BLUE CAMAS LILY 
Camas Lily, Camassia quamash, grows from 18 to 24 inches 
high, and the blossoms are wide and informal stars, carried 
in loose spikes. Blue they are always, but the blue may vary 
from soft shades, through indigo, to a rich violet. The 
Camas Lily gives splendid effects for many weeks, begin¬ 
ning just as the late Tulips are fading. As hardy and as 
easy as the Tulip, there is no good reason why this truly 
beautiful bulb-flower should not be as widely grown. Put 
clumps of them in the border, group them about the pool, 
or if you have a meadow that you would submerge in a 
sea of blue, then mass them there. The cost is low 
enough so that one can afford to use them liberally, but 
whether you plant few or many, they will give you pleasure ; 
more so as years roll by, for they are enduringly persistent. 
16 for 50c ; 33 for $1.00 ; 100 for $2.50; 500 for $11.00. 
LILIES IN NAME ONLY 
That name “Lily” really belongs only to genus Lilium, 
or to the botanical segregates from it, but as a folk-name 
it is applied to many plants, among others to the splendid 
winter-hardy border perennials listed below. We recom¬ 
mend them unreservedly. You will enjoy them, not only 
the first year, but summer after summer for long years to 
come. 
PARADISE LILY—Paradisea liliastrum is the name, or 
“Star Lily of Paradise”. At first the pretty blossoms are 
fittingly starry, but as the plants become established, the 
effect passes from simple prettiness to sheer beauty. The 
flowers then tend toward trumpets, Madonna Lilies in 
miniature, cast in snowy wax, a whiteness of quite un¬ 
rivalled purity. It is in bloom all through late spring, 
and will fit rock garden or border. For particular delight, 
plant it to mingle with the blue spires of Adenophora. 
Plants each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00. 
BLACKBERRY LILY—Belamcanda chinensis. There are 
showy orange-and-crimson blossoms above (iris) foliage, 
then glossy “blackberry” clusters that may be dried for 
winter bouquets. An excellent and rather “different” per¬ 
ennial that will thrive in sun or light shade. Plant it 
with Iris dichotoma for interesting and decorative succes¬ 
sion effects. Plants, each 20c ; 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.55 ; 25 
for $3.25. 
BLUE SPIDER LILY—That name “Spider Lily” seems to 
mean quite different plants in varying parts of the coun¬ 
try. Here it indicates an everblooming Tradescantia, the 
giant-flowered Tradescantia J. C. Weguelin. The blossoms 
are larger than those of any other Tradescantia we have 
seen, as close to skyblue as may well be in a flower, and 
they come in constant showing from late April here until 
toward the end of October. It grows to 18 inches, a close 
non-spreading clump. Each 30c; 3 for 85c; 10 for $2.50. 
LILY-NAME COLLECTION—One labeled plant each of 
Paradise Lily, Blue Spider Lily and Blackberry Lily, to¬ 
gether with 11 bulbs of Blue Camas Lily, 14 in all, for 
ONE DOLLAR. (See page 4 for postage, if by mail.) 
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