PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 11 
FRAGARIA indica. See Strawberry, page 29. 
FUNKIA subcordata grandiflora is the White Day Lily. It forms strong clumps 
with large cordate leaves and in summer produces spikes of pure white fragrant flowers. 
Sit., shade. Soil, good, well worked. PL, September to March. Prop., divisions in 
winter. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
GAILLARDIAS are among the brightest, hardiest, and most easily grown of hardy 
plants. There are annual sorts which I do not recommend. I have Kelway's strain 
which is the best English strain of Gaillardias and includes colors from clear yellow to the 
richer red and orange sorts. Sit., sun. PL, October to April. Prop., seeds or divisions. 
Any garden soil. They are very drought-resisting and flower during a very long period, 
in the milder regions practically all of the time. Very strong, heavy plants, ready to 
flower, 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
GAURA Lindheimeri is a most hardy plant, with strong, leafy stems growing from 
3 to 4 feet in height, bearing a very large number of white flowers, flushed with pink, 
throughout a long season. They make a most excellent background for such tall plants 
as perennial phlox, Michaelmas daisies, or anything of that habit. No plant stands 
heat or drought better, and after the first season, the Gaura will live through the Cali- 
fornian summer with ease if necessary. It is especially adapted to the hotter sections, 
although it thrives in the coastal regions. Sit., full sun or light shade. PL, winter. 
Prop., seeds or divisions. Flowers second year from seed. Any soil will do. Especially 
sun-loving and drought-resisting. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
GENTIANS are well-loved plants, but many of them difficult to grow. I have had 
the lovely G. acaulis for years in a lightly shaded place in loose soil and it thrives. The 
leaves are tufted at the base, and the flower-stems, hardly 3 inches high, bear large, 
tubular flowers. The flowers are an intense dark blue and are always greatly admired. 
Sit.-, light shade. PL, October to March. Soil, loose and mellow. Prop., by divisions 1 . 
25 cts. each. 
GERANIUM sanguineum is a Herb Robert which forms clumps a few inches high, 
with pretty rose-colored flowers borne above the foliage. It is daintily attractive. 
SiL, light shade. Soil, any garden loam. Prop., divisions. PL, October to March. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
GEUM, Mrs. Bradshaw is one of the best hardy plants lately introduced. Its foliage 
suggests the strawberry and the flower is like a large brilliant red strawberry flower. 
Flowers are borne in abundance on tall branching stems. Sit., sun, or better, light shade. 
Soil, any garden loam, but it is an excellent rock-plant. PL, October to March. Prop., 
seeds. Flowers second season. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
GILLIFLOWERS. See Stocks on page 29. 
GLADIOLI are the best of the summer-flowering bulbs, and whether in clumps in 
the garden or cut for decoration, they are invaluable. For cut-flowers they should be 
cut as soon as the first buds show color. Sit., sun, or if the climate is hot, plant where 
they get shade in the heat of the day. Soil, any garden loam moderately manured with 
old manure and well drained; a sandy soil is the very best. Prop., by planting the tiny 
offsets which appear on the bottom of the bulbs. PL, from October to June. 
The best results are had by planting some in the fall and then, beginning in March, 
successive plantings as long as the bulbs can be kept sound. This distributes the flower- 
ing season in a like manner. Plant not less than 6 inches apart and 3 inches deep. 
Stake to hold up the stems. Dig after they ripen in the fall. Store where safe from frost, 
after the bulbs are well dried. I lost a large number of my own bulbs during the extremely 
cold weather of last winter. 
America has had the heaviest sale of any Gladiolus ever sold and is now within the 
reach of all. It is very vigorous, with soft lavender-pink flowers, large and spreading, 
on stout 'stems. One of the very best cut-flowers. 1 have good bulbs at 4 cts. each, 
40 cts. per doz., $2.50 per 100. 
Attraction is a very fine variety, with deep crimson flowers having a conspicuous 
white throat. 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
Baron Hulot is the very best blue-purple Gladiolus, and admired wherever seen. 
Described as a rich violet-blue. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Empress of India has large, velvety maroon flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Glory of Holland is pure white with lilac anthers; fine. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., 
$4 per 100. 
Halley was the large species so much admired in the Netherlands Exhibit at the 
Panama-Pacific. It is a lovely salmon-pink with the lower portion blotched red and 
yellow. Very strong and fine for cutting. 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
