Rubrum Lily 
Oxalis for Beds and Borders 
HARDY GARDEN LILIES 
Pictured in Color On the Back Cover of This Book. 
AURATUM (Golden Banded Lily of Japan). Giant size white flowers with a golden band 
down the center of each petal. The fragrant flowers heavily spotted with crimson, are carried 
on strong stems 3 to 6 ft. high. Plant 9 to 12 inches deep. 
Large bulbs, 75¢ each; $2.10 for 3; $7.85 for 12; $14.85 for 25 
CENTIFOLIUM OLYMPIC HYBRIDS. Giant trumpet-like flowers varying in color from 
cream, yellow, fuchsia-pink and green. Trumpets are sometimes wide open and flaring, again 
long and almost closed. Petals at times twisted and ruffled. Plant very robust, growing 8 feet 
high, and flowers very fragrant. Bulbs, 65c each; $1.75 for 3; $6.65 for 12; $13.25 for 25 
HENRYI. Brilliant salmon-orange flowers with reddish brown spots. A very easily grown variety 
that bears 15 to 20 large trumpet-like reflexed blooms on 6-foot stems in August. One of the 
better Lilies for the garden. Pacific Coast grown bulbs, 10 inches or more in circumference. 
Each 75c; $2.10 for 3; $7.85 for 12; $14.85 for 25 
REGALE or ROYAL LILY. Large and fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers with pure white 
centers, canary-yellow in the throat; outside of petals white with a shading of lilac-pink. Stems 
grow 4 to 6 feet high and a single plant will often bear from 15 to 20 blossoms. Blooms June 
and July. One of the most beautiful and easiest grown of all Lilies, individual blooms are six 
inches in length and 4 to 5 inches across the mouth. Plant 5 inches deep in good, well-drained 
soil. Pacific Coast grown large bulbs, 10 inches or more in circumference. 
Each 65c; $1.75 for 3; $6.65 for 12; $13.25 for 25 
SPECIOSUM RUBRUM. The best known and best liked of the recurved type of garden Lilies. 
The tall, sturdy, 4- to 5-foot plants carry well-branched sprays of delicately scented flowers of 
deep rosy pink with a light edge and vivid crimson speckles. They flower in August and Sep- 
tember. Speciosum Lilies are stem rooting and therefore should be planted 9 inches or more 
deep in soil of good drainage. Pacific Coast grown bulbs. 10 inches or more in circumference. 
Each 75c; $2.10 for 3; $7.85 for 12; $14.85 for 25 
See Our Lily Collection Offer On the Back Cover of This Book, 
Madeira Vine - Climbing Mignonette 
An. excellent climber, with beautiful, thick, glossy, light green, almost transparent leaves, 
climbing almost to any desired height. The flowers are small, borne in racemes, and very sweet 
scented. It thrives in the house better than any climber, except, perhaps, the Ivy; makes an 
excellent screen for windows; is unsurpassed for bas- 
kets and extremely useful as an out-of-door climber, 
growing very rapidly. Plant outdoors in May in fairly 
good soil but must be protected by a mulch in freezing 
weather. Strong tubers, 25¢ each; 
65c for 3; $2.35 for 12 
Oxalis - American Shamrock 
A splendid little plant for beds, borders, pot grow- 
ing, and for baskets. The plants grow about twelve 
inches high, are compact, bushy growing, full of briaht 
green foliage that makes an excellent background for 
the bright colored flowers that cover the plant the entire 
season. Plant the bulbs outdoors after danger of frost 
is over, 1 inch deep and 6 inches apart, or in pots in- 
doors as soon as you receive them from us. These bulbs 
are not hardy, they must be taken up and stored during 
the winter. 
Deppei. Small white flower. Excellent for borders. 
Blooms all summer. 
Lasiandra. Large deep crimson flowers are carried in 
clusters on 16-inch stems above bright areen, decorative 
foliage. Blooms from spring until late fall. 
Either of the above kinds: 12 for 45c; 25 for 85c; 
100 for $3.00 
Doubie Tuberose 
Excelsior, Dwarf Pearl. Delightfully fragrant double 
waxlike flowers on long spikes carried on 2-foot stems 
that make it a very desirable cut flower. If you want 
early bloom, start the bulbs growing in pots in February 
or March and transplant into the garden in May. For late 
flowering plant outdoors in May and June, 4 inches deep and 12 
inches apart. The original bulb will not flower the second time 
but the small bulbs or offsets may be saved in a warm dry place, 
and planted the next spring for future flowering. It will take 
two years of culture to make these small bulblets into flowering 
bulbs. Unusually large bulbs. 30c each; 85¢ for 3; 
$3.00 for 12; $5.85 for 25 
Henryi Lily 
Hyacinthus Candicans - 
Summer Hyacinth 
A luxuriant growing, summer flowering plant spreading 2 to 3 
feet and bearing during July and August, 20 to 30 white, bell- 
shaped flowers on stems 4 to 5 feet high. Set the bulbs out in 
the garden when danger of frost is over, 3 inches deep and 
2 feet apart. In the colder climates take the bulbs up and store 
like Gladiolus. Large bulbs, 25c each; 65c for 3; $2.35 for 12 
GOOD GLADIOLUS INSURANCE 
Gladiolus bulbs can be protected from thrip when they are in 
storage or planted in the garden by the use of 5% DDT Dust. 
Dust as soon as you dig them and again after the bulbs are dry 
and you clean them. Leave this dust on the bulbs when you 
plant them. When the plants are growing dust with 5% DDT 
or spray with 50% DDT spray material every 10 days. 
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Don’t mix fertilizer with the soil when you plant your bulbs. 
Spread ait over the top of the earth after they are set out and 
covered, 
‘Chlordane dusted on top of the soil after the bulbs have been The Fragrant 
planted: protects them from wire worms. Tuberose 
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