SPECIOSUM PUNCTATUM A fine strong growing variety 
that has for many years been lost to cultivation. It is one 
of the best forms. The leaves are similar to those of aura- 
tum platyphyllum and carried in two ranks from the base 
to the top of the stem. The flowers are beautifully formed, 
white in color suffused with pale pink and dotted with 
rose-pink spots. It flowers two to three weeks earlier than 
the other forms of L. speciosum and for this reason can be 
grown in the far north where early frosts nip the late 
forms. Height 4 to 6 feet. Plant 6 to 8 inches. 
Very limited stock. Each $3.50 
SPECIOSUM RUBRUM This is the most widely grown and 
best known variety of L. speciosum. The flowers are white 
flushed and spotted with pink, ranging in shade from rose- 
‘pink to deepest carmine-pink. A hardy and strong growing 
plant. Each $1.75 Dozen $17.50 
SPITFIRE See Preston hybrids. 
STAR OF OREGON See Bellingham hybrids. 
STOOKE’S HYBRIDS The English specialist, Mr. J. E. H. Stooke, 
has been working for years with L. croceum, Davidii and Will- 
mottiae and has produced a number of plants of splendid gar- 
den value. We imported seven of these hybrids in 1940 and, 
as we have watched them grow and develop, have become most 
enthusiastic about them. A brilliantly colored group, they are 
completely hardy, easy to grow and the kind of plants that es- 
tablish well and quickly. 
CROMOTTIAE A magnificent and floriferous hybrid that 
forms a tall pyramidal spike covered with numerous rich 
brown-orange flowers, spotted black. The flowers are borne 
at right angles to the stem and definitely look at you. The 
shape of the individual bloom is somewhat like a small L. 
auratum with the tips of the petals recurved, and the color, 
though brilliant, is soft. This plant has a magnificent con- 
stitution. Height 4 to 6 feet. With us it bloomed just before 
the middle of June. Plant 5 to 6 inches. Each $4.00 
FIRE KING Those who have seen this lily consider it one of 
the most important garden plants to have been introduced 
in many years. It grows to about four feet and develops a 
magnificent spike that bears up to forty vermillion-scarlet 
blooms carried at right angles to the stem. The flowers 
“look at you” and this quality is a distinct break developed 
from crossing and re-crossing pendant or Turk’s cap 
species with upright forms. L. Fire King is easy to grow, 
tends to multiply and is probably the most brilliantly col- 
ored lily in cultivation. A well-grown clump is a mass of 
sheer flame in the garden for from three to four weeks in 
early summer. Plant 5 to 7 inches. Each $2.50, $3.50 
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