VARIED GRAPE HYACINTHS 
Few realize the diversity of desirable garden effects one 
may gain with the several species of Grape Hyacinth (Muscari). 
All are good in the rock garden, several, also for naturalizing, 
and Muscari comosum is tall enough to give a most unusual 
and striking decorative accent when used at the front of the 
hardy perennial border. 
MUSCARI LATIFOLIUM—An altogether different form with 
but one broad leaf from which rise 12-inch spikes of flowers 
that are dark blue on the lower part of the spike but pale 
blue on the upper. 3 for 35c; 10 for T5c. 
MUSCARI COMOSUM—Here the flowers are carried in tall, 
openly-spaced spike-racemes, sometimes to 20 inches, little 
bells, each on a lengthened horizontal pedicel. The lower 
flowers are always olivebrown, the upper ones  blue-violet. 
3 for 35c; 10 for T5c. 
MUSCARI MOSCHATUM FLAVUM—Nutmeg Hyacinth, ealled 
so from the odd, sweet fragrance. Loose racemes of some- 
what tubular bells. that open purple but soon become soft 
yellow. 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.35. 
MUSCARI ARMENIACUM—This vivid Grape Hyacinth brings 
deep sky to earth, gives great spring spreads of soul-stirring 
blue. Splash it about liberally in border and rock garden, or 
perhaps naturalize it in lawn, meadow, orchard or woodland. 
12 for 40c; 25 for 75c; 100 for $2.50; 250 for $6.25. 
MUSCARI WHITE—Dainty little Grape Hyacinth in pure 
white. One of the prettier hardy rock garden or naturalizing 
bulbs. 10 for 60c; 25 for $1.40; 100 for $5.50. 
MUSCARI OFFER—Ten bulbs each of the five kinds above, to- 
gether with ten of the Plume Hyacinth (Muscari comosum 
monstrosum), 60 bulbs in all, with names, for $3.85. 
DELIGHTFUL ALSTROEMERIA 
Great sheafs of blossoms in an exceedingly wide range of 
colorings. Though often called Lilies, they really belong to the 
Amaryllis family. They grow from masses of brittle, tuberous 
roots, and at Old Orchard, seem to be pretty much winter hardy. 
Some of our Alstroemeria plantings are now more than ten 
years old. We give them a mulching of straw in late autumn, 
rémoving part of the straw in spring, but leaving the rest 
about the roots through the summer to give the cool soil in 
which they delight. So handled the plantings get larger and 
finer each year, and when the Alstroemerias are in bloom, there 
is nothing in the Nursery more decorative, more gorgeous. In 
very cold regions the roots can be dug in autumn and cellar- 
stored over winter in sand, but that is not necessary here in 
New Jersey. Illustrated opposite. AURANTIACA—Great 
clusters of golden orange, inner segments marked crimson, 
each 30c: 3 for 80c; 10 for $2.25. COCCINEA—Here the 
flowers are a rich mahogany 
red. Each 30c; 3 for 80c; 
10 for $2.25. LIGTU— 
Exoceedingly attractive, vary- 
ing through blush pink, rose, 
apricot, orange-toned pink 
and even to. near. red. 
Showy and most floriferous. 
Forces nicely in pots for 
winter flowers, also hardy 
and persistent out of doors 
at Old Orchard. Each 30c; 
38 for 80c; 10 for $2.25. 
PULCHELLA—Parrot Lily. 
Four-foot stems are topped 
with whorls of uneven trum- 
pets in deep red, each with 
an emerald green _ tip. 
Each 30c; 3 for 70c; 10 for 
$2.00. HOOKERI—A dwarf, 
upright grower, not too tall 
for the rock garden. Also 
forces well. Flowers soft 
pink, marked white and 
carmine. Each 40c; 3 for 
$1.10; 10 for $3.00. AL- 
STROEMERIA OFFER—One 
each of the five for $1.75; 
3 each of the five for $3.75; 
10 each of the five for $10.00. 

ALSTROEMERIA AURANTIACA 
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