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diameter, Hyacinth blue, like Galatea, tall plants, hand- 
some, erect, medium green foliage. Superb for cutting when 
available in quantity. Can be pinched to make lower. $2.00 
per doz. «, 
_ LADY LITTLETON—another tall, attractive variety, 
with unusual olive-green tomentose foliage, flowers like a 
ee Pees Gloxinia, rosy-mauve with orange dotted throat. 
: OZ. 
FRANCOIS CARDINALIS—the most dwarf and com- 
pact species of all, light green, attractive, bushy foliage, 
small blue and white slipper-like trumpet flowers, distinct 
and appealing—first time available in quantity. $1.50 doz. 
STORM CLOUD (A. Scheeri)—a species near the slipper 
Gloxinia flower in form, rather dwarf, deep blue, light green 
foliage, different and beautiful. $2.50 doz. 
MME. GEORGES—a rare rich shade of violet purple, 
dwarf, trailing, reddish green foliage. $1.50 doz. 
/ PASTEL BLEND—this is a blend of A. Longiflora types, 
in pastel shades mostly, including some new seedlings. 
$2.50 doz. 
CHARM—a new light pink, slightly larger flowers than 
Little Beauty, dark foliage, semi-dwarf, showy and free 
blooming, rare. 50c each, $5.00 doz. 
5 LENORE—new Van Tabergen introduction, intense glow- 
ing violet-purple with orange throat markings, sturdy, up- 
right type. 50c each. 
MILTONI—a rare raspberry red variety with long tubu- 
lar flowers, very unusual and lovely. $2.50 doz. 
GLORIOSA LILIES 
Gloriosa Lilies have been one of our most popular 
specialties for more than 15 years and we are constantly 
adding to our list of these exotic and beautiful flowers. They 
are one of nature’s most colorful and showy blooms, a bulb 
vine, with tubers V or L-shaped, which are usually parted 
at the angle to produce two growing arms before sale. Can 
be handled in North in summer like Gladiolus, lifted in 
winter, and are good outdoors ali the year in frost-free areas 
in the Lower South. 
GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA 
GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA is the easiest and most 
spectacular species, single tubers, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 
each, according to size. A line of these can be grown like 
sweet peas. Also useful in pots, tubs or for border use in 
the garden. Available all the year. Blooms are widely used 
by florists for bouquets and corsages. See our article on 
Gloriosas in Plant Life 1951 (American Plant Life Society) 
pages 143-53. G. Rothschildiana grows four to six feet tall.. 
Likes sandy loam. 
GLORIOSA SUPERBA-— is the old favorite, known since 
1680, with orange-red and yellow crisped petals, tall vining 
species. Bulbs will be available Jan.-Aug. We offer 50c ana 
75¢ sizes; a few largest $1.00 each. 
GLORIOSA PLANTI—the new and delightful dwarf 
species, with glossy green leaves, bright orange and yellow 
flowers, half the size and the shape of G. Rothschildiana, a 
delightful and easy plant for the lath house, the greenhouse 
or the border, or for growing in large ‘‘pans” (flat pots of 
florists used for azaleas, etc.). Grows two or three feet. tall, 
with many flowers. Will cling to two-foot chicken wire. 
Available January-August. 50c and $1.00 each, according to 
size; largest size $2.00 each. 
GLORIOSA CARSONI—new species from East Africa, 
tall, up to eight feet, with many medium to large flowers, 
claret red and lemon yellow, deepening to maroon. Distinct 
and unusual. Available February-July. $2.00 and $3.00 each. 
GLORIOSA VERSCHUURI—a new species described in 
1951 from bulbs collected for the Amsterdam Botanic Gar- 
den, like G. Rothschildiana in habit, but shorter, more com- 
pact flower with broader petals. Shows little variation with 
us, whereas G. Rothschildiana often shows variation to some 
degree in size and form. An attractive flower for corsages 
and bowls. Petals not so sharply recurved. Very rare. $5.00 
each. Short this year. 
GLORIOSA SUPERBA. VAR. LUTEA—a remarkable 
form of Superba with clear, rich yellow flowers at first 
opening, later deepening to a tawny red. Scarce. $3.00 each. 
Will bloom from small sizes. 
GLORIOSA SUPERBA. VAR. SIKKIMI—a larger and 
more beautiful form of Superba obtained by us from Sikkim 
below the Himalayas. The species Superba is found both in 
India and Africa, and this Indian form is outstanding under 
good culture. $2.00 each. 
MEXICANA—blotched blue and white, A. 
type, very pretty. 35c each. 
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 
TEN VARIETIES, our selection, two tubercules each, 
$2.50. TWENTY VARIETIES, our selection, five tubercles 
each (100 in all), $7.50. Standard varieties mixed, $1.00 doz. 
Choice and rare varieties mixed, $2.50 doz., $15.00 per 100. 
Three or six at dozen rate on ALL ACHIMENES VARIE- 
TIES. Shipment January through April as long as available, 
except during cold spells. We pack carefully to protect vi- 
tality of tubercles and seldom have complaints. SPECIAL 
BEGINNERS OFFER—six each of ROYAL PURPLE, AN- 
DERSONI, PATENS, CATTLEYA, DAINTY QUEEN, MAS- 
TER INGRAM, MAGNIFICUM, VERSCHAFFELTI, MME. 
GEHEUNE, and MASTERPIECE, $5.00. Please allow for 
substitution in event of certain varieties being sold out. 
BEST AVAILABLE WHITE—DAINTY QUEEN. BEST 
REDS—MINIATA, MASTER INGRAM, and MILTONI. BEST 
PINKS—LITTLE BEAUTY, CHARM and PINK BEAUTY. 
BEST PURPLES—ROYAL PURPLE, PATENS, MASTER- 
PIECE, MADUNA, LOVELINESS, VIVID, VENUSTA, MME. 
GEORGES. BEST LAVENDERS—CATTLEYA, VERSCHAF- 
FELTI, NESSIDA. BEST BLUES—GALATEA, MAGNIFI- 
CUM, ANDERSONI, BIG BOY BLUE, MEXICANA. BEST 
NOVELTY VARIETIES—FRANCOIS CARDINALIS, LADY 
LITTLETON, VENUSTA, MME. GEHEUNE, MASTER IN- 
GRAM, MASTERPIECE, NESSIDA, VEKSCHAFFELTI, 
CATTLEYA, MADUNA, MINIATA, MILTONI, STORM 
CLOUD. Many of these are quite unknown to the average 
flower lover. 
BLOOD LILY or HAEMANTHUS 
__. _HAEMANTHUS MULTIFLORUS—Football Lily, Fireball 
Lily or East African “Blood Lily” is one of nature’s show- 
iest flowering bulbs, spectacular to the utmost degree. A 
plant of H. multiflorus with its globe of red flowers on a 
foot-long stem, displayed in the window of a store on a busy 
street when properly shown off with black velvet backdrop 
and overhead lighting will stop traffic. 
The bulb is the size of an Amaryllis at maturity, and 
medium size bulbs, 1% to 2 inches in diameter, will usually 
bloom well. They are always scarce and in our experience 
far superior to H. Katherinae, offered in California, which 
seems unsuited to culture in the Lower South. 
In greenhouses and home window gardens in the North, 
H. Multiflorus is superb, showy and amazing. Easy culture, 
like an amaryllis. Bulbs are dormant in winter and spring 
and are shipped at that time. They bloom April to July. 
Price $10.00 each, largest size, $5.00 medium, and $3.00 small 
sizes. Medium and large sizes should bloom. A scarce item 
and rarely offered in the American trade. 
GERBERA DAISIES 
We offer the Hersey strain of Duplex Gerbera Daisies, 
large, broad-petaled perennial flowers, in a fine mixture of 
colors and types, wonderful plants for the Southern garden 
where freezing is not severe. They are hardy with protection 
outside into Tennessee and the Carolinas and are at their 
best around the Gulf Coast and over the lower South gen- 
erally. They can be grown in the summer garden North. 
Price $3.50 per dozen. Double form, $9.00 per doz. Six at 
half the dozen rate. 
FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS 
The past season was our most successful ever in the 
sales of Fancy Leaved Caladiums, these multi-colored gems 
of Aroid foliage plants, grown as garden and pot plants for 
their fantastically beautiful leaves. The flowers are rela- 
tively unimporant and inconspicuous, and of interest only 
to hybridizers and the botanically curious. 
Caladiums are grown from tubers which are planted in 
spring or early summer. Their natural growth period is 
summer and fall, and they are at their best from May to 
September. Caladiums have been a specialty of Lakemont 
Gardens for a score of years. At one or another time we 
hay grown more than a hundred varieties. At present we 
have settled down to about 25 or 30 varieties which are the 
best available today in the standard large leaved varieties, 
sold in 142-2% inch sizes and the Arrow and Lance Leaved 
kinds, which are sold in smaller sizes, % to 1 inch in some 
varieties. 
The Caladiums outshine the Achimenes, Gloxinias and 
Kaempferias as interesting, beautiful and useful summer pot 
plants. For fuller account of the various Fancy Leaved 
Caladiums we can refer you to our article on “Caladiums” 
in “PLANT LIFE”, 1950, pages 131-142. This article has il- 
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