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Muscari 
(Grape, Starch and Feathered Hyacinths) 
We can strongly recommend this lovely family of spring flowers, for naturalizing 
and for the Rock-garden where they give a splendid account of themselves. They are 
also very valuable for forcing and Pot cultures and require no special culture or soil. 

COLLECTIONS OF MUSCARI 
50 bulbs, 10 each of 5 varieties, our selection . 
100 $9 20 93 bP) 5 33 33 99 
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Armeniacum, see Early Giant. 
Azureum (Hyacinthus Azureum), flowering in February with dainty little spikes 
of Cambridge-blue it produces a charming display in the Rock-garden on grassy 
banks or may be used for edgings or massed in the flower border. 
30 cts. per doz.; $ 2.00 per 100 
Azureum amphibolis (Freyianum), flowering with delicate pale blue flowers after 
Azureum. 45 cts. per doz.; $ 3.00 per 100 
Botryoides album (White Grape Hyacinth), bearing pretty little fragrant, pure 
white flowers, valuable for the garden and for Pot culture. 
50 cts. per doz.; $ 3.50 per 100 
Comosum (the Tassel Hyacinth), greenish with purple tops. 
60 cts. per doz.; $ 4.00 per 100 
Early Giant (Improved M. Armeniacum), one of the best of this family producing, 
very large exquisite flowers of a very pleasing brilliant blue color, very strongly 
recommended for forcing to have in bloom when they are most needed and for 
liberal plantings in borders and rockeries. 40 cts. per doz.; $ 2.50 per 100 
Heavely Blue, discarded in favor of M. Early Giant. 
Latifolium, upper part of flowers-spike pale blue, lower part dark blue, very distinct 
and rare. 60 cts. per doz.; $ 4.00 per 100 
Paradoxum (Starch Hyacinth), very distinct variety with large nearly black flowers 
of good size and form. 60 cts. per doz.; $ 4.00 per 100 
Paradoxum album, the white Starch Hyacinth. 60 cts. per doz.; $ 4.00 per 100 
Plumosum (Ostrich Feather), producing in May splendid spikes of a violet-blue 
color, the flowers have the appearance of a feathery plume, very attractive and 
interesting. 45 cts. per doz.; $ 3.00 per 100 
Ornithogalum 
_ Well known hardy bulbs, flowering in Spring and early Summer. With the excep- 
tion of Arabicum, exceedingly useful for naturalizing in very shaded position, where 
few other plants will grow. 
Nutans, when in flower the pride of the locality where naturalized in grass, producing 
graceful heads of silvery-grey flowers, shaded somewhat greenish, 
45 cts. per doz.; $ 3.00 per 100 
Umbellatum (Star of Bethlehem), pure white, starry flowers, quite hardy, very 
fine for the rock-garden, where in masses of pure white flowers they are most 
effective. 30 cts. per doz.; $ 2.00 per 100 
