CARL PURDY, URIAH, CALIFORNIA 
COLLECTION OF LATE TULIPS 
The ten sorts in this collection are excellent varieties, the value given is most sa 
factory, and I am happy to say that my customers have realized this and bought ' 
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collection most liberally. One hundred bulbs, my 
In REDS and SCARLETS I offer Gesneriana 
major, which is really the very best of all red 
Tulips. The color is a glowing scarlet, with blue- 
black eye, and the stems are often 22 inches high 
(see No. 1 on back cover); the price is 3 cts. each, 
50 cts. per doz., $2 per 100, $14 per 1,000. Ingles- 
combe Scarlet is one of the best late Tulips; the 
color is a bright flame and very brilliant; the flowers 
are borne on reasonably long stems; this variety 
sells for 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz., S4.50 per 100. 
Fulgens is clear deep red, with pointed petals, and 
it will be just as much of a favorite when it is better 
known; the price is 3 cts. each, 30 cts. 
per doz., $2 per 100. Gorgeous is th 
only word for La Merveille (The 
Marvel); at first the color is orange-red 
then turns to a rare shade of red. 
Similar in color, but more like 
the Major in habit is Gesneriana 
aurantiaca, the orange Gesneriana, 
a grand flower; and Macrospeila, 
another form of Gesneriana, is 
deep blood-red, with showy black eye; in the sun 
no Tulip outshines it. The price of these three 
varieties is 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
YELLOWS: In yellows I offer three line va- 
rieties. Parisian Yellow (see No. 4, back cover) is 
perhaps the best yellow; the price is 4 cts. each, 
35 cts. per doz., 82.50 per 100, $20 per 1,000. 
Bouton d'Or, golden, tall, stiff-stemmed and makes 
a line color mass when cut, although smaller Glowers 
than the others. This variety sells for 3 cts. each, 
30 cts. per doz.. Si. 75 per 100. Retroflexa is a 
light canary-yellow, long-stemmed, large-flowered 
and with reflexed petals. This handsome variety 
sells for 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
SCARLET and GOLD. The preceding Tulips 
are all in solid colors. Golden Crown, with the 
body of rich yellow, penciled with scarlet, finally become 
It is a dwarf grower, and the bu 
WHITE and PINK: A prett 
penciled with pink, and becomes 
each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per ic 
charming variety; the color is a 
per doz., S2.50 per 1 00. 
ilection, $2.25; fifty bulbs, Si 
Picotee Tulips 
I of old-gold througho 
sell for 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
ariety is Picotee, which opens light cream, sligh 
pure while suffused throughout with pink. 3 c 
(See No. 3, back cover.) Inglescombe Pink i? 
ilicate rose-pink, tinted salmon. 4 cts. each, 40 c 
GIANT DARWINS 
The Darwin Tulip; 
used to be called Brc 
rieties brought out dur 
broad cups of large size, 01 
great lasting qualities, ai 
At first the cup is incurve 
out flat and are as much a 
from the most delicate pi 
Special Culture. The 
carefully if it is desired t 
The shade, the abundant 
sary, I supply exception 
the care. 
They 
are May-flowering Tulips, but in a class 1 
ders, and were badly neglected; but the 
ig the last fifteen years have pushed them t 
on stout and very tall stems (some are 30 ir 
and whether in beds or vases they alwa 
ved, but day by day it becomes broader u 
as 10 inches across. The colors are simply 
k imaginable to a dee]) crimson, 
lirections given for May-flowering Tuli 
have such grand dowers as Darwins a 
vatering whfch flowering, and the added fertilizers a 
lly fine bulbs, but my customers must cooperate by givin 
themselv 
jnderfully 
front place. With 
es high), they have 
attract attention. 
1 the petals spread 
mderful in variety, 
must be followed 
apable of ] ' ' 
