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PERENNIAL PLANTS AND BULBS, continued. 
LILIES. No class of hardy plants possesses so many charms. They are 
rich and varied in color, stately and handsome in habit, profuse in variety, 
and of delicious fragrance. 
They thrive best in a dry, 
rich soil, where water will 
not stand in winter. After 
planting they reanire ver.v 
little caro. and should not 
be disturbed for several 
years, as established plants 
bloom more freely than if 
taken up annually. Cover 
the pliints in November 
with Cinches of litter. leaves 
or manure. After long ex- 
perience, we offer the fol- 
lowing list as the best col- 
lection for this latitude: 
and we doubt not that our 
customers will be pleased 
with the bulbs we shall 
send them. 
Lllium auratum. Gold 
banded. This superb 
variety from Japan has 
flowers 8 to 12 inche.s in 
diameter. Its six white 
petals are thickly stud- 
ded with rich, chocolate- 
crimson spots, and have 
a bright golden band 
througli the center of 
each petal ; exquisite va- 
nilla-like perfume, l.'ic. 
each, $1.50 per doz. 
Lllium candldum 
(Annunciation Lily). A 
most beautiful and well-known fragrant Lily, 
early and quite hardy. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Lllium lancifollum rubrum. White, shaded with rose and spotted 
witl) red. Very showy and fragrant. $1.50 per doz. 
LMIum speciosum album prascox. Pure white, with a slight 
tinge of rose on end of petals ; one of the best. 35 cts. 
Lllium tigrinum splendens. Briglit orange-scarlet, with dark 
spots. 
Montbretia crocosmiflora. Bulboua-rooted plants from the 
Cape of (iood Hope, growing about 2 feet high, producing an abun- 
dance of briglit green leaves, which resemble those of the Gladiolus. 
The flowers are .T inches in diameter, and are borne on branching 
stems, each bearing about three dozen flowers closely arranged - 
bright orange-red, with spots of a darker hue. The bulbs can be treated 
as the Gladiolus, or left in the ground with protection. 50 cts. per 
doz., by mail; $3 per JOO. 
PAEONIES, Herbaceous. Poeonies, beyond question, by their grand and 
gorgeous flowers, are among the most sliowy and useful of decorative plants. 
Not only are they large and splendid in color, but most of the varieties are as 
sweot-sceuted as the rose. They are ciuito hardy, and are of the easiest cul- 
ture. We have, at great expense, brought together one of the largest collec- 
tions in this country. Strong roots, all dilTerent named sorts, $4 per doz. 
Strong roots, without names, $3 per doz. 
Pseonia fragrans. Rose color, shaded purple; large, full and 
sweet-scented. 
Iris Kwmpferi. 
(See page 28.) 
Clear white in color, 
