32 PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING. 
wt at FREESIA, 2.2 
Refracta Alba. This is one of the most popular and 
charming bulbs for pot culture, flowering in the winter and 
spring in the conservatory or window garden. 6 or 8 
bulbs should be planted in a 4-inch pot. They force 
readily and can be hadin bloom by Christmas, if desired, 
and by having a dozen or more pots started in the cold 
frame they can be broughtin atintervals, thereby keeping 
up a continuous display of bloom throughout the winter; 
the flowers are produced 6 to 8 on stems about 9 inches 
high, and are particularly useful for cutting, remaining in 
good condition, kept in water, for two weeks; the flowers 
are a pure white with a yellow blotched throat, and are 
exquisitely fragrant. (See cut.) Extra large bulbs, 
8 for 10c., 25c. per doz., $1.25 per 100, $10.00 per 1,000. 
First size bulbs, 3 ior 5c., 12c. per doz., 75c. per 100, 
$6.00 per 1,000. 
Leichtlinii Major. The new yellow Freesia. Free- 
sias are among our most popular bulbs for pot culture, 
flowering in the winter and spring in the conservatory or 
window garden. This large yellow-flowered variety is 
charming, with large primrose yellow flowers marked with 
orange blotches, and very fragrant. Six or eight bulbs 
should be planted in a 4-inch pot. The flowers are pro- 
duced 6 to 8 on stems about 9 inches high, and are par- 
ticularly useful for cutting. remaining in good condition 
for two weeks when kept in water. 3 for 10c., 30c. per 
doz., $2.00 per 100. 
a FRITILLARIA..#%.% 
A group of dwarf spring-flowering plants, bearing singular 
large pendent bell-shaped flowers of white, purple, bronze, 
black or yellow, most of which are striped, splashed or 
checkered in the most fantastic fashion; they are invalu- 
able for pot culture, and exceedingly pretty when grown 
in largeclumpsin the border in a dry situation. (See cut.) 
Meleagris. (Guinea Hen Flower.) Bell-shaped 
flowers of various colors, yellow, white, black, 
purple.striped and splashed, and checkered in 
the most curious way. Mixed varieties, 2 
for dc., 20c. per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
Aurea. A lovely new species, asrare as it 
is beautiful, bearing large golden yellow 
bell-shaped flowers, which are curiously 
checkered with black-brown spots. It 
is perfectly hardy, beginning to flower 
in March, continuing till May. It is 
admirably adapted for planting out- 
FREESIA. 
GLADIOLUS... 
Early-flowering Hardy Varieties: 
These beautiful early-flowering Gladi- 
olus are greatly prized on account oi 
their blooming in June and July, ii 
of-doors in partialshade. May also 
be grown in pots for greenhouse or 
winter decoration, where its curious | 
flowers prove a constant source of 
admiration. 10c. each, $1.00 per 
doz., $7.00 per 100. 
planted in the autumm indrysoil and 
protected with a covering of about6 
inches of straw,deaves or litter. If 
as ek in cold frames they will flower 
as early as May, and this perhaps is 
the better way in very cold localities. 
These Gladiolus are also invaluable 
for flowering in the greenhouse in pots 
for winter bloom. ‘The colors and 
markipgs are very handsome; the bulbs 
ean be |kept dormant until spring, and 
then planted in open ground if preferred. 
(Ready in| November.) 
The Bride. (ColvilliAlba.) Very beautiful; 
purest-white. for 10c., 25c. per doz.,$1.75 per 
100; or; if buyer pays transit, 20c. per doz., $1.50 | 
per 100. 
Mixed Early-flowering Hardy Gladiolus. 3 for 
10c.,25¢. per doz., $1.50 per 100; or,if buyer pays transit, 
20c. per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
x GLOXINIAS, .# 2 
SOME GRAND ERECT FLOWERING VARIETIES. 
(READY IN NOVEMBER.) 
Gloxinias, as well known, are the most beautiful flowering plants that we 
have for the decoration of greenhouse and window during the spring and sum- 
mer months. They are of easy culture and good bulbs produce from 50 to 100 
flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, of the most exquisite and gorgeous colors, many 
of which are magnificently spotted, mottled and blended, during their season; 
as many as 20 are frequently open at one time, and the effect is charming. 
The following 5 varieties we selected from a large collection in Europe this 
season as being the most beautiful and distinct; they are all of the erect or 
“look youin the face”’ class, as gardeners call them, which are now considered 
so much superior to the pendulous varieties. (See cut.) 
Defiance. Glowing crimson-scarlet, lustrous and rich. 
Emperor Frederick. Bright rosy scarlet, bordered with a pure white band ; 
strikingly beautiful. 
Tiger Spotted. Beautifully spotted and mottled. 
Kaiser Wilhelm. Velvety cerulean blue with deep white throat. 
Mont Blanc. Puresatiny white; exquisite. 
Price of any of the above-named varieties, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
Mixed Gloxinias. Large flowering, best varieties. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 
GLOXINIA. 
bulbs of one variety supplied at dozen rates; 25 at 100 rates. 
All bulbs delivered free in the U. S., except where noted. 
