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ticularly scarce, especially in good flower types. The 
best bulbs are often the slowest propagators vegetatively, 
and the pure whites are the most difficult of all under 
cultivation. We can offer as stock is available, pure 
white hybrid Amaryllis, seedlings, at $5.00 and $10.00 
each, and occasionally bulbs of pure white or 99% with¬ 
out color but off exhibition grade in shape, at $1 00 
and $2.00. 
The culture of hybrid Amaryllis is very simple. Pot 
up the bulbs in the fall or winter, in a mixture com¬ 
posed of one-third sand, one-third medium rich garden 
loam, and one-third old, rotted cow manure. Add some 
ground limestone if the soil reaction is below neutral. 
Amaryllis like a soil PH of about 7.0 to 7.4. Put one 
inch of coarse gravel or broken crocks in the bottom of 
the pots for drainage. Water carefully until the bulbs 
bloom or start to grow. Give plenty of light and warmth. 
The pots can be set outdoors in the garden, sunk in soil 
to the rims, all summer, with watering as needed. In 
the fall bring them inside before frosts. Then the bulbs 
can be dried off in their pots under a bench or in a 
warm, dry part of the cellar until February, or they can 
be kept barely moist enough to retain the foliage dur¬ 
ing this period. Both methods give good results. Re¬ 
potting should be done when growth starts in the spring. 
Established bulbs give the best blooms. 
HEMEROCALLIS (Dayiilies) 
The cosmopolitan Daylily is at home in Canada and 
Cuba, in England and Africa. It has found congenial 
conditions in Florida and some of the finest Hemerocallis 
display gardens are in New Jersey, New York, Ohio and 
Massachusetts. They are beginning to grow them in 
California and Hawaii. 
In other words, the “perennial supreme’’ (to quote 
Mr. Betscher) is “arriving”, and no garden in the 
Americas or elsewhere is complete without a few clumps 
of the better varieties and a long row or two of the 
old ones. 
We believe our collection of Dayiilies is outstanding in 
the Southeast among nurserymen and well up among 
the best in the country. We have taken great care in 
checking the proper nomenclature of our plants and will 
be glad to give any assistance possible to interested 
customers. In the last few years we have grown many 
hundreds of seedlings from special crosses, and the 
numbers of outstanding types that have bloomed for us 
have been surprising. We have used only the best and 
most distinctive varieties in our breeding, large or small, 
regardless of expense. Our efforts have been directed 
in part toward the production of new evergreen types, 
in order to make plants suitable for sub-tropical and 
tropical gardens, where absence of foliage in the winter 
months is a disadvantage. 
Dayiilies grow north or south, in part shade or sun, 
in any good garden soil and their only requirements are 
weeding, a little plant food, and sufficient water during 
the blooming period. Recently it has been found possi¬ 
ble to grow them on very heavy land, indeed almost as 
aquatic plants. Under these conditions in Florida they 
grow with great vigor and beauty of foliage and flowers. 
On high sandy land in Florida they are not worth much 
unless heavily watered and fertilized. 
We list below some of the outstanding varieties of 
the newer and better Dayiilies which we recommend 
almost without reservation. We have bloomed these 
plants and feel sure you will like them. They are all 
different and most of them fairly distinct, some very 
much so. There are small and large types, showy or 
