HARDY BULBS AND PLANTS 
For Autumn Delivery 
The kinds offered here may, or should, all be planted in 
the autumn, to blossom the following spring, or, in the case 
of forcing bulbs, during this coming winter. Usually avail- 
able, unless otherwise stated, from early September until 
past the middle of November, but better mention an alterna- 
tive kind or two on orders sent in after the middle of Oc- 
tober, for naturally stocks of some sorts become depleted. 
Garden hardiness may be inferred, unless statement or im- 
plication to contrary appears, but this means hardiness in 
the climate of Philadelphia, and in colder or more difficult 
areas a greater or less degree of winter protection, as 
with straw or leaves, or by other means, may be desirable 
with some species. 
All bulbs will be the full blooming size natural to that 
particular kind, but note, please, that certain kinds are 
always tiny, as Calochortus, Brodiaea and the like, even 
though their flowers be large. That’s the way they are made, 
and there is nothing we can do about it. 
Bulbs and Plants are not prepaid. If you want 
them by mail, add 5% to your remittance for points 
east of Pittsburgh and north of Potomac, 10% to 
the Mississippi, and 15% west of the river. This 
is to cover postage and packing. We shall assume 
that shipment is desired by express, collect, if no 
allowance for postage accompanies order. Winter 
shipments by express only. 

THE PLUME HYACINTH—Great ostrich plumes of blos- 
soms, bowing gracefully with their own weight. The usual 
bell-shaped florets have their petals finely shredded, curled 
and crisped until the whole spike becomes a delightful lilac- 
lavender plume. Hardy and permanent, the showing of 
plumes becoming larger and finer each year. Botanically it 
is not a hyacinth at all, but instead an aberrant giant 
Muscari. A rare, unique, and highly decorative hardy flow- 
ering bulb that attracts always a super-quota of garden ex- 
clamatien. 3 for 35c; 11 for $1.00; 25 for $2.00. (Illus- 
trated page 13.) 
LEWISIA REDIVIVA — Great blossoms in suggestion of 
Waterlilies, pink Waterlilies, from softest blush to a shade 
so rich and deep that it approaches rose. It grows to only 
four inches, but the flowers are, for this, of extraordinary 
size, many open at once in crowded over-lappings. Of full- 
est, winter-hardiness if the tubers are kept from frost- 
heaving damage during the winter months. By the way, 
tubers will seem limp and flabby when they arrive, but that 
is their nature, just as they should be during this, their 
resting period. 3 for 35c; 10 for $1.00; 60 for $5.00. 
(Illustrated page 3.) ? 
CALOCHORTUS BLEND—Called Mariposa, or Butterfly 
Tulip, but of course it is not a Tulip at all, though lovelier 
than most Tulips. Blossoms to five inch diameters, never 
less than two inches, in rainbow hues, often banded, 
blotched or embossed in contrasting color tones. A white, 
pink-suffused or pale lavender ground is usual, with crim- 
son, mahogany, chocolate or mulberry super-imposed, but 
others will be rich yellow or all lavender. Bulbs naturally 
small. Pretty hardy when established, but first year we 
suggest good mulching of straw or other litter. 3 for 25c; 
8 np 50c; 17 for $1.00; 100 for $5.00. (Illustrated next 
page. 
IXIOLIRION—Lily of the Altai. Star-spread trumpets in 
a vivid, breath-stealing indigo, are carried in open clusters. 
Long bloom in May and June. 20 inches. It seems to 
winter safely anywhere that Tulips will, though we sug- 
gest a bit of mulching with straw or leaves. It’s garden 
treasure. 2 for 25c; 9 for $1.00; 25 for $2.40. 
MERTENSIA VIRGINICA -The lovely and loveable Virginia 
Bluebell, with its silken and changeable exquisite colorings, 
pink in the bud, but lucent blue-sapphire when the flowers 
open. Nodding blossoms in gracefully arching sprays, over 
decoratively glaucous leaves. Of complete winter hardiness, 
getting bigger and better each year. Sun or shade. Dor- 
mant tubers, 3 for 40c; 8 for $1.00; 25 for $2.60. 
LEUCOJUM AESTIVUM—A winter-hardy, long-lived cousin 
of Amaryllis that makes handsome border clumps. Pretty 
snowy flowers, each petal with olive ‘tip, appear through 
April and May. The Great, or Summer, Snowflake. 4 for 
35c; 10 for 80c. (Illustrated next page.) 
