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as handled at Rich- 
ards’—freshly dug for 
each order and delivered 
with roots intact, roots 
and bulbs plump and full 
of vitality—are as easy to 
grow as radishes and zin- 
nias. Our list is short be- 
cause our rigorous climate 
makes short work of any 
but the hardiest species but these listed 
below will bring radiant new beauty to 
your garden year after year. 
Regale. One of the most beautiful and happily 
one of the easiest to grow (only one thing it must 
have: perfect drainage). Slender, arching stems 
three to five feet tall carry many long, narrow 
leaves and are crowned with 8 to 20 (sometimes 
40!) huge trumpet shaped blooms in early July. 
Coior white, canary yellow deep in throat and vary- 
ing tones of pink and rose shading the outside. 
Heavily perfumed. Large bulbs (6 ins, up) 30ce, 
$3.00 per doz. Jumbo (8 inst up)>50c, $5.00 per 
doz. 
Henryi. Another big, husky lily easily grown 
to eight feet tall, although the average is nearer 
five. Nodding, recurved blooms of orange chrome 
with emerald green hearts and many horn-like 
papillae. Hoids its color best in partial shade. 
Blooming size (4 ins. up) 25c, $2.50 per doz. 
Large (6 ins. up) 35c, $3.50 per doz. Jumbo (8 
ins. up) 60c, $6.00 per doz. 
Tigrinum. The old fashioned tiger lily, un- 
equalled for high, barbaric color in late July and 
early August. Blooming size bulbs only this year, 
15c each, $1.50 per doz. 
Double tiger lily. A rare form of the preced- 
ing species with two or more sets of petals. Large 
DulDS C6Nns-1p.) 356, $3.5 0* per doz, 
Willmeottiae. Tall and vigorous, with many 
blooms on gracefully arching stems, pinkish orange 
with purple spots. One of the best but still rather 
rare and usually sold at much higher prices. 
Bloming size (3 ins. up) 20c, $2.00 per doz. Large 
(o-1INS Up), 306, 03.00. per GOz, 

Tenuifolium. (Siberian Coral lily). 
Slender stems clothed with grassy foli- 
age carry the first lilies of the year, 
i opening in early June. Each stalk car- 
ries 15 to 25 (sometimes over 50) 2- 
inch recurved blooms of sparkling scar- 
let color and waxen texture. This spe- 
cies shows best when planted in masses, 
Large (2) ins. up) 6 for2$.1.003)3.5.0) per d07..2100 
for only. $12:00. Jumbo (3 ans. -up)--25¢;/ $2750 
per doz. 
Concolor racemosa. (Morning star lily). Up- 
right and wide-open, deeper scarlet than tenui- 
folilum and with broader slightly hairy leaves and 
stem. Flowering size (bulbs that bloomed in the 
nursery this summer) 40c, $4.00 per doz. 
Umbellatum. Large reddish orange upright- 
facing blooms on rather short ‘stems in late June. 
Large bulbs (6 ins. up) 35c, $38.50 per doz. 
Auratum. The great gold-band lily, an exotic 
very heavily perfumed beauty frequently as large 
as a dinner plate. The open-trumpet shaped 
blooms are white with a gold band down the cen- 
ter of each petal and the entire flower is flecked 
with crimson. Imported bulbs, have long been the 
despair of all gardeners but wur experience with 
American-grown bulbs has been encouraging and 
we believe if you start with these fresh, plump 
American-grown bulbs delivered with roots intact 
you will be a successful grower of this most gor- 
geous of all lilies. Large (6 ins. up) $2.25 each, 
$24.00 per doz. 
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Peonies 
Officinalis rubra. Rich deep crimson, early 
bloomer, the great ‘‘Memorial Day peony’’. This 
is the early red ‘“‘piney”’ of grandmother’s garden 
always in heavy demand. Standard 8 to 5-eye 
roots $1.00. - Smaller Zet0sa-cyeeO0 tse ne 65¢ 
Officinalis tenuifolia fl. pl. We are fortunate 
in being able to offer a limited number of.this rare 
fern-leaf peony. Very early, blooming two weeks 
ahead of officinalis rubra. Flowers are not large 
but they are a most intense and brilliant tone of 
red. Foliage very finely-divided resembling a fern. 
3... to 5S<e@yG@ TOOUS eee ae eee $3.00 
Isani Gidui. Another very rare and exceeding- 
ly beautiful peony. Guard petals are broad and 
rounded, of exquisite snowy white, center a round- 
ed mass of thin staminodes of rich buff-yellow, 
carpels green, tipped pale yellow ..-..__............. $3.00 
Calypso. Guards pale amaranth pink, the full 
fimbriate center deep tyrian rose, tipped with yel- 
low. A stately and very beautiful peony........ $1.00 
Ama-no-sode .......- v2. 0,0) Le: Cy 2nee ee es $2.00 
Baroness Schroeder .75 Mons. Jules Elie.... .75 
Charles Verdier ..... .75 Philippe Rivoire.... 1.50 
Edulis Superba ..... .75 Reine Hortense...... maf fs 
Felix Crousse .....--. .t5o- ASarah Bernhardt een 
Jubilee Ase See 1.00 Solaneees a ae 1.00 
Karl Rosenfield 3.75) baimale: 50K eee 7.50 
Tourangelle ....._.... 1.00 
Bieedingheart. An old-fashioned favorite; its 
long racemes of heart-shaped pink and white flow- 
erg are always*attractive:. ci eee eee ae 65¢c 
Columbine, true Rocky Mountain blue................ 25¢ 
Columbine, Rose Queen (long-spurred pink)....25c¢ 
Hemerocallis middendorffii (Amur daylily) --....35¢ 
Hemerccallis flava (Lemon. daylily) -.....-...........-. 35¢€ 
Hemerccallis fulva (Tawny daylily) -................. 25¢ 
Hemerocallis Kwanso (double daylily) ---.......-..- 35¢ 
See August Landscape Letter for prices of Hybrid daylilies. 
MUSCARI ARMENIACUM, the deep co- 
balt-blue colored grape-hyacinth has long 
been a specialty at Richards’. It is the larg- 
est, huskiest, best colored of all muscari; 
nearly every one who sees the quantities of 
it blooming in our gardens in April goes into 
raptures over it., It grows from small bulbs 
about the size of'a finger tip, and makes fall 
growth after the manner of Oriental poppies. 
Should be planted early for best bloom but all 
these bulbs will bloom even if planted in 
October. 50c per dozen, 30 bulbs for $1.00. 

We pliant many shrubs in the fall but especially 
LILACS. They start so early and grow so rapidly 
with the first warm)days of Spring that even April 
transplanting often sets them back severely. Plant 
lilacs now for best results. 
Lilac HIAWATHA, the first of a new race of 
frost-proof hybrid lilacs, originated in Canada’s 
northernmost nursery. Blooming season is early 
June, weeks after ordinary lilacs have finished, 
which makes it practically immune to our late 
Spring frosts. The blooms, of waxy texture, come 
in heavy panicles of pure, deep rose-pink, an en- 
tirely new and ot eae color tone in lilacs. 
Foliage is large, luxuriant and heavily crinkled; 
and the bush itself is non-suckering yet a sturdy 
and husky grower, often blooming the next Spring 
from Autumn planting. We have only a limited 
stock of this glorious new lilac and orders will be 
filled in rotation. [2-3 ft. $3.00. 3-4 1t) $4700, 
4-5 ft. $5.00. | 
Lilacs, Common Purple or White: 
60c. (2-3 ° ft. “Tbe. | aaa ee 1 - 
5-6 ft. $2.50. 
Hybrid lilacs Pres Grevy, Congo, Souv. de Lud- 
wig Spaeth, Mme. Casimir Perier, Katherine Have- 
meyer: 1144-2 ft. $1.50. 2-3 ft. $2:25. 3-4 ft. 
$3.00. | 
Persian Lilac: 2-3 ft. $1.00. 3-4 ft. $1.50. 
Hungarian Lilac; 3-4 ft. $2.00. 4-5 ft. $3.00. 

14%-2 ft. 
4-5 ft. $1.50. 
