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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
CEnothera ovata has a flashy root which ripens like a bulb in summer. In California 
it begins growth in the fall and flowers in winter. It forms a flat circle of leaves with 
many rich yellow flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CE. speciosa, when well-grown, is 2 feet high with a branching, many-flowered stem, 
producing pure white flowers 2)4 inches across in great profusion. Colonies are formed 
by underground stems and a well-established group is most lovely. The flowers fade to 
pink by midday. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
FORGET-ME-NOTS. I have the per- 
ennial sort which prefers moist or wet soil. 
This is Myosotis scorpioides or M. palus- 
tris. It forms dense colonies and bears 
many pretty flowers, like the ordinary 
garden sort. Especially effective in mass 
plantings. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz 
FOXGLOVES (Digitalis) make a strong 
and most effective massing in the garden 
when in bloom. Stems 4 to 6 feet in height 
bear great, dense flower-spikes of large, 
richly spotted, mitten-shaped flowers. 
Usual colors white or rose. 
They are good wherever placed, either 
in the hardy border or in masses by them- 
selves. Their culture is very easy. They 
are biennials coming from seed one year, 
flowering and, as a rule, dying the next. 
Plant about 18 inches apart each way, and 
in the fall put new seedlings between the 
old plants. In this way the bed can be 
maintained. A most successful method of 
filling the gap in the garden when Fox- 
gloves wane is to have plants of scabiosa 
ready by sowing in April. They will give 
fine bloom in August to October. 
I have strong plants of Foxgloves many 
times heavier than the seedlings sold in 
California in flats, in Rose, White, and 
Gaillardia grandiflora 
all colors mixed. It is far more satisfactory to use the plants rather than sowing seeds, 
for as all know, they do not flower the first year from seed. My strong yearling 
plants are ready to flower. Why wait a year for seedlings, when I ask only 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz.? 
Digitalis lanata. See Novelties. 
FRAGARIA indica. See Strawberry, page 45. 
GAILLARDIAS are among the brightest, hardiest, and most easily grown hardy 
plants. Indeed you don't have to grow them, for they grow with or without care, and 
flower most profusely throughout the season from June on, and in California practically 
the entire year. Their colors are very showy. A center of dark reddish brown, then 
successive circles of scarlet or crimson finished with a border of yellow. Some are yellow 
throughout They are excellent for cut-flowers. Sit., sun, and the warmer the better. 
boil, any. PL, October to April, or even later, if potted plants can be secured. I have 
unusually fine, well-rooted plants at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., incomparably superior 
to the small plants usually sold from flats at 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
GAURA Lindheimeri is a most hardy plant, with strong, leafy stems growing from 
3 to 4 feet in height, bearing a very large number of white flowers, flushed with pink, 
throughout a long season. They make a most excellent background for such tall plants 
as perennial phlox, Michaelmas daisies, or anything of that habit. No plant stands 
heat or drought better, and after the first season, the Gaura will live through the Cali- 
fornia summer with ease if necessary. It is especially adapted to the hotter sections, 
although it thrives in the coastal regions. Sit., full sun or light shade. Prop., seeds 
or divisions. PI winter. Flowers second year from seed. Any soil will do. Especially 
sun-loving and drought-resisting. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
G. coccinea grows about a foot high and spreads, making dense colonies. The pretty 
flowers are pinkish. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
