PAINESVILLE, OHIO 
Bulbs and Tubers 53 
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BULBS and TUBERS 
For Summer and Fall Blooming 
AMARYLLIS 
Tuberous-Rooted Begonias. 
BEGONIAS, Tuberous Rooted 
For pot plants and garden beds. When grown outside, take 
up before cold weather, spread out to dry, pack in boxes of 
dry sand and store through winter in some cool place, yet not 
where frost can reach them. Some little time before planting 
outside in spring, they should be potted and kept inside until 
well started. They delight in a partial shade in soil composed 
of leaf mold, sand and well-rotted manure. 
Valuable alike for house, conservatory or summer garden. 
For pot culture, they should be potted in well drained soil 
composed of leaf mold and light loam, or in any rich soil. One 
bulb to a 5-inch pot, just barely covered. The lily-like flow¬ 
ers run to large size, with broad recurving petals, and should 
appear in a few weeks after potting. After blooming season 
is over, withhold water, as the top begins to die; when thor¬ 
oughly ripened place in dry, cool place, leaving plant in pot 
to allow season of rest. 
Riant Hvhridc Our offering is a selection representing 
^_ the finest, largest flowered, and most 
richly colored strains of modern development. The body color 
may be white, broken up by heavy streaks and lines of 
tropic luxuriance, in rose, red and other colors—or else 
dominantly orange, cherry, cerise, crimson, with mottling 
or striping of vivid contrasts ; 3 to 6 flower stalks to the 
bulb. Offered in mixed colors only. 
First Size. 2% to 2 y 2 in., 50c each ; 3 for $1.2B ; $4.50 per doz. 
XX Size. 2% to 3 in., 65c each; 3 for $1.70; $6.25 per doz. 
XXX Size. 3 to 3% in., 75c each ; 3 for $2.00 ; $7.50 per doz. 
Double Flowered 
Varieties in separate colors: 
_Scarlet, deep rose, shell-pink, 
orange, crimson, salmon and yellow. 
(Crispa). Flowers of immense 
__size with beautifully frilled 
fringed and wavy petals, in a waxen more dignified way 
creating an effect like the finest kind of Petunias. Ours 
is a choice strain. Separate colors : Dark red, rose-pink, 
salmon, scarlet, orange, yellow, and white. 
25c each ; 3 for 70c ; $2.50 per doz., $18.00 per 100. 
Mixed. 3 for 60c ; $2.25 per doz.; $16.00 per 100. 
Trailing (Pendulata). A recent addition to Begonias, 
■ ailing providing a type very useful and beautiful for 
hanging baskets and boxes. The extended trailing stems 
and extra leafage does not detract from normal size of 
the flowers which are single, waxy and well distributed. 
In separate colors: Orange, rose, and crimson. 
30c each; 3 for 85c; $3.00 per doz. 
CALADIUMS 
Esculentum 
(Elephant’s Ear). Stands 6 to 7 feet high, 
with bright green leaves 3 to 4 feet long and 
2y% feet wide. Should have plenty of water and good rich 
soil. Is a splendid adornment for the banks of lily ponds. 
Xiarg-e Size Bulbs. 25c each ; 3 for 65c; $2.50 per doz. 
Fancv Leaved Beautiful variegated foliage plants, revel- 
_ L _ “ u ing in many soft colors and indescribable 
beauties of design; for window boxes, vases or single pot 
plants, succeeding equally well in a somewhat 
shady situation out-of-doors. After becoming 
well established, they require liberal watering, 
coupled with adequate drainage. The bulbs 
should be started into growth about the 
first of April, dried off in October, and 
kept warm and dry until spring. 
Mixed. 35c each ; 3 for $1.00 ; $3.50 per doz. 
CALLAS 
The White Calla is rarely used except for 
house blooms; but the hardier spotted-leaved 
variety, Elliottiana, is also much used in gar¬ 
dens for the beauty of its foliage as a border, 
and its delightful flowers for late summer cut¬ 
ting. The bulbs should be set out after danger 
of frost is past, and dug up again in the fall 
for drying off and winter storage. 
Elliottiana 
Fancy-leaf Caladiums. 
Clean, dark foliage s p o 11 e d 
_ creamy white, and splendid 
flowers of waxy golden yellow. 
Extra Large. 2 to 2% in., 40c each; 3 for 
$1.00; $3.50 per doz. 
S & H Godfrey Everblooming Calla 
Flowers pure white, delicately scented, extra 
free, of prolonged blooming season. Ours is 
a special strain improving size and perfec¬ 
tion of the flowers.. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 
$1.80 per doz. 
Giant 
Amaryllis 
Hybrids. 
Caladium—“Elephant’s Ear” 
