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Chicago AMERICAN BULB CO. New York 
A. B. C. LILY HEADQUARTERS 
Lilies work so wonderfully well into a great variety of basket 
designs that we believe it will pay you to have a good 
planting of several varieties. 
THE REGALE LILY (True Northern Grown) 
The flowers are while, slightly suffused with pink, with a beautiful shade 
of canary-yellow at the center, blending out part way up the trumpet; 
the fragrance is fascinating. 
100 1000 
5 to 6 inch.$ 4.50 S 40.00 
6 to 7 inch. 5.50 50.00 
7 to 8 inch. 8.00 75.00 
8 to 9 inch. 10.00 95.00 
9 to 10 inch. 13.00 120.00 
25 bulbs at 100 rate—250 bulbs at 1000 rate 
Our supply of Regale Lilies is from Bulbous Stock, not Seeds. There's a 
difference in your favor—namely, the type is true. 
VARIOUS LILIES 
10 
Canadense. Minutely spotted, varying from red to yellow. 
Plant 8 inches deep. $1.75 
Davuricum. Flowers of rich orange shade, flushed red and 
spotted black. June and July. 2 feet. 1.75 
Elegans Atrosanguineum. Red. 1.60 
Elegans Atropurpureum. Dark red. 1.60 
Elegans Incomparabilis. Red. 1.60 
Elegans Mixed. 1.50 
Rubellum. Rose pink with yellow anthers. 1.60 
Superbum. A very beautiful American Lily, tall and vigor¬ 
ous, bearing many large recurving flowers. Yellow 
spotted maroon in center and blending to orange and 
crimson toward the tip of the petals. 4 to 7 feet high. 
Blooms late July. Plant 4 inches deep in partial shade. 1.50 
Umbellatum Erectum. Red, flushed orange, tall and vigorous 1.80 
100 
$12.00 
12.00 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 
14.00 
PLANTING TABLE FOR COLD STORAGE LILIUM 
GIGANTEUM ... AND FLOWERING DATES 
PLANTING DATE 
January 1st 
January 15th 
February 1st 
February 15th 
March 1st 
March 15th 
April 1st 
April 15 th 
May 1st 
May 15th 
June 1st 
June 15th 
July 1st 
July 15 th 
August 1st 
September 1st 
September 15th 
October 1st 
FLOWERING DATE 
April 15th to 25 th 
April 25th to May 5th 
May 15th to 30th 
June 1st to 10th 
June 10th to 30th 
July 1st to 10th 
July 15th to 30th 
August 1st 
August 10 th 
August 20th 
September 1st 
September 15 th 
October 1st 
October 15th 
November 1st 
November 25 th 
December 15th to 25th 
January 1st to 10th 
Lilium Speciosum Rubrum "Magnificum" planted on the above named dates 
will take six to eight weeks longer to flower than Lilium Giganteum. 
Lilium Rubrum "Magnificum" should be planted June 15th to July 1st to 
flower for Christmas. 
The above, however, are all approximate flowering dates. If extremely 
warm weather exists meantime they may flower a week earlier. It largely 
depends on weather conditions.—A. B. C. 
COLD STORAGE GIGANTEUM ARE COMPARATIVELY SCARCE 
The Regale Lily 
THE REGALE LILY 
Desirable for both pot and out-door culture. Some 
growers have found this exceptional Lily to be 
profitable for Easter sales. Grown 3 to 6 plants in 
a suitable pan. 
LILIUM PHILIPPINENSE FORMOSANUM 
A distinct Lily of refined and graceful appearance, with 
long, grassy foliage and exquisitely shaped long, wide¬ 
mouthed trumpet flowers of the purest white, slightly 
colored externally with reddish brown. This outside 
coloration fades as the flower matures. Blooms Septem¬ 
ber. Height, 3 to 6 feet. Plant 8 inches deep. 
Perdoz.-$1.25 Per 100.$9.00 
THIS YEAR. ORDER EARLY FOR SHIPMENT WHEN DESIRED. 
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