PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 3 
ALYSSUM saxatile is unexcelled as a hardy, drought-resisting plant for rockwork, 
edging borders, street-curb planting, or groups in border. Its masses of light yellow 
flowers in spring are most attractive; its leaves are evergreen and a good cover. Sit.'; 
sun or light shade. PL, October to May. Prop., seedlings. Soil, moist to dry. 8 cts. 
each, 75 cts. per doz., $4 per 100. 
AMARYLLIS Belladonna is the beautiful Belladonna Lily and one of the finest things 
in the California garden. The great tubers make foliage in winter or early spring, and 
these leaves die off in early summer, but later, usually late August, the tall, naked scapes 
arise, bearing lovely pink flowers in umbels. Bulbsare not likely to flower the season 
that they are moved and seem to flower more freely when somewhat root-bound. They 
do well in sun but possibly better in light shade. Plant in clumps about a foot apart. 
PL, August to spring. Soil, loose and sandy is preferable. Prop., bulblets. Good bulbs, 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
ANCHUSA italica, in the Dropmore Variety, makes a bold mass of blue, 3 to 4 
feet high in early summer. It flowers again if cut back before seeding. Hardy and long- 
lasting plants. Sit., sun. Soil, good; moderate amount of water. PL, October to March. 
Prop., divisions. Heavy roots, 25 cts. each. Fair roots, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
ANEMONES of the fall-flowering sorts are Anemone japonica, and in their season 
have no competitors in their style of beauty. Tall, strong, excellent for cutting and 
beautifully delicate, they have the further virtue of being very hardy and of growing 
well in either sun or shade. Single plants or small groups in the border are fine; strong 
colonies are attractive and make a happy combination for ferns in shaded corners. 
I have found that any good loam suits them. The soil had better be fairly well 
enriched with old manure, the plants put in not closer than 18 inches each way, and it 
is better not to disturb them for years. They have underground runners, which soon 
make the bed a solid mass. If the soil is good, let them grow, and give the bed only top- 
dressing each winter; but if the soil is heavy, take suckers out and cultivate. 
*Honorine Joubert is a fine pure white, growing 2 to 3 feet high. As cut flowers they 
have splendid keeping qualities, remaining fresh in weather so hot that most flowers 
wilt. Queen Charlotte is a soft rose, single. Whirlwind is a beautiful semi-double, 
pure white. Prince Henry is crimson-red. PL, October to March. All at 20 cts. each, 
$2 per doz., for extra-strong roots. 
ANTHEMIS tinctoria is the Golden Marguerite and a sturdy, easily grown plant, 
most excellent for hot, dry places. The plant is about a foot high, and bears a great 
number of daisy-like, yellow flowers in midsummer and until fall. Almost any soil 
suits it, but it needs sun. It stands much drought. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
ANTHERICUM Liliastrum or St. Bruno Lilies are strong-growing plants with large 
numbers of small white flowers. Rather rare. PL, fall or winter. Prop., divisions. 
Sit,, sun. Soil, good garden loam. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
AQUILEGIAS, or Columbines, combine as many good points as any group of 
garden flowers. With hardiness and ease of culture, they have handsome foliage at all 
seasons and beautiful flowers borne gracefully on long stems. While a light shade and 
loose, loamy soil are best, they do well in the full sun, and in any soil from light loam 
to adobe. Fall or winter planting is preferable. They are admirable for a fern-bed. 
* Long-spurred Columbines. Beginning with two American sorts, one the lovely 
Colorado, blue, and the clear yellow and most graceful A. chrysantha, hybridizers have 
evolved a wonderful race of Long-spurred Columbines of the greatest garden value. 
This includes many shades from blues to soft pink. 
A. caerulea alba is a strong-growing pure white variety of great merit. 20 cts. 
each, $2 per doz. . 
My lovely Wolley Dod strain of long-spurred hybrids is sold out and cannot be 
replenished. I can offer a fine strain, including charming tones in cream, pink, lavender, 
blue, white, and red. In mixed only, 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
I have seedlings of the finest strain that I could secure 111 Europe ol this year s 
sowing— even finer than last year's— and the seedlings are 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
A good Mixed strain in strong plants, at same price as last year. 
A. Skinneri is a new strain of Long-spurred Columbines, only in red and yellow and 
red. It is exceedingly bright and pretty. 25 cts. each. 
A. Helena? is midway between the long- and short-spurred sorts, with very stout 
plants and large handsome flowers, deep blue outside with pure white centers. Very 
lovely. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. , 
California has two short-spurred native species of great beauty. 1 he common rea- 
flowered sort, growing throughout the state, is A. truncata. It is hardy, and, it watered 
the first year, can be naturalized in woodlands and makes a fine garden plant. A. eximia 
