BULBS FOR THE WINTER WINDOW 
It is really not a very difficult matter to have winter window 
flowers, that is, if you will not try to rush them, and will follow 
the directions in the leaflet that we send out with each lot of 
bulbs for forcing. 
FREESIA RAINBOW BLEND—Many there are who call this 
the loveliest of winter bulb-flowers, with its sprays of intensely 
sweet wax-trumpet blossoms in snowiest white, pink, rose, lilac, 
lavender, carmine tones, primrose, golden, blue, violet and the 
like in many a rich shading or dainty suffusion. It is near to 
being the easiest and surest when it comes to forcing, too, 
though Triteleia and some others might challenge the claim. 
This is a splendid, large-flowered strain. Plant Freesias liberally. 
4 for 25c; 9 for 50c; 20 for $1.00; 50 for $2.00. 
ALSTROEMERIA HOOKERI—A dwarf, upright grower that 
does wonderfully well as a pot plant, in constant bloom for 
many months. The blossoms are dominantly pure, soft pink, 
but sometimes touched with white at the base, this white portion 
all stippled with carmine. Roots potted in our greenhouse in 
late November were producing flowers by late February and kept 
right on blooming for some four months. Each 43c; 3 for $1.10; 
10 for $3.00. 
TRITELIA COERULEA—Blue-Star Flower. Perhaps the easiest 
and longest blooming of any bulb that can be forced for winter 
flowers. It is hard to fail with it. Multitudes of inch-wide, up- 
facing blossoms pretty much all winter, from pale china blue to 
near indigo. 9 for 50c; 20 for $1.00. Illustrated page 8. 
TENDER STAR OF BETHLEHEM— 
Broad clusters of pure white flowers 
with olive black centers. A handsome 
plant, long in bloom. Does splendidly 
as a pot bulb, in bloom through late 
winter and early spring. Also will 
sometimes carry over in the garden as 
far north as Philadelphia, if well pro- 
tected. Ornithogalum arabicum. 3 for 
35c; 9 for $1.00; 25 for $2.60. Illus- 
trated opposite. 
EUCHARIS GRANDIFLORA—Lily of 
: | the Amazon. Waxen blossoms, pure 
ORNITHOGALUM white, sparkling, formed in suggestion 
of Daffodil. Sweet perfume. Handle 
as a pot bulb, giving ample water, and keeping away from 
too much sun. May be brought into bloom several times each 
year by giving a short semi-rest, with scantier watering between 
each burst of bloom. Each $1.10; 3 for $3.00. 
IRIS RETICULATA—Big, upfacing blossoms of velvety rich 
blue-violet, with touch of golden yellow. A dwarf, quick bulb- 
Iris that forces readily for late winter flowers. 3 for 45c; 8 
for $1.00; 25 for $2.65. 
THE GOLDEN LYCORIS—Clusters of waxy, golden ‘‘Amaryllis’’ 
flowers in August. A beautiful, rather rare, and decidedly dis- 
tinctive flowers for pot culture. The same bulb may be bloomed 
year after year. Each $1.25; 3 for $3.6). 
IRIS SUSIANA—The Mourning Iris. Unusu- 
ally large flowers of decidedly ‘‘different’’ col- 
oring, a silvery gray ground densely veined 
and stippled with a brown so dark that it is 
close to black. It makes a handsome pot plant, 
and save in California, it is perhaps best so 
handled. In summer it likes much sun and 
little water, but during the rest of the year, 
while it is in active growth, it needs simply 
the usual treatment of other® house plants. 
Illustrated opposite. Each $1.75; 3 for $5.00. 
NARCISSUS PAPER WHITE—Perhaps the 
easiest of all bulb-flowers for indoor blooming. 
Clusters of snowy white, richly fragrant blos- 
soms. Will bloom within a few weeks when 
planted in pebbles and water, or may be potted in soil. Make 
successive plantings every three weeks from the middle of October 
to the middle of March and you can have continuous flowers 
all winter. 4 for 50c; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.15; 100 for $8.00. 
CHINESE SACRED LILY—Really a Narcissus, relative of the 
Paper White, to be grown in same way and just as easily and 
quickly. The fragrant flowers are creamy white with: soft yellow 
centers and are carried in big clusters. 3 for 40c; 8 for $1.00; 
25 for $2.75. 
ARMENIAN GRAPE HYACINTH—Spikes of most vivid blue. 
A pot of it will be long beautiful. Very easily forced. Muscari 
armeniacum in forcing size bulbs, 10 for 60c; 2) for $1.00. 
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