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 alter- 
native kind or two on orders sent in after the middle of 
October, 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. 

SUMMER SNOWFLAKE—Leucojum aestivum. A _ long- 
lived and winter-hardy cousin of Amaryllis with pretty, 
snow-white flowers, each petal with an odd olive tip. The 
bulbs increase to big clumps with time. 4 for 35c; 10 for 
8%; 25 for $1.75. Illustrated page 8. 
BLUE CAMAS LILY—This is Camassia Quamash. Loose 
spikes of blossoms that are wide, informal stars of soft 
blue, but sometimes deepening to indigo or violet. Of full- 
est winter hardiness, living and blooming for years. It 
will delight in small group-clumps, though valued par- 
ticularly for massing, when great wave-rippling plantings 
of it can be spectacular. Long-time beauty never cost 
oe 24 inches. 10 for 50c; 25 for $1.00; 100 for $3.35; 250 
for $7.50. 
CAMASSIA LEICHTLINI—For massed plantings, great 
banks of color, use the last, but for spectacular border ac- 
cents it is this splendid greater Camas Lily that will best 
fit. Conditions right, it will reach to five feet or more, 
showy “Eremurus” spikes that may sometimes each carry 
as many as a hundred of the big, starry blossoms in their 
varying tones of lavender, mauve, blue, even violet. Of 
equal hardiness and ease of growing with the Tulip. 3 for 
35c; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.25. (Illustrated page 8.) 
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; 
7 for 50c; 16 for $1.00; 100 for $5.50. (Illustrated page 8.) 
BLETILLA HYACINTHINA—The Hyacinth-Bletilla is sure- 
ly easiest of the hardy Orchids and as surely, one of the 
lovelier. Fairly large blossoms of amethystine purple, 
sweetly perfumed, are carried in graceful, open sprays en 
15-inch stems. Once established, it needs no winter pvrotec- 
tion in open ground at Philadelphia, but in colder areas a 
bit of mulching would be good insurance. One of the rarer 
hardy bulb-flowers. Shipment in October. Each 75c; 3 for 
$2.10. (Illustrated opposite.) 
ALLIUM MOLY—In June come the massed clusters of 
little, upfacing bell-flowers, all in the purest of golden 
yellows. A decorative bulb-flower of fullest hardiness, 
valued for rock gardens, edgings, bedding. 10 inches. Sun 
or light shade. Where happy, increases rapidly to form 
big clumps. Each 35c; 3 for $1.00. 
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