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Gjant Calla. 



This grows four or five feet high on common soil, producing handsome 

 mammoth leaves and snow-white flowers almost large enough for a hat. 

 Fifteen strong plants. Price, $200. 



" One of the most experienced, ])ractical and scientific propagators in the world." 



— Orchard and Farm. 



New Calla. 



Golden Varieg-atcMl Ricliardia Albo Maciilata. 



There is hardly a plant in general cultivation which has more pleasing 

 variegated foliage than the spotted leaved Calla. The wholesale demand for 

 the bulbs which have been raised from seed on my grounds has been enormous. 



Among hundreds of thousands thus raised one has been secured with the 

 usual white spots and also liandsome, golden variegated leaves ; both the white 

 spots and the golden variegations on each leaf. The plants, though not grow- 

 ing as tall, have as large leaves, are as vigorous, and multiply as rapidh' as the 

 common kind ; as handsome as some of the fancy leaved Caladiums, and as 

 easil}^ grown as potatoes. 



Five plants. Price, $1,500. 



" The day spent at your place and the inspection of your myriad interesting experi- 

 ments in horticulture was one of the most valuable of my whole summer's trip. A visit at 

 your place was one of the things which I had hoped would fall to my lot, but at the same 

 time it came sooner than I had expected or hoped. My interest will continue to be very deep 

 in your experiments." 



C. Iv. Hopkins, Assistant Pomologist, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Hybrid Lilies. 



No class of hardy plants can claim so many captivating charms for-all as /^'^•^^^^^ 

 Lilies. Their stately growth, large, graceful, richly colored or pure w^hite 

 flow^ers, the exquisite fragrance of some varieties, and their ease of culture 

 render them the most generally admired of all bulbous or tuberous flowering 

 plants ; and there is no lack of choice varieties for the hybridist to work upon, 

 as the species are very numerous and their characteristics well defined ; but 

 'immberless most subtle influences vary the results of the hybridization of 

 Lilies so that they have been generally neglected as incorrigible. 



The uncertain and unsatisfactory results of hybridization combined with 

 the great amount of c-are and patience and the length of time required to pro- 

 duce new varieties has, with a few notable exceptions, discouraged experi- 

 ments with the Lilies, otherwise the most promising of all plants for such 

 study and combination ; 3'et the production of new forms depends on this 

 important point. ,^ 



Sixteen years ago I commenced experimenting m crossing our nativeMjlS<^ 

 Pacific Coast Lilies, adding, from time to time, all the exotic species and 

 varieties which seemed to promise favorable results, until my collection was 

 the most extensive in the western half of America ; these have been combined 

 and selected, and recombined and reselected, until the most important results 

 ever achieved among Lilies are now an embodied fact. 



