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B rodisea. 
These are handsome hardy bulbous plants of the Pacific slope of the 
United States. They have a few grassy radical leaves, and one or 
several slender stalks terminating in either an open umbel, or a dense 
umbellate head. Reliable bloomers, growing well in almost any soil 
or under any conditions. Perfectly hardy in the Eastern United States 
and Em ope. 1 he bulbs are easily kept dry for months, and are not at 
all subject to decay, and do not bruise readily, good points from a 
dealer’s standpoint. 
Potted in a porcus sandy loam, soil well drained, they force well. 
The flowers open well in water and are very lasting. 
SECTION I. 
1. B. CANDIDA. 
A very beautiful species of this group related to B laxa with 
larger light blue flowers and large broad and handsome leaves 
the finest of this section. 
2. B. LAXA. 
Blue Milla, Ithuriel’s Spear. A well grown plant of this fine 
species has a spreading umbel eight inches across on a sixteen 
inch erect stalk, and from forty to fifty tubular flowers, from blue 
to deep purple in colors; it forces well, and as a cut flower is fine 
and very lasting. 
• B. HENDERgONIL 
Like the beautiful B laxa, except it is yellow banded with 
purple, very pretty. 
4. B. BRIDGESII. 
Resembling B laxa, but a flatter flower, of a rich reddish-purple; 
very handsome and universally admired. 
5. B. PEDUNCULARIS. 
Like B laxa, but fewer flowered, and having an immense umbel 
twenty to twenty-four inches across. Color porcelain white, it 
likes a wet soil. 
6 . B. LACTEA. 
Like B lax?a in habit, but having* a small umbel of many white 
flowers banded with green, fine cut. 
7. Var. LILACINA. 
I can highly recommend this fine new form which is far larger 
and more vigorous than the type. With large flowers, white 
richly suffused with lilac. 
8 . B. IX10IDES Monterey. 
Of same habit as B laxa; flowers a fine yellow, banded with 
brown. 
