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SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS AND ROOTS 



Caladium 



Cinnainon Vine 



Montbretia 



These Bulbs Grow Quickly — Easy Culture 



The bulbs offered on this page include some of our showiest garden flowers. They are of 

 easiest culture; planted in spring in good garden soil, they flower with great certainty during 

 the summer and fall. They are also very useful to fill up vacant spots in a hardy border of 

 perennials, adding to it a dash of color. After the tops have been killed off by frost, all of the 

 bulbs. (with the exception of Cinnamon Vine) should be taken up and stored in the cellar 

 over winter, as they are not hardy. 



CALADIUM ESCULENTUM. 



"Elephant's Ear." Grand tropical-looking plant. A 

 favorite for specimens on the lawn, or for bordering 

 large sub-tropical groups. They produce enormous 

 leaves, frequently 4 feet long by 3 feet wide; height, 

 4 to 5 feet. Plant after the ground has warmed up, 

 and take up before frost. (See illustration.) 



First Size. Price, 25c each; $2.50 per doz. 



Extra Size. Price. 40c each; $4.00 per doz. 



Transportation paid. 



CINNAMON VINE, a beautiful, hardy 

 climber tor anj-thing on which the vines can twine; 

 it grows from 15 to 30 feet high, and when established 

 the vines attain a much greater length. The leaves are 

 green, thick and glossy, always clean, healthy and 

 free from insects. The white flowers, while insig- 

 nificant, emit a delightful cinnamon-like perfume. 

 The roots are quite hardy and, although the stems 

 die down in winter, the vines shoot up with great 

 rapidity in the spring, and cover trellises or arbors 

 quite early in the season. {See illustration.) 



Price, extra large, 2-year-old roots, 20c each; $2.00 

 per doz.; transportation paid. 



CRINUM Kirkii. Produces flowers of the 

 greatest beauty. Usually two flower stalks of dark 

 purplish color are sent up at the same time, each 

 bearing a large umbel of enormous lilylike flowers 

 of white, with a reddish purple stripe through the 

 center. 



Extra large bulbs, 50c each; $5.00 per doz.; trans- 

 portation paid. 



HYACINTHUS Candicans. A luxuriant- 

 growing, summer-flowering plant, spreading 2 to 3 

 feet, throwing spikes 4 to 5 feet in height, each bearing 

 20 to 30 large, white, bell-shaped flowers, splendid 

 for groups. If planted in the center of beds of scarlet 

 Gladiolus, the effect is magnificent. 



Price, ISc each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100; 

 transportation paid. 



ISMENE CALATHINA (Peruvian 



Daffodil). Handsome clusters of large, very striking, 

 fragrant, pearly white flowers. Bulbs should be kept 

 warm and dry and planted out in the middle of May. 

 They will then commence flowering in July. It is 

 also admirably adapted for pot culture. (See illus- 

 tration.) 



Price, 25c each; $2.50 per doz.; transportation paid. 



MADEIRA VINE. The old favorite. 

 "Climbing Mignonette," so much prized for porches 

 and arbors on account of its rapid growth and freedom 

 from insects. Thick, glossy leaves, and long, hanging 

 stems of feathery, fragrant, white flowers. The 

 tubers we offer are selected large size. 



Price, 15c each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100; 

 transportation paid. 



MONTBRETIA 



The Montbretia is one of the most floriferous and 

 showy of summer-flowering bulbous plants, producing 

 in great numbers, graceful spikes 8 to 12 inches long, 

 each spike bearing from 18 to 30 exceedingly showy, 

 star-shaped flowers, 1 J-ia to 2 inches across. (See 

 illustration.) 



Fire King. Large flowers of a glowing scarlet red ; 

 decidedly one of the most beautiful. Price, 10c each; 

 $1.00 per doz.; $7.50 per 100. 



George Davison. The stems are from 3 to 4 feet 

 high; very branching, bearing lovely, pale orange- 

 yellow flowers, widely expanded. Price, 12c each; 

 $1.25 per doz.; $9.00 per 100. 



MONTBRETIA— Contd. 



Golden West. Produces tall, branching spikes 

 and large, well open flowers of a most beautiful pure 

 golden yellow, without the least spot or shade; strong 

 grower. Price, 12c each; $1.25 per doz.; $9.00 per 100. 



Lady Hamilton. Very floriferous yellow, the 

 center is suffused with a ray of rosy apricot; strong 

 grower; fine and distinct. Price, 15c each; $1.50 per 

 doz., $12.00 per 100. 



Lord Nelson. Deep orange-scarlet, externally 

 crimson, eye yellow; large flower, very beautiful; the 

 stems are dark, much branched and 3 14 feet high. 

 Price, 15c each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Majori. New, pale orange with crimson markings. 

 Price, 15c each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Rosea. Bright salmon rose; distinct. Price, 12c 

 each; $1.25 per doz.; $9.00 per 100. 



Mixed Hybrids. Containing a fine assortment of 

 yellow, orange and scarlet shades. Price, 8c each; 

 80c per doz.; $6.00 per 100; transportation paid. 



TUBEROSE 



Albino, Single, Early Flowering. A single white 

 tuberose. It commences to flower in July and 

 August, throwing from two to five flower spikes from 

 a single bulb. Beautiful for gardens and a splendid 

 cut flower. 



Price, 10c each; $1.00 per doz.; $7.50 per 100; 

 transportation paid. 



Pearl, Henderson's Double Dwarf. Plant is 

 dwarf, growth stocky, the flower spikes attaining a 

 height of about 2 feet, and are compactly filled for 

 two-thirds their length with very large, perfectly 

 double flowers 1 H to 2 inches across, or nearly twice 

 the size of the old sort. The flowers have the Wcix- 

 like substance of a camelia, are glistening white and 

 deliciously fragrant. The bulbs planted in the garden 

 in May, in warm rich soil, in a sunny position, flower 

 with great certainty in the fall. If early flowers are 

 wanted, the bulbs may be started in pots in the house 

 from February to April, removing the plants to open 

 ground when it is warm enough in May. (See 

 illustration.) 



Price, extra large flowering bulbs, 8c each; 7Sc per 

 doz.; $5.00 per 100; transportation paid. 



Silver Leaf. Showy and effective, even when not 

 in bloom, the foliage being distinctly striped white 

 and green. Each bulb frequently throws up two or 

 more spikes, 3 to 4 feet high, each bearing several 

 pure white, single, waxy flowers, delicately perfumed. 

 They flower several weeks earlier than double 

 tuberoses. 



Price, 10c each; 

 $1.00 per doz.; 

 $7.50 per 100; 

 transport at i on 

 • paid. 



TIGRIDIA 



or Shell Flowers. 



Extremely hand- 

 some summer flow- 

 ering bulbs, grow- 

 ing about 2 feet 

 high, producing 

 large, gorgeous 



flowers in shades 

 of yellow, orange 

 and red, exquisitely 

 spotted, flowering 

 very freely through- 

 out the summer. 

 (.S>« illustration.) 



Price, ISc each; 

 $1.50 per doz.; 

 $12.00 per 100. 



OTHER BULBS AND ROOTS 



Tigridia 



Begonia, see page 141. 



Caladium, fancy-leaved, see page 141. . 



Canna, see page 140. 



Dahlia, see pages 136 to 139. 



Dielytra or Bleeding Heart, see page 143 



Gloxinia, see page 141. 



Iris, see page 144. 



Peony, see page 144. 



Tuberose Pearl 



