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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
VARIOUS BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING, continued 
ORNITHOGALUM arabicum is well worth growing. The stems are a foot or so high, 
rather stout, and bear a raceme of white flowers with strongly contrasting black 
centers. It forces or grows in the open easily. The bulbs are worth 5 cts. 
RANUNCULUS. Showy little flowers, as double as a rose; the colors are brilliant and 
the flowers fairly cover the plants. While very hardy they need loose, rich soil if 
the best results are to be had. All colors mixed at 15 cts. per doz., $1 per 100. 
SNOWDROPS are among the sweetest of the little bulbs. Among them Elwesii 
is considered best and I price it at 20 cts. per doz., $1.25 per 100. 
SPARAXIS are cousins of the gladioli and ixias, with very bright flowers, and need 
the same culture as ixias. The common sorts are about 8 inches to a foot high 
and well worth growing. Of them I offer a very fine mixture at 20 cts. per doz., 
and $1.50 per 100. 
pulcherrima is quite another thing, growing waist-high, with purplish flowers, and 
is very fine. Each, 10 cts. 
SPRING SNOWFLAKES are not half well enough known. A customer had a plant 
in flower last spring, and the neighborhood surprised me by calling for more of the 
bulbs than I had bought for my entire trade. That is the way that this beautiful 
white-flowered plant takes where it is once well grown. 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz. 
SCILLA bifolia is another low-growing, bright-flowered, early spring flower that is 
well liked. I can supply the bulbs at 20 cts. per doz., and my price for the larger- 
flowered Scilla Sibirica is the same. Both naturalize the same. 
TIGRIDIAS I offer in my Hardy Plant Catalogue for spring planting. 
WATSONIAS are so closely related to the gladiolus that the leaves would be confused, 
but the pure white flowers are more like large freesias. They are excellent for 
cutting. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
HARDY PLANTS 
My Catalogue of Hardy Plants for Spring and Fall, 191 1, is ready for distribution on 
application. It contains a choice selection of plants for tall planting. This summer I 
have grown fine stocks of seedlings of some of the very best things for fall planting, and 
on some can make special prices. 
These prices are for lots of not less 
than 50 of a sort. 
ARABIS alpina (Mountain of Snow) 
I doubt if there is a better 
plant to make a permanent 
edging for a bed or border. It 
carpets the ground neatly, is 
of a pleasant green the year 
round, and in the spring gives 
a perfect sheet of sweet, pure, 
white flowers. It needs no 
care after planting. Very fine 
plants, with dirt enough so as 
to move without hurting, at $5 
per 100. Plant 6 inches apart 
in a double or triple band, thus 
giving the effect of a pure white 
ribbon border. 
CAMPANULA Intermedia, The 
Canterbury Bell, is a very fine 
thing. I can offer fine plants 
in either white, pink, or blue, 
ready to plant with the first 
rains and to give a splendid 
bloom next summer. Per 100, 
either one 01 the three sorts, 
at I7. 
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