. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. 9 radiatsi alba, (Nerine japonica, white). This beautiful new species of Tycoris was recently discovered in the southern Japan and cannot fail to be api)ieciated in ICurope and America as a valuable addition to our autumn no\verin<; bulbous plants, as it will be a good companion plant to the south African Nerine. The white llower is large and. spreading with a slight primrose tinge at the
. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. 9 radiatsi alba, (Nerine japonica, white). This beautiful new species of Tycoris was recently discovered in the southern Japan and cannot fail to be api)ieciated in ICurope and America as a valuable addition to our autumn no\verin<; bulbous plants, as it will be a good companion plant to the south African Nerine. The white llower is large and. spreading with a slight primrose tinge at the bottom of the florets, the stem is stout and robust and the whole plant has a noble a[)pearance and will C(Miimand a conspicuous place in the con- servator}'. W'e think ourselves fc^tunate to be the introducers of so important a novelty for our friends in Europe and America and think it will find a favoured place amongst the flowering greenhouse plants of September and October. This white Lycoris oflln's to the In'bridizer great opportunities for improvement, and we have no doubt tliat within a few }'ears one or other of our distant friends will COLOCASIA MULTIFOLIA. (sec page 7) be returning to us*^a pure white variety that we may raise "stock" for them as the bulbs (>f lAXoris multiply in Japan rapidly —per lo, 75c. ; 100, $ Lycoris sailguiliea, flowers orange-red produced in IVIay and June before the leaves come out, 5-6 flowers on one stalk smaller than the Nerine japonica and not recurving at all— per 10, 20c. ; per 100, $ Lycoris sailguiliea alba, the same with white flower—per 10, $ Lycoris squaniigera, 5-6 flowers on one stalk purplish pink with long stamens. ver\' show}^ (see cut page 7)—per 100, $ ; per 1,000, $ Lycoris sqiiamigera purpurea, The remarkable point of this new L\-coris is the pink flower shaded with exquisite brilliant purple, produced in clusters of 6-7 at the top of a long stalk of about IJ ft. like an Amar
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