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Title: American bulb company bulbs : rare flower roots, plants, seeds and garden requisites
Identifier: CAT31282679 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: American Bulb Company; Pitcher, James R; Manda, W. Albert; Pitcher & Manda; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New Jersey Short Hills Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Short Hills, New Jersey : American Bulb Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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14 AMERICAN BULB COMPANY, SHORT HILLS, N. J. HARDY JAPANESE LILIES.
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each Lilies are easily cultivated. The ground should be carefully dug and abundantly supplied with well-rotted manure, plant- ing the bulbs six inches deep, after which they require very little care or attention, except to occasionally stir the soil and keep free of weeds. To secure best results the bulbs should be planted in the fall. The Golden=Banded Lily of Japan. (Lilium Auratum. The most gorgeous of all Lilies ; requires no special treat- ment when planted in the open, at this season of the year, and if left undisturbed is perfectly hardy, flowering each summer in greater profusion. Delicious- ly fragrant. t,arg-e bulbs, 7 to 9 inches in circumterence, win produce from 8 to 10 flowers. 20 cts each; $2.00 per doz., postpaid; $9.00 per 1U0. Extra large bulbs, 9 to 11 inches in circumference, will pro- duce from 12 to 18 flowers. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz., postpaid; $12.00 per 100. Lilium Speciosum Album. (Pure White Japan Lance Lily) Large white flowers of good substance, with a greenish band petal; one of the finest Lilies I FOUR HARDY LILIES ; LILIUM AURATUM LILIUM SPECIOSUM ALBUM LILIUM SPECIOSUM RUBRUM LIL. TIGRINUM POSTPAID FOR 60 CTS. Large bulbs, 7 to 9 inches in circumference. 30 cts. each; S3.00 per doz., postpaid; $12.00 per 100. Extra large bulbs, 9 to 11 inches in circumference. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz., postpaid; $ 8 00 per 100. Lilium Speciosum Rubrum. fDark Red Japan Lance Lily.) White, thickly studded with dark crimson spot?; very The best of the Speciosum class. 25 cts. each; fine I,arge bulbs, 7 to 9 inches in circumference. *2.50 per doz., postpaid; $10.00 per 100. Extra large bulbs, 9 to 11 inches in circumference. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz., postpaid; $12.00 per 100. ♦ ♦ I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Lilium Tigrinum (Tiger Lily.) Orange-red, spotted with black; an old but still standard variety. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz., postpaid. Brilliant, dazzling purple and crimson to the purest shades of lavender and white are found in the A. B. Commencement Souvenir collection.

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