XDESJSO^XOE^TXVE CATALOG 



O: £1. ORCUTT, 

 It is intended to include 



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 S^-IST DIEGO, CALIFOENIA. 



in this cata- 

 logue an account of the horticultural value 

 of native Californian plants and trees; to 

 give a popular list of Sunny San Diego 

 shells, and a sketch of the more striking 

 natural curiosities of the Pacific slope, 

 with a few select illustrations of the plants 

 and shells. 



SEED DEPARTMENT. 



I have just returned from Lower Califor- 

 nia with large quantities of seeds of hun- 

 dreds of our native plants. Price per 

 packet, 15 cents, $1. per dozen of the 

 more beautiful kinds. Seeds of palms or 

 other trees, 25 cents per packet. Prices 

 to the trade on application. 



BULBS AND PLANTS. 



Bulbs of our beautiful liliaceae, 25c. for 

 each variety, or in colli ctions of one dozen, 

 kinds, $2.50 (one to five bulbs of a kind 

 will be included). Boots of California 

 ferns furnished at the same rate per single 

 root. Cacti, cotyledons, etc. , collected to 

 order. 



HERBARIUM. 



Herbarium specimens of our native 



plants collected to order. Price per cen 

 tury, $10.00— or in sets, $8.00 Pressed 

 ferns, algae, etc., at the .same rate, (heck- 

 list of Mow, ring plants, ferns, etc., 25c. 



DEPARTMEMT OK MoLLUSCA. 



Twenty thousand named shells, Ameri- 

 can and Foreign, five cents each, five dol- 

 lars per hundred, fifty dollars per thousand 

 — the larger the order the larger the shells 

 included. I have shells from the size of a 

 pin point, up to those weighing a pound or 

 more. Orders received for as ftw or as 

 many kinds as are wanted, one or many 

 shelis of a kind as may be d sired. My 

 new list of these will not be ready for a 

 month or more; my old list is practic illy 

 exhausted. 



The California pearl, or abalone shell 

 (Haliotis, of which there are several spe- 

 cies) is our most ornament 1 kind, and the 

 largest, Value, 5c. to si, according to 

 size. Genuine pearls from these mollu>ks 

 can be furnished from 50c. each tr> Si, or 

 even S5. 00. Th scare quite rare and b au-: 

 tif ill, some very large and of odd shapes. 



CURIOSITIES. 



Screw bean pods ( Don't you know 



beans!) $ .05-. 10 



Flat sea- urchine (with spines), . . .10 



Sharks eggs, looks like a large 



piece of twisted glue .25 



Scorpion .25 



Devil fish (Octopus) dried .75 



In alcohol, by express; express- 

 age, C. O. D 1.25 



Barb of sting ray L0-.25 



Star fish snd ophiurans, 1 inch to 



1 foot across 10-1.00 



Purple sea urchins 10-. 25 



05 .15 



1.00 



.15 



.05 



Barnacles and goose barnacles 

 Crabs and otht r crustac a. ..... , 



Fiddler era!) 



Specimens of naive woods, (5x1 J 



x| inches -. 



Quarter sections, 5 in. long 



Pine cones, large, 50 -1.85 



" " small 05 25. 



BOOKS. 



Are wanted in exchange 

 rios, etc. and will lie taken 

 subscriptions to this paper 



for shells, cu- 

 in payment for 

 Send descrip- 



tive price list of what you have. 



MUSEUMS AND SCIENTISTS 



Supplied with material of all kinds from 

 this region, for study or display. Whore 

 not otherwise stated, the above prices in- 

 clude postage and packing. 



Tryon, Geo. W.,jr. — Structural and Sys- 

 tematic Conchology; anin'rodudtion to the 

 study of Mollusca. 8 Vols, 140 plates. 

 Fine edition, with duplicate pla'es on India 

 tinted paper; cloth, $45 Color d edition; 

 72 plates colored, cloth, $33 Plain edi- 

 tion, cloth, $20; Thin paper, 3 Vols in 

 one, $12. A few soiled copies, $5 and S.S. 



Tryon, Geo. W , jr.— Mai md of Conchol- 

 ogy with illustrations of the species Now 

 publishing in yearly volumes of four 

 quarterly parts Vol, 5 completed Janu- 

 ary, 1884. Colored edition, plates care- 

 fully colored by hand, per Vol. 820. Plain 

 edition, per Vol. SI 2. 



Subscriptions received for the above by 

 the editor of this journal Subscriptions 

 also received for any American or Foivign 

 periodicals at publisher's lowest pric 



