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AMAEILIS. Long known as Pulchellus. In this superb plant the How- • 
ers are golden yellow and inarched like a child's pinwheel. Oftener seen 
as a plant six inches high and five or six flowered, but in congenial soils 
over a foot high, with as many as sixteen fine flowers. $1.50 $10.00 
PULCHELLUS TRUE. This can be described as a lemon yellow 
ALBUS. A most perfect flower. Very rare. Supply probable $4.50 
SECTION II— STAR TULIPS. 
All of these are slender stemmed woodland plants, with rather small 
flowers, which in dainty beauty cannot be excelled. They are at their best 
in the crevices of shaded rocks, or in soil rich with mold, in lightly shaded 
ground. Sharp drainage is essential . 
BENTHAMII. A dainty bright yellow cup lined with silky hairs, and 
often with dark eyes on each petal. $1.50 $10.00 
MAWE ANNUS VAR. MAJOR. With all of the delicate beauty of the 
last, and twice its size and vigor. This is the best of the Star 
Tulips. $1.50 $10.00 
MAWE ANNUS VAR. ROSEUS. Like Var. Major, except with a rosy 
pink tinge. A very beautiful species, in some of its forms nearly as large 
as C. Purdyii. Supply uncertain. $2.25. 
LILACINUS. Large, finely formed flowers of a fine lilac, and petals 
not hairy. Very vigorous, growing in sandy loam in wet meadows. 
$1.50 $10.00 
PURDYII. Stem eight to fifteen inches in height. The erect white 
flowers lined with white hairs are often an inch and a half across. There 
are forms with blue hairs and pinkish ground color. $4.50 30.00 
The Giant Star Tulip. 
DIVISION II— BUTTERFLY TULIPS. 
The Spanish word, Mariposa, means butterfly, and never was a floral 
name more fitly applied than to these most exquisite colored and marked 
flowers. Only the orchids vie with them in beauty. With brilliant colors, 
eye-like spots, and dainty pencilings and hairy markings, the likeness to 
butterflies is startling. Botanists class them as Calochortus luteus and ven- 
ustus. They can either be considered one variable species or many. I fol- 
low the usual horticultural nomenclature. 
VENUSTUS VAR. ROSEUS. The typical form, from Southern Call- 
lornia, rather low in stem ,and with the white flower with a carmine back. 
A large showy red blotch at the apex of each petal, a rich maroon eye in 
the middle, and beautiful color and hair markings at the base. 
$3.00 $20.00 
VENUSTUS (VAR^aOSEUS IMPROVED. In a form I have discovered, 
the stem is tall and stouV4h^^riaTrrirT^rTr-\fi^n'ous and the coloring through- 
out more intense. A most lovely thing. 7^"*""" — • $JLDD $20.00 
I reserve the right to fill orders with either of above. 
VAR PURPURASCENS. In this the flowers are often three inches 
across. On the inside they are creamy white half way and purplish the 
other half, while without they are purple. There is no rose blotch at the 
apex as in Roseus, but otherwise it is even more richly marked. It is 
native to heavy, sticky clays, although liking any loam in cultivation. Very 
strong and vigorous. $3.00 $20.00 
VESTA. One of the largest flowered, THE MOST THRIFTY, and one 
of the handsomest of all Mariposas. The flowers are from three to five 
inches across , borne on long, separate stalks, and numerous. The plant 
