PURDY'S CALIFORNIA BULBS AND PLANTS 
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SAXIFRAGA Mertensiana is an exquisitely beautiful California rock-plant. It is 
really bulbous, with a number of bulbs in a tuft, as I sell them. It can be handled 
dry in the fall, but when planted soon pushes out many tufts of beautiful, crenated, 
shining leaves and later slender stems with white flowers with conspicuous red anthers. 
Dry clumps in fall, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.; growing clumps, $1 per doz. 
S. peltata is the immense water plant, with shield-shaped leaves, in Sierran stream- 
courses. A fine plant. 50 cts. each. 
SEDUM spathulifolium covers a rock surface with a close mat of pretty, thick 
leaves and produces many yellow flowers. The prettiest of all Sedums. 15 cts. each, 
$1.50 per doz. for clumps. 
S. oreganum is a handsome little Sedum with light green leaves. A distinct acquisi- 
tion. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
S. Purdyii. This new and unusual Sedum is here offered for the first time. The leaves 
are light green, densely clustered at the base, and the branching stems make a close mass. 
The plant propagates by runners about 2 inches long. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
SILENE californica, the Mountain or Indian Pink, is a most showy flower, with 
brilliant scarlet flowers, and Silene Hookeri, with exquisite, soft pink flowers is as 
beautiful. The latter forms a low circle of stems and is most beautiful. S. californica, 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.; S. Hookeri, 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
SMILACINA amplexicaulis is our best 
False Solomon's Seal, a fine plant for 
shade. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
y SOLIDAGO californica is a low-grow- 
ing Goldenrod. Solidago occidentalis 
grows 4 or 5 feet high, with fine, feathery 
panicles and is splendid. Either sort at 
15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
SPIKENARD, or Aralia californica, 
is a noble plant, thriving in moist spots 
and growing 4 to 5 feet. A fine plant for a 
large fern-bed. The very heavy roots are 
worth $1 each. 
SYNTHYRIS rotundifolia is one of the 
pretty woods plants which have their best 
place in a rock-garden. We have no pret- 
tier foliage plant in the forest region. 
15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
TELLIMA grandiflora is closely related 
to the Heuchera, and is a most excellent 
plant for rockwork for shady places. The 
leaves are quite ornamental. 15 cts. each, 
$1.50 per doz. 
TIARELLA unifoliata, the Foam Flower, 
belongs to the same group as the preced- 
ing; it has pretty leaves and filmy white 
flowers on tall stems, which will make a 
beautiful effect when the plants are placed 
closely. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
TOLMIEA Menziesii is another plant 
of the same group, and is a strong grower 
Smilacina amplexicaulis 
which spreads by runners and forms dense colonies ; making a most excellent ground- 
cover under shrubs or ferns in shady places. These three at 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
VANCOUVERIA Hexandra, called Mexican Ivy and Redwood Ivy, has of late 
years become a favorite bouquet green on this coast, and is sent east in great quan- 
tities. It is a very handsome plant of the Barberry family. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
VIOLETS arc well represented in California's wild flowers, and I give but few of 
the large number. Viola atropurpurea is low, with cut leaves and a flower yellow on 
one side and dark brown on the other. V. chrysantha is different, but with cut leaves 
and flower in yellow and brown. V. ocellata is a Wood Violet, with the true Violet leaf 
and a pretty flower, white above, and purple beneath. All at 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
VIOLA cordata has large, true violet leaves and yellow flowers. 
YERBA BUENA is a very attractive and fragrant creeping plant, most excellent 
for a ground-cover in a shady place, and making a good drooping vine for baskets or 
vases. It likes shade. Good plants 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.; hue. full pots, 50 cts. each. 
