Other Specialties 
IRIS HISTRIOIDES 
Plants 3 inches high, flowers 2 to 3 inches across in 
lovely shades of sapphire blue, from light to dark. Bloom 
in March and early April. A gem for the earliest rock 
garden. Perfectly hardy. Bulbs 40cts. each, $4.00 a dozen. 
IRIS BUCHARICA 
Another bulbous iris. This one produces stems about a 
foot high with yellow flowers in the leaf axils. A beautiful 
plant, coming much later than I. histrioides. 
Same price as the above 
COLCHICUMS 
This is a group of plants suffering from undeserved 
neglect. They make their rather coarse leaf growth in 
spring; in July the leaves die down and should be re- 
moved. Then in September and October the plants send 
up through the bare ground their beautiful goblets of 
light mauve pink. The only species that is at all general- 
ly grown is C. autumnale, which is very pretty, but its 
flowers are quite small compared with those of some of 
the other forms and it gives no idea of the striking beauty 
of a fine clump of C. Bornmuelleri or C. speciosum. I have 
stock of a few of these forms which I can offer. 
40 cts. each; $4.00 a dozen 
C. speciosum, early variety. C. speciosum is typically a 
late bloomer; but this early form is the first of all the 
colchicums to bloom. It usually opens in the first week 
in September. Flowers are very large with spreading 
pointed petals. 
C. Bornmuelleri. To my mind the finest of the group. It 
blooms just after the above. The flowers are very large, 
goblet-shaped with rounded petals. Color a lovely pink 
shading towards mauve, the base of the flowers white 
within. One of the most lovely of all bulbous plants. 
The flowers stand 6 to 8 inches above the ground and 
are particularly good for cutting. 
C. Agrippinum. This is a smaller variety coming some- 
what after Bornmuelleri. The flowers are not so large 
as in that species, and spread their stars wide open al- 
most on the surface of the ground. The color in the 
petals is tesselated, i.e., distributed in alternate squares 
of white and pink. This is a very pretty little plant in 
the garden, but the flowers are not for cutting. 
C. autumnale. The most familiar form of Colchicum. 
Pretty, but smaller flowers than the other forms. 
