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AMERICAN BULB COMPANY • CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 
A. B. C. LILY HEADQUARTERS 
Lilies work so wonderfully well into a great variety of basket 
designs that we believe it will pay you to have a good 
planting of several varieties. 
THE REGALE LILY (True Northern Grown) 
The flowers are white, slightly suffused with pink, with a beautiful shade 
of canary-yellow at the center, blending out part way up the trumpet; 
the fragrance is fascinating. 
100 1000 
5 to 6 inch.$ 4.50 $ 40.00 
6 to 7 inch. 5.50 50.00 
7 to 8 inch. 7.50 70.00 
8 to 9 inch. 10.00 90.00 
25 bulbs at 100 rate—250 bulbs at 1000 rate 
Our supply oi Regale Lilies is from Bulbous Stock, not Seeds. There's a 
difference in your favor—namely, the type is true. 
VARIOUS LILIES 
10 100 
Canadense. Minutely spotted, varying from red to yellow. 
Plant 8 inches deep.$1.75 $12.00 
Elegans Incomparabilis. Red. 1.75 12.00 
Elegans Semi-Pleno . 1.75 12.00 
Elegans Mixed. 1.50 10.00 
Superbum. A very beautiful American Lily, tall and vigor¬ 
ous, bearing many large recurving flowers. Yellow 
spotted maroon in center and blending to orange and 
crimson toward the tip of the petals. 4 to 7 feet high. 
Blooms late July. Plant 4 inches deep in partial shade. 1.50 10.00 
Umbellatum Erectum. Red, flushed orange, tall and vigorous 1.80 14.00 
PLANTING TABLE FOR COLD STORAGE LILIUM 
GIGANTEUM ... AND FLOWERING DATES 
Planting Date Flowering Date 
Planting Date Flowering Date 
January 1st 
January 15 th 
February 1st 
February 15th 
March 1st 
March 15th 
April 1st 
April 15th 
May 1st 
April 15th to 25th 
April 25th to May 
May 15th to 30th 
June 1st to 10th 
June 10th to 30th 
July 1st to 10th 
July 15th to 30th 
August 1st 
August 10th 
May 15 th 
June 1st 
June 15 th 
July 1st 
July 15th 
August 1st 
September 1st 
September 15th 
October 1st 
5th 
August 20th 
September 1st 
September 15th 
October 1st 
October 15th 
November 1st 
November 25th 
December 15th to 25th 
January 1st to 10th 
Lilium Speciosum Rubrum ''Magnificum'' planted on the above named dates 
will take six to eight weeks longer to flower than Lilium Giganteum. 
Lilium Rubrum "Magnificum" should be planted June 15th to July 1st to 
flower for Christmas. 
The above, however, are all approximate flowering dates. If extremely 
warm weather exists meantime they may flower a month earlier. It largely 
depends on weather conditions.—A. B. C. 
The Regale Lily 
FEEDING LILIES 
Put two bushels of fresh cow manure in a sack with a 
peck of soot (preferably the imported Scotch brand) 
added, and immerse in fifty gallons of water in a barrel. 
Allow this to stand a day before using. The liquid will 
be much too strong to use undiluted. At first, use one part 
liquid manure to five parts water; later, as the manure 
water becomes weaker, the concentration can be dou¬ 
bled. Varities like Erabu, Giganteum, Candidum and 
Speciosum will stand heavier feeding than Auratum, 
Hansonii, Tenuifolium and Umbellatum. It will be neces¬ 
sary to give the bag of manure good pokings with a 
stick from time to time properly to exude the juicy liquid. 
All varieties of Lilies which are being pot grown for 
cut-flower purposes are much improved by waterings 
with liquid manure as soon as the pots are filled with 
roots. 
