OP SELECTIONS OF BEST LILIES | — 
| TOP SELECTIONS OF BEST LILIES 
(Continued from inside Front Cover) 
ELEGANS SEEDLINGS. .50 5.50 10.00 
These pretty hybids come in varying 
shades of apricot through orange to red 
with mahogany spots; 18’; June; cover 
4”; delivery October. 
FIRE KING. 2.00 15.00 30.00 
Here is a very rare lily that we can 
offer at an attractive price as it is a good 
multiplier easy to grow and one of the 
best hybrid Lilies. Recurved blooms, ver- 
milion-searlet, held horizontally to the 
stem in an attractive arrangement. A 
group of these is beautiful; July; 4 ft.; 
cover 5”; delivery in October. 
FORMOSANUM. 50 5.00 8.00 
(Wilsonii). Lovely large trumpets, whitq 
with green throat and suffused externally 
wine-red; fragrant and longest flowering 
period of any Lily; Sept. till frost; cover 
5 inches; 12” apart; full sun; Late Nov. 
GALAHAD. 4.00 
One of the new hybrid trumpet Lilies 
from crosses between Sulphureum Sar- 
gentae and Regale; it is a lovely shade of 
sulphur-yellow, blooming late in the sum- 
mer and carrying up to 14 blooms in a 
pretty pyramidal raceme. Cover 6”; 5 ft.; 
August; delivery in November. 
GIGANTEUM HIMAEAICUM. 
3.00 20.00 40.06 
Huge woodland giant, 6-12 feet tall with 
10-20 large trumpets, 7-8 inches long; white 
tinged with green externally and suffused 
red-purple inside. It is truely a majestic 
Lily; grow in partial shade with no hot 
sun ever reaching them, in a deep wood- 
land loam full of humus and ONLY an 
inch of soil over the bulb; do not mulch 
but in the far North they can be covered 
with evergreen branches; plant 18-24 in. 
apart; delivery in October. 
GOLD CREST. 3.00 23.00 45.00 
An interesting small flowered Lily from 
a cross between Tennuifollum and Golden 
Gleam. The flowers are unspotted, golden 
orange, slightly deflexed and carried in a 
crown at the top: of the stem; 2 ft; late 
June; delivery in October. 
GRACE MARSHALL. 1.75 10.00 20.00 
One of the Preston hybrids, a lovely 
deep red, recurved with a few dark spots, 
5 ft; July; the flowers are outward facing 
with as many as 30 blooms on a plani; 
cover 6”; delivery in October. 
HANSONII. .80 7.00 13.00 
This is an exceptional gardenvariety 
both for its beauty and its easy cultural 
requirements; bright orange-yellow, flaked 
brown, slightly recurved medium sized 
flowers; grow in partial shade to avoid 
damage to color; 5 ft; June; cover 5”; set 
1 ft. apart; delivery in October. 
HENRYI. 90 7.00 14.00 
The Golden Speciosum Lily. Recurved 
blooms in a soft golden orange-yellow with 
green central lines along each petal and 
with a few brown spots. It is not hard to 
grow; best in partial shade; fine in groups; 
August; cover 6”; 12-15’ apart; del. Nov. 
LILLIAN CUMMINS. 1.00 9.00 18.00 
A fine new hybrid with large reflexed 
blooms in a bright orange-red with a few 
garnet spots. The flowers are held almost 
horizontal. A vigorous grower, blooming 
in July; 4-5 ft; cover 6”; 1 ft. apart; sun 
or partial shade; delivery in October. 
ESTATE. -70 = 7.00 13.00 
Longiflorum. Hardy Easter Lily. A 
large white trumpet Lily that is good for 
both growing indoors or outside; it is 
not hardy in the Dakotas but is in Michi- 
gan. In the greenhouse it produces large 
fiowers and is easy to grow. It is an all- 
round Lily; 4-6 ft; cover 6’;12-15” apart: 
delivery in October. 
MARHAM. 2.50 24.00 45.00 
A Martagon album x MHansoni hybid 
with lovely flowers of buttercup-yellow, 
shaded and dotted oxblood-red. It is a 
vigorous hybrid, healthy and easily grown; 
partial shade; 4 ft tall; late June; cover 95 
inches; delivery in October. 
MAXIMOWICIL WADAL..40 5.00 9.00 
Early Tiger Lily. A refined Tiger Lily. 
healthy, easily grown; recurved, lare deen 
orange-red flowers spotted mahogany; 6 
ft.; July; cover 5”; 12” apart; delivery Sept. 
MAXWELL. 50 5.00 9.00 
This hybrid is unsurpassed for  all- 
round dependabilty in the garden and will 
produce up to 40 blooms on established 
plants. They are medium recurved in a 
brilliant orange-erd, lightly dotted black. 
It grows 6 ft. tall; flowers in July and 
should be in evey collection; cover 5”; 1 
ft. apart; sun or parrtial shade; del. Oct. 
MAHOGANY. 50 5.00 10.00 
A deep mahogany-crimson variety of 
L. elegans; Very attractive June lily; 
erect; 15-18 inches tall; cover 4’; October. 
MOSQUITO. 80 868.00 §=14.00 
A Preston hybrid with lovely small re- 
curved golden orange flowers having a few 
dark dots. It is very similiar to Davidi in 
color and shape and is very effective; 4 ft; 
July; cover 4”; delivery in October. 
PARDALINUM. 4.00 4.00 8.00 
Sunset Lily. A very hardy native Lily 
from the Northwest, easily grown and best 
partial shade and well drained moist soil. 
The bloom is Marrtigon-like, recurved, 
medium, deep orange-red, shading to crim- 
son at the petal tips; mahogany spots;6 ft; 
June-July; cover 6”; 12” apart; del. Oct. 
PAR’IAN GIGANTEUM. .50 5.50 11.06 
One of the easiest Lilies to grow, a giant, 
vigorous and increases rapidly. The flow- 
ers are giant recurved, in a brilliant crim- 
son and golden yellow, shading to orient 
red at the petal tips and profusely spotted 
a brown-purple-amber color. It stands 
eight feet high and with as many as 
30 flowers per stem and needing no staking. 
Sun or partial shade; July; cover bulbs 5”; 
18” or more apart; delivery in October. 
PHYLLUS COX. 80 867.00 13.00 
A Preston hybrid of outstanding color, 
brilliant orange-red deeping towards tha 
tips with the outside petals a lovely golden 
orange and dotted garnet-brown; sun _ or 
partial shade; 3-5 ft;; July; cover 6”;; Oct. 
G. C. CREELMAN 2.50 24.00 44.60 
Princeps. This is considered one of the 
best of the Regale x Sargentiae hybrids, 
with trumpet type flowers late in July. 
White flower with canary-yellow throat 
shading externally brownish lavender; full 
sun or partial shade; 6-8 ft; cover 6”; 12" 
apart; delivery in October. 
RED BIRD. 2.50 19.00 40.00 
In this striking new hybrid introduced 
in 1949, the flowers face outward with as 
many as 15 on a stem; 5 ft. tall. It blooms 
in late July when most Lilies are out of 
flower. Medium, dark red, shaded lighily 
with Tigrinium-rose and spotted darker; 
5 ft: cover 5”; 12” apart; delivery in Oct. 
REGALKE,. 40 4.00 7.00 
The Regals are the most popular of all 
the Lilies and it has been said that if you 
can have but one Lily, than it should be a 
Regal. It requires the least care and flowers 
year after year, and for the average gsrow- 
er, no Lily surpasses it. They should be 
planted in masses for a striking effect. — 
The flowers are trumpet-shaped, white 
with canary-yellow throat shaded exter- 
nally spinel-red; 4-6 ft; June-July; cover 
6’: delivery in October. 
Ask for best prices by the bundred. 
RUBELLUM. 1.00 10.00 19.00 
A lovely small rose-pink Lily that flow- 
ers early in May and into June, growing 
2 ft. tall. It grows in light shade where 
there is plenty of humus; a sandy loam id 
good. Flowers funnel-shaped and delight- 
fully fragrant; cover 4”; delivery in Oct. 
SCOTTIAE. .70 7.00 13.00 
A Canadian hybrid with flowers facing 
outwards, recurved, large brick red with. 
mahogany spots; blooms inMay and into 
June; 3 ft.; cover 5’; delivery in October. 
SPECIOSUM ALBUM. 1.75 13.00 27.06 
(Kraetzeri Form) A choice form of the 
pure white Speciosum Lily; green stripes 
in the middle of the petal; a beautiful Lily. 
4-5 ft: cover 5”; 12” apart; delivery Nov. 
SPECM MAGNIFICUM. .80 8.00 15.00 
Pink Show Lily. A deep carmine-pink, 
dotted crimson and larger flowered, more 
robust than S. rubrum. It is one of the 
very best Lilies for the border as all, 
Speciosums are not too exacting as to their 
cultural needs; 5 ft; August; delivery Nov. 
SUPERBUM. 50 5.00 10.00 
A native species high in the list of good 
Lilies. The flowers are recurved, large, 
bright orange-red, suffused yellow. with, 
red tips and brown dots, in a true Turk’s- 
Cap form. It prefers a moist well drained 
soil with plenty of humus and in partial 
shade; 6 ft; July-August; cover 6”; delivery 
in October. 
TENNUIFOLIUM. 40 3.00 6.00 
(Pumilum) The gayest of the little Lilies 
and among the first to bloom. It is bright 
scarlet; Turk’s-Cap type flowers on wiry 
stems; they are very pretty. June; 2 ft; 
cover 3”; full sun; delivery in September. 
Ask for quantity prices; pretty in masses. 
HARRY E. SAIER, DIMONDALE, MICHIGAN. 
