SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
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Jxilies. 
The brush cannot paint. or the pen portray 
the exquisite purity and delicacy, yet. magnificent 
grandeur of the stately Lily. It is the plus ultra 
of floral beauty, and we urge our friends to each 
year add a few Lilies to their collection. No 
other flower will so adorn our homes when in 
bloom, and they constantly imnrove after planting 
We feel sure if our readers could 'see a good collection 
of from 20 to 10 different sorts in bloom they would 
never rest until they had a goodly number of their own 
Asa rule. Lilies are of the easiest cultivation, especially 
the following, which have been carefully selected as 
the hardiest, handsomest and best. We grow at Floral 
Park about five acres of Lilies and the bulbs wo offer 
are large, healthy, vigorous and cheap. 
12 Beaiitiftil lilies 
AT EXTRA LOW PRICES. 
Our enormous stocks of homo-grown lilies enable us to 
offer the following fine varieties remarkably cheap. It is a 
great opportunity - for a good collection at small cost. 
Candldum— A well known hardy garden Lily; snow-white, fra¬ 
grant blossoms: one of the best varieties for forcing and an 
established favorite. 
Oanadense -A very beautiful sort with pendulous bell-shaped 
blossoms. 
Corldion A beautiful Lily, with upright, perfect star-shaped 
flowers of clear yellow; fine and attractive. 
Concolor— Like Coridon except in color which is a bright scarlet 
Elegans Bloolor— Truly magnificent, being Tulip-shaped, and 
bloom in June. The blossoms are large and of exceeding 
bright and striking colors; robust hardy and free bloomers 
Exceedingly showy, being of a brilliant red color, flamed with 
yellow, very large and perfect. 
Longiflorum— White, trumpet formed, very fragrant. A lovely Lily, bein'- al¬ 
most exactly like the Bermuda Easter Idly, but blooming a little later, and 
hardy in the, open ground, therefore a grand variety for garden culture as 
well as for pots. 
Pardallnum ( Leoi'Akii Lily)— Rich scarlet and yellow flowers, spotted with 
rich brown. Robust and free flowering. A superb Lily and one which will 
give the greatest possible satisfaction. Succeeds in all situations. No -arden 
complete without it. 
Speclosum Rubrum (Lanui folium) —Large wide flowers, recurving more or 
less at the tips. Among the showiest of all Lilies and perhaps the most robust 
and the most radiantly beautiful. Very fragrant and hardy. Lovely rose 
and white, spotted crimson. The delicate colors bleiid charmingly. 
Tlgrinum.fl. pi. (Double Tiger Lily)—This is a plant of stately habit, growing 
from 4 to 6 feet high; foliago is dark green and very long, bearing an immense 
number of double, bright orange-red flowers spotted with black. 
Tigrlnum Splenoens. (Tiger Lily)-Orange salmon, spotted black. 
Umbellatum One of the very best, blooming in June or July, with very large 
They are robust growers and produce an enormous head of bloom. ('dors range 
rose, yellow, buff, apricot, etc., many being finely spotted 
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perfect flowers and dazzling colors. __ 
from black-red through all the shades of crimson, 
egated. 25 finest sorts, mixed. Per dozen. $ 1 . 00 . 
wa lncm—Phis Lily is very tloriferous. each bulb throwing up from 4 to f> flower stems, each one of which is crown 
with d to 10 beautiful upright blossoms of a delicate bright apricot color. It is very perfect in form and a in 
desirable sort. 60c. per dozen. 
PRICE of the above 12 beautiful Lilies 10 cts. each; any 4 for 35c ts.; the 12 for $1.00. AH 
fine home-grown bulbs, sure to bloom well first summer. 
