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J. M. Thorburn & Co.— Catalogue of Bulbs. 



LILIUM HARRISII. 



(BERMUDA EASTER LILY.) 



Bulbs ready now. 



The Bermuda Easter Lily is perhaps the finest and most 

 popular of winter-blooming plants. The 

 large, handsome, pure white, trumpet- 

 shaped flowers are very sweet-scented and 

 of great substance, and last a long time 

 after cutting. Its stately and graceful 

 habit renders it a perfect pot-plant for 

 table or window decorations. It gets its 

 popular name from the fact that it is so 

 largely used for church decoration at. 

 Easter, It is easily grown and can be 

 -y'-^'^-y^ forced into flower in a remarkably short 

 ) time. It is also well adapted to garden 



culture, but in this latitude the bulbs 

 should have a good covering of ashes or litter to pro- 

 tect them over winter. 



If ordered by mail, add from 10 to 20 cents per dozen 

 for postage, according to size. 



Each Per doz. 100 



7 inches^ in circumference $0 10 $1 00 $0 50 



9 25 2 50 15 00 



to 11 



very fine 40 4 00 



CHINESE SACRED LILY, 



(THE WATER-FAIRY FLOWER.) 



Ready in September. 



10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 



If ordered bij mail, add SO cents per 

 dozen for postage. 



LiUnm Harrisii. 



A variety of the Polyanthus 

 Narcissus, imported from 

 China. The Chinese have the 

 following interesting fable 

 connected with this flower: 



"Once upon a time a father left his property to his two 

 sons, with the understanding that it should be equally divided; 

 but the elder son seized all the tillable land and left the 

 younger nothing but an acre covered with rocks and water. 

 The younger son, failing to obtain justice, sat at the water's 

 edge bemoaning his misfortune. A benevolent fairy appeared, 

 and, giving him these Narcissus bulbs, told him to drop them 

 into the water. Shortly afterwards their flowers were devel- 

 oped, and the neighbors crowded to see the fairy's gift. In 

 the course of a few years the badly treated brother accumu- 

 lated a fortune by the rapid increase and sale of his bulbs. 

 Then the elder brother, envious of the prosperity of the 

 younger, bought up great numbers of the bulbs — hoping to get 

 a monopoly by getting all of them— at so heavy a price that he 

 was obliged to mortgage his property to procure funds for the 

 purpose. He planted all his good land with bulbs, but they 

 soon began to die, as they cannot live long out of water. He 

 was ruined, while his brother, who had bought the mortgage, 

 foreclosed it, and became possessed of the whole estate in 

 time to plant some of the dying bulbs in the watery acre." 



The bulbs should be placed from three to six in a bowl or 

 glass dish of water which has been partly filled with pebbles, 

 some of which place over the bulb so as to prevent them from 

 floating. The water should be tepid and changed every two 

 days. Submerge the bulb entirely, and place in a sunny win- 

 dow in a cool room. 



10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 



Chinese Sacred Libj. 



