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Carl Purdy, Ukiah, California 
Soil, garden loam and ordinary care. Prop., seeds. The plant persists but year-olds 
are best. Fine, strong plants ready to flower, 60 cts. per doz., $4 per 100. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS of the single sorts, some twenty especially fine ones are 
described in my general catalogue, which I mail on application. 
CONVALLARIA majalis. See Lily-of-the-Valley. 
*COLCHICUMS, or Fall Crocuses, also known as Saffron, are seldom seen with us 
because they must be imported earlier than most Dutch bulbs and are therefore difficult 
to get. The leaves appear in spring and die like belladonna lilies. In August or Sep- 
tember the flowers appear day after day and are very charming in white, blues, and 
soft lavenders. My own bulbs this year. Sit,, sun or light shade. Soil, garden loam and 
care. PL, late August or early September. Leave alone. A carpet of Sedums or Phlox 
subulata will cover the ground when they die down in spring. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
DELPHINIUM hybridum is the glorious Perennial Larkspur and cannot be praised 
too highly. I make a specialty of it and, because I have failed after much expense 
successfully to import named varieties, I grow from seeds taken from one of the two 
finest world's collections of named sorts. They are superb. *Very heavy two-year-old 
plants, 25 cts. each. Good yearlings, which will flower this summer, 15 cts. each, $1.25 
per doz. See general catalogue for very full cultural notes. 
D. cardinale is the much-sought-after Giant Scarlet Larkspur of Southern Cali- 
fornia. I offer strong collected roots. Sit., sun. Soil, loose, well drained. PL, October 
to March. Prop., seeds; damp off badly. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
DIANTHUS is a large genus and includes Marguerite Carnations (page 3), Sweet 
Williams (page 16), and many other species. 
The CUSHION PINKS are various European rock plants most useful for rockworks 
or dry borders. D. caesius, the Cheddar Pink, has a low dense cushion of bluish, grass- 
like leaves, making a round mat not over 3 inches high. The small, rose-colored flowers 
in mid-spring are both pretty and fragrant. A fine plant for edging beds or rocks. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. Very heavy plants, 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Do not fail to ask for my new varieties next fall, D. Prichardi and D. deltoides, 
Brilliant. They are very fine but available stock is sold. See catalogue for culture and 
other sorts. 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS (Bleeding-Heart), is one of the very handsomest plants 
for a cool shaded position, and especially for the fern bed, not the common fern bed 
containing only a few of the larger sorts, but the bed which is an exquisite combination 
of contrasting ferns, of shade-loving plants that harmonize with them, and with some 
soft low ground-cover. The foliage of the Bleeding-Heart is fern-like and the deep rosy 
red, heart-shaped flowers are pendent from the under side of graceful branches, 18 to 
24 inches high. In flower it is a lovely object. Sit., shade. Any good garden soil. PL, 
October to March. Prop., divisions in winter. Very strong flowering plants, 25 cts. each. 
DIGITALIS. See Foxgloves. 
EPIMEDIUM alpinum is another plant well fitted for the fern bed on account of its 
beautiful evergreen foliage. In mellow soil it spreads by short underground runners to 
make large clumps with glossy foliage about a foot high. Planted a foot apart, they 
soon cover all space and remain good indefinitely. Sit-., shade. Fair soil, mellow is 
better. PL, October to March. Prop., winter divisions. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Extra-strong plants, 25 cts. each. 
*EREMURUS are related to the lilies and have large, fleshy, sprangly roots like 
giant ranunculuses from which many grassy basal leaves are produced. The stiff, 
leafless, and erect stem bears great numbers of beautiful white or rosy flowers in mid- 
summer. A flowering plant is an object to be remembered. Sil., sun. Deep mellow 
sod, preferably gritty. PL, October to February. Strong roots of my own growing, 
$1 each. 
FOXGLOVES (Digitalis) are among the old favorites and my general catalogue 
treats well of them. As all know, they do not flower the first year from seed. My strong 
yearling plants are ready to flower. Why wait a year for seedlings, when I ask only 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100? 
FUNKIA subcordata grandiflora is the White Day Lily. It forms strong clumps 
with large cordate leaves and in summer produces spikes of pure white fragrant flowers. 
Sit., shade. Soil, good, well worked. PL, September to March. Prop., divisions in 
winter. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
GLADIOLI are well treated in my general catalogue, which will be sent on 
application. 
