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Californian 'Bulbs, Grokrn by Carl Purely 



PARRY'S LILY 



Parryii. One of the world's finest species. The slender, leafy stem is from 3 to 5 feet 

 high and bears from a few to twenty-live long, trumpet-shaped, lemon-yellow 

 flowers. It is sweetly fragrant. In some forms, the center is faintly dotted brown; 

 in others the color is solid. Very large bulbs, $1 each; fair bulbs, 40 cts. each, 

 $4 per doz. 



I sent a special collector to the high mountains where it grows, with instruc- 

 tions to spare no trouble to secure the finest bulbs. Lilium Parryii is not a very- 

 easy Lily to grow. My collectors find it finest along the banks of streams where the 

 water has made deposits of silt, leaves and charcoal and dead wood. There, with 

 its bulb well above the water, the roots run down to perpetual moisture. L. Parryii 

 can at this time only be found in high alpine valleys, and the bulbs flower when 

 very small. 



SMALL-FLOWERED BOG LILIES 



Parvum. A charming little Lily, which, under favorable treatment, grows 5 or 6 feet 

 high, with many small, bell-shaped flowers. It is orange at the center, with crimson 

 tips. From the subalpine regions about Lake Tahoe. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 



Parvum luteum. A taller variety, with clear yellow flowers, more revolute at the tips. 

 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 



Parviflorum. A very charming Lily, like a miniature Pardalinum. The earliest-flowering 

 of our species. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 



Maritimum. A beautiful Lily, with dark red funnel-formed flowers. 20 cts. each, 

 $2 per doz. 



BURBANK'S HYBRID LILIES 



During a period extending over a number of years, Luther Burbank, who is now 

 recognized as the greatest improver of plants the world has ever known, crossed and 

 hybridized Lilies. In the course of his experiments, thirty or forty of the world's Lilies 

 were used, and hundreds of thousands of plants grown from the seed and flowered. 

 No experiment in the improvement of Lilies can be mentioned in the same breath, either 

 when the number of individuals grown in the effort or the results produced are consid- 

 ered. At the conclusion of his work, he had perhaps a hundred plants which had been 

 selected from a vast number of the very best. One of these, a cross between Pardalinum 

 and Washingtonianum, a good Lily, but, by no means, the best, was introduced and, 

 with his consent, called L. Burbankii. The others were turned over to me to be put in 

 my Lyons Valley garden (where conditions were ideal for their culture), to be further 

 selected from, and the very best propagated. In their new home, they have done well, 

 but the process of scale-propagation is a slow one, and it will be several years before 

 some of the magnificent species which were represented by a single bulb will be grown 

 in sufficient quantity to offer to the world. I am able to offer to the world on joint account 

 of Mr. Burbank and myself these fine varieties, either of which is a grand acquisition. 

 Hybrids of Pardalinum and Humboldtii. Of these there are fifty forms which I will sell 

 in mixture. All share in the vigor of Pardalinum as a grower and the very strong 

 habit of Humboldtii. All are splendid flowers, in shades of orange and crimson, 

 and dotted maroon. The bulbs are rhizomatous, very large and heavy-, and the 

 Stalks grow from 5 to 7 feet high. They are truly grand Lilies. 50 cts. each. 

 Pardalinum, Red Giant. Mr. Burbank's records were not perfect as to the parentage 

 of all of the hybrids. This is unquestionably of hybrid origin, but its parentage- 

 is not traceable. The stems are very heavy and leafy and of medium height. The 

 immense broadly spreading flowers are orange at center, with a broad expanse 

 of the deepest crimson. A most striking novelty. 75 cts. each. 



There are still to come a set of fragrant Pardalinum- Parryii hybrids, with yellow 

 and lemon-colored flowers as large as a Harrisii, and very beautiful. 



TRILLIUMS 



Trilliurns are very attractive plants of the lily family, and the forms known as 

 Wood Lilies or Wake Robins are well known in the East and are line woodland plants. 

 Of these, the best is T. graudiflorum, to be had from most Eastern dealers. In the forms 

 T. sessile, we have an altogether different tribe and a much better one from the stand- 

 point of easy culture and ability to hold their own for years in the garden. The accom- 

 panying photograph is of a colony at Ukiah which, with no care, has increased in beauty 



