. Descriptive catalogue of the Yokohama Nursery Co., Limited. Seed industry and trade; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 8 CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co., Ltd. (1911). MISCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. per 10 per 100 Amaryllis cquestris 80c. $ Baritardia (Scillaj Japonica, lovely small rose flowers, suitable for rockery work — .55 Calla Lily, Japan grown, perfectly free from disease—she If"-2" diameter. — Ditto —size 1§-"2|" diameter. — Colocasia Multifolia, (Japanese Water Taro). We recommend this to our customers as on
. Descriptive catalogue of the Yokohama Nursery Co., Limited. Seed industry and trade; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 8 CATALOGUE OF THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY Co., Ltd. (1911). MISCELLANEOUS BULBS & TUBERS. per 10 per 100 Amaryllis cquestris 80c. $ Baritardia (Scillaj Japonica, lovely small rose flowers, suitable for rockery work — .55 Calla Lily, Japan grown, perfectly free from disease—she If"-2" diameter. — Ditto —size 1§-"2|" diameter. — Colocasia Multifolia, (Japanese Water 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 no 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 spring, about April or May when the young shoots begin to sprout, take a knife and cut off about of the bottom part of tubers flat, so as not to allow the steams to grow too long in the dish ; without doing so, the stems grow too tall for pot culture. As a garden plant it is very ornamental attaining to the height of from 4 to 5 feet when it is fully grown in the open ground, with quite a number of stems growing from single tuber which is edible when boiled like a potato (see photo page 10) 80c. $ Conophallus Konjak, very ornamental spotted leaves resembling monarch of the East. The Konnyak, a gela- tions tough food is prepared from its tuber—per 100, $ Crintim Asiaticum (Spider Lily), evergreen bulbous plant grow to the 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 about 10 flowers—per 100, $ Dioscorea Batatas (Cinnamon Vine), an ornamental clim- ber, with edible t
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