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BECKERT'S ANNUAL AUTUMN CATALOGUE OF CHOICEST BULBS 



Beckert's Hardy Garden Lilies 



WHAT more worthy successors to the Spring beauty of Narcissi and Tulips can you bring into your garden, 

 to enhance its beauty, than a liberal planting of lilies? Within the entire range of Summer flowers none are more 

 beautiful and more generally admired. 



Lilies are wonderfully effective and striking and so graceful in the garden picture. The many varieties are not 

 hard to raise as many people have been led to believe; if some care and thought is given their planting. The 

 secret of it is, if any secret at all, to give them such a soil and place as coincides with their surroundings when 

 growing wild. They are great lovers of peat and leafmold, but will do very well in any good garden soil by the 

 application of sand around bulb (by this we mean surround the bulb completely with sand), planting 6 to 8 

 inches deep, and in the planting of all Speciosums the 8-inch depth should be adhered to. Plant beside or among 

 evergreens and shrubs, in the perennial border, especially among Delphiniums. Roots of nearby growth loosens the 

 soil to a certain extent, and it seems Lilies like wandering in between the roots of other growing things. Avoid fresh 

 manure coming into contact with Lily bulbs. 



Many of the Lily bulbs, being of late maturity, 

 do not arrive in this country until October and 

 November, vjhich is the best time to plant. 

 Where the ground is liable to freeze before 

 planting time, we advise middling with leaves, 

 coarse straw or peat. 



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Lilium Speciosum Rubrum 



Oiling to the fact that we receive our Lily Bulbs 

 from various parts of the world, we are occa- 

 sionally unable to fill an entire order at one time. 

 In this case the balance of the bulbs will be for- 

 warded as soon as they arrive. 



Lilium Regale, the Regal Lily 



