. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co,, Ltd. (1912.) MISCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. Amaryllis equeslris Haniardia (Scilla) Japonica, lovely small rose flowers, suitable for rockery work €alla Lily, Japan j^rown, perfectly free from disease—size l§"-2" Ditto —size l-5"-2^" diameter. Colocasia Multifolia, (Ja ])anese AVater Taro). We recommend this to our customers as o
. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co,, Ltd. (1912.) MISCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. Amaryllis equeslris Haniardia (Scilla) Japonica, lovely small rose flowers, suitable for rockery work €alla Lily, Japan j^rown, perfectly free from disease—size l§"-2" Ditto —size l-5"-2^" diameter. Colocasia Multifolia, (Ja ])anese AVater Taro). We recommend this to our customers as one of the most interesting table decoration plants. By placing the tuber in a shallow dish with a little water and gravel at the bottom^ the same way as the Chinese sacred lily grown in water, it produces jio flower but great clusters of dark purple coloured stems with rich green leaves, almost as pretty as flowers, keeping the same appearance of beautiful growth nearly all through summer. In sj)ring, abaut April or jNIay when the young shoots begin to sprout, take a knife and cut off ab^ut J of the bottom part of tubers flat, so as not to allow the stems to grow too l^ng in the dish ; without doing so, the stems grow too tall for pot culture. Asa garden plant it is very ornamental attaining the height of from 4 to 5 feet when it is fully grown in the open ground, with cpiite a number of stems growing from single tuber Nvhich is edible when boiled like a potato (see plioto ])ago 9) Coiiophalliis ornamental per lu. 80c. per loo. .§ .50 $ very leaves of the a gela- T^YCORis SQUAMrGERA. (scc page 9 ) 80a. Konjak, spotted resembling monarch East. The Konnyak, tinous tough food is prepared from its tuber—per 100, .$ CrinuiH Asiaticum (Spider r.(ily), evergreen bulbous plant grows to tlie height of about 5 ft., leaves very splendid; in summer, pro- duces a strong flower stalk bearing white flowers at the top forming an umbel of i^bout 10 flowers—pe
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