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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Salvia patens is herbaceous, a foot or two high, with pleasing ovate hairy leaves. The 
very large, intense deep blue flowers are among the most lovely flowers known of their 
color. If they were borne in large numbers, the plant would be invaluable, and, in any 
case, it is very desirable. It likes rich soil and tillage and a sunny location. 30 cts. 
each, $3 per doz. 
S. Pitched is exactly like S. azurea, but has intense gentian-blue flowers (deep 
blue) and blooms from late summer until very cold weather. One of the best late 
fall flowers. 30 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
S. pratensis grows into a sturdy, much-branched plant, with many stems a foot or 
so high. The flowers are deep blue, but the colored bracts are rosy and the general 
effect is a rosy lavender. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
S. turkestanica has very large basal leaves, rather velvety in appearance and quite 
ornamental in winter and spring. A number of very stout, much-branched stems arise 
erectly, very leafy below and all of the upper portions full of colored bracts, giving the 
effect of a mass of bloom. The flowers are small and white, while the bracts are white, 
tinted pink and violet. They make a very striking mass for a long period from June on. 
There are few bolder and handsomer large plants. Very fine plants, sure to give imme- 
diate results, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
SAPONARIA ocymoides splendens is quite an attractive spreading plant, a few 
inches high, with many small pink flowers. For borders it is good; for rock-work ex- 
cellent. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
SAXIFRAGAS are a most diverse genus. One group has leaves as large as a cabbage 
while others are little tufted rock-plants. Of the large sorts I can offer Saxifraga crassi- 
folia with large leaves and pretty rose-colored flowers which in California appear in 
the winter. One of the good winter-flowering plants. 25 cts. each. 
S. peltata is a noble Californian plant which has become a great favorite in England 
for bold groups in lawn or sides of pools or streams, it loves moisture, and from large 
rootstocks throws up immense leaves on stems 3 to 5 feet high, the leaves a foot or 
more across. 50 cts. each. 
S. umbrosa is the London Pride, and a most delightful plant, with erect flower- 
stems about a foot high and many small white flowers. The foliage is pretty and tufted, 
and it spreads to form a fine colony. 25 cts. each. 
SCABIOSA atropurpurea, the Mourning Bride, or Old Ladies' Pin-Cushion of our 
mother's gardens has been evolved into 
one of the finest and most useful of garden 
flowers. From a broad basal tuft of foliage 
many slender stems arise to a foot or two, 
with large flowers in many colors. In 
California this Scabiosa becomes peren- 
nial, but it is better to treat it as an an- 
nual. Sit., sun. Soil, any garden soil. 
Prop., seedlings. PL, October to June. 
Annual Scabiosas can be planted at any 
time from October until May and can be 
so used as to always have an abundance of 
flowers coming on. Good plants at $1 per 
doz., in White, Pink, Rose, Azure Fairy, a 
fine blue, and Black-Maroon. 
S. caucasica is one of the best plants 
that I have. In color it is a very fine light 
blue, and the flowers are borne on stems a 
foot to 18 inches high and are excellent for 
cutting. There has not been a day in a 
year and a half that a bed in my garden 
has been without flowers, and during that 
time the temperature went below twenty 
degrees for many days. It only asks a 
garden soil in the sun and good tillage. 
25 cts. each. 
S. lutea is the giant of its tribe. My 
plants stand about 7 feet high and spread 
widely. The flowers arc light yellow. 25 
Scabiosa atropurpurea cts. each. 
