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AMERICAN BULB COMPANY • CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 
Double Flowered Tuberous-Rooted Begonia 
TUBEROUS - ROOTED BEGONIAS 
"True Belgian Strain" 
For Pot Plants and Bedding. Also the Double Forms 
are desirable as cut-ilowers (the stems to be wired) 
FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS 
"True Brazilian Type" 
Ready in January 
There are no finer colored foliage plants for sum¬ 
mer use; splendid for the conservatory and equally 
good for porch boxes outdoors in shaded places. 
The stock offered is grown for us by the leading 
specialist in this line and represents only the 
choicest, highly colored varieties. 
100 1000 
Separate Named Varieties.$13.50 $125.00 
Named Varieties, Mixed. 11.00 100.00 
NERINE SARNIENSIS 
"Guernsey Lilies." Red flowers of delightful fra¬ 
grance. Provides an excellent pot plant. 
100 
Large size bulbs.$8.00 
LEUCOCORYNE IXIOIDES ODORATA 
Glory of the Sun. A new bulbous plant from Chile. 
Produces very'attractive sky-blue flowers on strong 
stems. Lasts two to three weeks as a cut flower. 
Grown like Freesias. 
Large size bulbs, 
100 
.$5.00 
1000 
$40.00 
GLOXINIAS 
Ready in January 
Exceptional for pot plants. Large blooming bulbs. 
Many separate colors or mixed. inp 
1 to IV 2 inch. $10.00 
lV2to2inch . 15.00 
2 inch and up (scarce). 17.50 
An early-flowered batch of the showy Tuberous-Rooted Begonias will 
always be appreciated. And as the tubers are offered either in separate 
colors or in mixture at reasonable rates, there is no reason why every 
country florist doing a retail business should not handle a few of them. 
Both double and single-flowered types may be had. The tubers when 
received may either be potted at once in a mixture of loam, extremely old 
manure and sand or placed in peat moss on a bench and lightly sprayed 
until the top growth and roots start. Usually 4-inch pots will answer well 
for the tubers, although if larger plants are desired, they can later be 
given a shift. 
Not only are the large-flowered Begonias useful as potted plants, but 
later they are excellent to plant in window porch boxes where there is 
considerable shade, as well as for bedding out in positions that are so 
shady other bedding plants will flower little if at all. 
Single or Double Varieties in the following colors: Crimson, Rose. Scarlet, 
Pink, Yellow, Orange, Salmon, White— jgg 1000 
1 to 11/2 inch.$ 6.00 S 55.00 
1 1/2 to 2 inch. 9.50 90.00 
2 inch and up (scarce). 14.00 135.00 
Hanging Basket Varieties: Double Camelia Type (Crispa), single frilled; 
also Pendula or Lloydii (Hanging Basket)— jgg 1000 
1 to IV 2 inch.$ 6.00 $ 55.00 
1V 2 to 2 inch. 9.50 90.00 
2 inch and up. 14.00 135.00 
Florists on the West Coast recently found a profitable outlet for 
Double Tuberous Begonia blooms by utilizing them for corsages 
and table decoration (the stems being wired). This new fashion 
is now sweeping the country, the flowers commanding a price on 
a par with that of Orchids and Gardenias. 
Large-Flowering Gloxinia 
