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A Great Curiosity 
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Sacred Lily of India 
(Amorphophallus Rivieri) 
This is a great novelty poser and is curious, 
interesting and unique. 
= Planted in the garden when you a wour” 

dahlias, it produces an attractive plant that sug- _ te 
gests a “small palm-—a single stem that is mottled | 
green and white with purple and reddish shadings. 
There are three ‘palm-like branches on - 
‘Mumerous small, lacy leaves. When the top is 
Killed by frost, dig the bulb ‘and saci as you: do ee 
- your dahlias. 
‘When this bulb becomes four or five years ‘old, ae 
it Will throw up a large stalk, in February or March, eee 
Bearing at the top a very large Calla-shaped bloom. 
wine colored, ten to fourteen inches across, with 
spadix that may be eighteen inches to two feet 
long. When this bulb blooms (it has a rather. 
3 unpleasant odor) it requires no soil or Peete. 
E After the bulb once blooms, it continues to do 
$0 each year thereafter. Every bulb produces from 
two to five bulblets each year, besic erowing to a 
its. normal size. 
We never had any kind of a Paves that A ee : ie 
"so. much attention. Very few ea ever fers oo 
anything like it. 
Last Spring Bulblets, 25< each _.....six fe $1 08s. 
tee-yeor-cid Bulbs se... -each — 50 oS 
» Two-year-old Bulbs i. Peeceh , 1.00. 
Three-year-old Bulbs ......00......e0ch 1.50 — 
ee Bpibs Bae: tae UF this season 
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