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Whether you particularly enjoy gardening or not, one of the great delights of spring is seeing the 
first blooms of the Dutch Crocus. Not only because of its early flowering, but because of its sheer 
beauty and brilliant coloring, it never fails to captivate us. In every garden, regardless of size, there 
should be a special Crocus corner which we should watch during early March. Children in par- 
ticular are fascinated by the hardy, colorful blossoms which seem to care not for cold or late snows. 
Then too, they are so easily grown and persistent that the merest amateur can obtain perfect results. 
They multiply with amazing rapidity, quadrupling in number from year to year, another reason 
why they are so popular. 
Only top size bulbs are listed below, this for the reason that they produce the largest number 
of blooms. 
NEW GIANT-FLOWERING VARIETIES 
Amethyst Doz. 85c, 25 $1.55, 100 $5.50 
Fine porcelain, with lighter stem, very brilliant. 
Blizzard Doz. 90c, 25 $1.65, 100 $6.00 
Pure white, globular flowers of great beauty. (Color illustration, page 
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Enchantress Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.00 
Clear porcelain-blue, large flowers; very pleasing; early. 
Excelsior Doz. 85c, 25 $1.55, 100 $5.50 
Pure lilac. Largest lilac flowers known; early. 
Early Perfection Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.25 
Dark violet-blue; deep and intense coloring. 
Grand Maitre Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.25 
Dark indigo-blue; medium early. Lovely dark variety. (Color illustra- 
tion, page 21.) 
Golden Goblet Doz. 85c, 25 $1.55, 100 $5.50 
Giant golden yellow flowers. (Color illustration, page 21.) 
Nigger Boy Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.25 
Dark purple-blue, almost black; large flowers. 
Striped Queen Doz. 85c, 25 $1.55, 100 $5.50 
Blue striped white, late. 
Crisis Species 
Aureus (Moesiacus) Doz. $1.00, 25 $1.90, 100 $7.00 
Deep golden yellow. 
Aureus sulphureus concolor 
Pale yellow. 
Biflorus Doz. $1.00, 25 $1.90, 100 $7.00 
White, outside purple lined. Slightly scented. 
Doz. 90c, 25 $1.65, 100 $6.00 
Chrysanthus, Canarybird Doz. 90c, 25 $1.65, 100 $6.25 
‘ Orange-yellow cup with bronze tints on the exterior of the flower 
petals. Exceptionally free flowering. A very choice variety giving 
additional shades of yellow so much needed in Crocus. You will like 
this. 
Chrysanthus, E. Aug. Bowles Doz. $1.25, 25 $2.30, 100 $8.25 
Butter-yellow, outside base bronzy gray tinged, large and beautifully 
rounded blossoms, the most beautiful of all Crocus species. 

Etruscus Doz. 90c, 25 $1.65, 100 $6.00 
Self-colored mauve’ flowers. 
Fleischeri Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
White, anthers orange-red. 
Imperati Doz. $1.85, 25 $3.35, 100 $12.00 
A very beautiful early-flowering species. The outside petals are buff 
and feathered with purple lines, inside rich violet. It is one of the 
earliest species to open its flowers. Specially recommended. 


STANDARD VARIETIES 
King of the Whites Doz. 85c, 25 $1.55, 100 $5.50 
Large, white. One of the best whites. 
Maximilian Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 — 
Very large, pure porcelain blue; very delicate. 
Mont Blanc Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.00 
Pure white. Fine standard variety. 
Mammoth Yellow 
Golden yellow flowers in abundance. 
Purpurea Grandiflora Doz. 75c, 25 $1.35, 100 $4.75 
Large purple-blue; late. Beautiful. 
Queen of the Blues Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
Dark blue; one of the best. 
Mixed Colors of the New Giant-Flowering Crocus as well as the 
Standard Varieties 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
A beautiful mixture of all the kinds offered and will make a cheerful 
and colorful display early in the spring. Bulbs are all top size. 
Crocus Mixture for Children 25 $1.25, 50 $2.00, 100 $3.75 ° 
Each year we receive hundreds of requests for Crocus bulbs to be 
planted by children. We, therefore, decided to offer a mixture of the 
same kinds as our regular mixture but are using a size smaller bulb 
so as to be able to offer them somewhat cheaper. They will be fine 
bulbs only a little smaller but they will bloom freely and multiply rapidly. 
Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.00 
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Korolkowi Doz. $1.00, 25 $1.90, 100 $7.00 
This unusually fine early species is invaluable for the rock garden, for 
clumps in the border or for grouping near the terrace or house and 
under trees. The color is brilliant golden yellow shading to orange, 
while exterior of the petals is shaded bronze; the very earliest of spring 
flowers. 
Sieberi Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
This is a very lovely spring-flowering variety which will bloom as early 
as February. The graceful flowers are a delicate blue with dold in the 
throat. Potted in October they will bloom for Christmas. Can be grown 
easily in pebbles or peat in water throughout the winter, same as Paper- 
White Narcissus. 
Susianus (Cloth of Gold) Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
Bright golden yellow flowers, outside brown striped, produced in great 
profusion. Specially recommended for naturalizing. 
Tommasianinus Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
Pale lavender, outside silvery gray, a very charming species which 
blooms with numerous flowers in eariy spring; one of the best for natur- 
alizing, especially in woods or shady places. No other Crocus does as 
well and multiplies or flowers as freely from one year to another with- 
out care or attention. 
Tommasinianus, Whitewell Purple Doz. 80c, 25 $1.45, 100 $5.00 
a charming variety with many small reddish purple-colored flowers, very 
ree. 
Versicolor picturatus (Cloth of Silver) Doz. 75c, 25 $1.30, 100 $4.50 
White outside, purple feathered, very pretty and free. 
Mixed Crocus Species, Spring Flowering 25 $1.65, 100 $6.00 
Dutch Crocus Naturalized in Lawn {20} 

