A Great Curiosity 
is the 
(Amorphophallus Rivieri) 
This is a great novelty flower and is curious, interest¬ 
ing and unique. 
Planted in the garden when you plant your Dahlias, 
it produces an attractive plant that suggests a small 
palm—a single stem that is mottled green and white 
with purple and reddish shadings. 
There are three palm-like branches bearing numer¬ 
ous small, lacy leaves. When the top is killed by frost, 
dig the bulb and store as you do your dahlias. 
When this bulb becomes four or five years old, it 
will throw up a large stalk, in February or March, 
bearing at the top a very large Caila-shaped bloom, 
wine colored, ten to fourteen inches across, with a 
spadix that may be eighteen inches to two feet long. 
When this bulb blooms (it has a rather unpleasant 
odor) it requires no soil or moisture. 
After the bulb once blooms, it continues to do so 
each year thereafter. Every bulb produces from two 
to five bulblets each year, besides growing to its normal 
size. 
We never had any kind of a flower that attracted 
so much attention. Very few people ever saw anything 
like it. 
Last spring bulblets___each $ .50 
One-year-old bulbs.....___..._. each .75 
Two-year-old bulbs__..._each 1.50 
Three-year-old bulbs____each 2.00 
