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THE LOVETT COMPANY. 



ordinary Snowdrop, attaining a height of ten inches, 

 each petal. Ea., 3c; doz., 25c; 100, $1.75. 



OXALIS. 



A bulbous species of plants possessing much grace 

 and beauty and unexcelled for pot culture or hanging 

 baskets. The foliage is delicate and handsome and the 

 flowers of various colors are produced in the most 

 boundless profusion. They are very desirable for house 

 culture and winter bloom. 



Alba. Pure white. Ea., 5c; doz., 50c. 



Boweii. Bright crimson; large. Ea., 4c; doz., 30c. 



Rosea. Bright rose colored. Ea., 4c; doz., 30c. 



Mixed colors. Ea., 3c; doz., 20c. 



Buttercup. This charming Oxalis from Bermuda 



Flowers pure 



"Chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger 

 of spring, 



And pensive monitor of fleeting years." 



Wordsworth. 



The pure and dainty Snowdrop is truly 

 the first flower of spring; a graceful 

 greeting to that happy season. It is ab- 

 solutely hardy and once planted, thrives 

 with no more care than common grass. 

 Their cost is so little they should be freely 

 planted in clumps of a dozen or more in 

 the grass of the lawn or in sunny places 

 in the border. They should not be dis- 

 turbed for years is chey continue to in- 

 crease in numbers and beauty. The foli- 

 age ripens early enough to be cut without 

 much injury to the bulbs as soon as the 

 lawn is ready for mowing. 



Single Flowering. Ea., 2c; doz., 15c; 

 100, $1.00. 



Double Flowering. Ea., 3c; doz., 25c; 

 100, $1.50. 



Giant (Ehvesi). Much larger than the 

 white with a greenish spo^ in the centre of 



CRINUM KIRKII. 



gives us one of the finest and most satisfactory winter- 

 blooming plants for pot and hanging basket culture 

 that we know of. It is an improved OxaUs Cernua, 

 and, free-flowering as the other sorts are, this far ex- 

 ceeds them all. throwing up continuously innumerable 

 slender flower stems crowned with heads of man}* large 

 individual flowers and forming a mass of the purest 

 li right buttercup-yellow color, throughout the entire 

 winter. The plant is easily grown and is so robust that 

 one single bulb will quickly fill a six inch pot with roots. 

 It comes into bloom within six weeks from time of 

 planting, and for hanging baskets or bracket culture 

 there is nothing to compare with it. Ea., 8c; 3 for 20c; 

 doz., 60c. 



A superb flowering bulb ; a veritable leviathan of the 

 Amaryllis type. A native of Zanzibar but hardy and 

 robust enough to thrive and bloom magnificently in the 

 open ground during summer and equally well in late 

 winter if kept in large pots and allowed to partially 

 dry off in the fall. Crinums bike rich soil and consider- 

 able heat and moisture at blooming time, and should 

 be kept in moderate growth at other times, as Crinums 

 are not benefitted by losing their leaves or roots. The 

 bulbs attain gigantic proportions and the f oliage is very 

 ornamental, being of the form and size of com blades 

 with waved edges and disposed in the form of a sym- 

 metrical green rosette. The enormous and beautiful 

 lily-like flowers are borne in huge umbels of a dozen or 

 more, on dark purple stems, eighteen to twenty inches 

 high. The individual flowers are of the form of those 

 of the well-known Madonna Lily (Lilium candidum) 

 and are pure white with a broad crimson-purple stripe 

 down the centre of each petal. Extra bulbs three inches 

 in diameter, ea., 50c. Postage 10c. extra. 



