The Conard & Jones Company, West Grove, Pa, 



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WE are glad to again ask your kind attention to our splendid stock of Imported Bulbs for Fall Planting. Bulbs are 

 the sweetest and most beautiful of all flowers for winter blooming, the easiest to grow and surest to bloom. Lovely 

 Easter Lilies, Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, Scillas, etc., besides being entirely hardy in open ground, bloom 

 beautifully during winter when planted in pots or boxes in the house, and are among our very finest winter bloomers. 

 Bulbs for House Culture and Winter Bloom should be Planted as Farly as Convenient, from September to January . Any soil that is 

 suitabie for other plants will grow nice bulbsr old weil-rotted manure is the best fertilizer. Pots or boxes of any convenient size 

 may be used. Small bulbs can be set very close together, sometimes several in a pot; larger oiies need room in proportion to 

 their size. Do not plant too deep, one inch under ground is about right for house culture, ^^'hen potted, water thoroughly and 

 set away in a cool dark place for two or three weeks to rest, and give the roots time to start, then take to the living room or 

 wherever they are to remain; they do not require much heat, an upstairs room suits them nicely. Water only when they need it, 

 but be sure they do not get drj- at the bottom. They will soon begin to bloom and then their lovely flowers and exquisite fra- 

 grance will surprise and delight all who see them. 



BULBS 



IX OPES" GROT^T). Tulips, Hyacinths. Narcissus. Crocus. Snow Drops. Scillas. Ixias, 

 Sparaxis. etc., are the finest bulbs for fall planting in the flower bed, as they are entirely hardy 

 and make a splendid display of gorgeous flowers ver>- early in spring, almost before the snow is 

 gone. Their flowers are exquisitely beautiful and always highly valued because they come 

 before all others. The culture is ver>' simple, and what is better, they are absolutely sure to 

 bloom. Other flowers may fail but biilbs never. 



Bulbs do not require veiA- rich soil and will succeed well in any ordinary- ground; when convenient, it is well to spade up the 

 ground, so that it will be a'little higher than the surrounding surface, and'k^eep water from collecting on it. If the soil is poor, 

 a liberal quantity of old, well-rotted manure should be spaded in or applied to the top as a mulch. 



TI^LK TO PLiANT. September, October, Xovemoer and Ijecember are the best months for planting bulbs in the open 

 ground. Set them from one to six inches apart, and from one to five inches deep, accoralng to size and variety, and firm the 

 earth well around them. 



WrVTEK PKOTEiCTION. These bulbs are entirely hardy and wnll do without any protection, but if convenient to give 

 the bed a light covering of leaves or litter after planting, the flowers will come earlier and be finer. The covering should be 

 removed gradually as soon as the plants show through in the spring. 



TK£LlT3IEVr AFTER BILOOIVIIXG. \\'hen pot bulbs are done blooming they can be set away in any cool. dr>- place 

 and left a few weeks to mature, after which ihev mav be shaken out of the soil and stored away till time to plant again in the 

 fall. They may not make as fine flowers the second season as the first, but will usually do quite well for two or three years. 

 Bulbs in open ground, when done blooming and well matured, may be lifted and dried ott, and then treated exactly like those 

 from pots. 



Feathered or Cockade Hyacinths 



FEATHERED or COCKADE HTACENTHS— Lovely 



and curious little flowers with feather^-, plume-like 



spikes, deep blue tinged with red, fine for pot culture and 



bedding out also, hardy. 4 for 10 cts., per doz., 20 cts., 



1^1.25 per li'O. postpaid. 

 GRAPE HTACrVTHS— Pretty spikes of lovelv Ricli 



Blue bell-shaped flowers; fine for bedding and pots. 



2 for 5 cts.. per doz., 15 cts., postpaid. 

 SXOTV \\ MITE— A very scarce sort, 3 for 10 cts., per 



doz.. 20 cts.. 51.00 per HOO, postpaid. 

 m SK ErrACESTTHS (I.arge FloTvering)— A charm- 

 ing dwarf-growing Hyacinth, rich puiple.and giving out 



a strong and ver\- agreeable muskv fragrance, valuable 



for pot culture and also for the fl'ower bed. Entirelv 



hardy. 10 cts. each, 3 for 25 cts. . ^l.uO per doz., postpaid. 



SPECIAL OFFER 



4 Feathered Hyacinths, 4 Grape Hya- 

 cinths, 2 Musk a.nd 3 Snow White, O ^ /* 

 13 in all, postpaid, for . . . /Cf^^K^m. 



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FEATHERED OR COCKADE HYACINTHS 



AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS 



The Blue African Lily 



WE offer fine Bulbs of this splendid Blue African Lily, which is an exceedingly beautiful ornamental plant for the Green 

 House or ConserNatorj- in winter, and for pots or tubs on the lawn or piazza in summer. The foliage is luxuriant and 

 handsome, the flowers are borne in large clusters of 20 to 3J, frequently measuring 10 to 12 inches across. The flower 

 stalks grow 15 to IS inches high, and the flovvers open in succession for several weeks; the color is bright rich blue, ver>- showy 

 and attractive. Price, 2oc. each, S3.50 per doz., postpaid. Ready in November. 



