Lycoris 
Lycoris are becoming fashionable and more popular with every succeeding season. 
For years Lycoris Squamigera has been a lovely garden flower in the North, blooming 
before the leaves appear in late summer, and marked by an exotic beauty of violet- 
rose Amaryllis-like blooms in good-sized umbels. 
In the lower South, Lycoris Radiata, which long passed for Nerine Sarniensis 
and is comonly known as the “‘Red Spider Lily,”’ is a well-known plant in every door- 
yard through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. It does well in’ North Florida, but 
seems to like an alkaline soil, so usually has to be replaced in Peninsular Florida every 
few years. 
One of our fortunate achievements of the past year is the importation of a 
modest stock of the handsome Lycoris aurea, long grown in old gardens around St. 
Augustine, where it is called the Golden Hurricane Lily and blooms in early Fall, dur- 
ing the Caribbean ‘“‘tropical storm’’ season. It is a rich golden yellow, with crinkled 
petals in a strangely enchanting and exotic umbel which opens practically all of its 
5 to 10 flowers at the same time or in rapid succession. This is one of the choicest 
bulbs of all horticulture and was painted by Redoute, floral artist to the Empress 
Josephine, and it appears in his famous “‘Liliacees,’’ of 1815 or so, although it really 
belongs to the Amaryllis family. This is a fine cut-flower bulb, and can be grown 
under glass with good results, as long as attention is paid to drainage in pots. It 
likes a sandy loam. 
For years we have priced this at $1.50 each but have been able to supply only 
a few each year from our slender stock. Now we will be able to fill more of .our 
customers’ needs in this rare bulb and hope to have a larger stock available in an- 
other season. 
We also offer three rarities, Lycoris alba, a creamy white and pinkish novelty, 
not yet positively identified, L. squamigera var. purpurea, a lovely thing for the 
North and Lower South as well, being quite hardy, and Lycoris incarnata, as received 
from China. We are not sure what this last will turn out to be. Only small to 
medium bulbs available of these three. 
Prices: Lycoris squamigera var. purpurea S1:50eachs 
Lycoris radiata $1.00 per doz. 
Lycoris aurea $1.50 each. 
Lycoris alba $2.00 each as available. 
Lycoris incarnata $2.00 each as available. 
Hymenocallis 
The Hymenocallis, including Ismene, the Peruvian Daffodils, form a pleasing 
group of bulbous subjects which have various showy forms and one break of color, 
the Ismene Amancaes, from Peru, which is yellow, and has given rise to the spectacu- 
lar yellow “Peruvian Daffodil’? hybrid, Sulphur Queen. This is going to be better 
known in America. 
There is also the evergreen group of Hymenocallis, which is less known, but more 
interesting in Florida and more useful for pot plants generally, as they are evergreen 
and have handsome green foliage on the species and hybrids. The flowers are 
typically white with the large corona and slender segments extending beyond the 
petals. They have delicious perfumes and their exotic quality and ease of culture, 
(handle like Amaryllis) give them advantages which are not fully appreciated by’ 
bulb fans today. 
The Ismene group is a deciduous sub-genus of Hymenocallis, which derive from 
the alkaline soils of western Peru. They are not at home in Florida, but can bef 
grown in pots and other containers with addition of limestone, finely ground oyster 
shell, etc. They can be grown in the garden with good success in the North in pro- 
tected places. Handle there as gladiolus with the exception of the species H. Am- 
ancaes, “‘Lily of the Incas,’’ which is more tender and needs pot culture under glass. 
The flowers of all species are among the most charming and graceful of all the 
Amaryllids. We recommend the species we grow under the name H. :tenuiffora, 
(@ 50c each, from South America, and the common Hymenocallis of the South Florida 
