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Carl Purdy, Ukiah, California 
HYACINTH 
HYACINTHS 
No winter-flowering bulbs are more es- 
teemed than these. They can be grown very 
easily in pots in the soil and manner given 
for tulips, but using a single bulb to a 5-inch 
pot. They can be grown out-of-doors in the 
same manner as tulips, but I would not 
recommend this. All Hyacinth bulbs are 
especially grown for forcing and will never 
give the same bloom a second year. If you 
wish fine Hyacinths, you must buy new 
bulbs each season. 
I am offering very fine bulbs of two 
grades. The first size are what are known 
as exhibition bulbs, and will produce from 
one to three large spikes. These are very 
large, heavy bulbs. The second size are 
fine, solid bulbs, which will produce a sin- 
gle spike quite good enough for any one. 
First-size bulbs, 12c. each, $1.20 per doz.; 
second-size bulbs, 8c. each, 80c. per doz. 
In pure white I offer Baroness van Thuyll, 
in single, and La Virginite in double. 
In white, tinged pink, Mr. Plimsoll, single. 
In red, Gertrude, with pretty bells in car- 
mine-rose, and Robert Steiger in deep 
rose; both single, and the blush-pink 
Grootvoorst in double. 
In blues I offer King of the Blues. Glossy 
indigo-blue; Marie in purple shaded, 
Captain Boyton in light blue; all 
singles; and in double, Garrick, in 
light blue. 
In yellow, Ida in canary-yellow, and King of 
the Yellows in deep yellow; both single. 
Smaller Hyacinths for Planting 
in Beds 
These will produce good flowers, very 
satisfactory, but no such spires can be ex- 
pected as from exhibition or first-size bulbs. 
Pure White, Dark Red, Rose-red or Pink, 
Dark Blue, Light Blue. All of these at 50 
cts. per doz., $4 per 100. 
GERMAN IRIS 
These are the Flag Lilies or Fleur de Lis of the old gardens, and a more hardy, 
grateful or satisfactory bulb cannot be planted. Even when neglected they will stand 
.any sort of hardship and flower for years; but, given a well-drained situation and any 
good soil, heavy or light, and divided in late summer every second year, they will give 
more for the care bestowed upon them than any other bulbous plant. (See 4th cover.) 
1 have unnamed bulbs in either white, light blue, purple or yellow with blue outsides. 
These at 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100. If you wish the rarer things in this line, 
I can offer smaller imported bulbs at same price in twenty-five varieties, not less than 
three of a sort. 
SPANISH IRIS 
These very attractive bulbous plants are of great value for cither bedding or cut- 
flowers. Give much the same treatment as for tulips, using less manure. If the soil is 
rather moist and loamy, they do better. They will grow on and flower liberally for years. 
Doz. 100 1,000 
Fine Mixed Bulbs $0 12 $0 75 $6 00 
Named Varieties, in light and dark blue, white and yellow 15 100 900 
