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If there is a purer, sweeter, or more exquisitely beauti¬ 
ful (lower than this wo have never hail the good fortune to 
see it. It is a bulbous plant, throwing up tail spikes on 
which are borne several very large, star-shaped flower? of 
the purest waxy whiteness and unexcelled fragrance. For 
chaste beauty it lias no peer, and is a plant that is as rare as 
it is beautiful, and we are fortunate in being able to offer 
large flowering bulbs at only 25c. each: 3 for 00c. Blooms 
about Easter. 
Sacred lilies. 
Of all winter flowers the Sacred Lilies are probably the 
most popular and universally grown. Few flowers equal 
them in beauty and fragrance and none in free growing and 
blooming Qualities. 
Imperial Chinese Sacred Lily - The greatest and most 
popular winter-blooming bulbs. They are very large and 
each one sends up from five to t welve spikes, which bear 
clusters of large, perfect, waxy-white blossoms with a 
yellow center, and a powerful and delicate fragrance, 
which is not excelled by any flower- They grow well in 
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 All with water to the top of the pebbles, 
and place in a warm sunny window. The bulb will at 
once commonco a rapid growth and bloom in three 
weeks. This improved sort has a much larger bulb and 
finer flowers than the common sort. In fact it is so much 
superior that we do not offer the old one any longer. 
>>o advise our friends to plant this variety, for we know 
it will bo so much better than the common and cheaper 
one. 2oc. each ; 3 for 50c. 
Japanese Double Sacred Lily - Fine, largo clusters of 
double blossoms. Pure white, with orange center. lOo 
oaeh; 3 for 23c, 
Golden Sacred Lily -As compared with theOhine.se Sacred 
Lily this produces a much larger flower, though the bulb 
is smaller. Its fra gran ce is even better and its color a 
deep, glowing yellow. 5c. each; 6 for25c. 
The $ sort? for SOc, 
The Black Calla. 
! Among recent bulb mtro- 
| auctions wo doubt if there lias, 
| iu several years, been any- 
tiling brought out which is so 
| eminently distinct as this. It 
j is a bulb which lias come to 
| stay and And its way rapidly 
into every collection of winter 
flowers. We say winter flowers, 
as it is strictly a winter bloom¬ 
er and will bloom no oilier 
time. Its flowers are enor¬ 
mous. fully a foot in length; 
color, clear coal-black so iu- 
tenso that it really shows a 
brilliancy, and as may well be 
imaginod. itisaflowerof most 
striking oddity anil beauty. 
A person who possesses a bulb 
of this Calla has, indeed, a 
treasure which will be the envy 
of the entiro neighborhood. 
The bulbs are large, and 
should be potted in the fall, 
and when growth commences 
•set in a window. After bloom¬ 
ing, the foliage will die down, 
ami the bulbs should be kept, 
dry for planting? again in the 
fall. 2oc. each; 3 for soc, 
guebaris sAmazopica. 
