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(Hardy) 
There ore few bulbous plants thot meet climatic or soil conditions better 
or give a more attractive bloom. They ore hardy without protection, and 
thrive either under ordinary garden conditions or when naturalized in open, 
moist woods or in not too dense a grassy growth. The flower stems ore 2 to 
4 feet high with as many as a hundred star-shaped flowers measuring 1 Vi 
inches across and flowering in long succession. 
Cassucki Doz. $1.60, 100 $12.00 
This IS the giant of the roce, about twice as toll and large as the popu- 
lor Esculenta. Like the others it is excellent for cutting, woodland or 
garden planting, and survives and increases rapidiy in the swampiest of 
places, as well as in the hardest, driest cloy. 
Esculenta Doz. $0.85, 100 $5.75 
Very showy in moss planting. Forms flower spikes 2 feet high, beoring 
a cluster of star-shaped flowers of a very fine, rich purple. Fine for wet 
and swampy places where other bulbs do not grow. 
Leichtlini Doz. $1.20, 100 $8.00 
Same as preceding but stronger grower, flowers ore larger and come in 
various hues of blue and creamy white. Again does well where other 
bulbs fail. (Color illustration, page 44.) 
Glili^anlkus ^nicjmm 
Bright yellow trumpet-shoped flowers on stems 12 to 15 inches toll. Cuts 
well. Strong, pleasant fragrance. Bulbs must be kept dry in fall and winter 
like Gladioli. Prefers full sun in any garden soil. Blooms in early summer. 
Delivery late fall. 
Doz. $2.50, 100 $1725 
Gonj^atb ^ulkosa 
Bulbosa Doz. $1.60, 100 $12.00 
A very graceful little bulb for massing in front of the border under 
shrubs, or clump in the rock garden. Should be planted in groups of o 
dozen or more bulbs for best effect. In April the racemes of attroctive 
rosy purple flowers with glaucous foliage make o brilliont and extremely 
showy patch of color, (growth prostrate, not over 3 inches. 
!j)Lcenira - 3~iearl 
Spectabilis Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $2500 
An old-fashioned fovorite, with long racemes of graceful, heart-shoped 
pink flowers that are always attractive. It is used largely for forcing. 
But is also excellent for the gorden border, and especially vajuable for 
planting in the shode. A splendid pot plant for winter blooming in the 
greenhouse or sunroom. Strong clumps for forcing. 
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Calochortus, Mixed Varieties 
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These are charming woodland plants, producing in early April, small Lily¬ 
like flowers of which fhe colors run in delicofe finfs of white, pink, cream, 
bright yeliow and rose. They thrive in wooded places under shrubs and in 
shaded corners or crevices of the rockery. 
Their beauty is enhanced by their richly mottled leaves. All grow about 
6 to 7 inches high. 
Californicum Doz. $0.95, 100 $6.25 
Cream colored, often with 4 or 5 flowers on the stem. Leoves richly 
mottled. A large colony is a beautiful sight. 
Californicum bicolor Doz. $0.95, 100 $6.25 
The flowers open upwords showing the inner half to be rich chrome- 
yellow, the outer half pure white, and are deliciously fragrant. It grows 
easily and flowers freely. 
Grandiflorum robustum Doz. $100, 100 $7.00 
A most distinct species, usually found in the mountoins of the West. 
The leaves are not mottled but a plain green. The flowers are of the 
brightest Buttercup-yellow. 
Henderson! Doz. $0.95, 100 $625 
Like Californicum but the flowers are a lovely light purple, with the 
centers a deep maroon, almost black. 
Revolutum Johnson! Doz. $1.15, 100 $7.75 
The most beautiful of all the Erythroniums. A stout plant producing 
exquisite rose-pink flowers. 
Tuolumnensis Doz. $1.15, 100 $7.75 
Glacier Lily, Mountain Lily, or Golden Easter Lily. One of the most 
beautiful and rarest of IDog-Tooth Violets. Do best in shady woodland 
places, well-drained soil. Not unusual to see stem with ten to twelve 
? olden flowers, the flowers often being three inches across. Excellent 
or cutting. Plant in colonies. 
Mixed Doz. $0.95, 100 $625 
This mixture is made up of the above nomed varieties and many others. 
Splendid for noturalizing ond for rock garden in light shade. (Color 
illustration, page 44.) 
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