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Carl Purdy, Ukiah, California 
The Garden has fine, rather large lavender-pink flowers. 5 ft. 
White Queen, 5 feet, is white. 
Aster laevis Harvardii is of another race and is 4 feet high, having small flowers 
and erect, spreading habit. 
Aster diffusus pendula is tall and much branched, with long drooping branches 
and pretty, light blue flowers throughout. 3 to 4 ft. 
Aster puniceus pulcherrima has pyramidal, bluish white flowers, with yellow centers. 
Fine. 
Aster Tataricus I have heretofore offered under the name of Giant Blue. It is a 
most striking object in the latest fall, growing to 6 or 7 feet, with heavy stems and large 
leaves, and heads of soft blue-lavender flowers. They are very lasting. I had it in full 
flower in mid-November, 19 16. 
All Michaslmas Daisies at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., excepting as noted. 
*NEPETA Glechoma, the Ground Ivy, is the Creeping Charlie of my boyhood and 
exceedingly useful for a pretty cover for sloping banks in shade, under trees, the fern 
bed, or even as edgings for borders in the sun where it is not very hot. Everyone likes 
it. The prostrate stems root at joints and make a solid carpet of little Ivy-like evergreen 
leaves. It is always neat and pretty. Good divisions, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. These 
can be divided and planted 8 feet apart to cover broad surfaces. 
OENOTHERAS, or Evening Primroses, are well adapted to the hot California 
summer. They are flowers of much merit for hot and dry situations as well as for the 
general garden. My general catalogue, page 23, gives a fine list and their culture. I 
call special attention to 
(E. Arendsii, a low-growing sort about a foot high and flowering through a very 
long period, with attractive soft pink flowers. It does not close in the day. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
CE. Lamarckiana is that tall, strong, and much-branched sort with great yellow 
flowers. It does well under hard conditions and responds wonderfully to good culture. 
Fine for the hot interior. Fine flowering plants, 7 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., $5 per 100. 
CE. speciosa is a lovely thing, with pure white flowers, tinged pink as they fade. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Plant Evening Primroses in the sun, and, while they stand neglect, good soil is 
better. Plant October to April. Divide in early spring. 
PANSIES need no description. In California the best results are had by putting 
out strong plants ready to flower about October 15. They will flower profusely with 
the incoming of real spring and to some degree in open winters. Sit.., sun or light shade. 
Well-worked soil with well-rotted manure, worked into top layers; a manure mulch. 
PL, October to May. That is the price of good Pansies. Strong plants in October, in 
a fine mixed strain, at 40 cts. per doz., $2.50 per 100, $15 per 1,000, or at any time 
thereafter until May. Small plants, $1.50 per 100, $10 per 1,000. 
PENTSTEMONS are, from the garden standpoint, the best perennials that Cali- 
fornia has, for they are not only handsome, many colored, and hardy, but they thrive 
either in our hot interior or our seaside climates. They flower with little intermission 
the entire open season, with some bloom even in winter. Standing from 18 inches to 
2 feet high, their full panicled masses are most lovely. I advise using one color only in 
a group. Sit., sun or sun part of the day. Any garden soil, but a loose, well-manured 
soil will repay in results. PL, October to May, but spring is better than winter. Prop., 
seeds or plants. Seeds flower late in the year. I have the following colors: 
*Soft Pink; clear Cherry-Red with white throat; same, with richly mottled throat; 
White tinged lavender. All in good plants which will flower profusely early in summer, 
at 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. A few sorts in very heavy one-year-old plants at 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
In well-rooted small plants from pots I carry the following colors: Southgate Gem, 
a deep glowing red; Light Pink with almost white throat; Dark Pink with white throat; 
Scarlet; Purple and Maroon; Soft Pinks; Mixed, from a very fine strain; all at 10 cts. 
each, 75 cts. per doz. Large plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Pentstemon, California Blue Bedder, grows about 10 inches high and produces a 
profusion of gentian-blue flowers. A good thing. Strong plants, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
PEONIES. See my general catalogue for sorts and culture. 
*PETASITES Japonica, or Giant Coltsfoot, is one of the best of the large-leaved 
plants. The single leaves are nearly 2 feet across and a clump in a moist rich corner is 
most effective. 50 cts. each. 
