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is •fan easy culture will bloom in the green 

 house as well as in a room near the window 

 or eveu^on the veranda as loug asjt is kept 

 frost free. It may also be grown'in a fish- 

 |)ond or tank in a green house and produce 

 Its large pure white flowers. Bulbs should 

 be |W)tted in the monihs of October, No- 

 vember, December and January, and may be 

 had to bloom frooi Christinas to March. 



Have bulbs on hand, which we sell at 20c. 

 each, or ^2.00 per dozen. 



Black Calla I/ily. Arum (Dracuncu- 

 I.WS.) A handsome pot plant, producing a 



flower similar in shape to the White Calla 

 Lily, Calla Aelheopica, but of a dark'pur- 

 plish maroon color. This plant is of an 

 easy culture, requiring ihe same treatment 

 as the White Calla, and blooms equally as 

 freely. Price per bulb, 20C-; per doz. $2.00. 

 Crocus. Handsome little bulbous plant, 

 producing an abundance of various colored 

 flowers, growing to a height of from 6 to S 

 inches. Excellent to border off Hyacinth 

 or Tulip beds. Per doz.. 25c. ; per hundred 

 $1.50. 



JAPAN LILIES. 



I^ilium auratuai. Golden B:md Lily. 

 This is a very haudbome lily; the flowers 

 are large and white, each petal having a 

 yellew stripe. It is of easy culture. A 

 loamy, dry soil suits it best, if planted one 

 inch deep. 



The past season we had occasion to see 

 several of these noble lilies in bioom, and 



from their native countr} 

 20 cents each. 

 I/ilium lancifolium album. 



white Japan L1I3', 25 cents each. 



Flowering bulbs 

 Pure 



llaniinculns 

 they were really fine; half a dozen flowers 



•ingle Tulip 



pening at the same time and measuring lilinm lancifolium mbrum. White 



-om six to nine inches across. Very fra- and red spotted, 15 cents each. 



o 

 from 



gract. We have fint.^ bulbs, imported direct 



Scilla Peruviana. 



The Value of Alfalfa Clover as a Foragfe Plant is so well known that this 

 year our sales exceeded that of the past two years. 



