Backgrounds. Large bulbs, nearly 3” diam. or over, $5.00 ea. 
Select Am. Strains, Red Shades. 212”, $1.00 ea. 3 for $2.85. 3”, $2.50 ea. 
Select Am. Strains, Scarlet, 214”, $1.00 ea. 3 for $2.85. 3”, $2.50 ea. 
Select Am. Strains, Rose. 3”, $3.00 ea. 34%” up, $4.00 ea. 
Select Am. Strains, Large sizes, assorted colors. These should all give two flower 
scapes and most of them give three. 234”-3” diam., $1.75; 3”-344”, $2.50; 314”-up, $3.00. 
A. American Hybrids, Assorted Colors. Good Amaryllis from various sources. Not 
dime store quality. Blooming sizes, 50c. Large, nearly 3” or over, 75c ea. 
A. Ambigua Hybrids. These are A. ambigua crossed and recrossed with White 
Backgrounds. They are not especially an improvement except that they are rather more 
sturdy, tall and some are fragrant. Most of these are White with usual markings. $1.00 ea. 
A. Rutila Hybrids. An extremely vigorous, rapid growing and multiplying strain. 
Equally prolific with flowers. Similar in color, orange scarlet with white throat and green 
keel. An ideal strain for outside planting and landscape effects. Their bright, vivid 
color “hits you in the eye.” Altho not an exhibition type, many will like them in pots. 
Their vigor also recommends them for planting on the border line for their hardiness as 
in Okla., Ark., even So. Kan., etc., 
where winter temperatures do not 
go much below zero. A customer 
planted one a foot deep in N. Iowa 
last fall and it came up this spring. 
But that is too deep, the bulb could 
not long survive. Don’t plant over 
4” or 5” to top of bulbs in a pro- 
tected place and before ground 
freezes more than a crust mound 
over with earth and mulch with 
brush and leaves. Price, top size, 
nearly 3” and up, 75c ea. $7.50 
per doz. $50.00 per 100, prepaid. 
Diener’s Posthumous Hybrids. 
Grown from small bulbs of selected 
seed by Diener in the last year of 
his life, these should be his best. 
They are Equestre type, with longer 
and more narrow petals than the 
Leopoldi type. Often 5 to 8 flowers 
in an umbel, but to get large flow- 
ers that approach the size claimed 
by the originator one must disbud, 
leaving not over two on a scape. 
This strain blooms from smaller sizes 
and as they multiply rapidly, do not 
often become extra large. $2.00. 
Amaryllis Sibyl Houdyshel, 
A. SELECT STRAINS Johnsonii and others are withdrawn 
. | to increase stock. 
Amaryllis Seed. We are unable to produce enough seed for our own planting. It is 
far better anyway for you to grow your own seed as that which you buy is often too old. 
Amaryllis seed should be planted shortly after ripening and drying. One year old seed is 
unlikely to grow in a good percentage. 
Plant Breeding is an interesting science and art. Undertaken as a hobby, it has often 
resulted in fame. It will involve and develop great skill, ideals of beauty, good taste and 
intelligence. I suggest you start with our Select Strains. Get several bulbs and use the 
pollen only from those you like the best. Cross pollination is easily accomplished by 
placing the powdery pollen borne by the six stamens on the stigma in the center. The 
stigma when ready for pollen will usually be opened into three parts. When the seed pod 
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