LADY SLIPPERS (CYPRIPEDIUMS) 
Montanum. A \-cry line Lady Slipper, somewhat like Spectabile. The 
flowers arc while with white wings. It grows best in a shady si)ot, in a 
soil rich in leaf mold and rather moist. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen. 
Californicum. A bog plant with great leaves and stems and rather small 
yellow Mowers. Rare. It grows in great matted masses. 
25c each; $2.00 per dozen. 
Epipactes gigantea. This is a most charming plant, so like a Lady 
Sli])per as to almost always be mistaken for one. The flowers are pretty 
and brownish. The leaves like C. montanum. It forms clumps when 
planted ou a stream-bank or in moist soil rich with mold. 15c each. 
WILD-FLOWER SEEDS 
Our state is peculiarly rich in beautiful wild annual flowers and it has 
aIso_ mc'iny hne perennials. Many of these have for a long time been in 
cultivation and are found in all seed catalogs. Some have been so changed 
by cultivation that they are not as well adapted to wild sowing here^as 
the wild sorts. This is a selected list of some sorts that f have myself 
grown and found especially good. It will be much enlarged next fall. 
Almost^ any grounds have some unused corner which can be beautified 
by sowing a packet or tw(j of such things. 
TIME TO SOW WILD FLOWER SEEDS 
In California the best time to sow is in early fall, either before or 
just after the first rains. They can, however, be sown much later and if 
watered good results can be had with spring sowing. I sow in hT>bruary 
and do not water. 
MANNER OF SOWING 
Mix the seeds with (luite a Inilk of dry dirt that they may be 
scattered widely and evenly. If in beds of course do not distribute widely. 
If sowed before or just after the rains no raking in is necessary, although 
It would do no harm. If sown after the grass and other vegetation has 
become dense and heavy it would be necessary to work the surface and 
kill the grass, then lightly rake the seed in. 
If planted late it is well to lay some light brush over the beds until 
the seeds are up. 
BEST PLACE TO SOW 
in many places the annual grasses form a dense mat after they start 
and less vigorous things could not hold their own. In such case's it is 
necessary to hoe the surface after all seeds have started and reseed every 
year. If the ground chosen is rather rough and poor many of the 
annuals are quite able to resow themselves and hold their own The 
ground below newly built roads or paths is especially fitted for many of 
them. Ihis is especially true of Escholtzias and Godetias. 
Prices— In retail packets at 10c each. 12 for $1.00. 
For Naturalizing— Quantities much cheaper. 
I'olhiwing is a list f)f some of my leading varieties: Coreopsis Tinctoria, 
Uiha triccjlor and limflora. Godetias in four superb wild variations Layia 
elegans, _ Limnanthes Douglassii, Nemophila maculata and insignis 
Lscholtzia Calrformca and Golden \'Vest and tenuifolia the best of the wild 
torms. Cream Cups or Platystenion. Pentstemon Heterophylla Oenotheras 
white and yellow and the orange colored Californian Poppy or Papaver 
Californicum, resembling the Shirley Poppy. 
These and many other fine things. 
