PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 23 
Michaelmas Daisy, Purity, 5 feet, is one of the best whites. 
Saturn has dense heads of lavender flowers. 
The Garden has fine, rather large lavender-pink flowers. 5 ft. 
Tom Sawyer, 3 to 4 feet, has large, light blue flowers. 
White Queen, 5 feet, is white. 
A. laevis Harvardii is of another race and is 4 feet high, having small flowers and 
erect, spreading habit. 
A. diffusus pendulus is tall and much branched, with long drooping branches 
and pretty, light blue flowers throughout. 3 to 4 ft. 
A. puniceus pulcherrimus has pyramidal, bluish white flowers, with yellow centers. 
Fine. 
A. tataricus I have heretofore offered under the name of Giant Blue. It is a most 
striking object in the latest fall, growing to 6 or 7 feet, with heavy stems and large 
leaves, and heads of soft blue-lavender flowers. They are very lasting. I had it in full 
flower in mid-November, 19 16. 
All Michaelmas Daisies at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., excepting as noted 
MULLEIN PINK. See Agrostemma, page 2. 
NEPETA Glechoma, or Ground Ivy, is a most dainty and useful Mint. The leaves 
are crenated and pretty, the stems run on the ground, the root making solid carpets. I 
know of no better ground-cover for a shaded bed, while for hanging-baskets, or in pots 
or tubs under trees or shrubs, it is excellent. For covering a steep bank in a shaded 
position there are few prettier things. One of the strictly useful plants. Price for 
plants, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. Prices of divisions by the hundred on application. 
N. Myersii is a pretty blue Mint which grows a foot or two high and for months 
is covered with azure-blue flowers. It likes rich soil and abundant moisture. 20 cts. each. 
OENOTHERA. See Evening Primrose, page 9. 
ONOSMA tauricum is a really beautiful plant related to the Anchusa, but low- 
growing and spreading with racemes of light yellow flowers. 35 cts. each. 
ORIGANUM hybridum is a most attractive, low, bedding plant. The foliage is a 
gray-green and the flower-racemes are erect cones with bright lavender bracts. The 
flowers themselves are lavender, but hardly show. The bracts last long in beauty and it 
is a most hardy plant. Plant in fall or winter and do not disturb and at a foot apart the 
plants soon meet to form a colony. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
PANSIES need no description. In California the best results are had by putting- 
out strong plants ready to flower about October 15. They will flower profusely with 
the incoming of real spring and to some degree in open winters., Sit,, sun or light shade. 
Well-worked soil with well-rotted manure, worked into top layers; a manure mulch. 
PL, October to May. That is the price of good Pansies. Strong plants in October, in 
a fine mixed strain, at 40 cts. per doz., $2.50 per 100, $15 per 1,000, or at any time 
thereafter until May. Small plants, $1.50 per 100, $10 per 1,000. 
PENTSTEMONS are, from the garden standpoint, the best perennials that Cali- 
fornia has, for they are not only handsome, many colored, and hardy, but they thrive 
either in our hot interior or our seaside climates. They flower with little intermission 
the entire open season, with some bloom even in winter. Standing from 18 inches to 
2 feet high, their full panicled masses are most lovely. I advise using one color only in 
a group. Sit., sun or sun part of the day. Any garden soil, but a loose, well-manured 
soil will repay in results. PL, October to May, but spring is better than winter. Prop., 
seeds or plants. Plants from seeds flower late in the year. 
In well-rooted small plants from pots I carry the following colors: Light Pink with 
almost white throat; Dark Pink with white throat; Scarlet; Purple and Maroon; Soft 
Pinks, Mixed, from a very fine strain; all at 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. Large plants, 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
P., California Blue Bedder, grows about 10 inches high and produces a profusion 
of gentian-blue flowers. A good thing. Strong plants, 10 cts. each, $r per doz. 
PEONIES are plants that when well grown cannot be surpassed in superb flowers, 
while the fragrance of some is not equaled by the finest roses. They flower in May or 
early June and the flowers grown at The Terraces are generally admitted to be the 
finest on this coast. 
Peonies cannot be grown successfully in California in the same manner that they 
arc grown in the East. The plants themselves grow admirably, but as they flower at a 
time when the weather is very hot in California, either the' flowers are burnt or the 
