
HARDY BULBS AND NEAR-BULBS 
For Autumn Planting 
Kinds here offered are for delivery during the autumn months. 
While we try to keep adequate stocks, some kinds are sure to be 
sold out before others. If, then, you order toward the end of the 
season, won’t you give two or three alternates at the end of your 
order in case some kinds are gone. 
Kinds here are garden-hardy at Philadelphia unless contrary 
statement is made. Also of course, most of them are hardy much 
further North. If you are in doubt as to winter-hardiness of any 
new kind in your particular climate, just give a good mulching 
pita or litter the first year and it will probably come through 
all right. 
All bulbs will be the full blooming size natural to the particular 
kind, but note, please, that some kinds are naturally tiny, even 
though their flowers are not. 
LILY OF THE ALTAI—It is IXIOLIRION 
MONTANUM, literally, I suppose the ‘Ixia 
Lily of the Mountains’’, a quite delightful blue- 
flowered Amarylliad that ranges in the wild 
from Turkestan to the Mongolian Altai. It is 
of full winter hardiness, and the vivid blue 
flowers, like star-spread trumpets, come in May 
and June. 20 inches. Illustrated opposite. 5 for , 
35c; 10 for 65c; 25 for $1.50; 50 for $2.75. 
SNOWFLAKE — Leucojum — We believe that 
few realize how beautiful an established clump 
of this can be. Sheafs of nodding blossoms in 
purest white, with a well-defined patch of deep Miy@usauaed, 
olive at each petal tip, giving an effectively at- BON TANYS 
tractive contrast. Long-lived and winterhardy, 
increasing year by year in number of bloom-stems. 3 for 35c; 
10 for 95c; 25 for- $2.00. 
CYCLAMEN EUROPAEUM—A true winter- 
hardy Cyclamen for outdoor planting, the fra- 
grant, bright red flowers appearing in late 
summer and autumn. Attractive foliage that 
is almost evergreen. Each 60c; 3 for $1.60; 
10 for $4.65. 
CYCLAMEN NEAPOLITANUM — Another 
fully winter-hardy garden Cyclamen with wavy, 
white-marbled foliage in variable _ ivy-leaf 
shapes. The blossoms are soft pink to rosy car- 
mine and appear profusely in autumn. Tubers, 
each 60c; 3 for $1.60; 10 for $4.65. 
CALOCHORTUS BLEND—The Mariposa or 
Butterfly Tulips gain the Butterfly part of their 
name from their airy form and brilliant color- 
ings. The blossoms range from 2 to 4 or 5 inch 
diameters, mostly upfacing saucers. A white or 
lilac ground may be marked, banded or stained 
with crimson, mahogany, chocolate or mulberry. 
‘Bulbs are naturally tiny, but not the flowers. 
Quite hardy, once established, but better winter- 
protect the first year. Illustrated opposite. 9 for 
50c; 19 for $1.00; 100 for $4.50. 
FRITILLARIA PUDICA—8 inches. Flowers 
that are dancing bells of shimmering gold. A 
hardy little Lily-cousin that will bloom, and 
increase, in any sunny place, 3 for 45c; 10 for $1.25. 
FRITILLARIA RECURVA—16 inches. Many 
pretty bell-flowers that are bright red without, 
buff-yellow within. 3 for 45c; 10 for $1.25. 
FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS RUBRA — The 
spectacular Crown Imperial. Big whorls of bell- 
fiowers in a brilliant, scarlet-toned orange are. ff" 
carried on stems that may reach three feet in 
established plant, the whole topped with a 
ecrown-like foliage tuffet. Bulbs are naturally 
much larger than those of other Fritillarias. | 
Each 65c; 3 for $1.75; 10 for $5.00. Illustrated 
opposite. 
CHIONODOXA LUCILIAE—Glory of the 
Snow. 6 inches. In early spring, often while 
snow is still about, there will come a glorious 
showing of wide, skyblue flowers with milk 
white centers. 10 for 40c; 25 for 90c; 100 for $3.50. 
CHERRY SUNBRIGHT—Vivid flowers of luminous coral rose 
are carried in summer-long profusion on wiry, foot-high stems. 
Talinum calycinum. Full sun. Protect with leaves or straw. 
Tubers, 3 for 35c; 10 for $1.00. 
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