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Geo. H. Mellen Co., Florists and Nurserymen 
TENDER BULBS —Not Hardy 
Luxuriant Tropical Foliage—Showy Decorative Flowers 
Amaryllis Hybrids 
Caladium Esculentum 
PERUVIAN DAFFODIL 
(Ismene Calathina) 
A grand summer flowering bulb, pro¬ 
ducing with great freedom large Amaryllis 
like, pure white, fragrant blossoms. Keep 
the bulbs in a dry, warm place, and plant 
out in June. Bulbs can be taken up in 
October, and, after a few weeks’ rest, pot¬ 
ted and flowered in the house in the win¬ 
ter, or kept over for planting out another 
season. 20c each; 3 for 50c; $1.75 per doz. 
Our Superfine Mixture of 
SELECT GLADIOLI 
It contains only kinds of proved merit 
and high quality. The most critical 
grower can wish for no better value. 
In the preparation of this mixture over 
75 varieties are being used. The flowers 
are of the largest size in their respec¬ 
tive types, the spikes are of correct 
form, with plants of vigor and vitality. 
Superb pink, red, scarlet, crimson, 
cerise, blues, tints of lilac light and 
yellow shades are a part of this mix¬ 
ture. 
Twelve for 40c; $3.00 Per Hundred. 
AMARYLLIS 
AMERICAN HYBRIDS —A magnificent strain, and we know 
of nothing that we can recommend that will give the ama¬ 
teur greater pleasure for his window garden. They embody 
with vigorous growth, free flowering habit and enormous 
size of the individual flowers, a really wonderful range of 
colors varying from deep crimson to bright orange-scarlet, 
and from light rose to almost pure white, many of them 
beautiful combinations in stripes and variegations. Mixed 
varieties only in very strong bulbs. 45c each. 
CALADIUM 
ESCULEN- 
TUM 
(Elephant’s 
Ear) 
Very effective, 
and suitable for 
either a single 
plant on the lawn, 
masses in beds or 
margins of water; 
its very distinct 
leaves often attain 
a length of 3 feet 
by 20 inches wide, 
and have a rich 
tropical effect. 
Large bulbs, 25c 
each; 3 for 65c; 6 
for $1.00. Fancy Leaved Caladium 
FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS 
A class of beautiful variegated foliage plants, excellent 
for window boxes, vases or single pot plants, succeeding 
equally well in a somewhat shady situation out of doors. 
Among all foliage plants they are undoubtedly the showiest, 
reveling in many soft colors and indescribable beauties of 
design. After becoming well established, they require lib¬ 
eral watering, coupled with adequate drainage. The bulbs 
should be started into growth about the first of April and 
dried off in October and kept in a warm and dry place until 
spring again. 25c each; $2.50 per dozen. 
GLOXINIA 
Magnificent for house culture, producing in great pro¬ 
fusion, beautiful flowers of rich and beautiful colors. They 
succeed best in sandy loam and peat, and require a moist 
heat. Large flowering. Mixed colors only. 30c each; $3.00 
per dozen. 
HYACINTHUS CANDICANS 
An excellent bulbous plant for summer and autumn flow¬ 
ers. Its white, pendant, bell-shaped flowers are produced 
on flower stalks 3 to 4 feet high; each stalk having from 
20 to 30 flowers. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.75. 
DWARF EXCELSIOR PEARL TUBEROSES 
A splendid variety; greatly superior to the common Pearl, 
grows about 18 inches high, blooms very early, matures per¬ 
fectly; flowers pure white, large size, very double and in¬ 
tensely sweet. The tuberose is noted for its delicate beauty 
and exquisite fragrance; rivaling orange blossoms in sweet¬ 
ness. The flowers are pure white, very waxv-like and dou¬ 
ble, and are borne on stems 2 to 3 feet high. Tuberoses will 
not bear much cold. Do not plant in the spring until the 
ground is warm. Fine, well ripened bulbs, all sure to bloom, 
10c each; 6 for 50c. 
Water Hyacinth 
WATER HYACINTH 
(Does Not Form a Bulb) 
The Most Odd, Beautiful and 
Valuable Plant for Easy 
Growth 
It forms a lovely rosette of 
its curious shining green 
leaves, and throws up spikes 
of flowers resembling in form 
a spike of Hyacinth bloom. In 
color a beautiful lilac-rose. 
In the windows the most beau¬ 
tiful effect is produced by us¬ 
ing a glass vessel of some sort 
with shells and white sand so 
arranged as to conceal a small 
amount of soil. In summer it 
can be grown in the yard in 
a pool or tub of soil, covered 
with about 3 inches of water. 
15c each) 2 for 25c; 12, $1.75. 
