BRODI^EA 
Brodiajas have a small bulb, and grassy leaves. The stalks are erect and slender, 
leafless, and terminated by a head or umbel of lily-like flowers. All are pretty and 
some strikingly beaiitif al. B. coccinea, B. Howellii and B. volubilis are among the 
finest novelties of recent years. 
Few bulbous plants are . more reliable bloomers than Brodiseas, or more readily 
adapt themselves to, any' soil or situation. The bulbs themselves are a recommenda- 
tion, as they are ligrit, not easily bruised, or at all subject to decay, and can be exposed 
for months in a hot dry air without the least injury (see cultural directions). Ripe 
July 1st. Perfectly hardly East. „ 
SUCTION I. (MILL A, TRITELEIA & $ EU BRODI.SSA. ) 
In this section, which includes Milla",, Triteleia, and Eubrodiaea, the (flowers are borne 
in umbels on a stiff, erect s|em. ' ,. <p 100. ^ 1000 
C3rx*a»J3L difl.oi?.afr. This species has few dark pur- 
ple waxy flowers, an inch long; showy. ,...'■' r . . $100 |6 65 V 
Torrc8ti*is. ay miniature of the preceding, being 
but one or two inches'high, with royal purple flowers. A novelty in 
size. - t 2 25 15 0° 
Ixioid.es. Twelve to twenty inches high, with a 
close umbel of twenty or more spreading yellow flowers banded on 
back with brown. (Ca l.prora-rlulea ...). Very prettvi. 1 00 6 65 y. 
Uaetoa Flowers 'white; banded with: green, otherwise 
much like liii'xfeajlcs 1 00 6 65 v 
Xjaiai.'* .(.blije milla; ithturiel's spear.) ,'a well grown 
plant of this spidiidM bulb, hat, an. umbel 8 inches across on a 16' in. 
Malk, and from 40 ; W 60 flue -.tabular flow ers, each- 1% inches long, 
of a beautiful color, blue to a Tyriah purple— darkest W-heu grown 
in the shade. T-a.fces splendidly to cultivation and force's well. The 
smallest bulbs will blossom. 1 00 6 66 ^. 
3E*ecl.ia.XXO-»it.lai*i)St. i Another very fine things al- 
most identical in habit . with B. laxa. biit fewer flowered, and the long 
pedicels niafke the ituabel frequently 20 to 24 inches 1 across. Flowers 
very waxy hi ap^ieaiartefc, porcelain white 2 25 15 00 
S»*oll.4v:r±ss.. . A haiul.souiespec.ieswhich canuot.be 
too highly cpm-in ended. d-ood bulbs throw up several flow r stalks, 
forming a Ijnv'star like dump'. The flowers are very blight rich 
purple with! .white centers, -' 1 50 .'J. 10 00 
SUCTION II ;(CALIFORNIA HYACINTHS.) 
In ihe foll(owingf(true 15 >• tiaU a.-) the flowers are in globular heads, 
with slender sfcjgti>.> ' 
JS/X.Th.±i£flc>ir£M,. " Produ cs several stalks of violet 
flowers: the[earlre,st. ■■ • v 150 10 00 
0«/Tpi'€fV'*«' liarly; hei id .-.large, lavender color. 1 00 * 6 65 V-"" 
O^f^i-t^t**. .A-l/loa,. A charming pure white var- 
iety; wax\ fii appeiU-aiHc and a splendid thing. 2 40 18 00 V 
CoSageSta. Violet-purple, large heads; 2 to ;-; feet 
high; hue. \ 1 50 \ 10 00 f 
lE3COX^r<ellii. This is a new sortfiom Washington, and 
a sp endid al qu si'tion', equal to <. coc inea in its meri's; the blossoms 
are somewhat like B, coocirien, horizontal, of a delicate porcelain li- 
lac, ti pi>ed virh white; a sure b oomerand hardy. 6 00 j 45 00 K 
Section III. (hrevoortia.) 
O ocoinea. Moral Fire Cracker. The cuts well describe it.i One to y 
three feet high. The pendulous (lovers 1V 2 ' to 2 inches long, rich cim-son with iiea-grei-n 
tii> of ihist.'V. lv plant il may-Jig,; said ':JtJjat in beauty,, novelty and susceptibility to 
cultivation it is not excelled Fine bulbs, $ 100, $-J 25; 1000, $15; verv large bulbs $3 per 
hundred. 
