SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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Rare &iparyllis Species. 
These,are members .if the iK-autiful Ain.-wyLlis family, 
and are mostmagnifleient flowering bulbs, suitable alike for 
garden or pot culture. 
Crlnum Ornatum. This is the king of the Amaryllis tribe! 
it produces a large round bulb, which grows to weigh as 
much as ten pounds. It can lie treatedusapot plant, or 
grown in the garden as a summer dowering bulb. It is 
of the easiest culture and sure to succeed with every one. 
Its flowers are large, and. like a most beautiful Lily, 
borne in enormous clusters at the top of the stout scapes. 
Color soft, delicate blush, with a scarlet bar through the 
center of each petal, and very sweet scented. 75c. each. 
Crlnum Moorel. Much like the above, except its flowers 
are more beautifully formed and of a clear peariv-white 
color with a beautiful pink stripe through each petal. 
Grand and beautiful and of exquisite fragrance. SI each. 
Crlnum Flmbrlatulm. (Mn.K and Wink Lii.y.) Flowers 
in large umbels, on strong scapes, long and trumpet- 
shaped. Colors delicate and pretty, white and pink, 
strived and blended. Fine large flowering bulbs, title, each. 
Ismene Calathena. The flowers are of very large size, novel 
form and of a snowy whiteness, and are’also exceedingly 
fragrant. It is really one of the most- lovely of all the 
great Amaryllis tribe, having a peculiar grandeur and 
beauty which qne can appreciate at sight, but cannot 
, describe. 30c. each. 
Sternfc 
The 
ryllia” Bright deep 
... golden yellow. 10c. 
y each : 3 for 25c. 
y'. Scarlet Spider Lily. 
Fine large clusters 
of deep blood scarlet 
blossoms late in 
summer. This love¬ 
ly Japanese bulb is 
known as Nlrelie 
Japonic:!. and is 
quite hardy in most 
loealiiies. 15c. each; 
3 for 30c. 
Special Offer.— One. 
anil uf nlmiY *i.c 
line bulbs for $3,00. 
nbergla _Lutea. 
s '"Yellow Amu- 
SCARLET 3TPIDER LILY. 
spider Lily has the advantage of being 
CRL’ADTUm^ 
Xcw H<miy Spider L-'iy. 
Galadimps. 
Grand tropic-u? foliage plants for bedding and for pots. 
Esculentum. A grand sup-tropical foliage plant, growing 
four feet high, and l>euring immense shielcf-shapep leaves 
i of the smoothest, richest green. Extra tine for groupB or 
single specimens upon the lawn, or as borders to tropicrl 
beds, or to plant at the margins of ornamental pools, etc. 
Give plenty of water. Stic. each. $2.0(1 per dozen. 
Fancy. Easy to grow in summer, either in beds or pots. 
For piazza or summer conservatory decoration they are 
unrivaled. Their benutifally shaped and glossy foliage 
iselegantly variegated in the most telling manner. One. 
perhaps, is regularly dotted with rotiml raised spots of 
white ; another is ribbed and veined with pink, or scarlet, 
or yellow, while still am tlier is splashed and marbled 
with white or shaded almost black. In fact, the im¬ 
mense leaves are so marked with delicate and vivid colors 
, as to make them as showy as great and peculiar dowers. 
Our collection is sunerb. 40<\ each, 3 for $1 .00.7 for $2.00 
Alocasia lllustris. This rare foliage plant belongs to the 
same family as the Oaladium. and is very striking either 
as a pot plant, or as a specimen pladl. in the garden. The 
large handsome leaves are dee green, freely blotched 
and marbled with black. Very handsome indeed. 30c. 
each. 2 for 50c. 
