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often thirty inches high. Color within, white, suffused with purple, center 
marked with maroon band and with beautiful penciling and hairs. Without 
the petal is purple. It is a native to heavy sticky clays and in cultivation 
thrives in any loam. All considered, the best of all Calochorti. 
Large bulbs $4.50 $30.00 
Good bulbs $3.00 $20.00 
VENUSTUS EL DORADO STRAIN. 
This is an extremely variable strain from the Central Sierra Nevada 
mountains, where they grow in light soil in the pine woods. The plants, 
when favorably located ,are vigorous in growth, from one to three feet in 
height, and quite floriferous. The flowers are large and beautifully marked, 
both with eyes, pencilings and hairs, and the variation in coloring is remark- 
able. Some few have a golden or rose blotch at the apex, and all have an 
eye at the center, and the variations in marking, as well as color, are in- 
describably numerous. They vary from white to pink and purple, to red 
and claret, and there are yellowish forms. No two are alike. Give a warm 
and partly shaded position .and AVOID HEAVY SOILS . , 
MIXED SELECTED EULES. Collected but well graded.^.'* __A^ 
$1t64 $To7TTt» 
Gold notch. Collected. ; $6.00 $10.00 
RED TO PINK AND PURPLISH SHADES. COLLECTED^ \Jj» &' 0 
VENUSTUS OCULATUS. ONE OF THE FINEST. Sturdy stalks b.'ar 
flowers as much as four inches across. The prevailing color is creamy 
white, but as sent out there are innumerable variations to sulphur and - 
purplish, tints. The eye is the most beautiful of any Mariposa. A good 
grower and one of the most esteemed. $1.50 $10.00 
VENUSTUS VAP. CITRINUS. This only differs from OCULATUS in 
being a deep, rich lemon ,with vivid dark maroon eyes. My sales show this 
to be the most popular of all Mariposa Tulips. $1.50 $10.00 
CATALINAE. A lovely flower between the BUTTERFLY TULIP and 
the LILAC MAPIPOSAS in characteristics. The large flowers are white or 
lilac, with a large oval maroon spot at the base of each petal. It flowers 
some weeks earlier than other Mariposas. . $6.00 
VARIOUS MARIPOSA TULIPS. 
CLAVATUS. The Golden Fowl Mariposa. A plant of medium size 
with a very fine deep yellow flower with hairs in the middle. Very beauti- 
ful. $10.00 
CONCOLOR. AnotK ^r yellow f lowered sort of great beauty. At its best 
hardly excelled by any. Si:pplv~7 : aTH'n>E nnccrtiiinr- $10 O f) N 
HOV.'ELLII. A rather slender species with white flowers, very deli- 
cately lined with hairs which at the center are green, but on the face of the 
petal white. Wonderfully delicate. $10.00 
LEICHTLIN1T. The alpine form of C. Nuttallii. Slender and a smoky 
white marked maroon. $3.00 
MACROCAPPUS. The Green Panded Mariposa. A plant of the 
sagebrush deserts of the north with a lavendar flower banded maroon at 
base. $4.50 
NIT lDUS. A superb species native to the clamp meadows of the cold 
northwest. Very easily grown. Flowers are white or tinged lilac with a 
large showy purple spot in the center of the petal. Also long cobwebby 
hairs on petal. One of the best of all. $2.25 $15.00 
PLUMMERAE. A very tall sort growing among low semi-desert 
shrubs in Southern California, and there as much as four feet high. The 
large lilac flowers are densely covered within with long silky hairs. 
$6.00 
