. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 52 B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogue. Lilium Giganteum. Lilium Tenuifolium. NEW AND CHOICE LILIES. Ou
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 52 B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogue. Lilium Giganteum. Lilium Tenuifolium. NEW AND CHOICE LILIES. Our collection of Lilies is one of the largest in the world, and contains all the new and rare varieties of recent introduction. See our Autumn Catalogue for directions for cultivation. liilium Iiongiflorum var. Havrisii. Tliis is supposed to he a seedling of Zilium Eximium, tlie habit and flower being almost identical with that well known variety. It bids fair to eclipse all other forms of Lilium Longiflorwm, in size of flower, freedom of bloom, and, above all, its continuous flowering, and the ease with which it can be forced into bloom, even in midwinter. The flowers are trumpet- shaped, measuring from seven to nine inches across, of good substance, and very fragrant. Habit of growth, free but dwarf, height being from fllteen to twenty inches. Perhaps the most commendable feature in this remai'kable variety is its distinctive cliaractcristic of blooming two or three times in succession, without rest, one grower reporting that it flowered last year no less than three times from a bulb no larger than a. pea. Wo believe that, for a house plant, it will be unsurpassed, while the ease with which it can be forced, and the durability of the cut flowers, render it indisi)ensable tor florists. 1st size, 75 cents each, per Doz.; 2d size, 50 cents each, iier Doz. liiliiiiii Loiigifloriim vsir. floribuudn. Tliis desirable new variety is also of the Longiflorum class, and was oft
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