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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Hemerocallis fulva grows 2 feet high, and has large tawny yellow flowers. 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
Gold Dust is taller and may go 3 feet, with large, golden yellow flowers in midsummer. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Kwanso, Double, has double rich orange-copper flowers with yellow center. 
15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Orangeman, bright orange. 25 cts. each. 
HEUCHERAS, or Alum Roots, are most valuable plants for shady places, either near 
buildings or on rockwork. The beautiful leaves form clumps 6 to 8 inches high and are 
evergreen. In some the spring foliage is beautifully colored, while others take on autumn 
or winter tints of much beauty. The small flowers are borne on slender, much-branched 
stems in large numbers, so that in flower we have a filmy mass of delicate colorings above 
handsome leaves. Very hardy and drought-resisting, they make the best of plants for 
shady rockeries. Sit., shade or light sun. Soil, any not wet. Prop., divisions in winter. 
PL, October to March. 
All are garden hybrids of two or three western American species of Alum Root. 
There are no more fitting companions for the hardy ferns. I carry the following sorts: 
• H. ericoides, soft pink. H., Rosamonde, a H. micrantha hybrid with most graceful 
habit and coral-pink flowers. H., Pluie de Feu, fiery red flowers in rather compact 
panicles. H. brizoides, with richly colored foliage and deep rose flowers. 
' H. rubescens sends out lateral branches which root so that it forms broad masses of 
dense foliage; in season has many sprays of pinkish white flowers which last a long time. 
H. micrantha has richly colored foliage in fall and winter and tall panicles of white 
flowers. H. sanguinea is low-growing with brilliant coral-red flowers. 
The set of 7 sorts for $1.50. Either sort at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
IBERIS gibraltarica is a perennial Candytuft of great value for Californian use. It 
makes low mats which are smothered in spring with white flowers, richly tinted laven- 
der and it flowers long. After flowering it can be dried off and will survive our hot, dry 
summer without water. It is a most excellent garden and rock-plant as well. I would 
suggest its use where dry places are to be beautified, as it can be planted in the fall and 
needs no water. Strong plants, 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz.; fine seedlings for larger 
plantings at $3 per 100. 
GERMAN IRISES 
GERMAN IRISES, popularly known as Flag Lilies and Fleur-de-Lis, are hardy 
plants whose value in the garden cannot be overestimated. Easily grown, free-flowering, 
drought-resisting, and many of them fine for cut-flowers, they fit into many portions of 
the garden most admirably. If they receive little care or no care, they still respond with 
fine flowers, while, if they are treated as such noble plants should be treated, they are 
simply indescribably beautiful. They have been greatly improved and wonderfully 
varied of late years and I can offer everything from little plants a few inches high to 
giants 4 to 5 feet high, in all shades of color. 
Culture. Plant in sun or light shade from August to March; the best time is fall. 
The soil may be light or heavy, sandy or rocky, if fairly well enriched, but the best 
results will be had on a good loam with old manure dressing as a winter or summer 
mulch. Lift and divide in early fall every three or four years. Use only the most vigor- 
ous sections, pulling the mat of rhizomes to pieces to get them. Plant 15 to 20 inches apart. 
Garden Arrangement. The worst possible way to use them is as a permanent edg- 
ing to a mixed border, for after flowering they lack interest and leave an ugly place. 
Strong clumps, say of six or more, from 3 to 6 feet from the walk, are good and give fine 
flowering masses in season. If they rest every second year, gladioli can be alternated 
and do well. 
The best of all plans is to choose some bed a little out of the garden center and use 
Irises alone. Such a border can be planted with successive groups of different heights 
and flowering seasons and will be a thing of beauty for a long period and can then be 
dried off until fall. 
Do not use Japanese Irises with German Irises, as the cultural conditions are 
different, but the Spanish, English, Oriental, and Sibirica varieties will blend admirably 
in such an Iris garden. 
The midwinter-flowering Iris stylosa will blend well in this scheme, as it too takes a 
summer rest, and all of our California Irises can be used. If some of the rarer late, winter- 
flowering Irises were used, a bed would flower from November till July. 
German Irises are divided into a number of classes. The Amcena and May- 
flowering sections are on the opposite page, and the remaining sections are treated on 
pages 16 to 19. 
