Californian "Bulbs, Grolvn by Carl Turdy 



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Trillium sessile Californicum. An old group in a fern bed 



TRILLIUMS, continued 



for at least fifteen years, and I have seen many such. A better plant for the shaded 

 corner, damp woodland, border of streams, where the soil is moist, or for the shaded parts 

 of the garden, does not grow. It takes a year for them to take good hold, but they will 

 then improve for years. The flowers come early, are fine and very lasting and the leaves 

 are handsome. There is no better bulbous plant to naturalize, and I have them in 

 perfection in gravel, loam, sand, and heavy clay, and in each case, with no care what- 

 ever, and with our dry Californian summer. I have three color forms. 

 Sessile Californicum. A small plant, a foot high, with the separate leaves 5$ inches long, 

 by 4} inches wide, and the petals 32 inches long. Flowers pure white, with purple 

 centers. Very fragrant. Forms masses of many individuals. 

 Sessile, Snow Queen. Same, with broader petals, and (lowers pure white, with creamy 

 centers. 



Sessile rubra. Same, with narrow petals; deep maroon-purple to reddish purple, 

 Petiolatum. An interesting form, similar with petioled leaves arid a smaller flower. 



All of the above at 5 ets. each, 50 ets. per doz., $4 per 100 , good small bulbs 

 of the first two at $3 per 100, $25 per 1,000. The larger part of these small bulbs 

 are of flowering size. 



CALIFORNIAN ORCHIDS 



Fven terrestrial Orchids arc not plants for the ordinary careless gardener. A lied 

 must be specially prepared and shade and moisture carefully watched. For the Cypri- 

 pediums offered, a shaded, well-sheltered position must be chosen. The drainage must 

 be perfect, and the soil have a good admixture of rotten leaves. The Lied had better be 

 mulched well with rotten leaves. Peat is better than leaf-mold and a light soil, either 

 sandy or gritty, is better for the base. Water often during growth, but only moderately 

 after midsummer. 



Epipactes is not at all hard to grow. It likes to be near running water, and will succeed 



in any soil fairly rich in leaf-mold- It does well in the sun. 

 Montanum. Our lovely Western Lady-Slipper, and one of the best hardy sorts. Flowers 



white, with brown wings and very fragrant. 10 ets. each, $1 per doz. 



