ORIGINAL GRACILIS 
VAN MEEUWEN’S ORIGINAL GRACILIS—in assorted 
shades, $9.00 each. (First time offered in America at this 
price. These priced at $15.00 and up a few years ago.) (See 
George Alders’ article on Van Meeuwen Superiora and 
Gracilis (Graceful) Amaryllis in 1950 HERBERTIA (American 
Plant Life Society) page 109, with color plate, and history 
of Gracilis type.) 
AMARYLLIS SEED 
_ Hybrid Amaryllis are readily raised from seed with or- 
dinary care in the lath house, greenhouse or window garden, 
requiring 18 months to three years to bloom, under good 
culture. We offer the best seed available, the Ludwig Strain 
Holland-grown seed, especially packed for us in originator’s 
envelops. Offered subject to crop, available in U.S. July- 
September. Germination reports have been very good on 
this seed in recent years See H. P. Traub article on grow- 
ing white Ludwig Seed in 1953 Herbertia for best technique. 
A packet of 25 seed can be started in a six-inch pot. Early 
seed orders are advised for best results. 
Prices per packet of 25 seeds each. (Imported by us.) 
PORE GW HT oes $2.00 SCART pe ee 1.50 
ROSE PIN Kae a eee $2.00 IDYBNRUES VRIOID) $1.50 
SALMON SHADES ___$2.00 ORAN Gi sa 51 50 
BEST evMIXE D 2 aaeeee $1.00 SRE Dee ree $1.50 
(All shades) 
Planting suggestions supplied. 
Our own Florida Grown seed, hand-hybridized between 
best Dutch and American strain bulbs, the Amaryllis of the 
future, $1.00 per packet, 25 seed, mixed colors. 
HYBRID AMARYLLIS SEEDLINGS 
Small Seedlings, 6 months to one year old, Dutch stock, 
from pots, or flats, assorted, or scarlet, $1.50 doz. 
HYBRID AMARYLLIS 
AMERICAN STRAINS 
HOWARD AND SMITH AMARYLLIS 
This is the best exhibition quality strain of Hybrid Am- 
aryllis available in the United States. It was originated and 
its breeding continued until his death by the late Fred H. 
Howard of California, famous hybridizer and rosarian after 
whom one of today’s leading rose varieties is named. The 
bulbs are of outstanding quality yet reasonable in price. We 
offer blooming size bulbs, in best available mixtures, grown 
outdoors in California, under proper conditions of irriga- 
tion and fertilization. All are produced from the finest 
selected seed stock maintained under glass. Blooming sizes, 
three bulbs $2.50; $8.50 per doz. No less than three bulbs 
can be sold to give a proper idea of the strain. 
MEAD STRAIN AMARYLLIS 
This is the standard and most popular Florida strain 
of mixed hybrid Amaryllis, vigorous, field grown bulbs, color- 
ful for decorative, cut flower, pot plant and garden use not 
especially for exhibition stock, although fine types are found 
among these bulbs. They are descended from the leading 
hybrids introduced from Europe into Florida by Dr. Henry 
Nehrling and Theodore L. Mead fifty years ago and are the 
largest selling hybrid Amaryllis in the world. Mixed colors, 
blooming sizes, three for $1.00 or 12 for $3.50. A, real 
bargain in bulb beauty. 
CAMMACK STRAIN NAMED AMARYLLIS VARIETIES . 
A selection of the Mead Amaryllis, hybridized and im- 
proved by the Cammacks, at Lake Hope Flower Farm in 
Central Florida. There is a charm and pleasing beauty 
about these American hybrids, which are mainly decorative 
rather than exhibition types. A dozen bulbs of a variety 
will bloom with remarkable uniformity when well grown 
and established, and they would be an economical sensation 
at any flower show. They represent the only strain of named 
varieties of American Amaryllis available today except the 
McCann doubles. Their reasonable price and ease of culture 
have made them very popular. 
CAMMACK NAMED VARIETIES — GIANT NEAR 
WHITE, $1.25; MARGARET ROSE, large rose-and-white, out- 
standing, $1.25; PRINCESS ELIZABETH, $1.25; MAIDEN’S 
BLUSH, pink blush on white, with darker penciling, $2.00; 
HARVEST MOON, Mandarin red, Dutch form, $1.25; SAL- 
MON QUEEN, one of the most popular numbers, a beautiful, 
open salmon-pink, striking and large when well grown, $1.25; 
TARTAN, a colorfully patterned orange and white striped 
flower, $1.00; CAMMACK’S STAR, dark red and white in 
center, $1.00; WINGS OF SNOW salmon-orange, large, white 
center, extending to tips, $1.00 each; FLORIDA BEAUTY— 
(new) originator’s description—‘‘very large Leopoldi type, 
” 
flecked orange-red and white, tall, fine show type bloom, 
$2.00. 
CAMMACK STRAIN SEEDLINGS, mixed colors, 50c 
each, $5.00 per doz., $35.00 per 100. : 
AMARYLLIS SPECIES 
AMARYLLIS BELLACONNA, LINN. (Hippeastrum 
equestre, Herb.)—the dainty, coral-red, old-fashioned Florida 
Amaryllis, native of the West Indies, now becoming scarce 
and rare. See fine illustration and poetic description (page 
70) in the new book, FLOWERING PLANTS FROM CUBAN 
GARDENS, 1951, published in Havana by the Garden Section 
of the Havana Women’s Club. Text in English and Spanish, 
a volume most valuable to the fancier of tropical and sub- 
tropical plants, shrubs, etc. This is the bulb which was the 
basis for the now famous Amaryllis-Hippeastrum nomen- 
clature controversy which stirred botanical circles for a 
decade. (See early issues of HERBERTIA, yearbook of the 
American Plant Life Society.) Further information in our 
1949 catalogue, copies 3c on request. Blooming size bulbs, 
50c each, $2.50 for six. Delivery any time. Prefers sandy 
loam. 
AMARYLLIS ALBERTI—double form of above, good 
bulbs, $1.00 each, smaller, 50c. (Very rare.) 
AMARYLLIS STRIATA (RUTILA) — a variable dwarf 
species from Brazil, used in creating the new miniature 
strains of hybrid Amaryllis in Europe. Holland type (as 
available) $3.00 each. 
AMARYLLIS STRIATA (RUTILA) var. FULGIDA—a 
handsome dwarf form, dainty salmon-rose which will bloom 
from small or large bulbs. Medium sized bulbs, $3.00 each; 
extra large, $5.00 each. Small sizes, $2.00 each. These are 
rare and in short supply. Fine for pot culture. We recom- 
mend them. 
AMARYLLIS JOHNSONI—the beautiful and stately St. 
Joseph’s Lily of Louisiana and other parts of the lower 
South, likes heavy soil and good drainage, dark red with fine 
white striping, long, trumpet-shaped flower, 75c each, three 
for $2.00. See the early 19th Century plates of this in Wil- 
frid Blunt’s “THE ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION,” 
meas 1950, pages 174 and 213, done by Redoute and Mrs. 
ury. 
AMARYLLIS RETICULATA var. STRIATIFOLIA, “Mrs. 
Garfield.” This is an old form of the famous striped-leaved 
lavender-pink netted and lined Amaryllis, most unusual 
among the medium and large flowered types because it is fall 
blooming. A lovely thing in its season. Requires careful 
attention to drainage for best growth. We grow in flats of 
sandy loam. Offers much to hybridizers. $3.50 each. 
AMARYLLIS BIFIDA (ADVENA)—this is the beautiful 
miniature dark red Amaryllis (now assigned to the sub- 
genus RHODOPHIALA) found in gardens over the lower 
South and into Southern California. The species BIFIDA is 
from Argentina and has long been wrongly identified as A. 
advena from Chile. It is half-hardy, with long slender foli- 
age in winter and blooming with umbels of four to six flower: 
on foot-high stems in late summer without leaves. Widely 
known as the Ox-Blood Lily. See plate of AMARYLLIS 
BIFIDA in HERBERTIA, 1953; and that of AMARYLLIS 
ADVENA in ‘lraub & Moldenke’s “Amaryllidaceae”. A. bi- 
fida is valuable and useful for outdoors in South and similar 
climates. Likes sandy loam, good drainage. Bulbs are an 
inch or two in diameter with long neck. Half hardy into 
eS and the Carolinas.—-50c each; $2.00 for six; $3.50 
OZ. 
AMARYLLIS (RHODOPHIALA) BIFIDA var. SPATH 
ACEA (formerly listed as Amaryllis rosea)—rose-pink, minia 
ture variety—of above, $1.00 each. Very rare. 
McCANN DOUBLE AMARYLLIS 
McCANN DOUBLE AMARYLLIS — a remarkable hy- 
bridizing achievement of a late Florida nurseryman, Capt. 
J. J. McCann, who originated this double flowering strain 
of hybrid Amaryllis in South Florida some 30 years ago by 
crossing the Nehrling hybrid Amaryllis (forerunner of the 
Mead Strain) with the little double species Amaryllis AL- 
BERTI. The McCann double Amaryllis are being perpetu- 
ated for the trade by E. J. McCann, son of the originator. 
NAMED VARIETIES 
HELEN HULL—named in honor of the famous American 
garden club leader, deep orange red with light throat, 
medium doublng, erect carriage, $2.50. 
_ CAPT. McCANN—bold and striking, full wide flower, 
vigorous scarlet orange, hose-in-hose effect with ruffles, $2.50. 
MADIRA BICKEL—showy rose-red with full ruffled 
doubling, very decorative, $5.00. 
