Few people have the faintest idea of the beauty of the great FLOW- 
ERED Western Erythroniums, when grown in such masses as can be seen 
in their native homes. Slopes covered with the richly mottled leaves above 
which the fine flowers rise in color masses, with ferns and dainty ground 
plants to vary the effect. Such effects can easily be reproduced in any tem- 
perate climate, and best of all in foggy England. 
Only a moderate shade, a protected spot with any light soil fairly rich 
in mold, is needed to grow them as well in cultivation and in the dry air of 
The Terraces, in loose gravelly soil and only half shade, I have often 
matched the finest wild plants. 
As pot plants or in the shaded corners of rock work, it needs only to 
be remembered that shade, shelter and a loose soil, with some mold, fulfill 
all requirements. It does not matter if the soil is baked in midsummer, as 
long as there is shade and moisture until May. 
Nearly all of the WESTERN ERYTHRONIUMS are native to wood- 
lands, and under normal conditions produce a rather slender, small bulb, 
which, however, flowers well. Where Erythroniums grow, forest fires are 
common, and after such a fire the bulbs increase greatly in size and the 
second year the bloom is glorious. No such bulbs can be grown in culti- 
vation, nor can they be found wild under other conditions. If fifty times 
as many bulbs were dug in ordinary conditions, they would not give as 
many large ones. For instance, I had an annual supply of 5 00 0 E. Hen- 
der« liJi, of which I used not over 1500 in my trade. La these 1500 there 
was not a f ingle bulb as large as the average of a 1000 lot secured doubtless 
from burned-over ground. It is a pleasure to send out these giant bulbs, but 
it is somewhat of a hardship if, as has several times occurred, they are ac- 
cepted as a standard of ordinary size. 
GROUP I. 
GRANDIFLORUMS. 
GRANDIFLORUM. It endures great cold and flowers very early. My 
collectors have seen it two feet high. The leaves are light green and desti- 
tute of mottling, the flowers of the most vivid bright yellow. My present 
supply is from the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon and do fairly well in 
cultivation. Supply certain. $2.25 $15.00 
GRANDIFLORUM VAR. ROEUSTA. This fine variety only differs 
from the preceding in growing at a low altitude, and in cultivation gives a 
longer flower stem under ordinary conditions. I have had some very fine 
beds of it. Supply probable but not yet sure. 2 O q 
CITRINUM. Flowers rich cream, with vivid citron markings at base. 
Leaves very richly mottled in brown. $2.25 $15.00 
CALIFORNICUM. This is the Giganteum of commerce and the finest 
of all, everything considered. The flowers are creamy yellow, will often 
maroon band at base. The leaves very richly mottled. Six to ten flowers 
to the stem are common and I have seen sixteen on plants about two feet 
high. An exceptionally good supply of selected bulbs. For change of 
name see Flora and Sylva, page 253, of August, 1904. $1.50 $10.00 
Immense bulbs, $3.00 per 100. 
E. CAL1FORNICUM WHITE BEAUTY. The flowers are more nearly 
white than Calif ornicum, and in color much resembling the true Giganteum. 
The leaves are very richly mottled. Many of the flowers are richly marked 
like Tigridias, and a strain of these I am growing are, I think, the finest of 
all Erythroniums. An excellent substitute for Revolutum Watsonii (Gi- 
ganteum). $2.25 $15.00 
Supply not sure. 
