SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR FALL OF 1904 
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LILIES 
Lilium Tenuifolium 
This lovely Siberian Lily is one of the most-graceful and beautiful 
flowers in cultivation. The brightest colored of all Lilies, growing 
about 20 inches high, with finely cut foliage, slender steins and beauti¬ 
fully shaped flowers of a brilliant coral red. It is the earliest of Julies 
to bloom, flowering early in June, which makes it very desirable for 
naturalizing in the orchard or meadow, as it is done blooming before 
the grass is cut in July. Nothing could be finer for the purpose and, 
at the extremely low prices we are offering it at, it can be used by 
the hundred and thousand. It is just as desirable for the garden, 
and should be freely used in beds and borders, and at our low price 
it is well worth planting for cut-flowers, as nothing is more effective 
for house decoration. To make the following prices, which are for 
strictly first-class bulbs, we were obliged to buy twenty-five thousand. 
Prices, $1 per doz., $.">.50 per 100, $4;> per 1,000. 
SOME GOOD LILIES 
There is a tendency to plant little else but the Auratum and Speciosum 
varieties of Japanese Lilies, which are very beautiful but do not bloom 
until after the middle of July, and there is a host of June-blooming 
Lilies that should be found in every garden, and none more beautiful 
than our graceful, dainty little native Lily, Canadense, with its spotted 
red or yellow flowers Nothing finer for naturalizing in meadow 
or orchard. It will thrive in the wettest ground, and so will the 
splendid Superbum, also a native Lily, blooming the end of June 
or early in July. We have seen the plants of this 8 feet high, with 
thirty or forty flowers. All varieties of Thunbergianum (Elegans) and 
Umbellatum Lilies bloom in June, and these are more vigorous and 
hardy or showier when planted in large clumps, and they are abun¬ 
dantly able to take care of themselves in almost any situation; and so 
are all varieties of Tiger Lilies, which make bold and most effective 
groups. A Japanese Lily not so well known is Hansoni, but one of the 
most distinct and desirable. It has a trick, however, of remaining 
dormant for a year after it is planted; in fact, I think it always does 
this if planted in the spring. Henryi, the new variety from Japan, 
is wonderfully vigorous and fine when established, but as yet the 
bulbs are extremely scarce and difficult to get. Brownii and Excelsum 
are two lovely Lilies, but the bulbs are getting very scarce and high- 
priced. 
A NEW HARDY PRIVET 
Ligustrum Regelianum 
The California has gained an immense popularity for hedging, which 
it does not deserve, as it is not reliably hardy, and in this climate every 
severe winter injures it, and sometimes it is frozen to the groumd. The 
beautiful, graceful Kegel’s Privet is absolutely hardy and more desirable 
in every way. It is a dense shrub with stiff, twiggy, horizontal, spread¬ 
ing branches, drooping at the ends. An elegant shrub for specimens, 
massed planting or hedges. We believe it will become one of the most 
popular varieties as soon as it is better known. It forms a graceful, symmetrical bush, sufficiently dense for hedge purposes 
without trimming. As a single specimen or in a border of mixed shrubs it is most effective. It also gives pleasing effects when 
massed against buildings or on slopes and banks. Price, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz., $12 per 100. 
