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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
JAPANESE IRISES 
Japanese Irises are gloriously 
beautiful plants worth much 
trouble for success. At their 
best the stiff stems are 4 feet in 
height, the brilliant flowers 6 
inches or more across, the foli- 
age bold and striking. The 
colors are delicate and the tex- 
ture of the flowers like silk. 
Plants can be set out from 
August to March. Where 
plenty of water is available, 
September planting is the best. 
They do well on the edge of 
ponds, running streams or 
ditches, and will grow under 
water. Heavy feeding and 
plenty of water are necessary. 
On dry hills plant in rows 3 y 2 
feet across and a foot apart in 
the row; the plants about 3 
inches above the trough be- 
tween the rows. Give a dressing 
of nitrate of soda and bone 
meal when planting. Mulch 
with manure in spring. The 
ground should be kept well cul- 
tivated, and do not allow it to 
become hard or baked. The 
plants will grow in almost any 
soil, if it is made fairly rich, and 
the roots supplied with moisture 
during the summer. A garden Glorious, beautiful Japanese Irises 
cannot have too many of these 
splendid flowers; each year the clumps increase in size and become more valuable. 
White, veined violet-purple; 
Gold Bound. Pure white. 
La Favorite. Large white, veined blue. 
Mahogany. Dark red, shaded maroon. 
Mt. Hood. Light blue, shaded darker. 
Oriole. Rich plum-color. 
Pyramid. Lilac-blue, veined, with white 
center. 
Templeton. Light violet, mottled red- 
dish pink and white. 
Victor. 
center purple-violet. 
Apollo. Pure white, pink center. 
H. von Siebold. Reddish, veined white. 
Lavender Queen. Fine lavender. 
Ondine. White, shaded light blue at 
center. 
Toledo. White, purple center. 
Topaz. Reddish amaranth. 
All Japanese Irises at 25c. each, $2 per doz. Mixed Japanese Irises at 20c. each, $1.50 per doz. 
LAVATERA trimestris is an annual, but so good that I offer seedlings for early spring 
delivery. It is related to the mallows, and grows 2 or 3 feet high, with large, soft pink 
flowers produced all through summer and fall. Any good soil suits it. 75 cts. per doz. 
LAVENDER is the well-beloved, fragrant plant of all old-fashioned gardens, and 
quite a pretty plant as well. I have fine plants at 25 cts. each. 
LEPACHYS pinnata is related to Rudbeckia, Golden Glow. It grows 3 feet high, 
with many graceful yellow flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
LIATRIS pyenostachya produces spikes of light rosy purple flowers in midsummer 
and grows 4 to 5 feet. Quite ornamental. Sit., sun. Soil, any loam to light. Prop., 
divisions. PL, October to March. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
The LILY- OF-THE- VALLEY is Convallaria majalis and requires light to medium 
shade, mellow, well-worked soil, with a preference for sandy soil enriched with leaf-mold 
or old manure, and a top-dressing every winter of the same. The third year they should 
be reset. 
Lily-of-the-Valley pips used for forcing are of little value in the garden. Garden 
clumpsare better. I have Meillez Revelation in home-grown plants at 1 5c. ea.,$l.25 per doz. 
