CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
°Tay-gr'een of A. saxatile, while the flowers arc in graceful racemes. Sit., sun and heat; 
will grow <m hot rocky surfaces. PL, fall to spring. Prop., seeds or plants. 15 cts. each. 
$1.25 per doz. 
AMARYLLIS Belladonna is the beautiful Belladonna Lily and one of the finest things 
in the California garden. The great tubers make foliage in winter or early spring, and 
these leaves die off in early summer, but later, usually late August, the tall, naked scapes 
arise, bearing lovely pink flowers in umbels. Bulbs are not likely to flower the season 
that they are moved and seem to flower more freely when somewhat root-bound. They 
do well in sun but possibly better in light shade. Plant in clumps about a foot apart. 
/'/., August to spring. Soil, loose and sandy is preferable. Prop., bulblets. Good bulbs, 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
ANCHUSA italica, in the Dropmore Variety, makes a splendid bold mass of blue. 
3 to 4 feet high in early summer. It flowers again if cut back before seeding. For fine 
deep blue the forget-me-not-like flowers are very interesting. Very hardy and long- 
lasting plants. 5//., sun. Soil, good; moderate amount of water. PL, October to March. 
Prop., divisions. Heavy roots, 25 cts. each. Fair roots, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
ANDROSACE lanuginosa is a little gem of a rock plant, which is also good for a 
well-cared-for border. It spreads by short runners to make a cushion a few inches high, 
from which slender stems rise with umbels of little, pink, primrose-like flowers. 57/., sun. 
Soil, good, with lime. PL, October to April. Prop., rooted runners. 25 cts. each. 
ANEMONES of the fall-flowering sorts are Anemone japonica, and in their season 
have no competitors in their style of beauty. Tall, strong, excellent for cutting and 
beautifully delicate, they have the further virtue of being very hardy and of growing 
well in either sun or shade. Single plants or small groups in the border are line strong 
colonies are attractive and, as companions for ferns in shaded corners, they make a 
happy combination. 
I have found that any good loam suits them. The soil had better be fairly well 
enriched with old manure, the plants put in not closer than 18 inches each way, and it 
is better not to disturb them for years. They have underground runners, which soon 
make the bed a solid mass. If the soil is good, let them grow, and give the bed only top- 
dressing each winter; but if the soil is heavy, take suckers out and cultivate. 
*Honorine Joubert is a fine pure white, growing 2 to 3 feet high. Lord Ardilaun is a 
taller pure white. Queen Charlotte is a soft rose, single. Whirlwind is a beautiful semi- 
double, pure white. Prince Henry is crimson red. PL, October to March. All at 20 
cts. each, $2 per doz., for extra-strong roots. 
ANEMOPSIS californica is an excellent native Californian plant of semi-aquatic 
habit. It likes a moist or wet place, and spreads by runners to make a colony. The 
flowers are like large white anemones. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
ANTHEMIS tinctoria is the Golden Marguerite and a sturdy, easily grown plant, 
most excellent for hot, dry places. The plant is about a foot high, and bears a great 
number of daisy-like, yellow flowers in midsummer and until fall. Almost any soil 
suits it, but it needs sun. It stands much drought. 15 cts. each, $[.25 per doz. 
AQUILEGIAS, or Columbines, combine as many good points as an}' group of 
garden flowers. With hardiness and ease of culture, they have handsome foliage at all 
seasons and beautiful flowers borne gracefully on long stems. Their culture is easy. 
While a light shade and loose, loamy soil are best, they do well in shades of varying 
degrees and in the full sun, and in any soil from light loam to adobe. Fall or winter 
planting is preferable. They are admirable for a fernbed. 
Long-spurred Columbines. Beginning with two American sorts, one the lovely 
Colorado, blue, and the clear yellow and most graceful Chrysantha, hybridizers have 
evolved a wonderful race of Long-spurred Columbines of the greatest garden value. 
Generally they can be had only in varied collections and I have taken the trouble to 
send to Furope to secure the finest strain that can be had there. This includes many 
shades from blues to soft pink, and no better can be had. I call these Wolley Dod 
Hybrids. 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Good mixed Long-spurred varieties at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Short-spurred, rose-pink. I have a good selected variety that is quite desirable. 
Nivea is a splendid sort, with unusually vigorous growth and large white lowers. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Skinned is a new strain of Long-spurred Columbines, only in red and yellow and 
red. It is exceedingly bright and pretty. 25 cts. each. 
California has two short-spurred native species of great beauty. The common red- 
flowered sort, growing throughout the state, is Truncata. It is hardy, and, if watered 
the first year, can he naturalized in woodlands and makes a line garden plant. Eximia 
