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CR08MAN BROTHERS' CATALOGUE . 
Tender Summer - Flomerina 
Plants, Bulbs, Etc. 
By Mail or Express, prepaid. 
The Summer-Flowering Plants and Bulbs are a useful and magnificent class of 
flowers and are deservedly becoming every year more popular among the lovers of 
flowers everywhere. They are of easy culture, require but little care, and exhibit a 
most dazzling display during their continuance in bloom. The Summer Bulbs are 
quite tender—are easily destroyed by frost, and, therefore, should not be planted out 
until all danger of frost is over in the spring. They should be taken up in the fall 
before severe frosts, and preserved over winter by placing them on a shelf in a cool, 
dry cellar, or some other place where they will be safe from frosts. 
The most tender varieties of Bulbs and Roots will not be forwarded until severe 
frosts are over, so there will be no danger of injury on the way. Parties ordering 
seeds and bulbs at the same time will receive the seeds at once, and the tender bulbs 
as soon as the weather will permit. 
AMARYLLIS. (The Knight’s Star Lily.) 
Probably the most magnificent 
and gorgeous flowering bulbous 
plants known. Their immense 
flowers, richness of coloring and 
regal habit are simply incompar¬ 
able. They throw up spikes from 
eighteen inches to three feet high, 
bearing enormous trumpet-shaped 
flowers, averaging six to ten inches 
across, of great substance. For pot 
culture in the window, conserva¬ 
tory or greenhouse they are well 
adapted, and when in bloom in the 
winter and spring months, no flower 
can approach their beauty. 
Johnsonii, a lovely variety of 
rich velvety bright red, with a 
white stripe down each petal. 
An early and abundant bloomer 
and a specially robust grower. 
85c, each, $3.50 per dozen. 
Formosissima, (Jacoboean Lily) 
a quaintly-shaped beautiful amaryllis. 
flower of dark scarlet, free blooming'; forces well and can be grown in water 
like Byacinths. If the bulbs are kept dry during winter they can be planted in 
the open ground in the spring, and will flower during the summer. 15c. each, 
$1,50 per dozen. 
CRINUM. 
These are magnificent flowering bulbs, belonging to the Amaryllis family; are 
as easily cultivated in the open ground as potatoes, and can be taken up in the fall, 
dried off, and kept over winter like Gladioli: or they can be grown as pot plants and 
treated as Amaryllis. 
Kirkii, produces flowers of the greatest beauty ; flower stalk two or more feet tall, 
bearing a cluster of twelve to twenty large lily-shaped flowers of delightful fra¬ 
grance. Bulbs each, $1.00. 
Americanum, an evergreen species of the easiest culture; best grown as a pot 
plant; can be wintered in the cellar if the soil is kept nearly dry. Its large, 
white, exquisitely fragrant flowers are borne in a cluster on a tall stalk. Bulbs 
each, 25c. 
