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BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTIIXG 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR FREESIAS 



Freesias are most popular and charming bulbs for pot culture, flowering in the 

 winter and spring in the conservatory, or window garden; 6 or 8 bulbs should be 

 planted in a 4-inch pot. They force readily and can be had in bloom by Christmas 

 if desired, and by having a dozen or more pots started in the cold frame they can 

 be brought in at intervals, thereby keeping up a continuous display of bloom through 

 the winter; the flowers are produced 6 to 8 on stems about 9 inches high, and are 

 particularly useful for cutting, remaining in good condition kept in water for two 

 weeks. (See cut.) 



Refracta Alba. The flowers are pure white with a yellow blotched throat and are ex- 

 quisitely fragrant. Mammoth Bulbs, 30c. per doz.; $2.00 per 100; S18.00per 1000. 

 If by Parcel Post add postage %,Zone Rates. Weight 3 lbs. per 100; Dozens mailed free. 



GIANT WHITE FREESIA PURITY. 



A distinct and greatly improved type producing large sprays of purest snow white 

 flowers of immense size and deliciously fragrant; it is very free blooming and of great 

 value for forcing for cut flowers. 



Mammoth Bulbs, 40c. per doz.; S2.75 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. If by Parcel Post add 

 postage % Zone Rates. Weight 3 lbs. per 100. Dozens mailed free. 



NEW COLORED FREESIAS. 



These beautiful novelties are rapidly winning favor on account of their lovely and 

 unique colorings and shadings, their delicate fragrance and their free blooming qualities. 

 Each principal spike usually carries 7 to 9 flowers — while the side spikes of which each 

 bulb produces several usually bear 5 to 6 flowers. Their culture differs in no way from that 

 of Freesia Refracta. . 



// by Parcel Post add postage @ Zone Rates. li eight 

 -a per 100. Dozens mailed free. 



lbs 



Amethyst. Soft lavender mauve 



Chapman i. Rich orange yellow 



Leichtinii Major. Light primrose with orange blotch 



Rosa Bonheur. Soft rose with yellow 



Salmonetta. Pale salmon and apricot 



Tabergiana. Carmine-rose 



Mixed Hybrids. Including many beautiful new colors and shades 



FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS. 



Singular dwarf spring-flowering plants, bearing large pendant bell 

 shaped flowers of various colors, yellow, white, black, purple, striped 

 and splashed and checkered in the most curious way. They are 

 Invaluable for pot culture and exceedingly pretty when grown in 

 large groups in the garden border or wild garden in a dry situa- 

 tion. Mixed Varieties, 25c. per doz.; SI. 50 per 100; S10.00 

 per 1000. // by Parcel Post add postage (a Zone Rates. Weight 

 4 lbs. per 100. JDozens mailed free. 



EAFkLY^FLOWERING GLADIOLUS. 



These Gladiolus are invaluable for flowering in the greenhouse for winter bloom. The flowers are smaller 

 and more refined than those of the Gandavensis Gladiolus; in colors and markings are very handsome: 

 the bulbs can be kept dormant until spring and then be planted in open ground if preferred, blooming 

 in June and July. If planted in cold frames they will flower as early as May, and this is perhaps the 

 better way in very cold localities. (Ready in November.) 



If by Parcel Post add postage Qf, Zone Rates. 

 Weight 3 lbs. per 100; dozens mailed free 



early. 



Ackerman. Salmon-flaked carmine; violet eye 



Apollo. Orange-salmon with orange blotch 



Blushing Bride. Most beautiful ivory white flowers with crimson flakes 



Crimson Queen. Orange-scarlet flaked violet 



Peach Blossom. Lovely new variety; good winter forcer; delicate rosy blush blotched 



rose and cream 



The Bride. (Colvilli Alba.) Beautiful; pure white flowers, set closely on stem; most 



valuable for cut flowers 



Mixed Early-Flowering Hardy Gladiolus 



Doz. 



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100 



$1.50 

 1.50 

 1.50 

 1.75 



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1000 



$12.00 

 12.00 

 12.00 

 15.00 



15.00 



12.00 

 10.00 



Growing bulbs in fibre is an interesting, easy, and cleanly method of flowering them in the house In Winter. See page 50.) 



