PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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BELLIUM minutum is a gem. Its dense basal tuft of leaves is not an inch in height 
while the stems of this miniature plant are not over 3 inches high. The little white 
daisies are borne for some time in summer. You will like it. Sit., sun. Soil, good, 
preferably well watered. PL, October to April. Prop., divisions in winter or spring. 
25 cts. each. 
BLACKBERRIES may seem out of place in my catalogues, but the Oregon Ever- 
bearing Blackberry is a distinctly ornamental vine of great value for certain purposes. 
The pinnate leaves are beautifully cut and have the outline of a large maple leaf. They 
color in the fall. The fruit has a musky flavor and is delicious. It is a fine vine to cover 
fences or unsightly spots, to fill open ravines, to cover rough, moist road banks, or to 
mask a springy spot. It likes moist ground yet is most hardy. 25 cts. each. 
BLEEDING-HEART. See Dicentra spectabilis, page 9. 
BOCCONIA cordata, or Plume Poppy, is a very handsome plant indeed and well 
fitted for a central place in large borders or in front of shrubbery. The leaves are large. 
The stout stems are 5 to 7 feet high, and the pink flowers are borne in long plumy 
panicles. Sit., sun. PL, October to April. Soil, deep ground and better if loose. To 
form a group, plant 18 inches apart, using six plants or more. 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
BOLTONIAS are of the Aster tribe, stout-stemmed plants, bearing myriads of 
little single flowers in late summer and making fine masses. 
B. asteroides is white, while B. latisquama is soft lavender. Sit., sun, or light shade. 
PL, October to April. Soil, any garden soil, but the best pays; moderate watering to 
moist. Prop., divisions in winter. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
BOYKINIA occidentalis has ivy-shaped leaves of a shining green and dainty flow- 
ers. It does wonderfully well on wet rocks or near water. They should be planted 
closely to make a complete ground-cover, and are the very best plants to plant in a fern- 
bed to cover the ground under and among the ferns; 12 inches apart each way will 
cover all ground. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., 56 per 100. 
B. major is a very strong-growing plant, with stems 2 feet high. It forms fine col- 
onies in a shady place. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
BOUSSINGAULTIA baselloides is the Madeira Vine. Sec page 21. 
CALLA sethiopica is the common white Cally Lily. Strong tubers in the fall at 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
All CAMPANULAS are known as Bellflowers, and they are flowers for everyone — 
hardy, of easy culture and free-blooming. They thrive year after year — except the 
Canterbury Bells, which live only two years — and respond to extra care most liberally. 
We usually associate them with rockeries, and with permanent borders and masses, but 
they well repay the extra care they get in beds. 
C. carpatica forms a round cushion of pretty leaves a foot or more across, and 
through a long season produces fine blue flowers on single stems. It is a most attractive 
plant. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. garganica has a habit like the last, but with small, reddish purple flowers in 
great abundance. A charming plant for boxes or rocks. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. glomerata is an entirely new type of Bellflower for California. They are strong- 
growing perennials, with heads of fine blue flowers, and form colonies like C. persicifolia. 
The stems are a foot or so high and they mass well. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. glomerata alba is pure white. Excellent. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. glomerata acaulis is the same, but the flowers grow down in among the foliage. 
Their culture is easy — plant in fall or spring, about 18 inches apart, in any garden soil, 
and sunshine is preferred. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. Fergusonii is a new sort, with very stout stems 2 to 3 feet high and medium- 
sized blue bells. 25 cts. each. 
C. Grossekii is a most excellent plant for many purposes. Either few or many in 
the garden will give a fine effect with the purplish lavender, slender bells. It brightens 
a shady bed, while to plant in mass-planting with foxgloves, harmonizes well in habit, 
and continues the season of such a bed for months after the foxgloves have done flower- 
ing. About 2 feet high. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. persicifolia is the Peach-leaved Bellflower and one of the very best of all peren- 
nial plants. The foliage is mostly at the base and is handsome and an excellent foil for 
other plants. The clumps spread into broad masses and the strong, erect stems, produc- 
ing many large, bell-shaped flowers of clear blue or pure white, make a superb mass. 
Plant a foot to 16 inches apart in a well-worked soil, in sun or light shade. Let alone for 
two years. I have both white and blue. Strong clumps, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. persicifolia Moerheimei is the double white form, and a most excellent cut-Mower, 
as well as fine in the garden. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
