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A. B. DAVIS <S> SON, PURCELLVi LLE, VIRGINIA, 
HYACINTHS. 
Named Varieties. 
We offer both Single and Double in ihe different shades of 
pink, white, yellow and red, for 15 cents each. 
Unnamed Hyacinth.s are almost as good, and 
are used almost exclusively for out door planting. 
They force asreadilyasnamed kinds. Weean furnish 
the following colors for 10 cents each. 
Double Ked, Single Pure White, 
Doubie Riiish W'hite, Single liight DIue, 
Double Yellow, Single Red, 
Double Rose, Single Blush White, 
Double Dark Blue, Single Yellow, 
Double Pure White, Single Rose, 
Double Bight Blue. Single Dark Blue. 
TULIPS. 
Double. Early, in separate colors, 5 cents each. 
Single. In separate colors, 5 cents each. 
Double Mixed. 3 cents each. 
Single Mixed. 3 cents each. 
PARROT TULIPS. 
The majority of Tulips are certainly odd enough, 
but those that have been given the name of Parrot 
Tulips are even more fantastic than the others, hav- 
ing curiously shaped flowers with fringed and other- 
wise laciniated petals, and showing the most unheard of combinations of color — brown, 
scarlet and orange — in stripes and quaint variegations. 5 cents each. • 
BIZARRES AND BY BLOOMS. 
Bizarres have flowers with a yellow ground, flamed, margined and striped with scar- 
let-crimson and purple ; they are late bloomers. Byblooms have a white ground, marked 
and variegated with purple and violet. 3 cents each. 
CHINESE NARCISSUS, OR SACRED LILY. 
This is the one great winter-blooming bulb which is more eagerly sought after than 
any other flower in cultivation. 
We are able to supply the de- 
mand with the true, large-flow- 
ering variety, and prevent the 
disappointment which has been 
caused by the Chinese sending 
to this country inferior sorts in- 
stead of the true Sacred Lily. 
The Chinese Sacred Lily is pro- 
perly a Narcissus of the Polyan- 
thus type. The bulbs are very 
large, and each one sends up 
from five to twelve spikes, 
which bear clusters of large, 
perfect, waxy white blossoms, 
with a yellow center, and of a 
powerful and deliciousfragrance 
which is not excelled by any 
flower. They grow well in pots 
of soil, but the most popular 
way of blooming them is the 
Chinese method, as follows : 
Fill a bowl or some similar 
vessel with pebbles, in which 
place the bulb, setting it about 
one half its depth, so that it 
will be held firmly, then fill 
with water to the top of the 
pebbles, and place in a warm, 
sunny window. The bulb will 
at once commence a rapid 
growth, and bloom in two or Chinese narcissus. 
