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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— MISCELLANEOUS BULBS. 



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CALLA, "LITTLE GEM." 



BBODLEA HOWELL1 LACIXIATA. 



BRODI^EA. f h v °J?: 



half-hardy California bulbs, with 

 lovely umbels or clusters of red. blue or white 

 tubular flowers, borne in clusters, on stems 1 to 2 feet high. 

 They are easily forced and may be grown in the greenhouse or 

 cold frame, or if planted out in spring in clumps or masses they 

 flower very freely in June or July. (See cut.) 



Californica. Each bulb bears usually several large umbels of 

 broadly funnel-formed, large waxy pink flowers of thick texture 

 and lasting longest of all BrodiEeas 



Coccinea. {Floral Fire Cracker.) The tall stems bear large um- 

 bels of pendent flowers 2 inches long of rich glowing crimson 

 tipped with light green — very novel and handsome 



Howelli Laciniata. Throws up sturdy stems 2 feet high 

 crowned with large flat umbels of flowers of a milk white color 

 delicately blended with lilac blue. (See cut.) 



Ixioides Splendens. 16-inch flower stalks, bearing clusters 8 

 inches across, containing from 40 to 50 large, tubular, light 

 yellow flowers; most showy and handsome — forces well 



Stellaris. Forms a beautiful, compact, low plant, each bulb 

 producing several many-flowered clusters of flowers — color, deep 

 blue, with waxy white centre 



Feduncularis. Pure white flowers, borne in immense umbels, 

 often 20 inches across — a good grower 



The collection of above 6 named Brodia^as, 1 bulb each, 40c; 3 

 each, SI. 00; 6 each, §1 75; 12 each, $3.00. 



Mixed Brodiseas, containing many beautiful sorts 



RI II ROPririll TJVI Vernuin. Spring- Colchicum 

 DUUDUV/UUIU1U. or Meadow Saffron. A charm- 

 ing early spring-blooming plant, in flower two weeks before the 

 Crocus. Producing masses of rose purple flowers, very beauti- 

 ful for edgings and patches here and there breaking up through 

 thesnowin juxtaposition with Snowdrops — it is a charming sight 

 — clumps of them dug up and potted in the winter and placed in 

 a sunny window will soon be a mass of bloom. (See cut.) 



RPAVOA Mexican Twinflower. Pretty little graceful 

 *-»>V*» » "*»• bulbous plants hardy south of Washington and 

 in sheltered positions north if protected. They flower in July; 

 they are also beautiful when grown cool in pots for late winter 

 blooming; the tubular, brilliant, orange-scarlet twlnflowers are 

 borne gracefully on stems, sometimes 2 feet long. 



Geniiniflora. (See cut.) 



CAI I A -SJthiopica, or Lily of the Nile. This old 

 S*m*iM~*t\m favorite White Calla Lily is too well known to re- 

 quire any description. We offer dry roots, as they are superior 

 for forcing and winter-flowering purposes; they come into bloom 

 quickly and require less room, making less foliage. 



Extra large dormant roots 



First size roots 



Little Gem Calla Lily. This little pigmy rarely exceeds 12 

 inches in height, and blooms most abundantly. The flowers are 

 not more than half the size of the common variety, and there- 

 fore can be used with telling effect in bouquets. It is in every 

 way superior as a house plant to the larger-growing variety. 

 Dry bulbs. (See cut.) 



New Calla, Fragrance. Most charming flowers, with a fra- 

 grance similar to violets, very early, and continuous bloomers. 

 The plants are of medium size, compact in growth, blooming 

 profusely under any ordinary treatment. "Fragrance" is a 

 seedling of Little Gem, but grows nearly twice its size in all its 

 parts, making it about half way in size between Gem and the old 

 Standard Calla (grows from 15 to 18 inches high). It is 

 earlier by a week or two in starting to bloom than others. 

 (See cut.) 



Yellow Calla, Elliottiana. A grand acquisition — the finest Yellow 

 Calla we have seen ; large, rich, deep golden flowers, often 4 to 5 

 inches across at the mouth ; habit of growth and foliage like the 

 old favorite White Calla excepting the leaves of Elliottiana are 

 spotted with white, rendering it an unusually showy pot plant. 



Spotted Leaf Calla. (Richardia Alba Maculata.) This plant is 

 always ornamental, even when not in flower, the dark green 

 leaves being beautifully spotted with white, in other respects the 

 plant is similar to the old favorite white Calla, excepting being 

 of smaller habit. In addition to its usefulness as a pot plant it 

 makes a fine thing for planting in the garden in the summer, 

 being very effective 



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