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Var. CITRTNUS. Each Doz . 
The splendid strain I offer is of a uniform deep lemon 
yellow with a black eye. No plant that I grow is more ad- 
mired here or attracts more attention in foreign exibitions... 03 30 
CALOCHORTUS VESTA 
This very clearly marked strain, is not related to any of the others. I 
consider it the finest of all Calochorti. The habit is tall, strong and vig- 
orous. The immense flowers three to five inches across, are borne on 
long stalks and are numerous. Petals broad fan shaped with hairy gland 
across base, and a broad eye and band across middle. Color white, 
suffused with lilac to rose purple. Center red. Rack of petal purple. 
It grows in any soil, from heavy wet clay to light loam, and is not subject 
to disease. It propagates rapidly, having several strong offsets each 
year, which in two years make large bulbs. Reports from Europe are 
that it succeeded where all others fail. This splendid species is what 
has been long desired: a hardy, vigorous Mariposa tulip, which everyone 
can easily grow. "The five forms of venustus are among the most beauti- 
ful. Var. 'Vesta' the strongest and perhaps finest of all. " Geo. F. Wilson 
in Garden. Splendidly figured in Garden, July, 1S95. Described in 
Gardener's Chronicle. July, 1895. Good, bulbs 5 50 
Very large : IO 1.00 
CALOCHORTUS LUTEUS Dougl. 
This is a dwarfed speciei', with rather small, full flower, a 
clear "light yellow, brown lined at bas>- 3 30 
CALOCHORTUS CATALINAE S. Wat. 
A lovely species between C. splendens and C. venustus. 
Habit of C. venustus. Flowers white to lilac, or deep lilac, 
very large and handsome, a large round black spot at base 
of each petal. Remarkable for blooming with the Star 
Tulip section, fully a month before other Mariposas. A 
splendid sort S So 
Group III— CLAVATUS 
CALOCHORTUS CLAVATUS S. Watson 
In this reallv splendid sort we have at once the largest flowered and 
stoutest stemmed of all Mariposas. The bulb is verv large, the single bare 
leaf one or two feet long, the stem is heavy and stout zigzagged. The 
flowers are sh;>oed like a bro id based bowl, sometimes five or six inches 
across The color is a deep rich vellow, and the lower half is covered 
thickly with stiff vellow hairs, each tipped with a round translucent knob, 
and in the light like tiny icicles. I ofifer three lovely forms. 
Var. EL DORADO (C Plummerae aureus):— 
The largest- Not so deep a yellow 20 2 00 
