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 aud most beautiful of all flowers for winter blooming, the easiest to grow and surest to bloom. I^ovely 

 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 early as convenient, from September to January,'. 

 Any soil that is stdtable for other plants will grow nice bulbs ; old well-rotted manure is the best fertilizer. Pots or boxe? 

 of any convenient size may be used. Small bulbs can be set very close together, sometimes several in a pot ; larger ones 

 need room in proportion to their size. Do not plant too deep, one inch under ground is about right for house culture. 

 When 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 up-stairs room. 

 suits them nicely. Water only when they need it. but be sure they do not get dry at the bottom. They will soon begin to 

 bloom and then their lovely flowers and exquisite fragrance will surprise and delight all who see them. 



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Bulbs 



Bulb Diagram. 



IN OPEN GROUND.— Tulips, 



Hyacinths, Narcissus, Cro- 

 " cus, Snow Drops, Scillas, 

 Ixias, Sparixias, 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 very early in Spring, almost before the 

 snow is gone. Their flowers are exquisitely beau- 

 tiful and always highly valued because they come 

 before all others. The culture is very simple, and 

 what is better, they are absolutely sure to bloom. 

 Other flowers may fail but bulbs never. 



Bulbs do not require ver\' 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 keep water from collecting on it. If the 

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



TIME TO PLANT. September, October, November and December are the best months for planting bulbs in the 

 open ground. Set them from one to six inches apart, according to variety and size, and from one to five inches deep. 

 The bulb diagram above shows the proper depth and distances apart for the different varieties. 



WINTER PROTECTION. These bulbs are entirely hardy and will 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. 



TREATMENT AFTER BLOOMING. When pot bulbs are done blooming they can be set away in any cool, dry 

 place and left a few weeks to mature, after which they may 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 off, and 

 then treated exactly like those from pots. 



FeEctbered or CocHade Hyaciotbs 



Feathered or Cockade Hyacinths — 



Lovely and curious little flowers with feathery, 

 plume-like spikes, deep blue tinged with red, 

 fine for pot culture and bedding out also, hardv. 

 4 for 10 cts., per doz., 20 cts., «1.2o per 100, 



postpaid. 



Grape Hyacinths— Pretty spikes of lovely Rich 

 Blue bell-shaped flowers; fine for bedding and 

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



5now White— A very scarce sort, 3 for 10 cts., 



per doz., 20 cts,, $l.'2b per 100, postpaid. 



SPECIAL OFFER 



5 Feathered 

 Hyacinths, 5 

 Qrape Hyacinths, and 3 5now 

 White, 13 in all, postpaid, for 



25c. 



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Feathered or Cockade Hyacinths. 



