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BRODIAEAS 
First price quoted is for hundreds, second for thousands. 
These are a race of handsome, hardy bulbous plants, native to the 
Western part of the United States. The leaves are slender and like 
grass, the naked flower stalks erect, gracefully slender, and bear from 
a few to very many flowers in either head or umbel. The flowers are 
cl a v axy (texture ard 1 ecp wonderfully. 
There is not a species which lacks beauty, while a few rank very 
high ornamentally. 
Their culture ‘is easy. Exc ept that the soil be not manured heavily 
or soggy, they are not particular. A light, loamy soil is best, and among 
l’erns and tall perennials they are at their best. 
The bulbs are small and ripen hard, and in the dry state can be 
shipped without any care in pac ing. They should be planted by De¬ 
cember, and frdrn two lo three inches deep. They can be grown very 
closely. An inch and a. half or two inches each way is ample for root 
development. 
SECTION I. 
CANDIDA. The flowers are 'in broadly spreading umbels and pale 
blue. A very beautiful species. 
LAXA. Lii e last. A many as sixty fine deep purple flowers, in a 
widely spreading umbel. One of the best $1 50 $10 00 
Hcndersonii. A smaller species, with yellow flowers banded purple. 
Quite rare, but intrinsically inferior to preceding. 
Crocea. A light yellow, form much life preceding in general ap¬ 
pearance, but botanically very d stinct. 
BKIDGE3S1I. Resembling Laxa. Flowers reddish purple, broad 
lipped and exceedingly pretty. $2 25 
PFDUNCULAR1S. This species prefers the gravelly bed of shallow 
streams, or their sandy margins, although doing well in any damp 
Joam. The pedicils are so very long that the umbel Is often two feet 
across. The flowers porcelain white. A fine species. $2 25 $15 00 
Eastwoodia. In habits lil e the last, but umbel as in Eaxa and 
flowers pure white. Entirely new. $4 50 
Lactea. In this and the following the flowers are small and in 
more compact umbels. Lactea is pure white, with green ribs. 
$1 00 $ 0 05 
Lactea var. Lilacina. Stronger growing, with lilac purple flowers, 
quite pretty. $2 25 
Ixoides Erecta. A small form, with odd yellowish flowers, and al¬ 
most black mid vein. $2 25 
IXIODES VAR. SPLENDENS. In this most charming plant the 
flowers spread almost as widely as a Phlox Drummondii. The color 
varies from a light yellow to a cream. I can recommend it both for 
beauty and reliable blooming. $1 50 $10 00 
