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DUTCH HYACINTHS 



The Hyacinth is so well known and esteemed that any description of its many good qualities is needless. The list now offered 

 includes nearly every shade of red, white, blue, yellow, etc. We give below short cultural directions. For complete cultural notes see 

 our new hook Drcer' s Hints on the Growing of Bulbs. Price 50 Cts., or free to customers if asked for at time of ordering. 



Outdoor Culture. — The bulbs may be planted any time from October to December. They succeed in any good, well- 

 drained garden soil. Set the bulbs so that the tops will lie 3 or 4 inches below the surface and 6 to 10 inches apart. Before very 

 severe weather comes on, cover the beds with straw, leaves or manure, to protect them from the frost; this should be removed 

 when danger from hard frost is past. 



Pot Culture. Plantings may be made at any time from September to December. A light, rich soil, or Prepared Fibre, is 

 most suitable. Use a 4 or o-inch ]>ot, and have the tojjs of the bulbs just above the surface. After potting give a good watering, 

 and set away in a cool cellar or outhouse and cover with coal-ashes or some litter, uiitil thoroughly rooted. During this period 

 be careful that they do not become dry. They may then be brought as wanted for a succession of flowers into the house, keeping 

 them in a very cool light room until the flower spikes are developed, when they may be ])laced in the dining or sitting room or 

 wherever they are wanted. 



Culture in Glasses. — When it is desired to grow Hyacinths in water, they should be placed so that the base of the bulb 

 ■merely touches the water. The glasses should then be set in a cool, dark closet, or in the cellar, until filled with roots, when they 

 may be brought into the light. A piece of charco.d about an inch in diameter, placed in each glass, will keep the water sweet. 

 Give as much fresh air as possible, and at a temperature of not over sixty degrees, until the spikes are developed. To put them 

 at once into a room with a temperature of, say seventy degrees, would cause them to flower prematurely. 



Select Second-size Named Hyacinths 



These are a little smaller than our Extra Selected first-size bulbs offered on J'ages 4 and 5, and are fine flowering stock, and 

 admirably adopted for pot culture and high-grade bt-dding where distinct shades of color are desired. We can furnish them in 

 the following grand varieties at the uniform price of 7 cts. each; 70 Cts. per doz.; $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



SIJ<{GI.E RED, ROSE AXD PIXK. 



Qigantea. Soft blush-pink; very large spike of closely set 

 bells; one of the most jjopular, 



rioreno. A beautiful lively pink; very large spike and bells; 

 splendid for pots. 



Roi des Beiges. Brilliant crimson-scarlet; a grand bedding 

 sort, holding its color better than any other scarlet. 



A beautiful shade of soft pink, fine large 

 fine bedder 



General de Wet 



bells and truss, 

 Qen, Pelissier. Intense deep crimson-scarlet 



and one of the best scarlets for forcing. 

 Gertrude. Deep rose; extra fine erect truss. 



SINGI^E PURE AND TINTED IJVHITE. 



Albertine. Purest white; fine truss and bells; very early. 

 Baroness van Thuyll. Pure white; popular bedder. 

 Grandeur a' flerveille. One of the finest blush white 

 varieties; makes a splendid spike and always does well. 



L'lnnocence. Deservedly the most po|5ular pure wliito, of 



erect, sturdy habit and good for all purposes. 

 La Qrandesse. Considered the finest of all whites. liells 



and spike very large. 

 Mme. van der Hoop. Pure white, large bells; a .cplendid 



sort for pots or bedding. 



SINGI.E BEUE, EA\ ENDER AND PIJRPEE. 



Baron van Thuyll. Rich purplish-blue, in long spikes 

 Czar Peter. Exquisite light lavender-blue; a lovely shade. 

 Grand Maitre. Deep porcelain-blue; very large truss, stron;. 



and free grower, and one of the best. 

 King of the Blues. The fmestof the rich deep bine varielie^. 



Potgieter. A lieauliful sliade of clear light bKi<>; excellent 



citlier for bedding or forcing. 

 Queen of the Blues. Clear silver azure-blue; in splendid 



trusses; splendid varielv for growing in ])Ots. 



Price, any of the above, 7 ctG. each; 70 cts. per doz.; $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



NOTE.— All Bulbs, Roots and Plants are forwarded by Express, purchaser paying charges. If wanted by Parcel Post add 10 per cent, 

 to value ot order for postage to points east of the Mississippi Kiver. and 20 per cent, to point* west of the Mississippi River. 



