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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Trillium sessile californicum. An old group in a fern-bed 
TRILLIUMS, continued 
does not grow. It takes a year for them to take hold, but they will then improve for 
years. There is no better bulbous plant to naturalize, and I have them in perfection in 
gravel, loam, sand and heavy clay, and in each case, with no care whatever, and with 
our dry California summer. 
SESSILE CALIFORNICUM. A strong plant a foot high, with the separate leaves 
inches long, by 4>^ inches wide, and the petals inches long. Flowers pure 
white, with purple centers. Very fragrant. Forms masses of many individuals. 
SESSILE, SNOW QUEEN. Has broader petals; flowers pure white, creamy centers. 
SESSILE RUBRUM. Narrow petals; deep maroon-purple to reddish purple. 
OVATUM. Nearly related to the eastern T. grand iflorum. Flowers open pure white 
and gradually tinge pink and finally become deep wine-purple. Requires leaf-mold and 
shade. For the redwood regions the best to naturalize. 
All of the above at 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz., $4 per 100 
LEWISIAS 
Lewisias arc among the most beautiful of the world's rock-plants. With us they 
are in the higher mountains, growing in leaf-mold under trees, or in the accumulated 
soil in rocky points and in the sun. All alike have thick, fleshy leaves, making handsome 
rosettes at the ground, and short racemes of satiny flowers with golden stamens. They 
thrive in loose, well-worked soil preferably gravelly or gritty. 
L. columbiana has a rosette of short leaves and rosy (lowers with dark lines down 
the midrib. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
L. Cotyledon, with long and more slender leaves and flowers similar to Columbianum. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
L. Leana, with slender, pine-like leaves and many small magenta flowers. It 
forms many-headed clusters. 25 cts. each, #2.50 per doz. 
L. oppositifolia is smaller and deciduous. The flowers starry, pure while. 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz. 
L. rediviva, also deciduous, is a small plant, with large, satiny pink flowers of great 
beauty. 10 cts. each, #1 per doz. 
L. Tweedyi is a great plant with leaves 6 to 8 inches, finally making mats 18 inches 
across, with very many soft salmon-pink flowers. $1 each. 
