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flowers, tipped with pea green. It likes a soil rich in mold, and is at 
its best in the rock work among terns. 
Good bulbs are y 2 to % 'inches diameter $2 25 $15 00 
Large bulbs are from % to 1 inch diameter $3 00 $20 00 
Giant bulbs 1 inch in diameter are very rare. $6 00 
HOWELLII 
SECTION VI. 
HOWELLII VAR. LILACINA. In a way suggestive of Cossinea, but 
the flowers porcela'in blue. Very pretty, and now are very rare. 
Howelli. Smaller and nearly white, pretty $4 50 
Douglassii. Something like the last, sky blue and fine 
$4 50 
