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AMARYLLIS 

 VITTATA HYBRIDS 



/\ MARYLLIS. 



AMARYLLIS VITTATA HYBRIDS. 



HESE are unnamed seedling hybrids, and ^ill produce some new 

 varieties of exceptional beauty. The colorings and markings are 

 exquisite; the bulbs are very large, and are of sufficient strength 

 and age to produce magnificent flowers during the winter or 

 spring. They are probably the most magnificent and gorgeous 

 bulbous plants known. Their immense flowers, richness of col- 

 oring and regal habit are simply incomparable. They throw 

 up spikes from 18 inches to 3 feet high, bearing enormous 

 trumpet-shaped flowers, averaging 6 to 10 inches across, of 

 great substiince, some being of rich and glowing colors, 

 others delicately shaded and superbly veined. For pot 

 culture in the window, conservatory or greenhouse, they are 

 well adapted, and when in bloom in the winter and spring 

 months no flowers can approach their beauty. 60c. each, 

 $6.00 per doz. 



Amaryllis Johnsoni. (Bermuda Spice Lily.) A very pop- 

 ular variety, wine-red, with a white stripe down each petal; 

 an early and abundant bloomer and a specially robust 

 grower. Large bulbs, 40c. each, $4.00 per doz. 



A. Formosissima. (Jacobwan Lily.) A quaintly-shaped, 

 beautiful flower of grand, dark scarlet, free-blooming; 

 forces well and can be grown in water like Hyacinths; if 

 the bulbs are kept dry during winter, they can be planted 

 in the open ground in the spring and will flower during the 

 summer. 12c. each, $1.25 per doz. 

 A. Belladonna Major. {Belladonna Lily.) Autumn-bloom- 

 ing variety, of extreme beauty and fragrance; the spikes 

 grow from 2 to 3 feet high, each carrying from 6 to 12 

 beautiful flowers, "sweet as lilies," of silvery-white, flushed 

 and tipped with rose. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 

 A. Equestris. ( The Barbados Lily.) Bright, light scarlet, 

 with a white star-like throat, running out into bars in the centre 

 of the petals; very free bloomer. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 

 (For Amaryllis Atamasco see " Zepbyranthes," page 37. For A. 

 Samiensis, see " Nerine," page 36.) 



C AiLAS.^^ 



The Godfrey Ever-Blooming Calla. This new hybrid is a true ever-blooming variety. A good 

 plant produces an astonishing quantity of large, snow-white, slightly fragrant flowers 

 Compared with the ordinary white Calla, it gives three flowers to one, the flowers being 

 equally large, of perfect form and very much whiter. Properly treated, the same plant will 

 grow and bloom without ceasing. The plant is of dwarf, compact, stroug growth, 

 about 18 inches high, with an abundance of dark green leaves. (See cut.) Dormant 

 bulbs, 35c. each, $3.50 per doz. 



CALLA AETHIOPICA, or LILY OF THE NILE. This old favorite White Calla Lily 

 is too well known to require any description. We offer dry roots, as they are supe- 

 rior for forcing and winter- 

 flowering purposes ; they 

 come into bloom quickly 

 and require less room, mak- 

 ing less foliage. First size 

 bulbs, 15c. each, $1.50 doz. 

 Extra size bulbs, 20c. each, 

 $2.00 doz. Mammoth 

 bulbs, 25c. each, $2.50 doz. 



Little Gem Calla Lily. This 

 little pigmy rarely exceeds 

 12 inches in height and 

 blooms most abundantly. 

 The flowers are not more 

 thanhalfthesizeofthe com- 

 mon variety, and therefore 

 can be used with telling 

 effect iu bouquets. It is in 

 every way superior as a 

 house plant to the larger- 

 growing variety. Dry 

 bulbs, 10c. each, $1.00 per 

 doz., $5.00 per 100. 



Yellow Calla, Elliotilana. 



The finest Yellow Calla; 

 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 El- 

 liottiana are spotted with 

 white. Blooming bulbs, 

 $1.75 each; extra large 

 bulbs, $2.50 each. 

 Spotted Leaf Calla. ( Rich- 

 ard ia Alba Maculata.) 

 Dark green leaves spotted 

 with white; in other respects 

 the plant is similar to the 

 old favorite White Calla, ex- 

 cepting being of smaller 

 habit. Large bulbs, 15c. 

 each, $1.50 per doz. the Godfrey ever-blooming calla. 



The 

 Yellow Calla, 

 " Elliottiana." 



( For "Black Callas" and "Red Callas" see Arums, page 30.) 



