BULB FLOWERS 
For Fall Planting 
The kinds offered here should all be planted 
in the autumn, to blossom the following spring, 
or in case of forcing bulbs, during the winter. 
Usually available, unless otherwise mentioned, 
from early September until past the middle of 
November, but better mention an alternative 
kind or two on orders sent in after the middle 
of October, for naturally some sorts' become de¬ 
pleted. Garden hardiness may be assumed un¬ 
less statement or implication to contrary ap¬ 
pears but of course some protection of straw 
or leaves may be needed in very exposed 
northern locations. 
Bulbs are not prepaid. If you want them by 
mail, add 5% to your remittance for points east 
of Pittsburgh and north of Potomac, 10% to the 
Mississippi, and 15% west of the river. This is 
to cover postage and packing. I shall assume 
that shipment is desired by express, collect, if 
no allowance for postage accompanies order. 
IXIOLIRION MONTANUM—Lily of the Altai, (though 
this particular strain came originally from the wind¬ 
swept Kirghiz steppes). Star-spread trumpets in a vivid, 
breath-stealing sky-indigo are caried in open clusters, long 
bloom in May and June. Grows to twenty inches. It seems 
to winter with full safety anywhere that Tulips will, and 
needs only like treatment. It’s garden treasure, very much 
so. 3 for 35c; 9 for $1.00; 25 for $2.50. 
CALOCHORTUS EL DORADO—It is the Butterfly Tulip. 
Though not a Tulip at all (and quite certainly not a But¬ 
terfly), it is yet a gloriously beautiful thing that every 
one of us should have in our gardens. We have found it to 
be of full winter hardiness when it is planted deeply, five 
to six inches in a medium soil, and protected after 
Thanksgiving day with a warm dry blanket of straw or 
other loose litter. Use, of course, as in all winter protec¬ 
tion, some material that will not melt down with mois¬ 
ture into a felted mass that would be difficult for spring 
shoots to penetrate. But to get back to Calochortus, strain 
El Dorado, here will be three-petaled blossoms often four 
inches across, never less than two, in hues of the rain¬ 
bow, banded, blotched and embossed in colors and tones 
contrasting. The plants branch a bit, and may reach two 
feet of height. Despite the comparatively great size of 
plant and flower, the bulbs are always tiny, but don’t 
blame us for it, that’s the way they naturally grow. Same 
thing is true of Brodiaea. If you want in your bulb-garden 
something that is very different, yet strikingly beautiful, 
then plant Calochortus. 4 for 25c; 10 for 50c; 25 for $1.00 ; 
100 for $3.50. 
THE PLUME HYACINTH—Great fluffy plumes of lilac to 
violet; as though Hyacinth spikes had been suddenly trans¬ 
formed into ostrich feathers. Highly decorative, and alto¬ 
gether unique. A hardy bulb, of robust habit, for unusual 
garden effects. Botanically it is Muscari comosum plumo- 
sum. Plantings of it at our Old Orchard Gardens attract 
much attention. 3 for 25c; 10 for 70c; 25 for $1.60. 
CRINUM LONGIFOLIUM—A giant Amaryllis-segregate 
that is particularly adaptable to garden culture. From 
great fountains of arching leaf-ribbons yard-high stems 
will rise, each with a crown of •%^hite or rose-tinted flower 
trumpets that seem cast in brittle, glistening _wax. Blooms 
through late spring and into early summer, with usually a 
few more flowers in autumn. Bulbs may be dug in late 
autumn, and stored over winter in basement, but at Phila¬ 
delphia and New York they carry over safely in the open 
ground. Probably winter-hardy outside much further north, 
at least if planted in a somewhat protected position, and 
mulched a bit with straw or litter. An unusual, and safe, 
beauty for favorable remark. Makes big bulbs. Each 85c; 
2 for $1.50 ; 4 for $2.90. 
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