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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
SWEET WILLIAMS are fine, old-fashioned flowers of much garden value. Their 
large masses of good green foliage are always attractive and are valuable to fill with. 
The flowers are handsome and fragrant. Sit., sunlight or shade. Any garden soil, but 
rich soil pays in results. PL, September till May. Prop., seeds or divisions. For mass- 
ing, plant 18 inches apart. 
Auricula-eyed, mixed; Pink Beauty, in good pink; Scarlet Beauty, in scarlet; 
Nigrescens, in a dark rich maroon with richly bronzed leaves, are my sorts and in 
strong plants cost 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., $6 per 100. Fine mixed seedlings, 
30 cts. per doz. 
Everblooming Sweet Williams are an entirely new thing — a hybrid between the old 
Sweet Williams and the Garden Pink. They are compact and long-flowering with velvety 
crimson-scarlet flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Newport Pink is soft salmon-rose or watermelon-pink. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
The THALICTRUMS, or Meadow Rues, are all handsome plants. The foliage is as 
pretty as the flowers and has a resemblance to the maidenhair fern. They are valuable 
for the shaded corner. T. dipterocarpum grows to 5 feet, with a most attractive mauve 
flower. A very lovely thing recently introduced. 25 cts. each. 
THYME is both a pot-herb and an excellent garden plant. Sit., sun. Good moist 
soil. P/., October to March. Prop., divisions in winter. My Scarlet Thyme is very 
pretty in its season, with very fine cut foliage. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Thymus albus is one of the nicest closely creeping things that I have yet secured. 
The dainty foliage makes a dense carpet not over an inch high and is fairly smothered 
with white flowers. Fine for rockwork. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
TRADESCANTIA virginica is an attractive and hardy plant with erect branched 
stems a foot or so high. Produces odd but pretty flowers, either white or of a peculiar 
blue-lavender. They will please. Sit., sun. Soil, good and moist. PL, October to 
March. Prop., divisions. Either the blue or white form at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
VERBENA venosa is very different from garden Verbenas, ft is hardy and resists 
cold and grows by underground runners. It is most drought-resistant and bright for 
a long period. The flowers are lilac and pretty. Sit., sun and heat. Soil, any; moderate 
moisture is best. PL, October to March. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
The creeping VERONICAS are utterly unlike the shrubby New Zealand sorts, as they 
are low, herbaceous plants, carpeting the ground and throwing up erect flower-stems. 
V. longifolia subsessilis is one of the best blue flowers that we have. Stout steins, 
2 to 3 feet high, bear most attractive blue flowers in summer and fall. 25 cts. each. 
V. rupestris grows to 8 inches or a foot, with many clear blue flowers. Same price. 
V. Allionii is somewhat like V. rupestris, with larger foliage and the finest of blue 
flowers. About 6 inches high. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
VIOLETS, f have the best garden varieties as follows: 
Prince of Wales. Large; single blue. 
Swanley White. Large; double white. 
Double. Soft blue. The old fragrant Violet. 
Marie Louise. Double purple. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
VINCA, or Periwinkle, is a most useful plant for covering ground under trees or for 
dry banks. After the first season it will do with little or no water, and if handled rightly 
is one of the very best plants for such purposes. Cult., set the rooted pieces a foot or 
less apart each way and the first year allow the tips to root so as to form a dense planta- 
tion. After the first year cut close to the ground in February or earlier. The result will 
be a dense lawn-like expanse of bright green studded later with flowers. 
Varieties: I have the common large blue, or Vinca major, and the dwarf white 
and a dwarf rose-colored sort, V. alpinum. The first at 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $4 per 100. 
Quantities cheaper. The V. minor alba at same prices. V. alpinum at 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
WALLFLOWERS are always favorites. My nice plants, ready in fall, (lower freely 
the next spring. Red, White, and Light Yellow. 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
*ZAUSCHNERIA californica, or Wild Fuchsia, is a most showy, late- flowering 
plant, forming large mats and Fuchsia-like flowers. Flowering after most things are 
done, it is a plant to have. Color scarlet. Sit., sun. Soil, mellow, rich; moisture in 
plenty but not wet. PL, October to March. Prop., underground stems. 
