Chicago AMERICAN BULB CO. New York 
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A. B. C. “Supreme” Quality 
Miscellaneous Spring Bulbs 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS 
"True Belgian Strain" 
For Pot Plants and Bedding. Also the Double Forms 
are desirable as cutflowers (the stems to be wired). 
An early-flowered batch of the showy Tuberous-Rooted Begonias .will 
always be appreciated. And as the tubers are offered either in separate 
colors or in mixture at reasonable rates, there is no reason why every 
country florist doing a retail business should not handle a few of them. 
Both double and single-flowered types may be had. The tubers when 
received may either be potted at once in a mixture of loam, extremely 
old manure and sand or placed in peat moss on a bench and lightly 
sprayed until the top growth and roots start. Usually 4-inch pots will 
answer well for the tubers, although if larger plants are desired, they 
can later be given a shift. 
These Begonias will grow better if kept fairly warm at this season, 
55 degrees at night not being too much. Avoid wetting the foliage as 
much as possible, and later in the season, as the sun grows in power, 
some shading during the hottest part of the day will prove beneficial. 
Not only are the large-flowered Begonias useful as potted plants, but 
later they are excellent to plant in window or porch boxes where there 
is considerable shade, as well as for bedding out in positions that are 
so shady other bedding plants will flower little if at all. 
Florists on the West Coast recently found a profitable outlet for 
Double Tuberous Begonia blooms by utilizing them for corsages 
and table decoration (the stems being wired). This new fashion 
is now sweeping the country, the flowers commanding a price 
on a par with that of Orchids and Gardenias. 
PRICES OF TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS 
Single or Double Varieties in the following colors: Crimson, Rose, Scarlet, 
Pink, Yellow, Orange, Salmon, White: JOO 1000 
1" to IV 2 ".$ 5.50 S 50.00 
1 Vft" to 2" . . 8.00 75.00 
2" and up . 11.00 100.00 
Hanging Basket Varieties—Double Camelia Type (Crispa), single frilled: 
also Pendula or Lloydii (Hanging Basket): 
100 
1000 
1" to 1V4"....:. 
. . . .$ 5.50 
$ 50.00 
1 ^ 2 " to 2 ". 
8.00 
75.00 
2" and up . 
. . .. 11.00 
100.00 
Duplex Mixed. Double Frilled Mixed. Marmorata and Marginata: 
IV 4 * to lVi". 100 . 
. . $7.50 
IV 2 " to 2". 
100. 
S8.50 
AMARYLLIS 
Giant American Hybrids 
The value of Amaryllis depends on the quality of the strain. We buy 
our bulbs from several sources of known reputation, and mix these 
strains outselves, thus making certain that you get the best obtainable. 
Every bulb we ship is of flowering size and many produce more than 
one flowering stem. Dozen 100 
Jumbo bulbs.S4.00 $25.00 
Mammoth bulbs. 2.75 20.00 
Select bulbs. 2.25 15.00 
Amaryllis find a ready sale to the public in dry bulb form. Their extreme 
ease of culture commends them to every flower lover, coming into flower 
within a short period of being potted. Likewise they are admirable for 
florists' show window decoration and pot plant sales. 
Double Flowered Tuberous Rooted Begonia 
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