. Bulbs for winter flowering and garden decoration : autumn 1895. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Scilla Prsecox. PANCRATIUM. Amaryllis-like bulbs, with showy white flowers, suitable for house culture in pots, should be grown in light loam and leaf mould, and allowed a season to rest. Maritimum, fragrant white flowers in large umbels. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. Calathinum (Ismene), white flowers, three inches long
. Bulbs for winter flowering and garden decoration : autumn 1895. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Scilla Prsecox. PANCRATIUM. Amaryllis-like bulbs, with showy white flowers, suitable for house culture in pots, should be grown in light loam and leaf mould, and allowed a season to rest. Maritimum, fragrant white flowers in large umbels. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. Calathinum (Ismene), white flowers, three inches long, expanding in succession, fragrant. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. RANUNCULUS. Handsome flowers of fine form, very brilliant and attractive colors, they require a little heavier soil and more moisture than Anemones, otherwise treated the same ; they are very readily grown. Giant French, large double flowers in great variety of colors. 3 cts. each ; 25 cts. per doz.; $ hund. SCILLA. Very early-flowering bulbs, doing well in ordinary soil, producing fine, graceful spikes of bell-shaped flowers, they are very showy and attractive as pot plants, and require about the same treatment as Hyacinths. Nutans, long graceful spikes of white, blue and rose colored flowers, mixed or separate. 5 cts. each ; 50 per doz. Praecox or Siberica, spikes of intense blue flowers, very early, blooming outside with the Snowdrops and Crocus. 3 cts. each ; 20 cts. per doz.; $ per hund. SNOWDROPS. The Snowdrop is the first of all flowers to herald the approach of spiing. They flourish well in any soil, and bloom best if not transplanted oftener than once every three years. Being dwarf they should be set near the edge of walks, where in connection with Scilla and Crocus they show to great advantage. They also flourish well in sand or moss in pots or baskets ; they should be planted two inches deep. Doz. Hund. Double-Flowering ............... $ .20 $ Single-Flowering . ............. .15 Giant
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