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BULBS FOR AUT LIMN PLANTING 





SPARAXIS. 



Beautiful flowers about 2 inches across, borne on long graceful spikes; the colors 

 aie of the most telling combinations and of the brightest shades. They are 

 tigered, blotched, spotted, streaked and flushed in the most diverse and pleasing 

 manner. The bulbs are not hardy, but do exceptionally well when 

 grown in the conservatory or house in pots or in cold frames and 

 flower during the winter and spring. Sparaxis mixed colors, 20c. doz.; 

 SI mi per 100 or delivered $1.10 per inn 



SPIRAEA OR ASTILBE. 



In garden culture these flower freely during the summer and are per- 

 fectly hardy, but their great value is v?hen grown in pots for window and 

 greenhouse decoration, in winter and spring, and for forcing for cutting. 

 The flowers are borne in large, feathery panicles, and last a long time 

 in bloom. (Ready for shipment in November.) 



Astilboides Floribunda. The flowers are borne in large, feathery pan- 

 icles of purest white, and last a long time in bloom. It is dwarfer 

 in habit, earlier and more profuse in bloom than Spiraea Japonica. 

 Price, 20c. each; $2.00 doz.. or delivered 30c. each; $3.00 doz. 



Gladstone. A new, large-flowering Spiraea — an improvement over all 

 other white flowering Spiraeas — and one of the most beautiful winter 

 and spring flowering pot plants grown; the immense trusses of flowers 

 are as white as snow, and are borne on erect, strong stalks 18 inches high. 

 Well-groivn plants bear 25 to 40 of these plume-like trusses practically 

 enveloping the plant with a feathery foam. Undoubtedly one of the 

 most beautiful and graceful subjects grown for winter and spring decor- 

 tion in the house and conservatory, while for grace and elegance as a 

 cut flower it is unequaled. Price of strong roots, 25c. each; $2.50 doz., 

 or delivered 35c. each; $3.50 doz. 



New Pink Spiraea " Queen Alexandra." This beautiful introduction is of 

 the same habit as " Gladstone," flowering about 2 weeks later, pro- 

 ducing feathery plumes of lovely rose pink color. Fine for either pot or 

 garden culture. Price 50c. each; $5.00 per doz., or delivered, 60c. each; 

 $6.00 doz 



STERNBERGIA LUTEA. 



One of the most charming and useful of autumnal flowering bulbs. The large pure 

 yellow flowers, which are produced from September to November, are much like 

 a Crocus, but larger, and the petals more fleshy; very hardy and increases 

 rapidly. Price, 30c. doz.; $2.00 per 100; or delivered $2.25 per 100. 



TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 



(AMERICAN WOOD LILY.) Most beautiful American plants, perfectly hardy, growing 

 and flowering profusely in partically shaded nooks about the lawn, under trees, etc. 

 The flowers are large, of the finest white, changing in a few days to soft rose. 50c. per 

 doz.; $3.50 per 100; or delivered $4.00 per 100. 



SPIRAEA GLADSTONE. 



TRITELEIA UNIFLORA. 



(Spring Star Flower.) A perfect little gem far pot culture It 

 flowers in very early spring months. The bulbs are small and several 

 should be grown in a pot; it grows about 6 to 8 inches high, each bulb 

 producing several pretty star-shaped flowers of a delicate milky-white, 

 suffused with blue, and emits the perfume of Primroses; they are per- 

 fectly hardv and grown in quantities in a sunny border or for edgings 

 they are effective. 15c. doz.; $1.00 per 100; or delivered $1.10 per 100. 



VALLOTA PURPUREA. 



" The Scarborough Lily." A most beautiful and free summer and 

 autumn-blooming Amaryllis-like bulbous plant that produces strong 

 spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers. They are splendid for pot culture 

 in window gardens and conservatories. If several bulbs are planted 

 in a lO^inch pot or tub, they form highly decorative groups for piazza 

 and lawn. We have frequently seen such a potful bearing 20 to 25 

 spikes, each carrying 5 to 8 flowers at one time. 25c. each; $2.50 per 

 doz.; or delivered $2.75 per doz. 



NEW WHITE WATSONIA. 



(Watsonia Ardensei Alba.i 



This new white variety was introduced from South Africa recently 

 has aroused great interest and will, most likely, become a very popular 

 plant, for it has unusual merit. The bulbs, something like those of 

 gladiolus, send up branching stems, 3 to 4 feet high, each stem bearing 

 a dozen or more flowers 21- to 3 inches long by 2 inches across. Its pure 

 snow-white color and great substance render it exceptionally beautiful 

 as a cut flower. It may be grown as a winter cut flower, or the bulbs 

 ma; be planted in the spring in the garden, like a gladioli, flowering 

 from July to September. A strong plant will bear as many as 250 to 

 300 flowers in a summer. Strong bulbs, 20c. each; $2.00 per doz.; 

 $15.00 per 100; or delivered $16.00 per 100. 



ZEPHYRANTHES. 



Among our most beautiful dwarf bulbous plants; very effective for 

 planting out in masses in May. flowering with great profusion during 

 the summer. They are also most suitable for pot culture; 6 to 12 bulbs 

 clustered in a 6-inch pot in the autumn will give a fine display of bloom 

 during the winter in the window garden or conservatory. 1 foot high. 

 Atamasco. White suffused with flesh-pink, hardy. 25c. doz.; $15.00 



per 100. 

 Candida. Large white flowers. 25c. doz.; $1.50 per 100. 

 Rosea. Beautiful, large rose-colored flowers. 10c. each; $1.00 doz.; 



$6.00 per 100. 

 Sulphurea. Bright yellow. 25c. doz.; $1.50 per 100. 



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