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BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING 



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ALLIUMS 



Beautiful for pot culture or garden decoration; of 

 easiest culture. 



Aureum. (Molly, or Golden Allium.) One of our most 

 showy border plants, perfectly hardy, bearing large 

 umDels of golden yellow flowers in June. An 

 old favorite, and fine for naturalizing in the 

 garden, where it forms large clumps. Height 

 1 foot, 12c. doz.; 75c. per 100; So. 00 

 per 1000. 



Hermitti Grandiflorum. A splendid win 

 ter flowering and forcing variety; the 

 flowers last a long time after being 

 cut. The flowers are large, of im- 

 maculate whiteness. It continues 

 in bloom from December to the end 

 of April. 20c. doz.; $1.25 per 100; 

 $10.00 per 1000. 



Neapolitanum. Another excellent va- 

 riety for winter flowering, now ex- 

 tensively forced by florists for cut 

 flowers, being of pure white, with 

 green stamens borne in large loose 

 umbels. Height, 15 to 18 inches. 

 15c. doz.; 85c. per 100; $7.00 per 

 1000. 



Ostrowskianum. A beautiful new species 

 from Asia Minor, with large heads of 

 beautiful rose-colored flowers, on stalks 2 

 feet high; very early, free-flowering and 

 hardy. 25c. doz.; $1.60 per 100. 



ACHIMENES. 



These are splendid and profuse summer- 

 blooming plants for the conservatory or 

 window garden; flowers of many charming 

 colors, ranging through all shades white to 

 crimson, including many beautifully spotted. 

 (Ready in November.) Mixed Varieties, 8c. 

 each, 75c. doz.; So. 00 per 100. 



Agapanthus Umbellatus 



THE BLUE AFRICAN LILY. The old 



favorite; flowers bright blue. These are 

 noble ornaments on lawns in pots or tubs on 

 terraces or piazzas, or for the decoration of 

 the greenhouse. Foliage luxuriant and grace- 

 ful; flowers 20 to 30 borne in clusters measur- 

 ing fully a foot across. The flower stalks 

 frequently attain a height of three feet, the 

 flowers opening in succession for a long period 

 during the summer and autumn. (Ready 

 nt .V member .) 20c. each; $2.00 doz., or 

 delivered 25c. each, S2.50 doz. 



AMARYLLIS. 



GIANT FLOWERING, HYBRIDS OF VTTTA- 



TA. These unnamed seedling hybrids from a 

 famous hybridizer will produce some new va- 

 rieties of exceptional beauty. The coloring 

 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 coloring 

 and regal habit are simply incompar- 

 able. They throw up spikes from 2 to 

 3 feet high, bearing enormous trumpet- 

 shaped flowers, averaging 8 to 10 in- 

 ches across of gTeat substance, some 

 being of rich and glowing colors, others 

 delicately shaded and superbly veined. 

 Mixed varieties, 75c. each; $7 50 doz., 

 or delivered 80c. each, $8.00 doz. 

 Amaryllis Johnsoni. (Bermuda Spice Lily.) 

 A very popular variety ; large flowers of bright 

 red, with a white stripe down each petal; an 

 early and abundant bloomer and a specially ro- 

 bust grower. Large bulbs. 35c. each; $3.50 per 

 doz. or delivered 40c. each, $4 . 00 doz. 



ALSTROMERIA. 



PERUVIAN LILIES. 



Tuberous-rooted plants with beautiful 

 large lily-like flowers of great beauty; borne 

 in clusters during the summer, they are 

 splendid for cutting, being of much sub- 

 stance and lasting in perfection for a long 

 time. Splendid subjects for either pot cul- 

 ture or for planting out in frames. Very 

 robust and abundant blooming varieties, 

 colors, crimson, rose, yellow, purple, etc., 

 shaded and marked. 2 to 4 feet. Mixed 

 Colors. (Ready in November.) 6c. each; 

 60c. doz.; $4.00 per 100, or delivered 10c. 

 each, $1.00 doz., $8.00 per 100. 



We supply 6 Bulbs of one variety at the dozen rate, 25 at the 100 rate, 250 at the 1,000 rate. 



