HOUSE AND GARDEN 1 
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August, 1913 
1000 Carter Bulbs for $5.25 
Carter’s Book on Grass Culture 
O NE thousand flowering 
bulbs—Carter’s Tested 
Seed quality—choice 
varieties of narcissus, daffodils, 
crocus, jonquils, hyacinths, tulips 
and others, all for $5.25, delivery 
paid. 
This is a special introductory 
price to acquaint you with the 
excellence of Carter Bulbs. 
Have you heard of'Carter’s great “King 
Alfred” Daffodil which has made such a 
sensation in England? A giant-flowered 
trumpet, wonderful rich yellow, two feet 
high. We are offering this new variety for 
the first time in America at the special price 
of 50 cents each. 
A copy of “ Bulbs ” by James Carter 
and Company has been reserved for you. 
It contains much valuable information about 
bulbs and many specially-priced collections. 
Write for it. 
Fall is the time for lawn renovation and 
Carter’s “Practical Greenkeeper ” will 
give you the information you want and the 
directions you need. It tells how to prepate 
and treat different soils, what fertilizers to use 
under all conditions, what mixtures to use. 
Carter’s Tested Grass Seeds are the prod¬ 
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testing. The most notable lawns in England 
and America, and all the championship golf 
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THIS is the MOST INTERESTING TIME TO VISIT 
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immense stock of Hardy Acclimated Rhododendrons, 
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Consider the Lilies 
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sun and is in every way satisfactory. 
Three to four feet high. 
Speciosum (Lancilolium ) — Of this most 
excellent and satisfactory class there 
are a number of varieties, all of which 
are exceptionally good. They are three 
to four feet high, and bloom rather 
later than the other sorts, being in 
flower for most of the time practically 
from August until frost; album — pure 
white ; roseum —pink, and rubram — 
white, heavily suffused with crimson, 
are three old but still popular favorites. 
Melpomene, a large and very deep, 
heavily-spotted crimson, and magnifi- 
cum, a new sort with the most intense 
coloring of any of the speciosums, are 
not so well known, but should be in¬ 
cluded in every collection. 
Tigrinum — Of the old popular tiger lilies, 
a newer sort, Tigrinum splendens, is a 
great improvement over the old variety, 
and should be used. These are usually 
only a dollar a dozen. It is very tall, 
often reaching a height of six feet, 
with a striking black stem. Blooms in 
August. 
El eg an s —T his is another fine class, of 
which there are several excellent vari¬ 
eties, all at very reasonable prices. In¬ 
comparable has the richest color to be 
found anywhere among lilies. E. erec- 
tum is a dwarf-growing sort, attaining 
usually a height of only one and a half 
feet and blooming quite early — June 
and the first part of July. Color, orange 
spotted with maroon. 
Martagon is purplish red in color, bloom¬ 
ing early in July. 
Croceum has extra large flowers, golden 
in color, with a faint tint of scarlet. 
Blooms in late July and August. Four 
to five feet in height. 
Excelsum (testaceum ) has beautiful flow¬ 
ers with recurved petals of an unusual 
buff color. It is exceptionally fragTant. 
Blooms in July. 
LongHlorum — Snow white and very fra¬ 
grant. Has flowers six to eight inches 
long, trumpet-shaped, like those of the 
Easter lily. Blooms early — June to 
July — and grows two to three feet high. 
These also are very reasonable in price, 
being usually not over one dollar a 
dozen. 
Philadelphicum and Canadcnse are both 
native lilies, the first growing about two 
feet high with two or three flowers of 
orange-red with dark spots, held erect, 
blooming from June until August. The 
latter is bell-shaped, with flowers of a 
bright yellow, thickly spotted with black. 
It is exceptionally graceful in habit, and 
under favorable conditions attains a 
height of seven or eight feet, with some¬ 
times as many as twenty or twenty-five 
flowers to a stalk. Both of these kinds 
are exceptionally good for colonizing in 
shady places or among shrubbery. They 
like fairly moist soil. 
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