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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
VARIOUS BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
ANEMONE De Caen. (Double Poppy-flowered.) The finely colored Anemone in 
double and single whites, blues and scarlets mixed. These are very showy flowers, 
coming early in the spring. They demand a rich, loose soil and cool place. 3 cts. 
each, 30 cts. per doz., $2. 25 per 100. 
Fulgens. Single, dazzlingly scarlet flowers from a low mass of leaves. Very showy. 
Large bulbs, 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2.25 per 100. 
Fulgens, Yellow-centered. Same otherwise. 5 cts. each. 
Japonica. Fall Anemones are one of the two very best autumn flowers. More beau- 
tiful than chrysanthemums, and equally good for cutting. When established they 
form strong clumps which throw up stems 2 to 4 feet high, with many single or 
double flowers. They must be seen to appreciate their beauty. One of the best 
plants for shady places. They will stay for years with only a good manuring each 
winter. Good white singles, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Diadem. Rose-lilac, tinged carmine; semi-double. 30 cts. each. 
Lord Ardilaun. Semi-double; pure white, and very tall. 30 cts. each. 
Prince Henry. Crimson-red; semi-double. 30 cts. each. 
Queen Charlotte. Large, rosy, extra fine. 30 cts. each. 
ALSTROEMERIA aurantiaca. A bulbous plant nearly related to gladiolus, with very 
showy orange and yellow flowers, borne well above the leaves, on stout stems, and 
much like a lily. Very easily grown in California and can be left in well-drained 
ground from year to year. Sun preferred. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CHIONODOXA Luciliae. Glory-of-the-Snow. A pretty, early, bulbous plant with 
light blue flowers. 30 cts. per doz. for large bulbs. 
CROCUS are among the very earliest of spring flowers, and most pleasing either in 
pots or in the open ground. I have not seen them successfully naturalized in grass 
but they do well mixed with tulips, Spanish irises or anything but narcissi. They 
flower earlier and make a pleasing ground-cover for the taller-growing late things. 
I sell them in white, light blue, dark blue, and purple, at 15 cts. per doz., 75 cts. per 
100 $6 per 1,000. Or I will sell mixed bulbs at 12 cts. per doz., 60 cts. per 100, 
$4.50 per 1,000. Plant liberally. 
IXIAS. These are small bulbous plants with very pretty flowers borne freely on long 
slender stems. They come in shades of white, red, scarlet and vellow, and are 
excellent cut-flowers. They like a warm situation, good drainage and prefer a 
light, warm soil; are altogether satisfactory. I make a mixture of equal num- 
bers of ten fine varieties for 25 cts. per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
MONTBRETIAS have the foliage 
of gladioli, and the common 
sort has a rather small, but 
very bright flower in vermilion- 
red. Doz. 25 cts. 
MUSCARI, or GRAPE HYA- 
CINTHS. Heavenly Blue is 
the best of the Grape Hya- 
cinths, and is a delightful 
little flower, the bluest of the 
blues. A most exquisite bed 
was planted last spring in 
which a thousand of these were 
dotted on a slope with light 
green carpeting. In smaller 
numbers, or in pots, they are 
a pleasure as well. Most 
easily grown. Doz. 25 cts. 
plumosus is the Plume Hyacinth 
and very different with its odd 
purple flower, more like a 
feather than a flower; attrac- 
tive on account of the peculiar 
Crocus flower. 3c. each, 30c. per doz. 
