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under cultivation or if once grown have since been lost to 
horticulture, in order to meet the demand for variety and 
novelty. For herbaceous-border work these plants should 
come from regions within the temperate zone, or if from the 
tropics then from comparatively high altitudes; his choice of 
locality is therefore restricted. Among countries affording 
the necessary qualifications California is one of the richest 
fields for the collector, the remarkable variations in climate, 
soil and altitude found within the borders of the State 
producing a very great variety in its flora. Earlier in the 
century, when Englishmen were willing to pay more for rare 
plants than now, and nurserymen were therefore able to send 
collectors to all parts of the habitable globe, California 
yielded no small proportion of the plants newly introduced 
to a flower-loving public. Latterly, little has been done in 
this line, but within the last year or two the interest in bulb 
culture and in the “mixed flower-border,” has resulted in the 
introduction of several West-American novelties, mainly 
through the efforts of resident collectors. The bulb 
catalogue of a London (England) firm of nurserymen, lately 
issued, offers among other things the following Pacific-coast 
plants :— 
Bloomeria aurea, Brodica coccinea, B. congesta, B. 
grandiflora, B. Hendersoni, B. Howellii and BR. volubilis, 
Calliprora flava, Calochortus ameenus, C. Kennedyi, C. 
luteus, C. Lyoni, C. pulchellus, C. splendens, C. venustus, 
C. v. citrinus, C. v. purpureus, C. v. roseus and C. v. Vesta, 
Camassia esculenta, C. Fraseri and C. Leichtlini, Erythro- 
nium giganteum, E. grandifiorum and E. Hendersoni, 
Fritillaria lanceolata and F. pudica, Milla laxa, and 
M. biflora. 
The prices at which these are offered in London are an 
interesting item: the following are some of the quotations :— 
Brodica grandiflora 7/6 per 100 or 1/3 per doz.; B. 
coccinea, Calochortus luteus, and others 4/6 per doz. or 6d. 
each; Calochortus amoenus, C. venustus Vesta, Camassia 
Fraseri, Erythronium Hartwegi, and others 7/6 per doz. 
