PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING. 35 
DIAS =——=— 
The Ixia is a beautiful little winter-flowering bulb, with low, slender, graceful spikes of bloom. 
The colors are rich, varied and beautiful, the centre always differing in color from the other 
parts of the flower, so that the blossoms, expanding in the sun’s rays, present a picture of 
gorgeous beauty. (See cut.) 
Crateroides. 
doz., $1.50 per 100. 
Wonder. A double variety. 
IXIAS. 
IXIOLIRION. 
Tartaricum. An elegant and rare 
half-hardy bulbous plant of free 
growth, and producing grand spikes, 
two feet high, of splendid bell-shaped 
star-like flowers of rich purple, 
shaded withsky-blue. Bulbs planted 
out by us last autumn proved per- 
fectly hardy witha slight protection, 
and bloomed beautifully in June; the 
bulbs can be kept dry and planted 
out in spring, or they may be grown 
in potsincold frames and be brought 
into the conservatory toward spring 
for blooming. 5c. each, 50c. per 
doz., $3.50 per 100. 
LYCORIS, 
«‘ Japanese Hardy Amaryllis.”’ 
These bulbous plants are of great 
beauty; they belong to the Amaryllis 
family and are consequently adapted 
to pot culture in the greenhouse or 
window garden. Coming from colder 
climates than the tropical Amaryllis, 
they thrive under cooler treatment. 
They make splendid garden plants, 
and this is the popular way of growing 
them in Japan and China. Grown 
outside they flower towards autumn. 
Squamigera. 
Aurea. 
lily-like blossoms. 
Radiata, or Japonica. 
Bright scarlet, the earliest of all, and grand for forcing. 3 for 10c., 25c. per 
Very deep pink, sweetly perfumed. Extra. 8 for 10c., 35c. 
per doz., $2.50 per 100. 
Mixed Varieties. Many beautiful colors. 
They have proved to be hardy grown in a warm, sheltered 
sunny border, protected with a frame or mulching during the winter. 
A very strong-growing and large-flowering variety, and perhaps the hardiest of 
the lot; it is frequently grown by the Chinese as a cemetery plant. 
and solid, from 2 to 8 feet high, bearing umbels of from 5 to 7 large lily-like flowers about 
4 inches in length, nearly twice the size of the other varieties. 
delicately tinged with silvery gray. 35c. each, $3.50 per doz. 
Produces flower stems about 18 inches high, surmounted with from 12 to 18 deep yellow 
25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Flower stems about a foot long with clusters of from 8 to 12 fiery red 
8 for 5c., 15c. per doz., $1.00 per 100. 
LACHENALIAS. 
Beautiful early spring-flowering bulbs for 
conservatory and window-garden decoration, 
The spotted foliage and spikes of brilliant 
flowers render them exceptionally striking. 
They are very easily grown, and can be had 
in bloom by Christmas, if desired, and can be 
grown in cold frames if protected from frost. 
(See cut.) 
WNelsoni. A new hybrid; without doubt the 
finest of the race, producing its large golden 
yellow flowers in long racemes with wonder- 
ful freedom, lasting in flower in a cool house 
nearly two months. Of the easiest culture; 
treated same as Hyacinths. 30c. each, 
$3.00 per doz. 
Pendula. Very strong-growing and hand- 
some flowers, bright red, tipped with green 
and yellow. 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
Rubida. Deep red, freely spotted, one of the 
first in bloom. Very distinct and showy. 
20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
LEUCOJUM, 
OR 
SNOWFLAKE. 
LEUCOJUMI 
VERNUM, 
Spring Snowflake. 
These produce flowers like monster 
Snowdrops, having the delicate fra- 
grance of the Violet. It is one of our 
earliest spring flowers, with white 
blossoms distinctly tipped green; 
handsome in outline and prized for 
bouquets. Very graceful in growth, 
they should be grown in quantities in 
the borders or in clumps on the edges 
of shrubbery, where they are beauti- 
fully effective, and when established 
produce enormous’ quantities of 
flowers. They can also be slowly 
forced in pots for winter bloom. (See 
eut.) 38 for 10c., 30c. per doz., $2.00 
per 100. 
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LACHENALIAS. 
The flower spikes are stout | 
The color is a soft rosy pink, 
lily-like flowers about two inches across; colors very brilliant, and in the sunlight glisten as if 
sprinkled with gold dust; the wavy, recurved petals and long red stamens give a graceful effect to ” Seo 
the flower. Perhaps no bulbs bloom with more certainty and swiftness after potting ; forautumn thes Mg LYCORIS RADIATA. 
and winter flowering they are extremely beautiful. 10c. each, 3 for 25c., T5c. per doz. (See cut.) 
anywhere 
in the U. S. 
from this 
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