PURDY'S CALIFORNIA BULBS AND PLANTS 29 
CALIFORNIA NATIVE SHRUBS 
While a few of these can be had from the nurseries, very many of the finest cannot 
be had in nursery-grown plants. There is a real need for a nursery making a specialty 
of the native shrubs and trees of this coast, and it is a need that I hope soon to- fill. 
At present the greater part of the stock offered is of collected plants, but the best that 
can be found and handled carefully at the best time. 
A charge will be made for packing trees and shrubs. Carriage on these is at cus- 
tomer's expense, but care is taken to pack as lightly as is consistent with safety. 
The items marked (*) are nursery-grown and usually shipped in pots or boxes. 
BUSH POPPY is Dendromecon rigidum, and is best described as a light yellow 
California Poppy growing on a stout bush, from 3 to 8 feet high. The bark is grayish, 
the leaves like olives and the flower ornamental. When well grown the shrub throws 
up long canes each summer as much as 8 feet high which droop when spring comes and 
are wonderful wreaths of yellow flowers. The Bush Poppy likes well-drained soils. 
50 cts. each. 
*AZALEA occidentalis is the native deciduous Azalea. It is a superb shrub, worthy 
of any garden, but not too easy to establish. It demands leaf-mold and constant moist- 
ure. Flowers creamy white, often tinged pink and with yellow markings. I have a 
nice stock of nursery-grown seedlings, about 8 inches to 1 foot high, well rooted and 
branched. Balled, 75 cts. each, $6 per doz. 
CEANOTHUS. See Wild Lilacs, page 32. 
CALIFORNIA WILD 
CHERRY. These ever- 
green Cherries are very 
fine shrubs and beautiful, 
both as hedge plants and 
as specimens. When used 
as hedges the plants should 
be set about a foot apart. 
The Catalina Island form, 
Prunus integrifolia, has a 
large, broad, shiny leaf. 
The common sort, Pru- 
nus ilicifolia, has a leaf 
with prickly edges like a 
holly, and is very beauti- 
ful. Either variety, 1 to 
l}4 feet, in pots, 50 cts. 
each, $4 per doz. ; 2 to 2)4. 
feet, 75 cts. each, $6 for 
10. 
The Deciduous Wild 
Cherry, Prunus demissa, 
becomes a small, round- 
headed tree, and is quite 
distinctive. 50 cts. each. 
CALIFORNIA 
CHRISTMAS BERRY, or 
Toyon, is a most beautiful 
shrub, well beloved for its 
bright berries in fall and 
winter. Easily grown and 
rapid. 6 to 12 inches high, 
in pots, 50 cts. each, ex- 
pressage added. 
♦CALIFORNIA WILD 
GRAPE is a very lovely 
vine, coloring beautifully 
in autumn. Rooted vines, 
50 cts each. 
Clematis ligusticifolia (see page 30) 
