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Title: Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua1886watl (find matches)
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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BURPEE'S FARM ANNUAL FOR 1886. 89 LILIUM AURATUM. '""'"^'StfTi^vAK This is justly entitled to the name often given it—The Queen of Lilies—as it is decidedly ihe most beautiful 0/ all Lilies. The immense blooms—measuring nearly a foot in width when fully expanded—are produced in the greatest profusion, and are deliciously fy-a^rant. In beauty of color and markings it surpasses all other Lilies ; the large white petals are thickly spotted with rich chocolate-crimson, and have a bright, golden-yellow band through the center of each The beautiful new illustration given herewith is true to nature, having been accurately engraved from a photograph of a magnificent plant that stood six feet high, and had over twenty pe^-fect Jloiuers in full bloom at one time. This magnificent Lily succeeds well everywhere, and should be in every garden. We offer the finest imported Japanese bulbs at 30 cts. each, or ^3.00 per dozen, postpaid, by mail. OTHER LILIES.
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Besides the Lilium Auratum, described above, we offer below a collection of the finest Lilies that are of easy growth and bloom finely in the garden ^ in summer. Our prices are for fine flowering bulbs, all postpaid, by mail:— Batemanniae. A Japanese Lily, growing three to four fjet high, with richly colored, unspotted flow- ers of a bright apricot tint; most desirable. 25 cts. Canadense. Our bell-shaped, native Ldy. 15 cts. Candidum. Common white. 15 cts. each. Coridion. Graceful foliage and handsome, up- ^ right, star-shaped flowers of a bright, gulden-yel- ^ low color. 25 cts. each, or 5 for 5:1.00. ^ Elegans. (Thunberg-ianion.) Tnis class are all early, flowering in June; they range from four inches high to four feet, with a most varied col- lection of colors; the flowers are always upright and cup-shaped, although the forms are innumer- i able, giving beautiful effects planted in clumps or ^ lines; mixed. 10 cts. each ; $1.00 per doz. Elegans Aurea Maculatum. A most beautiful . sort; rich orange, screaked with crimson. 20 cts. each, or 3 for 50 cts. Elegans Aurora. Two to four feet high; inside ^ of cup deep, rich orange ; tips of petals suffused with deepest crimson; most beautiful, sects. Elegans Citrinum. Dwarf, with beautiful light yellow flowers. 25 cts. each, or 5 for gi.oo. Longiflorum. White, trumpet-shaped. 20 cts. Martagon (Turk's Cap). Various colors. 15 cts. Monadelphum. Rich citron color, spotted black ; one of the best of Lilies. 50 cts. Pardalinum. Scarlet, shaded to rich yellow, spotted with purple brown. 25 cts. Pulchellum. The upright, st.ir-shaped flowers spread their petals nearK'- at right angles, so that when in full bloom a bed of them presents a solid mass of rich, bright crimson flowers. 40 cts. each, or 3 for $1.00 Speciosum. Probably, as a whole, the most de- sirable section of Lilies ; the varieties are dis- tinct, graceful, beautiful and free bloomers. They alwaj^s grow and flower, and require no special treatment in the least. Speciosum Album. Pure white and verj' fragrant. 35 cts. each; 3for^i.cK3. Speciosum Album Praecox, Color pure white, with a slight rose tint on the ends of tae petals ; form perfect; petals more reflexeJ than in other varieties of the species; the fringe in the center of the flower is very long and fine, giving it an exquisite appearance; perfectly hardy. 50 cts. Speciosum Monstrosum Album. An interest- ing and distinct variety, with a broad, flat stem; pure white flowers ; very floriferous. 25 cts. Speciosum Roseum or Rubrum. Rose, spotted with crimson. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. =r^_ Speciosum Monstrosum Roseum or Rubrum. Distinct variety, with broad, flat stems, and in color '^-^ similar to the preceding ; free blooming and effect- r^ij ive. 20 cts. ; $2.00 per doz. •. Superbum. Beautiful and rich as many of our native Lilies are, this far excels them all, bearing, as it does, a pyramid of yellowish-red flowers, twenty to fifty in number ; blooms early in July ; in good soil it will frequently reach the height of eight feet. 15 cts. each ; 8 for $1.00. Tenuifolium. One of the most charming of Lilies, of elegant appearance, both in flower and foliage. The wax-like petals are beautifully reflexed, and the dazzling vermilion flowers are suspended above and among the glossy, narrow leaves. They bloom brilliandy in early spring, and the bulbs are perfectly hardy. 30 cts. each. Tigrinum. ( Hger Lily.) Orange salmon, spotted black. 10 cts. each, or$t.oo per doz. Tigrinum Flore Pleno. (Double Ti^s^er Lily.) Of stately habit, from four to six feet high ; foliage dark green, very long, bearing an immense number of double, bright orange red flowers, spotted with black. 25 cts. Wallacei. A magnificent Japanese variety, with beautiful, clear buflf flowers spotted with black; ver>' distinct. 25 cts. LILIUM AURATUM. ENGRAVED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

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