Purely 1 s California Flowering Plants 
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In the double GYPSOPHILA 
paniculata we have an unusually 
lovely thing. Well-grown plants in 
flower will be 3 feet high or more 
and nearly as wide, with myriads of 
dainty, full, double, white flowers 
in graceful sprays, a very mass of 
snow. The branchlets are most 
effective as bouquets. Heavy roots, 
25 cts. each. 
G. acutif olia, with habit like the 
G. paniculata but with more scat- 
tered pink flowers, blooms a long 
while in midsummer, and is a good 
plant. 1 5 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
HELLEBORES, or Christmas 
Roses, are not roses at all but allied 
to the fall anemones and peonies. 
My customers who have tried them 
in the San Francisco Bay region 
are more than pleased with them. 
The leaves are large, handsome, and Hellebores, showing them forced. Growing plants 
last the year through; the flowers are well provided with fine foliage 
are large, shaped like anemones and, 
coming in midwinter, last for months. They do well in very shady places and are fine 
companions for fall anemones or ferns. They do well in any good garden soil, probably 
preferring heavy soil well enriched with leaf-mold or well-watered manure. Plant early 
in fall or in spring. 
Albin Otto. Pure white, center lightly tinged red. 
Diadem. Pink, handsomely feathered purple. 
Gertrude Jekyll. Fine, large white flowers. 
Niger. Flowers 2 to 3 inches across, pure white. 
Prof. Schleicher. Flowers snow-white. 
These named varieties at 35 cts. each. 
I have also a collection of ten named sorts (my selection) which I offer for 35 cts. 
each, or $3 a set. Mixed plants (not named) at 25 cts. each. 
*HELIANTHEMUMS, or Rock Roses, are plants that should be far better known, 
as they are both beautiful and peculiarly well adapted to California. They grow flat 
and spread to form broad mats. The flowers, when single, are like little roses and very 
dainty. They do well at the top of a wall to droop down, on rockwork, in borders, or to 
fill dry, hot corners. Sit., sun. PL, any time, as they are sold in pots. Prop., cuttings. 
I offer pots double red, single white, and a peculiar shade that is probably best described 
as coppery terra-cotta. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
My HEUCHERAS are very fine for the shady place or rockwork. See list in general 
catalogue. 
My HOLLYHOCKS have made me many friends. The plants are so strong and 
well rooted and the colors so fine that there is simply no comparison with the little seed- 
lings so commonly sold. You cannot afford to wait a whole year for seedlings when my 
plants are delivered to you at 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100. At the dozen rate 
you may have three each of four sorts, at the 100 rate, 10 each of ten sorts. 
Separate colors: White, white with lavender center, lavender, purple, maroon, 
black, blush-white, pink, rose, crimson, canary, and *apricot. Single Hollyhocks mixed 
at same prices. 
German Irises 
GERMAN IRISES, popularly known as Flag Lilies and Fleur-de-Lis, are hardy 
plants whose value in the garden cannot be overestimated. Easily grown, free flowering, 
drought-resisting, and many of them fine for cut-flowers, they fit into many portions of 
the garden most admirably. If they receive little care or no care, they still respond with 
fine flowers, while, if they are treated as such noble plants should be treated, they are 
simply indescribably beautiful. 
They have been greatly improved and wonderfully varied of late years and I can 
offer everything from little plants a few inches high to giants 4 to 5 feet high, in all 
shades of color. 
