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BE. 0. ORPET, HORTICULTURIST on eTieulture 
3579 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, California 
May, 1947 
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS: 
We thank you for your inquires and requests for catalogs, and in 
Pesvonse fare Sending out this brief Jist of specisltics.~-This list 
Supersedes previously published prices. Postal charges are included 
but very large bulbs and clumps will be sent express collect. 
Some collectors! items which are not commercially nrofitable have 
been regretfully discontinued, but we are still raising a few choice 
novelties, the numbers of which are strictly limited. 
Winter and spring blooming bulbs are ready for delivery in early 
September, and will be listed in the first part of these pages. The 
second part will be devoted to those bulbs which bloom in summer and 
early fall, and which will be delivered according to maturity and dan- 
ger of frost in transit, in late winter or early spring. Bletillas 
will be ready for delivery in late fall, also Chlidanthus & Galtonias. 
ALSTROMERIAS: exceptionally useful cut flowers which self clean, last 
for two weeks in water; the new forms come in soft pastel colors, are 
of the easiest possible cultivation, bloom spring to summer and should 
pe left to dry out until new growth starts. Plant where they can be 
left undisturbed since clumps increase in size and vigor with age and 
ore very difficult to move after the first year in the seed bed. 
Sandy /.oam, plenty humus, sun or very light shade. 
je ie a pale pink dwarf variety, exquisite foliage. Rock gardens. 
25¢ ea. 
A. Jigtu hybrids. Wide range of pastel tints, same form and habit as 
old chilensis but superior in every way. #2.00 doz. 25¢ ear 
A. pelegrina "Lily of the Incas." Flowers rose, wide open like azal- 
eas. Blooms early, and like the white form can be brought in for 
Easter. Both types of A. pelegrina have green lines on back of petals. 
A. pelegrina alba. Both varieties seme price. $2.00 dozer co¢ eb. 
Ayapuscura tricolor. Dwarf habit, fls. white with flush of light 
maroon. New and very dainty. $2.00 doz. 25¢ ea. 
A. violacea. Latest introduction from Chile. Fls. form of A. 
pelegrina, color true violet. Grows tall. Seeds SOC mpi 
One-year-olc tubers 50¢ ea. 
Seeds also of A. pulchra tricolor SOCH DIET. 
Seeds A. ligtu BOC pwn 
AMARCRINUM howardi. Blooms pink with foliage and flowers several 
times a year. Evergreen. Sun. $2.00 ea. 
