PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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Ideal grows to 3 feet and has exquisite pale lavender flowers in dainty sprays. 
25 cts. each. 
Magnificus is 3^ to 4 feet high, stout, and much branched, and has soft blue- 
lavender flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Shortii is closely allied with these. Neat, erect habit and stems 3 to 4 feet high, full 
of fine, clear blue flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
A. ericoides owes' its name to a resemblance of the wonderfully full-flowering 
plants to a heath or erica. It makes compact little bushes smothered with little starry 
flowers and is a most excellent filler in a large border. Sensation is about 2 feet high, with 
tiny, starry, white flowers. Virgil is like it, with a red center. 
A. novae-anglise is a race of tall, stiff-stemmed Asters with rough, hairy, lanceo- 
late leaves all along the stems. They grow 4 or 5 feet high and in late summer are 
densely massed with rather large flowers. Novae-angliae type is a rosy magenta; novae- 
angliae rosea is rosy; novae-angliae, var. Hearst, is a rich deep purple, one of the finest 
purples in my garden; novae-angliae, William Bowman, is a striking sort, with flowers 
of a peculiar shade of purple, more nearly blue. 
A. novi-belgii has smooth, dark green foliage, pleasing in the mass. The stout 
but slender stems are much branched and bear great masses of flowers of fine form. 
The varieties give every color from white to pinks, blues, and purples, and are of all 
heights^ from 3 to 7 feet. Their flowering season is as varied and they flower much 
earlier in California than in the East. 
Erigeron grows to 4 feet, with reddish foliage and small blue flowers scattered all 
over the branching plant. 
Beatrice is 4 to 5 feet high, with snowy white flowers. 
Climax has large violet flowers fully 2 inches across. It is the largest-flowered sort 
yet introduced. 3 to 4 ft. 25 cts. each. 
Erne, 3 to 4 feet, makes a fine mass of azure blue. 
Elsie Perry, 3 feet, has glistening pink flowers and is one of the best pinks. 
Fairfield, 5 feet, has white flowers with slender petals. 
John Wood is strong and branches 3 to 4 feet with rather large, clear blue flowers. 
Mrs. Davis Evans is a bold, azure-blue variety, 5 feet high. 
Mrs. Purdy makes a very compact, low bush with deep blue-purple flowers. 2 to 3 ft. 
St. Egwin, 2 to 3 feet, is one of the best soft pinks and is densely flowered. 
St. Brigid, 4 feet, has soft rose flowers on long arching stems. 
Puri + y, 5 feet, is one of the best whites. 
Saturn has dense heads of lavender flowers. 
The Garden has fine, rather large lavender-pink flowers. 5 ft. 
Top Sawyer, 3 to 4 feet, has large, light blue flowers. 
White Queen, 5 feet, is white. 
A. laevis Harvardii is of another race and is 4 feet high, having small flowers 
and erect, spreading habit. 
A. diffusus pendulus is tall and much branched, with long drooping branches 
and pretty, light blue flowers throughout. 3 to 4 ft. 
A. puniceus pulcherrimus has pyramidal, bluish white flowers, with yellow centers. 
Fine. 
A. tataricus I have heretofore offered under the name of Giant Blue. It is a 
most striking object in the latest fall, growing to 6 or 7 feet, with heavy stems and large 
leaves, and heads of soft blue-lavender flowers. They are very lasting. I had it in full 
flower in mid-November, igi6. 
All Michaelmas Daisies at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., excepting as noted 
MONARDA didyma, or Oswego Tea, is a strong-growing plant of the Mint family, 
with brilliantly colored flowers something like the scarlet salvia. It likes rich, moist 
soil, and grows a foot or two high. I have Prince William in pink, nearly white; Cam- 
bridge Scarlet in bright scarlet. Both at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
MULLEIN PINK is an old and useful flower. With a tuft of low, woolly leaves, it 
bears stems a foot or two in height, with many brilliant red flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 
per doz. 
NEPETA Glechoma, or Ground Ivy, is a most dainty and useful Mint. The leaves 
are crenated and pretty, the stems run on the ground, the root making solid carpets. I 
know of no better ground-cover for a shaded bed, while for hanging-baskets, or in pots 
or tubs under trees or shrubs, it is excellent. For covering a steep bank in a shaded 
position there are few prettier things. One of the strictly useful plants. Price for 
plants, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. Prices of divisions by the hundred on application. 
