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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
C. persicifolia is the Peach-leaved Bellflower and one of the very best of all peren- 
nial plants. The foliage is mostly at the base and is handsome and an excellent foil for 
other plants. The clumps spread into broad masses and the strong, erect stems, produc- 
ing many large, bell-shaped flowers of clear blue or pure white, make a superb mass. 
Plant a foot to 16 inches apart in a well-worked soil, in sun or light shade. Let alone for 
two years. I have both white and blue. Strong clumps, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. persicifolia Moerheimei is the double white form, and a most excellent cut-flower 
as well as fine in the garden. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. primulaefolia grows from 1 to 2 feet in height and has rich lavender-blue flowers 
with violet centers, borne in long succession. One of the finest Bellflowers. 25 cts. 
each. 
C. pyramidalis. The prince of all is the Chimney Bellflower. There are varieties 
which make compact plants 4 to 5 feet high, while others grow as high as 10 feet, with 
a perfect sheet of handsome flowers produced through months of the fall. These are 
very fine in a mass, by themselves or alternating with perennial larkspurs which they 
admirably supplement. Strong plants, potted in spring, make very fine veranda or 
court ornaments, or household decoration on special occasions. They group well with 
hollyhocks, also. Large plants of Campanula pyramidalis suitable for pots, at 25 cts. 
each. 
The Harebell of Scotland is Campanula rotundifolia, and produces delightful little 
flowers, borne freely on many slender stems a foot or so high. A mass of these in late 
fall is among the prettiest of sights, and for rockeries they are fine. I have two; one 
flowers in early summer, the other in fall. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. Trachelium is a most excellent, strong-growing perennial with slender but stout 
stems and many pendent, dark blue flowers. Any garden soil suits it, and if planted a 
foot apart each way, any time after November 1, it will thrive. A sunny or slightly 
shaded situation best meets its needs. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
*C. Medium, or Canterbury Bells, are universal favorites, but they are biennials 
and do not flower the first year from seed. If you buy seed, you will wait a full year for 
flowers and the small plants that the florists sell are no better. Why not buy the splendid, 
heavily rooted, four-year-old plants that I sell and have your bloom at once? C. Medium 
likes moist ground yet it is most hardy. 25 cts. each. 
CARNATIONS we all love, but the Florist's or Tree Carnations are poor garden 
flowers. The smaller Marguerite Carnations are in the same colors and are just as 
fragrant, while they are most hardy garden flowers. Sit., sun. PL, October to April. 
Soil, garden loam and ordinary care. Prop., seeds. The plant persists but year-olds 
are best. Fine, strong plants ready to flower, 60 cts. per doz., $4 per 100. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum, known as Mouse Ears, is one of the very best plants 
for edging beds or for rockwork. The foliage is slightly woolly, and the white flowers are 
borne in myriads in season. It forms a low, flat cushion. Any garden soil will suit it, 
while it stands drought admirably. I have very fine plants at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per 
doz. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MAXIMUM and SHASTA DAISIES. Sec Shasta Daisies, 
page, 30. 
Chrysanthemums of the single-flowered sorts are most excellent hardy plants. 
Their beauty is both for cutting and in the wonderful profusion of single flowers in many 
•colors, and in endless variations of quilling and shape of petals. Originated in England, 
they have found their way to California only within the last few years. Their culture 
is like that for the double ones, but as large flowers are no object, disbudding is unneces- 
sary, and garden culture is the simplest. There are no better flowers to grow in profu- 
sion, to cut for all purposes and to give away. 
The treatment is the simplest possible. Plant in well-worked soil in April or May; 
place by them strong stakes not less than 4 feet high; cut tops off at a foot or so, to make 
the plants branch, and give ordinary garden care for the rest. They arc fine to work 
into hardy borders to give liberal fall color. From one of the finest English collections 
I secured the best as per list below. 
Allan Carter. Reddish orange. 
Bishop Hemingland. Quilled; scarlet-maroon. 
Jean Edwin. Pink, yellow center. 
Little Dorrit. Delicate cream-colored; broad petals. 
Meerschaum Rose. Deep rose, yellow center; broad petals. 
Mr. Carlton Purdy. Crimson. 
