122 CURTIS & COBB'S CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 



Each. 



VALLOTA. 



A splendid bulbous-rooted plant, allied to the Amaryllis. It blooms in 

 August, throwing up its strong stems about one foot high, with from five 

 to eight brilliant-scarlet, lily-like flowers ; very ornamental for bedding out 

 in summer, or cultivation in pots and vases. 



Purpurea. Scarlet • 75 



" superba. Deep scarlet, large and fine i.oo 



MISCELLANEOUS BULBS. 



Cannas. In varieties .20 



Colooasia grandius folius. Very large ornamental leaf . . . .50 



Croeosmii aurea. Fine golden yellow . 50 



Nerine coruscans. Glittering scarlet 1.00 



" earnea. Flesh color ; scarce 1.00 



Schyzastylus COCCineus. Dazzling bright scarlet ; new and fine . .1.00 

 Sprukelia formossima. Bright showy crimson, lily-like blossoms, 



beautiful for bedding or pot-culture 35 



Iris kempferri. Hardy species from Japan .50 



Zephyranthus roseus. Very ornamental, from the profusion of rosy 



flowers produced all summer . „ 20 



RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS SUPERBISSIMUS. 



Ranunculus Asiatieus superbissimus. This new class of Ranun- 

 culus is acknowledged to be a most valuable acquisition. It flowers the 

 second year from seed, sometimes even the first season. It is of unu- 

 sual vigorous growth ; strong and healthy in foliage ; producing almost 

 only flowers of extreme doubleness, extraordinary size, in endless and 

 in the most brilliant tints from white, — the most delicate blush, pink, 

 rose, to the brightest carmine, crimson, scarlet, purple, orange, and 

 yellow. It has the great advantage of flowering in the greatest heat 

 throughout the summer. Bulbs. $1.00 per doz. Seeds, per pkt, 50 cts. 



We have seen some very fine flowers the past season from J. F. C. 

 Hyde, Esq., President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 and consider this new acquisition very recommendable. 



