PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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LINUM Lewisii is such a pleasing perennial Flax that it should be much used. 
Branching stems rise to a foot or two, clothed with light airy foliage and producing 
large, light blue flowers for a long time in summer and fall — all tend to make a most 
charming and useful plant. Sit., sun or light shade. PI., October to summer; any fair 
soil. Prop., seeds or plants. 10 cts. each, $i per doz. Strong plants. 
LIPPIA repens has proved most useful in California as a lawn material and is also 
a most excellent plant for rocks or steep banks or to hang over walls. It spreads by 
prostrate stems which root freely at the joints and soon make a flat, dense ground-cover 
of a pleasing green which can be mowed or left as time allows. The flowers are borne in 
low heads and are white, tinted lavender and give the effect of clover. For planting a 
lawn or ground-cover, place pieces of the stem not over a foot apart each way — closer 
is better. If a foot apart they will meet by fall; if closer, that much quicker. Sit., sun or 
light shade. Soil, anything from stiff clay to sand, rich or poor. It will grow where less 
hardy plants could not exist. Prop., by cuttings, or better, sections of the stems with 
some root. Plant with a trowel. Water freely at first and until well set. After the first 
year it will hold on with no water, but with a winter top-dressing and plenty of water it 
is an excellent springy lawn. It does not seed or tend to spread and become a weed. 
Root sections $2 per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
LOBELIA cardinalis is one of the most brilliantly colored flowers known. The fine 
variety that I sell grows from 18 inches to nearly 3 feet in height. The flowers are a most 
vivid cardinal. No plant was more admired at the Exposition. Its culture is easy. Give 
it good soil in the sun and fairly abundant watering. Soil rich in humus suits it best, 
and it should be divided to single shoots every winter and planted in groups aboul .1 
foot apart each way for the most effective display. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
MADEIRA VINE. For the hot summer and where a vine is needed to make a dense 
shade quickly, this is most excellent. Twelve to 20 feet in a season can easily be secured 
in rich, loose soil. The tubers, 15 cts. each. 
MALLOW MARVELS are a distinct addition to the flower-garden. They are 
hybrids and, from a large root, there arise each spring strong stalks, 3 to 5 feet high, 
bearing a number of immense, single flowers of a satiny texture. Each clump has a num- 
ber of stalks, and the flowering season is from midsummer on. They come in Red, 
Pink, and Pure White. 35 cts. each. 
MARIGOLD (Calendula) is a most excellent plant, and one that can be relied mi 
for winter bloom. For this, plant strong plants in the fall. Good, strong plants from 
October on at 50 cts. per doz. 
MICHAELMAS DAISIES are among the very best hardy plants known and for 
fine masses of soft coloring in the garden they have no superior. In planting hardy 
borders they should never be omitted, for they have the merit of making soft masses 
of any desired height from 2 to 7 feet. The foliage is a soft, pleasing shade of green and 
makes an excellent filler and foil for other groups. Most superb groups can be planned 
with Michadmas Daisies alone. 
The varieties do not all flower at the same time and, if after a plant flowers and 
before seeds can form it is cut close to the ground, it will flower a second time. Indeed 
one customer of mine had three crops last year from one plant. 
Again, if in a massing of these alone, a portion is cut down after they are well up, 
say in May, the bloom will be retarded enough so they will supplement the first-flowering 
lots most beautifully. 
Michaelmas Daisies are here to stay and will be more and more appreciated. They 
are fine cut-flowers if cut when it is cool. Even if the flowers wilt which are on them 
when cut, they will bloom in water and be beautiful for days, if not weeks. 
Their culture is most easy. They will do fairly in any garden soil with moderate 
watering and either in full sun or very light shade. The very best results will be had 
in a rich, well-worked soil of any class with rather abundant watering. Plant 15 to iH 
inches apart each way in strong groups of not less than six of a sort. If hoed, they will 
do better. Plant from October to April. Reset not later than the second year. In 
resetting use only the outer vigorous shoots and, if single shoots are used and they are 
set about a foot apart each way each winter, the very finest obtainable results will be 
had. Summer mulching is an advantage and can be made of old leaves, sawdust , well- 
rotted manure, or grass cuttings; but manure is preferable. 
I bought my set from the leading English- specialists and supplement with the best 
new sorts. They are divided into distinct groups, the result of crossing natural species. 
Aster cordifolius is the most dainty in mass of any. It has a tuft of heart-shaped 
leaves at the ground and slender, very graceful branches lull of beautiful small flowers. 
Ideal grows to 3 feet and has exquisite pale lavender flowers in dainty sprays. 25c. ea. 
