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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
PEONIES 
Among the finest flowers grown, but they are no flowers for the careless gardener. 
Unless you care to prepare the soil deeply by working in well-rotted manure to the 
depth of 2 leet at least (3 feet is better), and to give proper drainage, you had better 
leave them alone. But once prop- 
erly planted where lightly shaded, 
they give a light bloom the first 
year, and then improve for years 
until a single plant is worth the 
trouble of growing a dozen. The 
flowers are often as double as a rose, 
much larger, and borne on stems a 
yard high; many are very fragrant, 
and the colors are fine. No flower 
is better worth the care needed, 
or responds more generously to 
the care the wise gardener gives. 
After the first year, a good coat of 
manure every tall, to be well worked 
in in the spring, is all the care needed 
other than watering with other 
plants. 
I have very fine Peonies, but 
for the most part without names, 
although they are really the very 
finest named varieties. The plants 
are very strong and ready to grow, 
and are grown a year after dividing, 
and have a fine root system. I do 
not believe that any other dealer 
gives better value. I can give single 
or double, and in white, cream, 
reds, and pinks. 25 cts. each, or 
extra fine, 50 cts. each. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES 
The strong plants of the superb named varieties that I sold last fall and winter 
have given great satisfaction. See page 14 of the Hardy Plant Catalogue. Prices for 
these are the same as last year. For the old scarlet variety I ask 15 cts. each, $1.25 
per doz. for strong plants. I have a crop of fine seedling plants which will flower nicely 
in 191 2, as follows: 
Brilliant, scarlet; Colosseum, deep scarlet; Prince of Orange, light orange, at $1.25 
per doz. 
PRIMROSES. There is nothing finer for the spring garden than the Bunch Primroses 
(Polyanthus Primrose). The}' flower early, freely, last long, and are at their best 
on a shady side. Plant in the fall and have splendid spring effects for years. I 
have very fine strong plants mixed from the best known strains of seeds, at 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz., $7 per 100. These are not mere seedlings, but strong, vigorous 
plants ready for work. Also double yellow and whites in dozens only. 
SHASTA DAISIES. Do not overlook them. My heavy rooted plants will give a first 
year's bloom that will delight you. See Hardy Plants. 
THALICTRUM Delavayi is a very fine new thing among the Meadow Rues. With 
foliage like a maidenhair fern, it has panicles 2 to 3 feet high of delicate lavender- 
colored flowers lasting a long time. Each, 25 cts. 
VIRGINIA CREEPER {Ampelopsis qiiinqucjolia). One of the very best vines to plant 
on trees to give a beautiful wild effect. I often plant a vine with a young shade 
tree so that they grow up together. Fine autumn coloring. Strong roots 25 cts., 
$2 per doz. 
AMPELOPSIS Engelmanni is a large-leaved plant like the Virginia Creeper, but clings 
to rocks or surfaces like the Boston Ivy. A very fine vine to cover a tree, rock 
or building. 50 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
Primroses 
The McFarland Publicity Service, Harrisburg, Pa. 
