VALLOTA. 



A splendid bulbous-rooted plant, allied to the Amaryllis. It blooms in August, throwing 

 np its strong stems about one foot high, with from five to eight brilliant, scarlet, lily-like 

 flowers ; very ornamental for bedding out in summer, or cultivation in pots and vases. 



Purpurea, eacli 50 to 75 cts. 



AMARYLLIS FORMOSISSIMA, OR JACOBEAN LILY. 



'rms is a beautiful summer-flowering bulb. It generally produces two stems, one after 

 the otner, each bearing a large lily-like flower of the richest crimson-velvet color; its golden 

 stamens drooping gracefully over the lower petals, giving it additional brilliancy. Plant 

 the bulbs early in May, in rich mellow soil. In autumn, take them up, and keep' dry and 

 secure from frost. They bloom in June. Price, 35 cents each ; $3.50 per dozen. 



TROPiEOLUiM TRICOLORU.il. 



Pot in rich, free loam, leaf-mould, and sand, in autumn, and allow them to mnke way all 

 through the winter in an air} r greenhouse; the sterns being trained up light trellises of some 

 kind. After the blooming season, the bulbs should be allowed a rest of a few months. 

 Each, $1.00. 



SMILAX (MvusirHYLLUM Aspakagoides). 



A beautiful winter climbing-plant, adapted alike to the greenhouse and conservatory. 

 Nothing can excel this plant in beauty of foliage and orange fragrance of the flowers. It 

 is extensively used for bouquets and floral decorations of every description. 



Medium-size Bulbs. 25 cents each. Large-size Bulbs, 50 cents each. Extra-size Bulbs, 

 $1.00 each. Seed per packet, 25 cents. 



Note. — This plant is grown and used most extensively as a decorative vine by every 

 florist in the vicinity of Boston. No lady, dressed for a party, feels her toilet complete (if 

 natural flowers are worn) without a spray of Smilax appended to her hair. 



JAPAN LILIES. 



Our collection of Lilies comprises all the most beautiful kinds, including ten of our own 

 seedlings, which arc unsurpassed by any yet produced. A full description will be found in 

 our Bulb Catalogue. The following are the principal varieties of the Japan: — 



Lilium Album. Pure white. Each 40 to $ .75 



Rubrum. White, with deep crimson spots 40 to .75 



Roseum. White, with rose-colored spots . . . ' . . .40 to .75 



Named Seedlings. (All superb.) $1.00 to 1.50 



MADEIRA VINE. 



, A beautiful summer climbing-plant, of rapid growth, completely covered with long, grace- 

 ful racemes of deliciously-fragrant white flowers. Each 15 cents to 26 cents. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN. 



Directions for Growing Mushrooms. The only conditions required for the healthy 

 growth of Mushrooms are a mass of short dung, heated to from fifty-five to sixty degrees, 

 and lumps of Spawn about the size of walnuts, six inches apart, just beneath the surface: 

 the whole covered with an inch thickness of good light friable earth, and three or four 

 inches of straw, or litter of any kind, to keep in the very moderate warmth. This can be 

 managed in any dark cupboard or celler; and the size of the bed is immaterial. 



Take of horse-droppings from the stable, without the straw, as much as will make the 

 bed the size you want it, a foot thick: put this anywhere out of the weather, away from the 

 light and draught. Let this be pressed, but not hard ; and i.' a few days, when it is nice 

 and warm on thrusting the hand in, get the Spawn, and break the cakes in small pieces and 

 put them in all over the dung, even with the surface: upon this being patted down smooth. 

 Out not hard, it will require from half an inch to an inch of earth all over it. Pat it down 

 to keep it in its place, and put some loose hay or straw over ir. When it approaches dry- 

 ness, it must be sprinkled with water with the chill off, enough to wet the earth, but not the 

 dung. Sooner or later, according to the attention paid to these several points, you will have 

 Mushrooms, and plenty of them. 



Best Mill-track Mushroom Spawn, per pound, 15 cents; 8 cents per pound extra by mail; 

 8 pound* for S1.00, by Express. 



ITALIAN BEES. 



The .«iperioritv of these Bees over others is acknowledged by all. Some of the many 

 advantages: they swarm earlier, work earlier and later, and store twice the amount of honey 

 as the common bees. Allow about eight weeks to Italianize a hive of common bees. The 

 queens live from three to five years. Price per swarm, $15.00. Queens, $6.00 each. 

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