturbed for 
iXseveral years, the effect is very striking 
i; ¢;—while grown as edgings to other beds 
| 4athey are charming. They are also adapted 
for winter flowering in the house. 
60c per doz.: 
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Crocus, Spring Flowering 
As edgings to beds—and bordering walks—or as 
undergrowth among tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, or in 
groups in the lawn they are very effective, as the flowers 
are over when the other bulbs begin blooming. 
Crocus are also. easily flowered in the house in 
winter, grown in pots and pans of soil. For instructions, 
see leaflet, ‘‘How to Grow Bulbs,”’ sent when requested. 
We offer only the larger bulbs which produce more 
and larger flowers. 
Price of following named varieties 
35c per doz.; $2.50 per 100; $22.50 per 1,000. 
Blue. 25c per doz.; $1.75 per 100; 
$15.00 per 1,000. 
White. 40c per doz.; $2.50 per 
1$22.50 per 1,000. 
“‘Heavenly Bluc.’’ 
100; 
A new type with 
larger flowers of richest gentian blue, 
desirable for cutting and of splendid 
effect massed in the garden or border 
Price. 40c per doz.: $2.50 per 100: 
$22.50 per 1.000. 
GRAPE HYACINTHS 
(See letter D.) 
WHITE CROCUS 
\King of Whites. A grand variety, long, snow-white flowers. 
|May. Lovely round petalled, pure white flowers of great size. 
(Mont Blanc. An old favorite; large pure white. 
BLUE AND PURPLE CROCUS 
\Baron von Bruno. A large, deep purple. (See letter E.) 
\David Rizzio. Deep lavender, shaded purple. 
Hero. A new hybrid; dark glossy purple. Extra large and fine. 
(Maximilian. Beautiful sky-blue flowers; distinct. (See letter B.) 
STRIPED CROCUS 
‘Albion. A fine, large, lavender striped white and violet. (See letter C.) 
‘Cloth of Silver. White feathered and striped with lilac and purple. 
\Fantazy. A new hybrid; immense flowers of light gray striped dark blue. 
YELLOW CROCUS 
\Cloth of Gold. The earliest of all; very prolific; yellow veined golden brown. 
\Yellow Mammeth. The largest flowering sort of this color. (See letter A.) 
MIXED GIANT FLOWERING CROCUS 
All colors and shades, including many new hybrid seedlings so far outclassing the 
ordinary grade mixtures that we have discarded the latter. 
|| Price, 30c per doz.; $2.00 per 100; $18.00 per 1,000. 
| ERY THRONIUM (Dog’s Tooth Violets) 
Beautiful plants, perfectly hardy; the foliage is usually charmingly variegated and a 
mass of 15 to 20 plants is a pretty sight even when not in flower, but when the graceful 
| lowers are in bloom the effect is matchless. The plants luxuriate in rather moist, par- 
|ially shady positions and do very nicely when grown in pots for winter blooming. 
| Grandiflora, Mixed Colors. New, large flowering hybrids, including purples, rose, 
white, etc. Price. 80c per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 
