. Season of trade catalogue of choice gladioli and other summer-flowering bulbs and plants. A perfectly hardy Amaryllis pro-ducing beautiful pink flowers. Description — Lycoris Squa-migera produces in early springattractive green foliage whichgrows until July when it ripensoff and disappears, and one notfamiliar with its habits wouldthink the bulb had died, butabout a month later, as if bymagic, the flower stalks springfrom the ground to a height oftwo or three feet, developing anumbel of large and beautifullily-shaped flowers three to fourinches across and from eight totwelve in number, of a
. Season of trade catalogue of choice gladioli and other summer-flowering bulbs and plants. A perfectly hardy Amaryllis pro-ducing beautiful pink flowers. Description — Lycoris Squa-migera produces in early springattractive green foliage whichgrows until July when it ripensoff and disappears, and one notfamiliar with its habits wouldthink the bulb had died, butabout a month later, as if bymagic, the flower stalks springfrom the ground to a height oftwo or three feet, developing anumbel of large and beautifullily-shaped flowers three to fourinches across and from eight totwelve in number, of a delicatelilac-pink shaded with clearblue. Culture—As the bulb is per-fectly hardy without any pro-tection it can be planted eitherin the fall or spring, but weconsider fall the best time asthe bulbs will have a chanceto get established before flow-ering time. Cover the crownabout four inches. Very usefulfor the border or among shrub-bery. $ per doz.; $ per 100;$ per 1000. LYCORIS SQUAMIGERA (Magic Flower) 14 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Inc., FLOWE-RFIELD, N, Y. Cannas Our CANNAS are famous for their Stirling qualities and because they have We clean and pack the roots at time of shipping eyes to see. King TWO REMARKABLE VARIETIES Yellow King Humbert A sport of that most popular of all Cannas,King Humbert, producing larger flowers of abeautiful shade of yellow, lightly spotted red,with green foliage; five and six clusters offlowers at a time. Firebird A Clear Glistening Scarlet, Even Better ThanHumbert, But With Green Foliage This is by all means the very best red-flow-ered, green-leaved Canna today. The flowers are borne in immense trusses,on tall stalks well above the leaves. They areof splendid form, round and shapely. Thepetals measure two and one-half inches andover across, and the color is a clear glistening-scarlet—without streaks, spots or blotches. Without doubt the finest of its color yetproduced. $ per doz.; $ per 100; $ per 1000 $ p
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