A Great Curiosity 
is the 
Sacred Lily of India 
(Amorphophallus Rivieri) 
This is a great novelty flower and is curious, 
interesting and unique. 
Planted in the garden when you plant your 
dahlias, it produces an attractive plant that sug- 
gests a small palm—a single stem that is mottled 
green and white with purple and reddish shadings. 
There are three palm-like branches bearing 
numerous small, lacy leaves. When the top is 
killed by frost, dig the bulb and store as you do 
your dahlias. 
When this bulb becomes four or five years old, 
it will throw up a large stalk, in February or March, 
bearing at the top a very large Calla-shaped bloom, 
wine colored, ten to fourteen inches across, with a 
spadix that may be eighteen inches to two feet 
long. When this bulb blooms (it has a rather 
unpleasant odor) it requires no soil or moisture. 
After the bulb once blooms, it continues to do 
so each year thereafter. Every bulb produces from 
two to five bulblets each year, besides growing to 
its normal size. 
We never had any kind of a flower that attracted 
so much attention. Very few people ever saw 
anything like it. 
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DAHLIA MAGAZINES 
We recommend the following dahlia publications: 
AMERICAN DAHLIA BULLETIN 
25 court of. West Haven, Conn. 
THE DAHLIA 
12147 Harvard Avenue Chicago, Illinois 
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