HORTICULTURAL SPECIALIST 
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Concolor. This charming rock garden lily comes 
to us from Siberia, it is an early bloomer 
with rich crimson scarlet flowers facing up¬ 
wards, rarely exceeds 18 inches in height. 
Follows tenuifolium in its season of bloom. 
. 30 cents each, $3.00 doz. 
Creelmanni. Can best be described as an extra 
fine form of princeps which is a Regale and 
Sargentiae hybrid from Canada. Flowering 
late it is very valuable. Large Flowering bulbs. 
_ . . $1.50-$2.50 each 
Cernuum. This Chinese lily has grasslike foliage 
and very wiry stems. Flowers are lilac rose in 
color, spotted wine color, fragrant and the 
plants are similar to tenuifolium in habit. 
Quite a scarce lily. 35 cents each, $4.00 doz. 
Chalcedonicum (Scarlet Turks Cap Lily). A na- 
tlve of Greece and one of the parents of testa- 
ceum. The brilliant scarlet recurving flowers 
are produced in July. 
Extra large bulbs $1.50 each, $15.00 doz. 
Strong flowering bulbs $1.00 each, $10.00 doz. 
Centifolium. A magnificent new lily of great 
vigor and hardiness, introduced by the late 
Reginald Farrer. The immense pure white 
trumpet shaped flowers are flushed with yel¬ 
low at the base of the trumpet, outside the 
trumpets are streaked with green and light 
brown. Stem rooter and requires deep plant¬ 
ing, this seems destined to become one of our 
dominant garden liles when stocks increase 
Needs good winter protection. Good flowering 
Th i S is the tru ^ old orange 5 lify'of GaCh 
-Diitish gardens where it is seen growing lux- 
unantly °n every hand, grows much taller than 
umbellatum and blooms later, not infrequently 
carrying 16-20 flowers to each stem. Color- 
rich orange, one of our very best lilies. 
Oauricum pardinum. ( syn . Iwatof^malnifi- d ° Z ' 
cent lilium not blooming until August, has re¬ 
markable vigor growing 3-5 felt high and 
cames; as many as 15-25 flowers on its husky 
stems Flowers are soft orange in color and 
heavily spotted. A grand lily. 
Elee-ans fThnnKo • 50 cents each, $5.00 per doz. 
aSri i hunbergianum). A dwarf growing 
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Elegans^Atro 1 2 a C _ ent ? r - cents each, $5.00 doz. 
in center S gumeum - o? ark red * crimson 
„ enter. 25 cents each, $2.50 doz 
Formosanum (Philippinense Formosanum). We 
aie now using the European name for this 
fine lily, as bulbs of this hardy form are from 
Formosa and not the Philippines the olZ 
nam i e w? 0U !^ be . dr °PP ed - This is the most re¬ 
markable lily introduced in late years its 
ease of culture with its facility of increase 
from seeds makes it come within the ranle 
° f i,f very ?" e ™ th a. garden. Seeds sown earfy 
war Has a tT v er ? g P '> ants easily the sam ® 
year. ±ias a wiry stem, long graceful leava* 
rumpets are much longer and in the earlv 
form rather narrower than those of reglle 
but similar in color, there is a pure white form 
