
If good growth is made at this important stage, the bulb will become much larger and 
offsets may be made. Keep them growing as long as possible. When the weather is 
warm outside the pots may be plunged in the garden. If rim of pot is sufficiently below 
soil surface the roots may emerge and add range to the root system. Or better still, shift 
the bulb and the unbroken lump of soil to the garden. Water liberally during growth 
and when in good growth use manure water or mulch with manure. This is good advice 
for pot grown bulbs as well, but don’t give heavy feeding to a sick or starved bulb. 
Plants, animals and people must have enough vigor to digest and assimilate food. If 
they do not have this, it becomes a poison. 
Keep the bulbs growing as long as they will grow. When the foliage begins to 
yellow, about Nov. usually, one may reduce water, and give them a rest. Store pots in 
a cool room as for starting. 
Usually the summer’s growth will have increased the size of the bulbs sufficiently 
to require shifting to a larger pot. The new pot should be large enough to accommodate 
all the roots. Do not remove or injure any of the roots and contrive to distribute them 
thruout the soil. 
When repotted, water at once to settle soil around the roots. Thereafter they should 
receive very little water, only enough to prevent drying out and loss of roots. They 
should remain in a cool room. They need a period of rest, altho leaves do not always 
die back. When growth begins, start again the natural spring time change to higher 
temperatures, repeating the procedure followed when you planted the dry bulbs. But 
your bulbs are now much better bulbs. They are not dried out and they have or should 
have many roots. If kept too wet or too warm while dormant, the roots may rot. But 
if you handle the bulbs carefully you may expect more, larger and better flowers the 
second year. With experience you may become skillful in having bulbs bloom even by 
Jan. 1 and others up to May 1. 
How to judge the quality of the flowers of Amaryllis hybrids. The perfect flower 
of the Leopoldi type should be 5” to 8” across. The petals should be well rounded and 
broad, overlapping each other, no twisting of petals, and they should form a wide open, 
flat flower. The texture should be smooth and firm, of good substance. The tube should 
be short. There should be little or no green in throat but as the species Leopoldi 
contains considerable green there are few hybrids that do not contain some green. Very 
few are perfect in any respect. 
There should be no dull colors, like brick red. But colors should be bright and of 
every imaginable tone within the range of this genus. 
Self colors are desirable to go along with stripes and other variations. But it 1s 
difficult to get other than red selfs and these are unusual. A few of our Select Strains, 
American Hybrids are pure red, scarlet, rose or pink selfs. But they are few and not 
separately labeled. Don’t order self colors or any colors except as listed. 
Please note. There is no quantity discount on Amaryllis except as noted with listing. 
Amaryllis advena. Oxblood Lily. 5 to 8 ox-blood red flowers in an umbel, on a 10” 
slender scape, preceding foliage. Fall bloomer. Culture. Not suitable for pot culture, but 
so nearly hardy that in mild sections of north it will succeed. In Michigan, in the section 
where peaches are. grown, this Amaryllis has been grown commercially. It may be 
planted 6” deep and mulched, in a protected situation. Full sun exposure, heavy or 
medium loam soil is good but does well in lighter soils also. Price 50c ea. $4.50 doz. 
Order at once, before late Sept. 
A. psitticina. Species from S. Brazil. Large bulb and plant. The large flowers have 
green tinted throat with carmine lines radiating to the carmine edge of petals. The effect 
is of a very pretty red Amaryllis. Here this species flowers in winter and is a free bloomer. 
Price $6.00 ea. 
A. Hybrids, Select American Strains. These are the best American hybrids, of 
Leopoldi ancestry. Many Amaryllis sold are chance seedlings grown from seed collected 
in the field. These are likely to produce the sturdiest bulbs. From a vegetative stand- 
point they are the best. But for the most beautiful flowers, breeders select the best 
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