GENERAL CATALOGUE. 



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BULBOUS FLOWERING ROOTS. 



HARDY. 



The following- should be planted in the fall. They can be planted in the spring-, but are not so certain to bloom. 



LILITJM. Lily. 



These require a good mellow soil. In the open ground they should be planted five inches deep, in as warm a situ- 

 ation as possible. Nothing can exceed the beauty of this well-known flower. The following are choice sorts which 

 will improve from year to year. They should be planted in clumps of six to eight, and thus become very effective. 



Ii. atrosanguineum. Orange red. 50c. 



JL. auratum. Golden-rayed Queen of Lilies. The magnificent Japan Lily. 30c. 



X. Canadense. Our native lily, drooping, yellow and red flowers, stem 2 to 5 feet. 25c. 



L. candidum. The well-known white garden lily. 25c. 



excelsum. Light buff, fragrant and beautiful, grows from 5 to 6 feet high. 



$1.00. 

 Harrisii. Bermuda Easter Lily. Flowers large, trumpet shaped ; in gen- 

 eral appearance resembling L. longiflorum and possessing a delightful 

 fragrance. It is a remarkably free bloomer, and is valuable either for 

 forcing or for out-door planting. 30c. 

 Japonicum longiflorum. Easter Lily. . Trumpet shaped, snow white, 

 fragrant. 25c. 



L. Auratum. 

 lancifolium album. "White spotted, fragrant. 



L. Lancifolium Album. 



(See cut). 50c. 



I*, lancifolium rubrum. Rose, spotted with crimson. 25c. 



Ti. superbum. Our native lily, and one of the finest of them all. 25c. 



I*, tenuifolium. Flowers medium size, vermilion scarlet, foliage narrow, growth slender and graceful. 40c. 



Ito tigrinum. Tiger Lily. Orange salmon. 20c. 



Xi. tigrinum flore pleno. Double Tiger Lily. 25c. 



L. Thunbergianum grandifiorum. Dark red flowers. 20c. 



MISCELLANEOUS BULBS. 



FOR FALL PLANTING. 



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CROCUS. 



Named varieties, 30 cents per dozen, $2.50 per 100. 

 Unnamed, but colors separate, blue, white, striped and yellow, 15 cents per dozen, $1.00 per 100. 



FKITILLARIA. Crown-Imperial. 



IT. imperialis. Four fine varieties, 60 cents to $1.25 each. 

 T. imperialis. Mixed, 50 cents each. 

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