PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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pink, and very lovely. 2 to 3 ft. *Mont Blanc is like it but never over a foot high. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz., for fine plants, sure to flower at once. 
THYSOSTEGIA virginica is related to the snapdragon but more slender and 
sturdy. They come in white and pink and grow from 18 inches up to 30 inches. Sit., 
sun. Any garden soil. PL, October to April. Prop., divisions the third year. I have 
either color at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
PHYGELIUS capensis is also known as the Cape Figwort, and is a very handsome 
and brilliant, half shrubby plant perfectly hardy in California. It grows from 2 to 4 feet 
high and has shining leaves and long racemes of brilliant red flowers tipped with white. 
It flowers many months. Plant winter or spring. 25 cts. each. 
PHYSALIS Franchetii, or the Chinese Lantern Plant, resembles a pepper but has 
large balloon-like fruits richly colored red or orange. Sit., sun. Prop., runners. Soil, 
good garden, better if well manured. PL, winter. 20 cts. each. 
PINKS. See Dianthus on page 8, and Carnations on page 6. 
PLUMBAGO Larpentse is one of the best low plants for fall bloom, It makes a 
low carpet with most intensely deep plumbago-blue flowers. Sit., sun or light shade. 
Soil, any, but heavy better. Prop., runners. PL, October to March. An excellent rock- 
plant. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
POLEMONIUM cseruleum is an attractive plant, with fern-like foliage and bell- 
shaped, blue flowers. An excellent plant. Sil., sun or very light shade. Soil, a good 
garden loam and better rather moist. Prop., seeds which flower the second year. PL, 
winter to spring. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
POND LILIES can be well grown with a little trouble, and I can supply a splendid 
line of the best hardy and half-hardy varieties. List on application. Prices vary for 
large plants from 50 cts. to $s each. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES. The only word which can fitly characterize these grand flowers 
is "gorgeous." Even tulips pale 
in comparison. With the texture 
of fine silk, the open flowers 
measure as much as 10 inches 
across. Their season is May and 
June, but some flowers come 
later, especially if half dried off 
and then liberally watered. 
Single plants or groups of a few 
are showy objects in the mixed 
border, but they are best placed 
in strong groups at some point 
where they can be seen in flower 
but dried off later and given a 
summer rest exactly as with 
bulbs. 
Some of the soft-colored sorts, 
as Mrs. Perry, blend well with 
almost any color massing. A 
sowing of the common Gyp- 
sophila among the plants in 
spring will give a light cover after 
theydryoff. Sil., sun; deep soil, 
and better if sandy or gritty. 
PL, September to March. Prop., 
root-cuttings in summer. 
Plants are enroute from Hol- 
land and expected in February. 
Lady Fred Moore. Clear 
salmon-pink, with dark blotches. 
Mary Studholme. Salmon 
and carmine. 
Mrs. Perry. Orange-apricot. 
Nancy. Carmine-scarlet; im- 
mense flowers. 
Princess Ena. Pale salmon- 
scarlet. 
Princess Juliana. Red-orange 
