^y^ONTBRETIAS are graceful, sparkling flowers of the midsummer and autumn, reflecting the 
colors of the advancing season and lending a charming gaiety and lightness to the borders. 
For the best effect the bulbs, more correctly called "conns,” should be set only a few inches apart, 
and in groups of not less than ten, toward the front of herbaceous borders or shrubbery. Thus planted 
the sheaves of narrow leaves and slender, wiry arching stems strung with brilliant flowers, like 
miniature Gladioli, have the appearance of little fountains of bright color—rose, scarlet, yellow, 
orange, red, often marked with brown. They will flower for many weeks (from August into late 
October) and a border, where blue and white flowers predominate set at intervals with such gay 
patches of color, is delightful indeed and may be planted from the earliest spring days until late 
June, according to the flowering dates you prefer. Their long lasting qualities make the Montbretias 
most desirable for cutting, so that it is well to have a few hundred bulbs set out in some by-place 
where the graceful stems may be copiously cut for house and piazza decoration. 
These Cape bulbs may be left with entire safety in the open ground over the winter, and merely 
covered with a light mulch. They may be set out in the spring as early as Gladioli, but planted more 
shallow; three inches deep will give the best results. 
Montbretias should be given the same spraying treatment in the field as is recommended for 
Gladioli, and, like the latter, a quantity might well be planted in berry or wire baskets at varying 
times, to be kept in a frost-proof cellar or frame, and later plunged, basket and all, into vacant 
spaces in the borders or other parts of the garden. For best results use "Scheepers' Bulb Food.” 
THE NEW EARLHAM HYBRIDS: 
APRICOT QUEEN: A beautiful novelty of rich 
golden yellow-apricot. $2.75 for 10; $25 per 100. 
CITRONELLA: A beautiful variety, and a wel¬ 
come addition in the light yellow class of Mont¬ 
bretias, being a clear canary-yellow with deep 
crimson-maroon blotch in center. $4.20 for 10; 
$40 per 100. 
COMET: Large star-shaped flower of fine sub¬ 
stance, deep golden orange with broad band 
of blood-crimson and yellow center. Stems are 
dark colored. $3.25 for 10; $30 per 100. 
FIERY CROSS: Large open flowers of good sub¬ 
stance with broad petals. Of intense, glowing, 
fiery orange with large primrose center and 
small crimson blotches around the eye. A fine 
sturdy grower. $4.25 for 10; $40 per 100. 
GRENADIER: Very attractive. Large star-shaped 
flowers of vivid orange-scarlet with crimson 
flush and golden sheen having a large golden 
center, slightly stippled and blotched. $5.25 for 
10; $50 per 100. 
HIS MAJESTY: Widely expanded flowers, re¬ 
markable for their great size, they are of a pro¬ 
nounced rich yellow in the center, shading to 
brilliant scarlet with three segments heavily 
covered towards their tips with a rich crimson 
The largest of all Montbretias. See illustration. 
$2.25 for 10; $20 per 100. 
INDIAN CHIEF: A giant. Fine, broad petaled 
flowers of great substance of a glistening cop¬ 
pery orange, center suffused crimson and 
blotched maroon, clear golden yellow throat, 
reverse of petals orange-scarlet. $3.25 for 10; $30 
per 100. 
JAMES COEY: Very large, well expanded flow¬ 
ers of perfect form, with smooth broad petals, 
rich, deep vermilion-scarlet with golden orange 
luster, center yellow with crimson blotches, 
very handsome. $2.25 for 10; $20 per 100. 
J. CROSS: Very large, flat open flowers with 
broad, rounded petals of an intense bright 
golden apricot with center blotched and suf¬ 
fused rose-crimson. $4.25 for 10; $40 per 100. 
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