HORTICULTURAL SPECIALIST 
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Speciosum Album. Large reflexing pure white 
flowers which are in season outdoors from 
mid-August until October. Also (good for 
pot culture. 35-50 cents each, $4.00-$6.00 doz. 
$27.50-$45.00 per 100 
Speciosum Album Kraetzeri. A striking pure 
white form with green bands running down 
the center of each petal. 
50 cents each, $6.00 per doz. 
Speciosum Magnificum. The large recurving 
flowers are rich carmine pink, margined 
white, a very fine variety. 
25-50 cents each, $3.00-$5.00 doz. 
$20.00-$40.00 per 100 
Speciosum Melpomene. Dark carmine shaded 
purple, heavily spotted and margined white, 
an extra richly colored form. 
40-50 cents each, $4.0(>-$6.00 doz. 
$30.00-$40.00 per 100 
Speciosum Rubrum. Carries both green and 
dark stems with rose colored flowers of 
varying shades. 25-50 cents each, $2.50-$5.00 doz. 
$20.00-$40.00 per 100 
Sulphur-Gale. A fine hybrid between sul- 
phureum and regale, very vigorous and 
hardy, extends the flowering season for 
regales. The flowers are in form like sul- 
phureum and approximate regale in color. 
_ _ , 50 cents each, $5.00 per doz. 
Sulphureum. A superb late flowering lily from 
Upper Burmah which proves perfectly 
hardy in New England. The immense trum¬ 
pet shaped flowers are pale yellow within, 
deepening towards the throat, the outside 
is tinted brownish red. Is also grand for pot 
culture. A late blooming variety attaining a 
height of 5-6 feet. 
Good flowering bulbs $1.25 each, $13.50 per doz. 
Extra large flowering bulbs, 
$1.75 each, $20.00 per doz. 
lenuifolium. Our earliest flowering Lily each 
year is the Siberian coral Lily, in 1930 the 
first flowers opened on May 27. A gem for 
the rock garden. Graceful foliage and bril¬ 
liant recurving red flowers carried 6-20 on a 
stem. This Lily, under good conditions grows 
3-4 feet high and we have counted 25 flow¬ 
ers to a stalk. Should be in every collection. 
Extra large bulbs, 
40 cents each, $4.00 doz., $30.00 per 100 
Strong bulbs, 
rr 25 each, $2.50 doz., $16.00 per 100 
lenuifolium Golden Gleam. Usually classed as 
a hybrid between tenuifolium and martagon 
album but is more probably a sport, comes 
true from seeds. Orange yellow in color. 
rp , 30 cents each, $3.00 per doz. 
Testaceum. The glorious beautiful Nankeen 
Lily is the only known natural hybrid in 
existence, a cross between candidum and 
chalcedonicum. It should be planted shallow 
and prefers a well sweetened soil. Should be 
planted in fall, 4 inches deep, in spring only 
from pots. The exquisite nankeen yellow 
flowers are carried 6—12 to a stalk and open 
m late June and early July. There is a de¬ 
mand for this lily far in excess of the supply. 
We have a large stock of splendid bulbs. 
Extra strong bulbs from pots, 
rp. . $1.25-$1.50 each, $13.50-$16.5(> per doz. 
Tigrinum. The old Tiger lily often seen grow¬ 
ing splendidly about abandoned homes and 
