Royal Dutch 
Hybrid Amaryllis 
flowering plants. 
MAMMOTH BULBS BY COLOR 
For gardeners with greenhouses we recommend cut- 
ting the flowering stalks when the first bloom has opened. 
Amaryllis make a sensational cut flower—all buds open 
fully in water and will keep for two weeks. 
Many customers have found that Amaryllis make un- 
usual and lasting Christmas presents. We will gift-wrap; 
enclose your card and mail before December 15th, for a 
25 cent fee per bulb shipped. Gift orders, however, must 
be in our hands by December 1. But order now—world- 
wide demand for this premium strain has always ex- 
ceeded supply and probably always will. We buy as 
many as this house will sell us tor U. S. distribution. You 
can get these bulbs nowhere else. 
Four to six blooms on each flowering stalk; some bulbs 
throw two stalks. Each guaranteed to bloom the first 
year. 
Pink Shades Each $4.00 
Pure White Each $4.50 
Dark Red Shades Each $3.50 
Scarlet Shades Each $3.50 
Orange Shades Each $3.50 
Salmon Shades Each $3.50 
Deepest violet tints over dark red base Each $3.50 
6 AUTUMN, 1953. White Flower Farm 
Royal Saye! Amaryllis 
The rarest strain of Amaryllis is the one developed by Warmenhoven, a small 
Dutch house which started hybridizing them seventy years ago and which con- 
sequently has about a fifty year start on everyone else. This strain differs from 
others in many respects: 1) colors are solid or, when striped, the markings are 
soft and indefinite rather than hard and gar'sh, 2) blossoms have an irridescence 
or luster found in no other strain, 3) bulbs have great stamina and are highly 
resistant to disease, and 4) the strain has a wider color range than most. These 
hybrids will bloom for the rankest amateur. Fact is, we guarantee each to bloom. 
Amaryllis are best used as winter flowering plants and by storing a part of 
your bulbs in a cool dry place you can have these sensational flowers in bloom 
from December until March. Complete cultural instructions are enclosed with 
each order. With only minimum care these Hybrids will throw more and more 
flowering stalks year after year. Here is a truly lasting investment in winter 
NAMED HYBRID AMARYLLIS 
Last winter in Holland two of our partners were able to 
get a very limited quantity of the rare named hybrids, 
the end result of over 70 years of hybridizing. These 
flowers have a luster we have never seen before. Few 
ever have been offered to the public; most go to special- 
ists and to the botanical gardens of the world. Bulbs are 
huge and, of course, we guarantee each to bloom and 
each to be true to variety. 
Agatha Each $12.50 
Very dark orange-red. 
Red Champion Each $12.50 
The deepest of red with the center shading to blackest 
red. 
Mont Blanc Each $15.00 
Alabaster white with delicate shadings of lightest green 
at the throat. 
Orange Nassau Each $12.50 
Named after the Royal Dutch Family and it is not orange. 
Color: a light, burned-brick is close, if, of course, we are 
thinking of the same kind of Dutch brick. 
Irene Each $15.00 
This is the daintiest of pink shadings. 
Mme. Curie Each $15.00 
As close to pure salmon as you will find. 
PAEONIES (Peonies) 
There are hundreds of varieties of Peonies. We have a 
very simple means of selecting them. We grow them; 
then, if we like them, if the stalk stands straight under 
the heaviest load of flowers, we sell them. 
Once established, Peonies bloom freely for 25 years 
or more. We deliver only heavy roots—5 eyes and up. 
This size invariably produces flowers the very first spring; 
smaller roots rarely bloom until the second or third year. 
Peonies are of easy culture. They are great feeders, 
not finicky about soils. Plant (in the fall only) with the 
eyes 1% inches below ground. When frozen in, mulch 
with hay or leaves. No mulching is necessary afterwards. 
All make delightful cut flowers: when cut in heavy bud 
they will open and keep a week in water. Never cut 
more than two-thirds of a bush. Then snip off any seed 
pods that develop on the remaining stems. 
Double Varieties 
Baroness Schroeder Each $1.50; Three $4.00; Doz. $15.00 
Flesh white on sturdy stems. Fragrant. Blooms late. 
Duluth Each $2.50; Three $7.00; Doz. $24.00 
An outstanding late white. (Supply limited.) 
Festiva Maxima Each $2.00; Three $5.50; Doz. $20.00 
Large pure white with occasional flecks of crimson at base 
of petal. Vigorous and early. Very fragrant. 
Le Cygne Each $4.00; Three $10.50; Doz. $35.00 
Large ivory without markings. Very early and fully double. 
Fragrant. (Supply limited.) 
Longfellow Each $2.00; Three $5.50; Doz. $20.00 
Double midseason crimson. Does not fade. Color intensi- 
fied by showing of golden stamens in center. (Supply 
limited.) 
Martha Bullock Each $1.75; Three $4.75; Doz. $15.50 
Very large flower of old rose pink. Late season. Fragrant. 
Mon. Jules Elie Each $1.50; Three $4.00; Doz. $15.00 
Quite tall free-flowering, light-rose pink. 
Myrtle Gentry Each $2.00; Three $5.50; Doz. $20.00 
Light pink blooms fading to white with age. This is the 
finest delicate pink. (Supply limited.) 
Sarah Bernhardt Each $1.50; Three $4.00; Doz. $15.00 
Strong-growing dark pink of medium height. 
Solange Each $1.50; Three $4.00; Doz. $15.00 
Creamy white with blends of buff and pale salmon pink. 
Petals dense. It is a late bloomer. 
Therese Each $2.00; Three $5.50; Doz. $15.00 
Dark pink of medium height. 
