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IIOVEY AND CO.^S CATALOGUE OF 
Gigfantea, very Ion" massive leaves, ribbed with purple. 
Glauca, silvery foliage, scarlet and yellow flowers. 
Gabonensis. 
Keteleeri, bronze-green leaves, bright red flowers. 
Limbata, pale green leaves; yellow flowers. 
Musaefolia, broad leaves, ribbed. 
Marshal Valiant, dark green leaves, bordered with violet, orange flowers. 
Nepalensis, long, narrow, green foliage, and large yellow flowers; dwarf. 
Ne plus ultra, very dark leaves, similar to Nigricans. 
Nigricans, the finest dark variety; very tall. (See description.) 50c. 
Peruviana. 
Perfecta rubra, olive-green and purple leaves. 
Rendatleri, long, narrow, dark purplish foliage, and very large flowers. 
Superba. 
Tricolor, beautiful variegated leaves, green, yellow, and pink. 50c. 
Warscewiczi, green and brown leaves, scarlet flowers. 
Zebrina, handsome green and brown leaves, zebra-like. 
Price, 25c. to 50c. each, except those noted. 
Our selection, $2.50 to $5 per dozen; $15 to $30 per huudred. 
TRITONIA AUREA. 
A very showy bulb, growing about two feet high, with long, narrow leaves and 
spikes of glowing, orange-colored blossoms, forming a fine bed. 
Price 30c. each; $3.00 per dozen. 
DOUBLE TUBEROSES. 
These are beautiful, pure white, delightfully-scented flowers, produced in long 
spikes of thirty or forty blossoms, on tall stems about three feet high, and flowering 
nearly all summer. The bulbs should be planted in pots or boxes and placed in a 
gentle heat, where they will soon begin to grow, and in May should be repotted 
and plunged in the border, or planted out in the open ground. Bulbs well started 
in pots, 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen. 
JAPAN LILIES. 
These superb flowers are usually planted in the autumn, but we generally keep 
a full supply for spring planting. The bulbs keep sound and fresh and bloom 
freely. Our autumn catalogue of bulbs enumerates all the flue kinds in cultivation. 
The following are recommended for ^planting at this season, tb 
autumn only. 
Gilium auratum, the magnificent Golden Lily .... 
Lilium lancifolium album, pure white; beautiful . 
rubrum, white, with crimson spots .... 
roseum, white, with rosy spots. 
Melpomene, blood-crimson, edged with white. This 
is much the finest of ail the lilies. 
others 
in the 
Per doz. 
.50 
$5.00 
.50 
5.00 
.25 
2.50 
.25 
2.50 
1.00 
VALLOTA PURPUREA. 
One of the most beautiful and desirable of summer-flowering bulbs, producing 
through the months of August and September clusters of six or eight large, very 
showy, brilliant scarlet flowers, growing on stems about a foot high; cultivated in 
pots or in beds. Price, 75c. each; $7.50 per dozen. 
GLADIOLUS. 
One of the finest collections, embracing all the choice varieties of Souchet, the 
names and descriptions of which will be found in our seed catalogue. We have 
also a collection of seedlings, raised by an amateur, which quite equal many of the 
