HORTICULTURAL SPECIALIST 
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We cordially invite all interested in these bul¬ 
bous aristocrats to come and look over our beds 
the coming season, a few blooms open in late May, 
during June, and July numerous varieties will be 
found flowering, others extend the season through 
August and September until late October. We will 
have a good many varieties in pots blooming ahead 
of the outside dates. 
We ship Liliums to as distant points as New 
Zealand and South Africa, and make many ship¬ 
ments to Great Britain, France, Canada, and other 
countries. 
LILIUM SEEDS 
A great majority of Liliums come quite readily 
from seeds. Some like regale and all its hybrids, 
Pride of Charlotte, Willmottiae, Davidi, Formosa- 
num, Henryi, tenuifolium, umbellatum, candidum 
Salonica var., amabile, concolor, longiflorium, and 
elegans will usually germinate within a month. On 
the other hand auratum, speciosum, martagon, 
Marhan, the Backhouse hybrids, giganteum Hima- 
laicum, and all North American varieties are very 
slow some requiring as much as 12 months to 
germinate, some of these will make a small bulb 
but no leaves the first season. 
Sowing may be done under glass, in the home in 
winter, or in cold frames, or the open about May 
1. Rather late fall before sharp frosts is another 
good time to sow seeds outdoors or in a frame. 
Started early, Formosanum will flower the first 
season, a number of others will bloom the second 
season. 
Seeds may be sown in either shallow drills or 
broadcasted, cover not over % inch. For soil a mix¬ 
ture of garden soil, sand and either leaf mold or 
peat moss answers very well. 
Unless otherwise priced seeds are 25 cents per 
pkt.; 12 vars., for $2.00; larger pkts. for 50 cents 
and $5.00 per doz. We will be happy to make up 
collection of easy germinating varieties for those 
wishful for a start in raising Lilies from seed. 
List of Lilium Seeds 
Amabile 
Auratum 
platyphyllum 
virginale 
Backhouse Hybrids, mixed .50 
Brocade .50 
Golden Orb .50 
Mrs. R. 0. Back¬ 
house .50 
Sceptre .50 
Sutton Court .50 
Candidum, Salonica var. .50 
Callosum 
Concolor 
Chalcedonicum .50 
Centifoliun .50 
Cordifolium 
Creelamanni .50 
Columbianum Ingrami 
Croceum 
Canadense flavum 
rub rum 
Canadense mixed 
Davidi .50 
Dauricum pardinum .50 
Formosanum, Prices early 
Wilsons late 
Dream hybrids 
Giant White 
Giganteum Himalaicum .50 
Grayi 
Henryi 
Humboldti magnificum 
Japonicum 
Kelloggi 
Longiflorum Erabu 
giganteum 
praecox White 
Queen .50 
Marhan .50 
“ Ellen Willmott .50 
Martagon (type) 
album 
fine pink form .50 
Maxwill .50 
Maximowiczii 
Medeoloides 
Michiganense 
Monadelphum Szovitzianum .50 
Pardalinum giganteum 
