BULB FLOWERS 
For Spring Planting 
PLEASE NOTE—Bulbs are not postpaid. If wanted by 
mail, add 5% east of Pittsburgh and north of Potomac, 
10% beyond to the Mississippi, and 15% for destinations 
further west, to cover packing and postage, If no such 
allowance is made, we shall understand that shipment by 
collect express is desired. We guarantee safe arrival and 
freedom from freezing in transit, when shipping date is 
left to our option. 
CANADIAN CUSTOMERS desiring bulbs, will please 
apply to the Commissioner of Agriculture at Ottawa 
for the necessary permits and tags before ordering. 
AMARYLLIS FORMOSISSIMA — The Garden Amaryllis. 
Great, fantastic flowers of richest crimson, with golden 
glints. Exotic in appearance, but of easiest possible hand¬ 
ling, blooming quickly and surely in the garden. Will 
make good offset increase. Usually given Gladiolus culture, 
digging in late autumn, and storing over winter in the 
cellar, or other frostproof place. May be forced in late 
winter, in water. Hyacinth fashion, or perhaps better, 
potted in loam. Specially selected bulbs for forcing, each 
25c; 5 for $1.00. Fine blooming-size bulbs for garden 
planting, 3 for 40c; 9 for $1.00; 25 for $3.00. Illustrated, 
page 12. 
ACIDANTHERA BICOLOR — A charming and graceful 
bulb-flower, with long tubed lovely blossoms of rich cream¬ 
iness, each with a big chocolate patch. An Ethiopian 
rarity, but nevertheless a bulb of easy garden handling. 
Plant, dig and store as you would Gladioli. Grows to 25 
inches. Gives best decorative effect when three bulbs are 
planted together. In bloom for months. Each 20c; 3 for 
50c; 7 for $1.00. 
ACIDANTHERA MURIELAE—Splendid newer species from 
western Ethiopia, ranging to verge of Kenya. Grows 
taller than A. bicolor, forty inches fully. Long-tubed 
spreading blossoms of purest white, each with rich maroon- 
black patch. Really a beauty, sort of a Gladiolus “gone 
graceful”. Each 30c; 4 for $1.00; 10 for $2.00. 
BANANA, ORINOCO—A uniq\ie ornamental, giving spec¬ 
tacular effects. Though scarcely a bulb, it may be handled 
more or less as one. It will look like a roll of dead leaves 
when you get it, but plant it out nevertheless, and you 
will be as surprised as Jack at the beanstalk by the speed 
of its growing. One at our Old Orchard gardens reached 
a full ten feet of height last summer, great fan-sweeps of 
rustling leafage. It will be exotic accent in any planting, 
as indeed it should, thus being what it is, exotic to the 
north. In late autumn, the plant may be dug, cut off 
ruthlessly a few inches above the ground, and the root 
portion packed upright in sand in a cool cellar until well- 
warmed spring is again about. We offer it in bulb-like, 
near-dormant plants at One Dollar each, 3 for $2.75. 
Due to size of this item, it will be sent by express only. 
Late April and early May delivery. 
BEGONIA TUBERHYBRIDA LLOYDI — Superb trailing 
strain of Tuberous-rooted Begonia, suitable for the 6hady 
rock garden or bank; also for hanging baskets and porch 
boxes. Fine color range, apricot, pink, rose, scarlet, dark 
red and yellow. If planted outside, dig tubers in late 
autumn, and store in cool cellar. Offered in mixture only, 
35c each; 3 for $1.00. 
BEGONIA EV ANSI ANA — The winter-hardy Tuberous- 
rooted Begonia. Handsome, upright, branching plants, 
loaded with large pink flowers. Winters, with light mulch¬ 
ing, without digging. Illustrated above. Good tubers, (in 
this species naturally small), each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
CINNAMON VINE—Quick-growing and handsome glossy¬ 
leaved vine. Roots fully winter hardy, and permanent. 
Effective on fence or trellis. 3 for 25c. 
COMMELINA COELESTIS — No flower is more fittingly 
named, for the tumbled masses of intensely, vividly blue 
blossoms are just the color of the deep summer sky. In 
bloom here from late May until November. Supplied in 
tuberous roots that should be dug and stored over winter 
like those of Dahlia. Illustrated, page 12. 3 for 40c; 8 for 
$1.00. Form with white flowers, same price. 
TUBEROSE EARLY MEXICAN — Flowers that seem carved 
from white wax. Sweet orange-blossom perfume. Fine for 
border or cutting. IQ for 40c ; 20 for 75c. 
THE GORGEOUS TIGRIDIAS—No bulb-flower of the sum¬ 
mer garden can show more brilliant or varied colorings 
than the Tigridias or Shell-flowers, and they are in bloom 
for months. Illustrated above. Gay reds, rich oranges, 
apricot and yellow will dominate, but there will be rose 
and pink forms, with sometimes a white or a lilac. See 
Tigridia seed listing, this catalog, for more complete de¬ 
scription. Plant bulbs immediately on arrival. 4 for 60c; 
10 for 90c; 25 for $2.00; 100 for $7.50. 
GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA—This is the Glory Lily, 
illustrated above. Big blossoms, petals recurved, crisped, 
undulate. A gorgeous gold-margined ruby is perhaps the 
most usual coloring, but there is a surprising individuality 
among them in application of hue and tone. Sometimes 
rich yellows will dominate, with but a bit of crimson stain, 
or again they may be crimson altogether. Rare rosy forms 
appear. A fully satisfactory summer garden bulb, tubers 
being dug in late autumn and stored in sand in cool cellar 
over winter. Gloriosa also makes a good pot plant. Tubers 
are brittle, and the tiny growing point or bud at end of 
prong is easily rubbed off, so don’t handle too roughly. 
Fine well-grown tubers, each 50c; 3 for $1.40; 10 for $4.40. 
CALLA ELLIOTTIANA—The Great Golden Calla. Will 
bloom freely in the summer garden, tubers being stored in 
cellar over winter. Likes a bit of peat moss mixed with 
soil at root depth. Each 30c; 3 for 85c; 10 for $2.50. 
CALLA ALBO-MACULATA—An easy Garden Calla Lily, 
of highly satisfactory effectiveness in pool-side plantings, 
but doing well, also, under just ordinary garden conditions. 
If you want to make it particularly happy, mix some peat¬ 
moss with the soil. Flower-spathes of rich cream. Leaves 
spotted white on green. Illustrated, page 46. 3 for 40c; 
9 for $1.00. 
CALLA REHMANNI—The Pink Calla. A dwarf, compact 
Calla with very many flowers of lovely pink, varying from 
blush to rose. Does splendidly in the garden. Dig in fall, 
and store over winter in cellar. Each 65c; 2 for $1.15. 
MONTBRETIA BLEND—It will give border clumps of 
flaming gorgeous color in continuous and profuse showing 
from mid-summer to latest autumn. This mixture carries 
varied shades of yello* salmon, orange and scarlet. Do 
not let bulbs dry out before planting. They can be put in 
as early as the ground can be worked. Almost hardy, but 
safest way North is to dig the bulbs in fall, and store over 
winter, packed in sand or soil, in cellar. 3 for 25c; 10 
for 70c; 25 for $1.50. 
MOREA POLYSTACHYA — Wonderful autumn-blooming 
bulb, with great sprays of mauve and violet “butterfly” 
flowers. See page 4 for full description. Bulbs, 3 for 40c ; 
9 for $1.00. 
AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA—Sweetly fragrant trumpet- 
clusters, pure pink to rose, these in early autumn. Extra 
big bulbs supplied, field-grown Old Orchard stock, for 
shipment in June. Plant on arrival, and you should hsve 
flowers first fall. Each 76c; 3 for $2.00, 
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