SPECIAL OFFER CHOICE HYBRID AMARYLLIS -- WARMENHOVEN STRAIN 
Named Varieties and Separate Shades Bulbs 
Imported and Sold By LAKEMONT GARDENS Winter Park, Florida 
Wyndham Hayward, proprietor 
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FOR THE SECOND YEAR we peace ering the customers of Lakemont Gardens a selected list of named varieties of 
Hybrid Amaryllis and a limited number of collections of the separate shades bulbs of the Warmenhoven and Zonen 
strain of Hybrid Amaryllis. The Warmenhoven strain ranks with the Amaryllis of Ludwig & Co., as one of the 
great names in Dutch Hybrid Amaryllis. 
WE WERE INDUCED TO OFFER the Warmenhoven strain last year for the first time because of the excellent showings 
made by Warmenhoven at the Amaryllis Trials conducted by the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland under horti- 
culturist Thomas R. Manley the past two seasons. Our firm is the first in America listing the authentic named 
varieties of the Warmenhoven strain under their correct Dutch names as imported direct from Holland. 
THIS YEAR A SPECIAL IMPORTATION of top size bulbs will again be available for our American customers. The 
quantity is strictly limited, and there will be no chance for replacements during the season when our first 
stock is exhausted. Last season we sold out of every bulb of the Warmenhoven strain a few weeks after receipt 
of the initial shipment. Without exception the Mee nee were appreciative and enthusiastic over the beauty and 
charm of the Warmenhoven varieties, in their excellent range of colors, and they have served as a helpful and 
interesting comparison in modern Amaryllis types for Amaryllis growers and fanciers already familiar with the 
Ludwig & Co. bulbs, besides offering additional opportunities for development of any eee te breeding and 
hybridizing program. 
For an account of the Amaryllis developments of Warmenhoven & Zonen we would refer our customers to page 59 of 
the 1938 Herbertia, yearbook of the American Plant Life Society, formerly the American Amaryllis Society, where 
the eminent Ernst H. Krelage wrote that the name of Warmenhoven had then been associated with Amaryllis ‘for the 
last 20 years’’. In that same article Mr. krelage paid tribute to the Warmenhoven firm for its adoption of the 
new vegetative propagation methods of increasing named varieties of Hybrid Amaryllis as introduced by a Dutch 
woman researcher, Ida Luyten, in the 20’s. Their Amaryllis, he continued, “are characterized by large flowers 
of round, ideal shape, and dazzling pure colors of every shade, including pure whites, clear violet shades, 
delicate pinks, and many others. . . From these various hybrids only the very best individual plants are selected 
for vegetative propagation. In this way the superiority of the coming stocks is guaranteed.” 
Further Mr. Krelage reported that “the Winterflora Show held at Haarlem last February had an outstanding group 
of the firm’s hybrids and demonstrated the value of the vegetative reproduction of Amaryllis in a most convincing 
manner. The group was superior in every respect, and probably contained the very best Amaryllis now in existence’, 
THE WARMENHOVEN firm has continued the careful development of their breeding stock and the selection of only the 
highest quality types for named variety propagation to this time. We can recommend them without reserve and feel 
that they will give American Amaryllis lovers the utmost in satisfaction and quality for the money. Occasionally 
a bulb wil] be found in this strain of the wrong shade or color, but in every case that has come to our notice, 
the quality has been exceptional. 
THE FOLLOWING BULBS WILL BE OFFERED FOR 1951] (shipment to be made in late November or December according to 
ripening-off time for the bulbs in Holland. Last year the bulbs arrived from Holland in mid-December. We cannot 
guarantee early delivery on these bulbs.) 
QUEEN OF THE WHITES -- a fine, large pure white variety, with flaring petals of good substance, somewhat 
informal in shape, and utterly pleasing when well grown. few fine dots of pink 
or red sometimes appear on the inside of the second or third flowers to open, 
especially under conditions of excessive warmth or moisture. (Illustration above 
shows a fine specimen as grown by one of our customers.) This variety received an 
AA rating at 1 Amaryllis Trials of the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, 
higher cha any other pure white shown. Price $6.00 each. 
WARMENHOVEN STRAIN SEPARATE SHADES AMARYLLIS -- This season for the first time we are able to offer a 
number of sets of five separate shades of the Warmenhoven strain of Hybrid Amaryllis, 
pure white, scarlet, orange, dark red, striped and salmon. These are seedlings grown 
from selected separate shade stock, but of course may show some variation. We im- 
ported a few of these collections for special customers last year without advertis- 
ing them, and they were received with high praise everywhere. The flower types are 
outstanding but distinct from the usual run of the repens strain and offer interest- 
ing comparisons. FIVE SHADES, top size bulbs, including White, Salmon, Scarlet, 
Dark Hed, Striped or Orange, $10.00. A few separate shades bulbs sold separately, 
except an white, $3.00 each, as available. 
WARMENHOVEN COLLECTION OF NAMED VARIETIES -- We offer this special collection of five named varieties, 
including Queen Of The Whites, if still unsold, and four other varieties selected 
from our list, as Sweet Seventeen See Scarlet Beauty, Lucifer, Queen's Page, 
King of the Stripes, etc. as available. Top size bulbs: Five named varieties, 
Warmenhoven Strain, $20.00. 
Messrs. Warmenhoven & Zonen have also allotted us a limited quantity of their choice new varieties, Red Master, 
Bordeaux, Orange Favorite, and Scarlet Triumph in top size bulbs. A full account of these is available in the 
report of the Amaryllis Trials of the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland and they wel] deserve to rank with the 
best of the world’s Hybrid Amaryllis of today. We also offer a number of two other Warmenhoven pure white named 
~ varieties, Mt. Tacoma and Joan of Arc. Bordeaux (orange scarlet) and Scarlet Beauty received Single A awards at 
the 1950 Amaryllis Trials of the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland. Red Master and Moreno were awarded AA 
ratings, highest in the dark red group. These two are regarded as secre the most desirable quality hybrid 
Amaryllis today and will be in short supply and doubtless sold out early in the season. Red Master is parti- 
cularly outstanding. 
, “huge dark red of great substance with flat flowers, more than 10 inches diameter at optimum. 
AA rating, $8.00 each. 
MORENO, medium dark red with slight suffusion of rose red in throat, 8 inch flowers,AA rating, $6.00 each. 
SCARLET TRIUMPH, an outstanding type in its class, new, $5.00 each. 
BORDEAUX, clean light orange scarlet, blending to deep scarlet in throat, up to 10 inch flowers, 
Single A rating, $5,00 each. : 
MI. TAOOMA, pure white with faint green tinge in throat. Seven inch flowers. Single A rating, $5.00 each. 
JOAN OF ARC, pure Bitaten sie white with green in throat, 7 to 8 inch blooms. Single A rating, $5.00 each. 
(Mt. Tacoma or Joan of Are wil] be supplied in the Warmenhoven named variety collections 
if Queen of the Whites is sold out.) — 
SWEET SEVENTEEN, an attractive keeled rose-pink netted and veined variety with bold, wide-open, showy 
flowers, which proved or popular with our women customers last season: sold 
separately, $6.00 per bulb. 
SCARLET BEAUTY, KING OF THE STRIPES, ORANGE FAVORITE, sold separately, as available, $5.00 each. 
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