. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. 8 CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co., Ltd. (1910). FRITILLARIA. per 100 per Fritillaria Kaincliatensis, small lovely bell-shaped flower, dark purple in colour, almost black $ $45-00 Fritillaria Tlmnbergii, hanging yellowish green flower with greenish veins and spotted inside niSCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. Lycoris Radiata, (Nerine Japonica) superb bulbous plant, in autumn, pr
. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. 8 CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co., Ltd. (1910). FRITILLARIA. per 100 per Fritillaria Kaincliatensis, small lovely bell-shaped flower, dark purple in colour, almost black $ $45-00 Fritillaria Tlmnbergii, hanging yellowish green flower with greenish veins and spotted inside niSCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. Lycoris Radiata, (Nerine Japonica) superb bulbous plant, in autumn, produces fine red flowers, petals very much recurved, boldly projecting curved stamens, very attractive. Leaves produced after the flower is over—per 100, 70c. ; per i,coo, § Lycoris Radiata Alba, (Nerine Japonica, white). This beautiful new species of Lycoris was recently discovered in the southern Japan and cannot fail to be appreciated in Europe and America as a valuable addition to our autumn flowering bulbous plants, as it will be a good companion plant to the south African Nerine. The white flower 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 appearance and will command a conspicuous place in the conservatory. We think ourselves fortunate 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 offers to the hybridizer great opportunities for improvement, and we have no doubt that within a few years one or other of our distant friends will be re- turning to us a pure white variety that we may raise "stock" for them as the bulbs of Lycoris multiply in Japan rapidly—per 10, 75c.; per 100, $ Lycoris Aurea, close ally of the Lycoris radiata but pure yellow instead of red, and wider spreading, with petals a
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