PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 35 
or tubs under trees or shrubs, it is excellent. For covering a steep bank in a shaded 
position there are few prettier things. One of the strictly useful plants. Sit., sun. Soil, 
any garden loam, but a moist situation is best. Prop., divisions. PL, October to April. 
Price for plants 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. Prices of divisions by the hundred on 
application. 
N. Mussinii is of dwarf, compact habit, and when in bloom about 10 inches high. 
Flowers produced in great profusion and are soft lavender. Fine in the sea air. Hardy. 
25 cts. each. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES. See Poppies. 
ORIGANUM hybridum is a most attractive plant which makes dense, low masses. 
The flower racemes are made up of erect cones on slender stems. The flowers are small 
and lavender and last a very long period in late summer and fall. In fact, they are 
almost true Everlastings. Plant in any soil in winter or spring and do not disturb. A 
good rock-, border- or wall-plant. For colonies plant a foot apart. 25 cts. each, $2.50 
per doz. 
OTHONOPSIS Cheiri has olive-colored foliage and a rather large bright yellow 
flower on a leafy plant 6 to 8 inches high. A wonderful plant to endure heat and drought; • 
a good rock-plant for hard situations. 25 cts. each. 
PENTSTEMONS are, from the garden standpoint, easily the best flower for the 
California garden. The plants branch freely at the base and give many erect flowering 
stems well clothed with handsome glossy foliage. The many-flowered stems bear large 
showy flowers, pretty in texture and clear in color. As a rule, the body of the petal 
is of one color and the open throat of a lighter shade. Unlike their cousins, the 
snapdragons, they are free from disease and are equally good for cutting and free 
blooming. Their flowering season begins in late spring, and if they are cared for, they 
have one long succession of bloom until winter, and in the milder sections, even 
throughout the winter. 
P. gentianoides, the commoner garden Pentstemon, is one of the finest of all Califor- 
nia's garden flowers. It comes in many shades, from white through lavender to pink 
and red. I am sorry to say that I find supplies so fickle that I can only make quotations 
in March, when they are about ready to plant. 
P. barbatus Torreyi is a handsomely foliaged, erect-stemmed plant, growing to 2 to 
3 feet. The stems bear many long, scarlet flowers in clusters of two or three. A very 
beautiful and very hardy plant. Especially adapted to hot and dry places. 20 cts. each, 
$2 per doz. 
CALIFORNIA and WESTERN PENTSTEMONS. There are many superb Pent- 
stemons in the West, and many of these are particularly desirable for ordinary garden 
cultivation. They are easily grown. 
P. Barettii is olive-green in foliage, with pretty flowers of pinkish lavender. A 
great drought resister and fine rock-plant. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
P., California Blue Bedder. Is a wild form native at my place and a superb garden 
plant of easy culture. The stems are erect from a decumbent base, and each bears many 
handsome flowers in a most delightful shade of deep gentian-blue. Some are tinted pink. 
I have seen many plants with 50 of these flowering stems in bloom at once, and on 
one counted 105. The plant continues in bloom all summer if not allowed to go to seed. 
I have very fine plants at all seasons and can supply my eastern customers in spring 
with plants which will flower the same season. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
P. heterophyllus when well grown has a large number of slender flowering stems 2 
to 3 feet high, bearing a myriad of small light blue flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
P. ovatus, with its delightful green, broad foliage and many-flowered stems i l / 2 to 
2 feet high, is a thoroughly good plant. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
P. Palmeri has much the habit of P. spectabilis, with most striking soft pink flowers. 
At the Government experiment station at Chico, Calif., this has been very much 
admired and is considered one of their most striking novelties. 25 cts. each. 
P. spectabilis grows erect, but graceful, with very handsome foliage and stems 
usually 2 to 3 feet, but when well grown, 4 feet high. The many very pretty flowers are 
lavender below the middle, with the top of deep blue. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
PETASITES japonicus, or Coltsfoot, is one of the finest of plants for bold leaf effect. 
From a running rootstalk great heart-shaped or nearly round leaves, 2 to 2^ feet across, 
are thrown up, with stems 2 to 4 feet high. In a moist place and with loose soil they 
make grand groups. 50 cts. each. 
