California Flowers, Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, Etc. 53 



SCHINUS. 



S. Molle (L.) A graceful evergreen tree, a native of Mexico and South America, with glossy light green 

 drooping leaves in 20 or more pairs of slender leaflets. The small white flowers in large panicles 

 followed by lovely clusters of small red berries. The Pepper tree, as it is called, is very ornamental, 

 and planted extensively for shade on avenues. 



SALIVA. 



S. Carduacea (Benth.) The Thistle-leaved sage, known to the Mexicans as Chia, is densely white- 

 woolly, with prickly foliage, and showy lavender colored flowers, an inch long, in many-storied head- 

 like whorls on a stem a foot or two high. Cultivated in Europe since 1854. 10c per packet. 



UMBELLULARIA. 



U. Calif ornica (Nutt.) The California Laurel is a handsome shrub or tree, 10 to 70 feet high, with 

 thick evergreen leaves, better known in cultivation as Oreodaphne Californica. 25c per packet. 



Viola Pedumulata, or Peach. Peach-scented violets. 25c per packet. 



YUCCA. 



Y. Baccata (Torrey.) The Wild Date, or Spanish Bayonet, is a stately plant, sometimes growing ten or 

 more feet high, and producing a pyramidal panicle of fragrant waxy, pure white flowers, or often 

 marked with purple. The large, sweet edible fruit is sometimes called wild bananas. 10c. 



Y. WTiipplei (Torrey.) The flowers borne in a large panicle on a scape five to twelve feet high. The 

 rigid serrulate leaves surround the base of the stem in a dense cluster. The flowers are waxy-white or 

 purple tinged. The plant dies after blooming, while the preceding species live year after year. 10c. 



ZAUSCHNERIA. 



Z. Californica (Presl.) The flowers of this plant are one to two inches long and three-quarters of an 

 inch across, scarlet to scarlet vermilion, very showy, forty to fifty flowers on a stem. Plant two to five 

 feet high, growing in large masses on dry hill- sides, but more luxuriant near water, where it becomes a 

 very conspicuous flower. A half shrubby perennial, sometimes called wild fuchsia. 25c. 

 Ten 10c packets, 75c. Ten 25c packets, $2.00. 



