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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Campanula Trachelium is a most excellent, strong-growing perennial with slender 
but stout stems and many pendent, white flowers. Any garden soil suits it, and if 
planted a foot apart each way, any time after November i, it will thrive. A sunny or 
slightly shaded situation best meets its needs. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
ADENOPHORA communis. Very like Campanula Grossekii. It is a tall, stately 
plant, growing erect to 4 feet, with blue bells. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Campanulas for Hanging-Baskets, Rockwork and Edges of Dainty Borders 
Campanula portenschlagiana is a very low, tufted species, densely leafy, with many 
stems a few inches high and violet-blue flowers. For boxes or rock-work. Pot-grown 
plants, 25 cts. each; field-grown plants, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
C. fragilis is low-growing, with slender, graceful foliage and small blue bells. Very 
neat. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
C. isophylla has a prostrate habit with handsome foliage and large, pure white 
flowers. A most charming plant for hanging-baskets, window-boxes, and rockwork. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
C. caespitosa is a tufted sort, 4 to 6 inches high, with bell-shaped, nodding light blue 
flowers. For rockwork or pots. 25 cts. each. 
CARNATIONS we all love, but the Florist's or Tree Carnations are poor garden 
flowers. The smaller Marguerite Carnations are in the same colors and are just as fra- 
grant, while they are most hardy garden flowers. Sit., sun. Soil, garden loam and ordi- 
nary care. Prop., seeds. PL, October to April. The plant persists but year-olds are 
best. Fine, strong plants ready to flower, in White and Giant Sorts, mixed colors, 
$1 per doz. 
CELASTRUS scandens. See Bittersweet, page 9. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum, or Mouse Ears, makes a dense mass of silvery foliage 
not over 4 inches high and often 2 feet across. The white flowers are produced in myriads 
in early summer and sparingly later. It withstands drought wonderfully and for dry, 
sunny rockwork or banks, for carpeting dry spots, and for covering graves, is very useful. 
Fine for front of broad hardy borders. Sit., sunny and warm. Soil, any even, very light 
soil. Prop., seeds or divisions. PI., October to April. Fine plants, 15 cts. each, 
$1.50 per doz. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS of the Single-flowered sorts are most excellent hardy plants. 
Their beauty is both for cutting and in the wonderful profusion of single flowers in many 
colors, and in endless variations of quilling and shape of petals. Originated in England, 
they have found their way to California only within the last few years. Their culture 
is like that for the double ones, but as large flowers are no object, disbudding is unneces- 
sary, and garden culture is the simplest. There are no better flowers to grow in profusion, 
to cut for all purposes and to give away. 
The treatment is the simplest possible. Plant in well-worked soil in April or May; 
place strong stakes not less than 4 feet high by them; cut tops off at a foot or so, to make 
the plants branch, and give ordinary garden care for the rest. They are fine to work 
into hardy borders to give liberal fall color. From one of the finest English collections 
I secured the best as per list below: 
Single Chrysanthemums 
Allan Carter. Reddish orange; fine. 
Astarte. Bright brassy amber. 
Azelda. Light pink, shaded lavender, 
center cream. 
Beauty. Shell-pink. 
Blazing Star. The best bright single red 
to be grown for sprays. 
Boston. Burnt orange. 
Celtic. Large, deep rose-pink flowers. 
Golden Mensa. Bright golden yellow. 
Golden West. Small, yellow flowers, 
but lasting. 
Lady Smith. Pure white. 
Little Barbee. Clear canary-yellow; 
large sprays. 
Minnesota. Striking blood-red, 2}4 
inches across. 
Mrs. Francis H. Bergin. Creamy white, 
with rosy pink center, shading to light 
pink at outer edge. 
Snow 0 ueen. White, anemone center. 
Victorine U. Learned. Long, white, Jap- 
anese sort, shading to pink as season 
advances. 
All above at 20 cts. each, 
$2 per doz. Ready in April 
