
HORTICULTURAL SPECIALIST 15 
grower, carrying a sturdier stem. 
75 cents to $1.00 each 
For beginners desiring to try Liliums in their gar- 
den we will send a collection of 12 vars. in strong 
flowering bulbs postpaid for $3.00. 
For a complete list of lilies send for our fall bulb 
catalogue ready in August where over 100 varieties 
are contained. 
MOSAIC IN LILIUMS 
This is the disease which attacks Liliums both cul- 
tivated and in the wild. We have made every effort to 
control it and the bulbs we offer are as clean as any 
to be had. At present all shipments of Auratum and 
other varieties from Japan are debarred and will— 
let us hope—remain so, they have always been the 
most potent carriers of this disease. There is no cure 
for Mosaic and affected bulbs should be lifted and 
destroyed. It is more apparent on auratum than any 
other lily. Quite a number of lilies like our common 
Tigrinums are sometimes affected but they continue 
to live and flourish in spite of it. There is no garden 
here or abroad in which an expert might not find 
symptoms of Mosaic just as he would black spot on 
roses and mildew or red spider on phloxes. 
Many Liliums are readily increased from seeds. 
One variety has been flowered in § months and a great 
many by starting seeds under glass can flower this 
variety (Formosanum) within 8-9 months. Other va- 
rieties can be flowered the second year. Some varieties 
will germinate within a month or less. Other varieties 
like auratum, speciosum and a good many others are 
very slow, some requiring a year to germinate. Seeds 
can be started in winter in a greenhouse or the home, 
later still in a cold frame or outdoors in late April. 
Sowings can also be made outdoors or in a frame 
in the fall. 
To anyone desirous of trying lilies from seeds we 
have numerous varieties in pkts. at 25 cents each, 
some choice kinds 50 cents. A special collection of 12 
varieties hardy in New England or any other equally 
cold section, of easily germinated varieties for $2.00. 
Enquiries gladly answered regarding treatment, soil, 
etc. 
LIST OF LILIUM SEEDS 
Azalea Auratum 
Monadelphum Szovitzianum 5a platyphyllum 
: Amabile 
Occidentale Backhouse Hybrids .50 
Pardalinum Canadense mixed 
+ giganteum flavum 
Philada ¢ rubrum 
Philadelphicum Candidum var., Salonikae 
Phildauricum Hybrids . 
Pride of Charlotte Concolor 
Princeps i pulchellum 
Regale : Centifolium .50 
Regale X Browni Cordifolium 
Regale Hybrids Columbianum Ingrami 
Regale from pink flowers Creelmanni .50 
Russett Crows Hybrids .50 
Sargale Davidi 
Scottiae .50 Davmottiae 
Shelburne Hybrid Dauricum pardinum 
