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BROWN BROTHERS COMPANY 
Brown's Bulbs and Tubers for Spring Planting 
A bulb is really one large bud, sending up its shoots 
from one opening in the bulb, and should be planted 
with the one opening pointing upwards. The small roots 
grow down from the bottom of the bulb. 
A tuber is a short, fleshy, underground stem or shoot, 
on which are several small buds, or eyes, either perpen¬ 
dicular or horizontal with its most promising looking 
“eyes” up. 
Cannas (Tuber) 
A bed of Cannas is beautiful not only for the bloom 
in late summer until frost but also for the foliage which 
is very attractive throughout the late summer. The varie¬ 
ties we offer are new and much improved kinds, having 
mammoth blooms. 
Cannas can be planted only in the spring, and must be 
taken up and stored in a fruit cellar where they will keep 
cool and lie dormant until planting time the following 
spring. 
City of Portland. Salmon-pink flowers; green foliage. 
434 feet. 
Eureka. White flowers; green foliage. 4 feet. 
Gem. Yellow spotted with carmine. 
Hungaria. Pink flowers; green foliage. Ska feet. 
King Humbert, Red. Red flowers; bronze foliage. 4 feet. 
King Humbert, Yellow. Yellow flowers; green foliage. 
5 feet. 
The President. Red flowers; green foliage. 4 feet. 
Wintzer’s Colossal. Vivid scarlet flowers; green foli¬ 
age. 5 feet. 
Wyoming. Orange flowers; purple foliage. 5 feet. 
Gfadiolus (Bulb) 
There’s nothing that goes farther toward making a 
home out of a house than flowers both in the garden and 
about the rooms. There is no flower that will go farther 
in beautifying the garden than the Gladiolus. Their sharp 
vivid coloring together with variety of form and color 
have made them one of the most popular of flowers to¬ 
day. They are easy to grow, require a minimum of at¬ 
tention and thrive well in most any kind of soil. The ideal 
way to plant them is to start in late April and plant a 
number each week or ten days until mid-June. They will 
bloom in your garden from July until frost. As cut flow¬ 
ers they are far superior to any summer bloomer for last¬ 
ing qualities. Plant them in beds or borders, they’ll start 
blooming after Peonies and Irises are gone. 
America. Rose-pink. 
Crimson Glow. Dark maroon with purplish markings. 
Early Sunrise. Orange-red with violet shadings. 
E. J. Shaylor. Deep rose-pink, a ruffled variety. 
Gibraltar. Pink. 
Glamour. Bright red-rose; very tall. 
Halcyon. Soft rose-pink, shading deeper toward petal. 
Halley. Salmon-pink, lower petals creamy crimson. 
La Rose. Deep Tyrian rose, velvety surface. 
Mrs. Dr. Norton. Creamy pink—a prize-winner. 
Mrs. Francis King. Flame-pink with crimson spots. 
Mrs. Frank Pendleton. Rosy pink on white ground; 
throat blood-red. 
Nora. Light lavender, throat tinted with crimson and 
yellow. 
Parader. Soft begonia-rose, flanked scarlet-red. 
Peace. White. 
Piccadilly. Pure creamy yellow, with amber throat. 
Schwaben. Canary yellow, lower throat touched with 
dark red. 
