PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 29 
SAXIFRAGAS are a most diverse genus. One group has leaves as large as a cabbage 
while others are little tufted rock-plants. Of the large sorts 1 can offer Saxifraga crassi- 
folia with large leaves and pretty rose-colored flowers which in California appear in 
the winter. One of the good winter-flowering plants. 25 cts. each. 
S. umbrosa is the London Pride, and a most delightful plant with erect flower- 
stems about a foot high and many small white flowers. The foliage is pretty and tufted, 
and it spreads to form a fine colony. 25 cts. each. 
Small Saxifragas I have in many of the tufted varieties, all pretty. All are rock- 
plants, and list will be given on application. Sit,', all Saxifragas like shade, even to 
dense. Soil, any garden as long as moist. Prop., divisions. PL, October to April. 
SCABIOSA caucasica is one of the best plants that I have. In color it is a very fine 
light blue, and the flowers are borne on stems a foot to 18 inches high and are excellent for 
cutting. There has not been a day in a year and a half that a bed in my garden has been 
without flowers, and during that time the temperature went below twenty degrees for 
many days. It only asks a garden soil in the sun and good tillage. 15 cts. and' 25 cts. each. 
S. caucasica alba is a fine plant. 25 cts. each. 
S. lutea is the giant of its tribe. My plants stand about 7 feet high and spread widely. 
The flowers are light yellow. 50 cts. each. 
SHASTA DAISIES are surely our most useful flowers, and they are hardy, long- 
flowering and thrive in almost any position not heavily shaded. Yet few are getting the 
very best out of them, partly from poor care and partly from wrong handling. I find 
it best to divide every winter, using only single, selected strong shoots, with roots at the 
base. Plant these a foot apart each way, in well-worked soil, and the bloom will be fine. 
Again, the sorts most common arc coarse in comparison with Burbank's latest sorts 
listed below: 
In Alaska the stemsare tall and slender, and the finely formed flowers 4 inches across. 
California is a giant; on first opening it is a lemon-yellow and has a double row of petals. 
In a day or two it becomes pure white. If not allowed to overdo it, will flower for months. 
SIDALCEA Candida is a garden variety of our wild Sidalcea and a very good plant. 
White flowers appear on stems 18 to 24 in. high in early summer. 15c. each, $1.25 per doz. 
SILENE californica and S. Hookeri are among the most attractive of all of their 
family. With deep-seated roots they produce a number of underground top-shoots 
which spread to make a circular clump. 
The flowers are shaped like single pinks. 
Californica is brilliant scarlet; Hookeri 
has lacinated petals of an exquisite soft 
pink. Sit., light shades. Soil, deep and 
well drained and better if sandy or 
gritty. PL, October to April. 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
SPIRAEA japonica, or Astilbe 
japonica, is not a shrub, but dies to the 
ground in the winter and sends up 
strong plants with pretty foliage and 
plume-like panicles of white flowers. 
Excellent for a shady place, and goes 
well in a fern-bed. 25 cts. each. 
STOCKS arc most useful both for 
mass effect and for filling gaps where 
other flowers have had their season. 
Ten-Weeks' Stocks flower in summer. 
Winter Stocks will, if planted in the 
fall, flower profusely in early spring. 
If planted in the spring, they flower in 
summer, or if later, in the fall. I carry: 
Madame Rivoire, while; Beauty of 
Nice, pink; Monte Carlo, yellow; 
Queen Alexandra, rosy lilac. 
STRAWBERRY, Creeping Wonder, 
grows rapidly with runners as much as 5 
feet long. It has a deep red, long-lasting 
fruit and is excellent either for hanging- 
baskets, walls, rocks or steep banks. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $5 per 100. Shasta Daisies 
