PHILADELPHICUM BLACK DIAMOND A wonderful and 
weirdly beautiful lily. The blood red flowers are heavily 
blotched with black from base to tip of petals. 
Three year old bulbs from, scales. Not available in 1952 
SUPERBUM, var. COPPERHEAD An odd and attractively 
colored lily that is difficult to describe. The petals and 
sepals are a pastel tawny orange with a bronze glow. The 
midribs on the outside are dark and the deep maroon spots 
on the inside are comparatively large and conspicuous. The 
flower is free from any red shading. Each $15.00 
SUPERBUM, var. HOWARD HENRY The very handsome 
blood-red flowers, ““Nopal Red” R. are of an exceptionally 
rich shade and highly glossy. The throat is soft orange 
ornamented with tiny dark dots. The texture of the petals 
is thick and waxlike. It is a lily of great beauty and dis- 
tinction, and conspicuous from afar. Each $20.00 
SUPERBUM “JO HENRY” Perhaps the only lily with branch- 
ed peduncles ever found in America. This amazing and very 
beautiful lily has created quite a sensation. The stately 
spires of bloom on plants scarcely established are 8 feet tall 
and 18 inches in diameter. The splendid light red flowers are 
produced in profusion. A strong and vigorous grower with 
good stems, it is as hardy as a rock to below zero without 
protection. It flowers in August. This wonderful lily from 
the mountains of Alabama is one of the finest plants ever 
found by Mrs. Henry. Each $100.00 
SUPERBUM, MRS. HENRY’S NEW VARIETY A splendid 
lily found in a Florida swamp six years ago. The coloring 
is much the same as L. superbum, but the longer, wide- 
spreading stamens give grace and distinction to the flowers. 
The leaves are much longer and narrower than the type and 
the stem is exceptionally rigid. It is a vigorous grower and 
reached a height of over 10 feet in its native home. It comes 
into bloom three or four weeks later than L. superbum. It 
was illustrated in 1942, “American Horticultural Society 
Lily Year Book” on page 91. It has withstood subzero win- 
ters without any protection. Each $25.00 
SUPERBUM, var. NORMAN HENRY This is a rare yellow 
form that was only recently discovered. It is a character- 
tistic L. superbum with blooms of a clear, unshaded and un- 
spotted butter yellow. The flowers are of splendid texture 
with a surface like fine panne velvet. It is in best form 
when gardens are apt to be rather bare, late July and ear- 
ly August. And it is, without question, one of the most 
valuable garden plants in the world today and, more than 
that, one of the loveliest. L. superbum Norman Henry was 
given an Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society 
on September 7, 1948. Each $25.00 
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