BULBS FOR THE WINTER WINDOW 
It is really not a very difficult matter to have winter 
window flowers, that is if you will not try to rush them 
too much, and will follow the directions in the leaflet that 
we send out with each lot of bulbs for forcing. Inci¬ 
dentally, some species make naturally rather large bulbs, 
while other kinds are small. These relative sizes are fixed 
by nature, not by us, and do in no way indicate or govern 
the size and effectiveness of the blossoms that may be 
expected. 
VELTHEIMIA VIRIDIFOLIA—A desirable and highly un¬ 
usual bulb that does excellently under winter window con¬ 
ditions. Handsome undulate foliage, glossy, half-succulent, 
crispy, so decorative in effect that it would be worth 
growing for this alone. In March stout stems rise, each 
carrying a heavy truss of rosy pink flowers, tinged with 
buff and cinnabar. See illustration on front cover. The 
bulbs ripen off after flowering, starting into growth again 
in the fall, and the same bulbs may be forced successfully 
year after year, so your Veltheimia bulbs are long-time 
investment in pleasure. Large bulbs, each 60c ; 3 for $1.40. 
OXALIS VARIABILIS ROSEA—A charming newer bulb- 
flower that you can have in bloom by October if you start 
it early, and then it will keep on blossoming all winter 
long. It is very different from the usual kinds of Oxalis, 
the plants like densely foliaged cushions, set with short¬ 
stemmed blossoms that are really of immense size for an 
Oxalis, of a clear pure pink, deep-centered with creamy 
primrose, the petals undulate. The bulbs are small, but 
not the flowers. 6 for 25c; 12 for 46c; 28 for $1.00 ; 100 
for $3.25. 
OXALIS CERNUA—A bulb of easiest culture, and pro¬ 
fuse and long-continued floriferousness if given full sun. The 
rich • golden blossoms are carried in terminal clusters on 
long slender stems. Often known as Bermuda Buttercup. 
6 for 25c; 12 for 46c. 
BLUE STAR FLOWER—Triteleia coerulea. Wide blos¬ 
soms of soft china blue, varying to indigo, each an inch 
or more across, multitudes of them from early January until 
April. No flower for the winter window, not even Oxalis 
variabilis, is more constant in its succession of blooming, 
none surer to flower, even though ill-treated. Everyone 
likes it. It will bloom without being set away in the dark 
to form roots, though dark treatment will not harm it. 
In the spring you can put the bulbs out in your rock 
garden, for they are winter-hardy, and they will be there 
to give you blossoms a year later. Blue Star Flower 
comes from the Argentine. Technically it is a Brodiaea, 
but quite unlike the other species. Bulbs are by their 
nature, small, and not very firm, but they are sure to 
grow and flower delightfully. 5 for 25c; 11 for 60c; 
23 for $1.00. (Illustrated page 6.) 
AMARYLLIS GIANT HYBRIDS—No more spectacular pot 
plant than this. Magnificent Lily-like flowers that may 
be rose, scarlet, crimson, all one color or splashed against 
a white ground. (Illustrated, page 6.) Each 60c; 3 for 
$1.40. 
NARCISSUS PAPER WHITE—Perhaps the easiest of all 
bulb-flowers for indoor winter blooming. Clusters of 
snowy white, richly fragrant blossoms. Will bloom within 
a few weeks when planted in pebbles and water, or may 
be potted in soil. Make successive plantings of them 
every three weeks from the middle of October to the 
middle of March and you can have continuous flowers all 
winter long. Please note though, that it is best to buy 
all the bulbs you will need now. We are usually sold out 
of them by late autumn. 6 for 30c; 12 for 60c; 25 for 
95c; 100 for $3.50. 
LEUCOCORYNE IXIOIDES ODORATA—The lovely Glory 
of the Sun, a rare treasure from the hills of Chile, the 
most charming of all bulb flowers for the winter window. 
The 18 inch stems carry each several very large and starry 
soft blue flowers, with undulate petals and white centers. 
The blossoms are intensely fragrant and particularly long- 
lasting. At its best it is wonderfully good, but it is only 
fair to mention that at times the bulbs fail to flower the 
first year. Fortunately this delay in blooming is rare, and 
it is a delay only, for such bulbs almost invariably flower 
the second year. Each 25c; 3 for 60c; 10 for $1.76. 
ORNITHOGALUM AUREUM—In fortunate South Africa 
it grows wild, and there they name it the Golden Chinker- 
richee, this “Chinkerrichee” being the rustling breeze- 
swung whisper of the dry papery seed-pods. It makes here 
a quick and rather easy winter bloomer, almost solid 
clusters of radiant golden orange on long stems, lasting, 
each spike for close on two months. 3 for 36c; 7 for 66c; 
26 for $2.10. 
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