40 L^JTHER BURBANK, SanTA RoSA, CaL. 



Can my thoughts be imagined, after so many years of patient care and 

 labor, as, walking among them on a dewy morning, I look upon these new 

 forms of beauty, on which other eyes have never gazed ? Here a plant six 

 feet high with yellow flowers, beside it one only six inches high with dark-red 

 flowers, and further on, one of pale strawy or snowy white, or with curious dots 

 and shadings ; some deliciously fragrant, others faintly so ; vSome with 

 upright, others with nodding flowers ; some with dark-green, woolly leaves in 

 whorls, or with polished, light-green, lance-like, scattered leaves. 



As the fresh, dew-laden petals of these new creations, which had never 

 been spread out to the light of da}-, were unrolled before me a n^w world of 

 beauty seemed to have been found and a full recompense for all the care 

 bestowed upon them. 



The bulbs are a study, and had not some of them been in value ten times 

 greater than their weight in refined gold, photographs would have been 

 obtained to show their peculiar forms. 



Of some of the older hybrids and seedlings I have as many as a thousand 

 bulbs each. All these are for sale, as I have half a million kinds yet to unfold 

 their petals for the first time, and am still planting from one to three pounds of 

 hybridized Lily seed every season. 



A list of some of the Lilies combined in these hybrid seedlings is given 

 below : 



Auratum, many varieties ; 

 Batemanniae ; 

 ^ Browni ; 



Bloomerianum ; 



" ocellatum ; 

 Bulbiferum ; 

 Cord i folium ; 

 Candidum, varieties ; 

 Callosum ; 



Canadense, varieties ; 



Columbianum; 



Carnioclinum; 



Catesbsei; 



Chalcedonicum; 



Elegans, many varieties; 



Giganteum; 



Grayi; 



Hansoni ; 



Humboldti; 



Japonicum; 



Krameri ; 



Longiflorum ; 



eximium ; 



Leitchlini ; 

 Martagon, varieties ; 

 Maritimum ; 



Pardalinum, man}^ varieties; 



Parryi, varieties; 



Parvum, varieties; 



Philadelphicum ; 



Speciosum, varieties ; 



Superbum; 



Sarana; 



Takesima; 



Tigrinum, varieties; 



Tenuifolium; 



Unbellatum, varieties; 



Wallace! ; 



Wallichianum; 



superbum ; 

 Washingtonianum ; 



" purpureum. 



Among the Lilies which have increased so that a good stock can be offered 

 I mention two. 



P.-2854. (Ut/i'. (IcoJLVuaJ^ 



A very handsome, large flowering L. pardalinum, growing two feet high, 

 wdth short, broad, glossy leaves in whorls. It multiplies rapidly and is the 

 finest of the pure bred Pardalinums. 



Stock on hand: Five hundred large bulbs. Price, $300. 



