Blooming sized bulbs of our own strain are short at this time, and we are offering 
fancy imported Dutch type hybrids, separate colors, our selection, or mixed, at $3.00, 
$5.00 and $10.00 per bulb, blooming size (2%” up), according to quality. Pure Whites, 
as available, $5.00 and $10.00 each, according to quality. Mixed colors of hybrid Ama- 
ryllis, best Florida and California stock, field grown, 50¢ each, $4.00 for 10. Bulbs 
available in winter and spring, from mid-December on. Seed of fancy types, $5.00 per 
100; selected types, American strains, $1.50 per 100. Seed are available in April-June 
~ The best quality hybrid Amaryliis are selected out of hundreds and thousands of 
flowers in bloom, regardless of bulb size. A good blooming size is 214 inches in diameter. 
Pure Whites are slow growing and scarce in the United States. Sometimes they re- 
quire two or three years to recover from blooming without a well-established root 
system. The finest imported strains of hybrid Amaryllis, which figure largely in the 
best American types, are rather weak growing, seldom as vigorous as the outdoor 
grown American bulbs. Dutch Amaryllis are 
greenhouse grown for generations. 
Pure Whites must be grown in pots or sheltered 
beds in a lath house in the lower South. The col- 
ored types are more vigorous. The absolute size 
of an Amaryllis bulb has little to do with its 
quality, except to indicate that it is a vigorous 
bulb if very large. Very often the largest bulbs 
produce coarse and unattractive flowers. 
Amaryllis require careful attention to bloom 
with success from year to year, but their needs 
are simple. They like a six or seven inch pot, a 
rich, loose friable soil, say 1/8 well rotted manure 
to 2/3 good garden loam, with a spoonful of bone 
meal or ground limestone. They need good drain- 
age, and an inch of crocks or gravel in the bot- 
tom of the pot is desirable. In the open, far 
South, any good soil that is well drained and near 
neutral, will grow Amaryllis. When they have 
what they want, they grow rich and lushly, pro- 
ducing huge, long leaves and making large bulbs. 
Strong buibs may put up two or three bloom 
spikes with four flowers on each. 
Hybridizing is ‘easy and interesting, and the 
bulb fan can start his own strain in that manner. 
HYBRID AMARYLLIS It takes about six weeks to ripen the seeds, and 
Exhibition Type three years to bloom the bulbs from seed under 
4 good culture. Watering should be done carefully, 
although they like abundant moisture when growing well. The bulbs are tender to 
frost and should not be allowed to stand outside in pots in weather of less than 50 
degrees F. without expectation of some damage to the bloom or bulb tissue if near 
freezing is reached. In Florida we have had bulbs frozen in their pots above ground 
but unhurt planted in the garden. 
THE CALLA LILIES 
The white, pink apd yellow calla lilies remain as one of the most satisfying groups 
of decorative bulbous plants in the entire field of horticulture. They are Aroids, and 
their botanical generic name is now accepted as Zantedeschia. \ 
Of the various species we recommend the white calla, Z.aethiopica, in its semi- 
dwarf form, the Godfrey Calla, and the large flowered white type commonly grown 
‘in California. The Godfrey is the popular cut-flower variety in Florida, where thousands . 
of the plants are grown for shipment of the blooms. 
The yellow calla, Z.elliottiana, is one of the glories of all flowers, with its clear, 
golden spathe, and spotted green leaves, and every bulb grower should try a few of 
them. The bulbs are planted in the fall and winter and bloom in the spring. They 
may be grown in five or six inch pots in the North and South. A bed of 50 or 100 
of the tubers is a showy sight in bloom in any Florida garden about Easter time or later. 
. The callas like a sandy, well-drained soil, in the case of the yellow’and pink 
callas, Z.elliottiana and Z.rehmanni. The bloom of the pink calla is small but very 
pretty, and can be used for corsage work. One variety, Z.rehmanni ‘superba, is more 
vigorous and the spathes are a light lavender-purple on cream white, in various shades. 
* Z.rehmanni in'its best types is a distinct rose-pink. 

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