PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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KNIPHOFIA is another name for Red-Hot-Poker Plant, or Tritoma. Sec that title. 
LAVATERA trimestris is an annual, but so good that I offer seedlings for early spring 
delivery. It is related to the mallows, and grows 2 or 3 feet high, with large, soft 
pink flowers produced all through summer and fall. Any good soil suits it. 75 cts. 
per doz. 
LAVENDER is the well-beloved, fragrant plant of all old-fashioned gardens, and 
quite a pretty plant as well. I have hne plants at 25 cts. each. 
*LEPACHYS pinnata is related to Rudbeckia, Golden Glow. It grows 3 feet high, 
with many graceful yellow flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
LIATRIS pyenostachya produces spikes of light rosy purple flowers in midsummer 
and grows to 4 to 5 feet. Quite ornamental. Sit., sun. Soil, any loam to light. Prop., 
divisions. PL, October to March. 15-cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
*The LILY- OF-THE-V ALLEY is Convallaria majalis and requires light to medium 
shade, mellow, well-worked soil, with a preference for sandy soil enriched with leaf-mold 
■or old manure, and a top-dressing every winter of the same. The third year they should 
be reset. 
Lily-of-the-Valley pips used for forcing are of little value in the garden. Garden 
clumps are better. I have Meillez Revelation in home-grown plants at 15 cts. each, 
'$1.25 per doz. 
LILIES are so numerous that any short cultural treatment would be useless. Few 
Lilies are of very easy culture but still several can be established with a little trouble. 
For fuller treatment see my Californian Bulb Catalogue. Also for many native Lilies. 
Lilium Henryi is a grand Lily with stems from 4 to 7 feet high and large, clear yel- 
low flowers. Sit., light shade. Soil, deep loam; a mulch on top. Water freely till after 
flowering time. PL, October to February. 50 cts. each. 
L. sulphureum is a magnificent Lily with immense trumpet of white with yellow 
throat; very fragrant. Cull., same as last but more difficult. At such places as our coast 
towns, Portland, Ore., or the Puget Sound towns it can be grown very successfully 
with little trouble. 50 cts. each. 
L. pardalinum is the Tiger or Leopard Lily seen along Pacific Coast stream sides. 
It is a most excellent garden plant. SiL, light shade or not too sunny a place. Soil, any 
loam or even good clays. Water freely when growing. It succeeds more widely on this 
coast than any other Lily grown here. Strong bulbs, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
L. humboldtii magnificum is another most delightful Lily which grows well in any 
well-drained soil in light shade. It grows from 4 to 12 feet high, with many reddish 
orange Lilies spotted maroon and eyed red. Very large, 50 cts. each, $4 per doz. Good, 
30 cts. each, $3 per doz. 
LINUM Lewisii is such a pleasing perennial Flax that it should be much used. 
Branching stems rise to a foot or two, clothed with light airy foliage and producing 
large, light blue flowers for a long time in summer and fall — all tend to make a most 
charming and useful plant. Sit., sun or light shade. PL, October to summer; any fair 
soil. Prop., seeds or plants. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. Strong plants. 
LIPPIA repens has proved most useful in California as a lawn material and is also 
a most excellent plant for rocks or steep banks or to hang over walls. It spreads by 
prostrate stems which root freely at the joints and soon make a flat, dense ground-cover 
of a pleasing green which can be mowed or left as time allows. The flowers are borne in 
low heads and are white, tinted lavender and give the effect of clover. For planting a 
lawn or ground cover, place pieces of the stem not over a foot apart each way — closer 
is better. If a foot apart they will meet by fall; if closer that much quicker. Sit., sun or 
light shade. Soil, anything from stiff clay to sand, rich or poor. It will grow where less 
hardy plants could not exist. Prop., by cuttings, or better, sections of the stems with 
some root. Plant with a trowel. Water freely at first and until well set. After the first 
year it will hold on with no water, but with a winter top-dressing and plenty of water it 
is an excellent springy lawn. It does not seed or tend to. spread and become a weed. 
Root sections $2 per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
LOBELIA cardinalis is one of the most brilliantly colored flowers known. The fine 
variety that I sell has rich, deep red foliage and grows from 18 inches to nearly 3 feet in 
height. The flowers are a most vivid cardinal. No plant was more admired at the 
Exposition. Its culture is easy. Give it good soil in the sun and fairly abundant water- 
ing. Soil rich in humus suits it best, and it should be divided to single shoots every 
winter and planted in groups about a foot apart each way for the most effective display. 
15 cts. each, -$1.25 per doz. 
