. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 56 B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogue. Amaryll )rmosissima .60 .50 AMARYIililS. Bnlbs of rare beauty,


. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 56 B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogue. Amaryll )rmosissima .60 .50 AMARYIililS. Bnlbs of rare beauty, with large, drooping, bell- ehaped, lily-like flowers, varj'iug in color from the richest crimson to pure wliite, striped with crimson or scarlet. They are of tlie easiest possible culture and a veiy little management would secure a suc- cession of bloom tliroughout the year, tlius adding an important feature in collections of jdants, -whetlier grown for the decoration of the flower garden, conservatory, or diawing-room. Eacli. Boz. Amaryllis atnmasco, pink and wliite, changeable § .* — fonnosissima (.Jacobean Lily), vel- vety crimson, superb 25 — Bella Donna {Bella Donna Lily), Avhito, flushed witli rosj' puiple — lonfflflora, alba and rosea, — liitea {Sternberfjia), a handsome, showy. Autumn blooming yellow flower — vittata, hybrids, red ground striped with w liite, extra fine VALLOTA PURPUREA. One of tlie most beautiful and desirable plants grown, having huge crimson scarlet lily-like flow- ers, produced in lieads of Ave or six flowers in each, which remain a long time in perfection. Large bulbs of this, if kept growing, will flower several times in the j-^ear. A s easily cultivated as the Calla. Price, 50 cents each$ pe>- dozen. IRIS IBERICA. One of the most remarkable and interesting plants in cultivation. Its dwai-f habit, gigantic flowers, great snow-wliite erect sepals, its equally large strangely cohned petalH, and its stigmas wit


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