PETER HENDERSON & CO.—WHOLESALE LIST OF BULBS. 
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FRITIGLARIA ACREA. 
(Golden Fritillary.) 
A lovely new species, as rare as it is beautiful, bearing large golden yellow bell-shaped 
flowers which are curiously chequered with minute black brown spots. It is perfectly hardy, 
beginning to flower in March continuing till May. It isadmirably adapted for planting out 
of doors in shaded nooks, doing well in partial shade. Mayalso be grown in pots for green- 
house or window decoration where its curious flowers prove a constant source of admiraticn. 
(See cut.) Price, 8c. each; 75c. per doz.; $5.00 per Ioo. 
IRIS ALATA. 
( Scorpion Iris.) 
This is the ‘‘ Gem ”’ of this beautiful class of plants. The plant only grows about a foot 
high and its broad leaves much resemble those of the leek. The flowers are very large, 
measuring 4 to 6 inches across, the ground color of which is a delicate lilac-blue shade with 
showy blotches of brightest yellow spotted with a darker shade, the whole forming one of 
the richest combinations of color imaginable. One of the features of this rare plant is that 
its flowers are produced when our gardens are practically flowerless, commencing to bloom 
in October and producing a sec- 
ond crop of flowers in December 
if the weather be not too severe. 
It is of the easiest culture, but 
prefers a warm, dry, sunny bor- 
der. It is admirably adapted 
for pot culture for greenhouse 
or window decoration. (Sze cut ) 
Price, 15c. each: $1.50 doz. 
[ris Bakeri. 
A new and perhaps the most 
beautiful of the Iris reticulata 
type, the flowers are deliciously 
violet-scented, standards _ sky- 
blue, falls white, spotted and 
blotched with violet-blue. It is : 
perfectly hardy and one of the 
earliest of spring flowers, bloom- 
ing in the open ground in Feb- 
ruary. For pot culture it is very 
desirable as it can be had in 
flower in mid-winter, its orchid- 
BLACK CALLA. 
Black (Calla. 
(Arum Sanctum.) 
A magnificent variety of the 
Holy Land ; the leaves are large 
and very wavy, of a rich green 
color, veined light green. and re- 
semble exactly those of the Calla 
Ethiopica. The plant produces 
one large and SWEET-SCENTED 
FLOWER, raised on a slender bu} 
vigorous stalk of brown-red shad- 
ing to green at the upper end. 
The flower is about 14 inches 
long and 4 inches broad, of a 
brilliant dark purple color and 
FRIfFILLARIA AUREA 
like flowers forming striking ob- oe green underneath, somewhat 
jects for greenhouse or window wavy at the borders and curled at the smaller end. The spike rising from the 
decoration. Price, 50c. each: centre of the flower is about ro inches long, velvet like and quite black. The 
$5.00 per dozen. whole plant makes a most stately and elegant appearance. (See cut.) Dry 
roots, $1.00 each ; $10.00 per dozen. 
[reucojum ‘“[richophylum. 
A new and rare variety, with long. grassy leaves and large, pure white, bell- 
shaped flowers. Well adapted for planting in sheltered corners of the gaiden, 
where if left undisturbed will pro 
duce year by. year its chaste snow- x 
drop-like flowers in early March 
and April, when flowers: of all 
kinds are welcome Price, 15c. 
f each ; $1.50 doz. 
Lachenalia 
Nelsoni. 
Lachenalias are among the most 
distinct and beautiful of dwarf 
= bulbous plants for greenhouse or 
‘window decoration—the variety 
here offered, a new hybrid. is 
without doubt the finest of the 
race—producing its large, golden 
yellow flowers in long racemes with 
wonderful freedom, making it 
worthy of extensive cultivation. 
Bulbs planted in fall produce their wealth of flowers in early spring, and unlike most 
bulbous plants whose beauty is short-lived, last in flower in a cooi house nearly two @& 
montns. Of the easiest culture, treatment same as for hyacinths suiting them 
very well. Altogether, one of the most desirable of the newer bulbs. Price, 20c. . . 
each ; $2.00 dozen, LACHENALIA NELSONI. 
l= Florists’ Forcing Bulbs, Condensed List, on yellow pages A and B. 
IRIS ALATA. 
