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FAUST'S SUMMER-FLOWERING BUI.BS. 



Iris Ksempferii. 



French Cannas. 



TIORroiA (Shell Flowers). 



Most interesting and effective summer-flowering bulbs. With 

 their peculiar shaped flowers, which are well represented in our 

 illustration, the colors are most difficult to describe, looking like 

 the extraordinarily marked tropical shells. The varieties are — 

 Tigridia Grandiflora Alba. Its flowers are large, of a clear, 

 pearly-white color, marked at the base of each division with 

 large spots of a reddish-brown or chestnut color on a yellowish 

 ground, forming a fine contrast with the white of the petals. 

 Tigridia Conchiflora. Fine yellow, spotted crimson, large. 

 Tigridia Grandiflora. Very large, bright crimson, centre 

 variegated with yellow. 



Price, 10 cts. each, one Bfilb of each variety for 20 cts., or 6 

 bulbs of each for |i.oo, postpaid. 



IRIS K^MPFERII (Japan Iris). 



The sensation which these grand flowering hardy plants have 

 created within the last few years is not at all astonishing. Their 

 enormous flowers, embracing all the colors of the rainbow, their 

 extreme floriferousness, the ease with which they grow and mul- 

 tiply, are reasons enough to make them popular. Their high 

 price has heretofore debarred some from purchasing ; now, 

 however, they can be had at very low prices, and every one 

 should order them in quantity. Require plenty of moisture. 

 True Japanese importation in various bright colors, 20 cts. each ; 

 3 for 50 cts.; 8 for |i.oo. 



DWARF FREJ^^CH CANNA. 



Few recent introductions have been so important as the new 

 Flowering Cannas. Cannas have long been extensively grown 

 for the beauty of their foliage, but now that we can add to this 

 flowers of striking beauty and brilliancy, equalling even the 

 gladiolus, it gives us a plant which is of the greatest value 

 either for single specimens or for bedding. Fine roots, mixed sorts, all colors, 

 25 cts. each; 3 for 50 cts. 



CANNA Ehemanni. A most handsome Canna, growing about 6 feet high, 

 producing large racemes of bell-shaped flowers, 4 to 5 inches long, drooping 

 like a Fuchsia, and in color a lovely brilliant rosy pink. Its foliage is very 

 striking, reminding one of the luxuriant foliage of the Banana. 25 cts each ; 

 3 for 50 cts. ; ^2.00 per doz, 



CANNA Flaccida. An exceedingly pretty dwarf Canna, only growing about 

 3 feet high, with large and handsome light green leaves. Its lovely deep 

 canary-yellow flowers, spotted and flaked with crimson, are of enormous size, 

 and closely resemble some of the finest Orchids. As a border for a bed of 

 taller sorts it has no superior. 15 cts. each ; 4 for 50 cts.; I1.25 per doz. 

 PARDANTHUS SINENSIS, OR BLACKBERRY LILY. 

 Bears tall spikes, crowded with elegant orange-colored flowers, dotted with 

 purple, succeeded by fruit resembling a blackberry. Perfectly hardy. 20 cts. 

 each; 3 for 50 cts. 



