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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
AJUGA reptans purpurea forms a close carpet 2 or 3 inches high, of richly bronzed 
purple leaves. It has creeping stems, rooting at every joint. The flowers are mint-like 
and blue. An excellent evergreen, and if anything, higher colored in winter. It forms 
an admirable ground-cover for shaded positions where grass will not thrive, for rather 
wet positions, or is a pretty subject for moist positions in the rockery. Sit., sun or shade. 
Soil, any, but dry. Prop., divisions. PL, October to June. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
ALYSSUM saxatile is unexcelled as a hardy, drought-resisting plant for rockwork, 
edging borders, street-curb planting, or groups in border. Its masses of light yellow, 
flowers in spring are most attractive; its leaves are evergreen and a good cover. Sit., 
sun or light shade. Soil, moist to dry. Prop., seedlings. PI., October to May. 15 cts. 
each, $1.50 per doz. 
AMARYLLIS Belladonna is the beautiful Belladonna Lily and one of the finest things 
in the California garden. The great tubers make foliage in winter or early spring, and 
these leaves die off in early summer, but later, usually late August, the tall, naked scapes 
arise, bearing lovely pink flowers in umbels. Bulbs are not likely to flower the season 
that they are moved and seem to flower more freely when somewhat root-bound. They 
do well in sun but possibly better in light shade. Plant in clumps about a foot apart. 
Soil, loose and sandy is preferable. Prop., bulblets. PL, August to spring. Heavy bulbs, 
30 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
ANCHUSA italica, in either of the fine named sorts, is one of the very best plants 
for the hardy border. Most hardy and vigorous, it makes a great mass 3 to 4 feet high, 
with innumerable flowers like deep, glistening blue forget-me-nots and flowers a long 
time. If cut off before it seeds, they soon flower again. The garden can have no more 
attractive massings in blues. Sit., sun. Soil, any garden. Prop., divisions of roots. 
Splendid roots 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. I have the Dropmore Variety. 
A. myosotidiflora is a much more slender variety than Italica with many small deep 
blue flowers. 25 cts. each, $2.50 p er c ] OZ- 
FALL ANEMONES have no competitors in their style of beauty in the autumn. 
Tall and stately, they bear many large, showy flowers, most delicate in texture and very 
lasting as cut-flowers. In the cooler positions 
in sun or in shade, they are most useful, 
either as single plants, in strong groups, or 
mingled with ferns in shaded corners. In 
such regions as along our California coast or 
the San Francisco Bay region they do excel- 
lently in any open situation. Sit., cooler 
position in sun or shade. Soil, any garden 
soil, but a good well-worked loam is best. 
Prop., suckers. PL, October to April. In 
cold climates they are hardy but must have a 
covering of 2 or 3 inches of leaves or litter. 
Plant 18 inches apart. If soil is good allow 
the runners to fill up and only give a winter 
dressing of well-rotted manure. If it packs, 
do not allow the underground runners to grow; 
cultivate between plants. Queen Charlotte 
is a silvery pink, the exquisite shade of the 
La France rose. It is semi-double. Whirl- 
wind is a beautiful pure white, semi-double. 
Either at 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz., in fine 
field-grown plants. 
ANEMOPSIS californica. See Novelties, 
page 1. 
ANTHEMIS tinctoria is the Golden 
Marguerite and a sturdy, easily grown plant, 
most excellent for hot, dry places. The plant 
is about a foot high, and bears a great number 
of daisy-like, yellow flowers in midsummer and 
until fall. Almost any soil suits it, but it 
needs sun. It stands much drought, and is 
useful in exposed places. 15 cts. each, $1.50 
per doz. 
Anchusa italica 
