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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
SCABIOSA caucasica is one of the best plants that I have. In color it is a very fine 
light blue, and the flowers are borne on stems a foot to 18 inches high and are excellent for 
cutting. There has not been a day in a year and a half that a bed in my garden has been 
without flowers, and during that time the temperature went below twenty degrees for 
many days. It only asks a garden soil in the sun and good tillage. 15 cts. and 25 cts. each. 
*S. caucasica alba is a line plant. For general notes see catalogue. 25 cts. each. 
S. lutea is the giant of its tribe. My plants stand about 7 feet high and spread widely. 
The flowers are light yellow. 50 cts. each. 
SHASTA DAISIES are surely our most useful flowers, and they are hardy, long flow- 
ering and thrive in almost any position not heavily shaded. Yet few are getting the 
very best out of them, partly from poor care and partly from wrong handling. I find 
it best to divide every winter, using only single, selected strong shoots, with roots at the 
base. Plant these a foot apart each way, in well- worked soil, and the bloom will be fine. 
Again, the sorts most common arc coarse in comparison with Burbank's latest sorts 
listed below: 
In Alaska the stems are tall and slender, and the finely formed flowers 4 inches across. 
California is a giant; on first opening it is a lemon-yellow and has a double row of petals. 
In a day or two it becomes pure white. If not allowed to overdo it, will flower for months. 
Very similar to the Shasta Daisy, and as satisfactory when well treated is the Chry- 
santhemum maximum, Triumph, a celebrated English strain. This has a value in flow- 
ering later so as to prolong the bloom into late fall. 
Finely rooted plant divisions at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $7.50 per 100. 
*SIDALCEA Candida is a garden variety of our wild Sidalcea and a very good plant. 
White flowers appear on stems 1 8 to 24 inches high in early summer. 1 5c. ea., $1 . 25 per doz. 
SILENE pendula is a biennial and one of the very best plants to give a low carpet 
early in the year. I use it to cover ground which I wish to set in dahlias or gladioli in 
May. Planted in fall they will give an exquisite sheet of pink for weeks in early spring. 
Fine plants at 8 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., $3 per 100. 
_ S. californica and S. Hookeri are among the most attractive of all of their family. 
With deep-seated roots they produce a number of underground top shoots which spread 
to make a circular clump. The flowers are shaped like single pinks and are produced for 
some time. Californica is brilliant scarlet while Hookeri has lacinated petals of an ex- 
quisite soft pink. Sit., light shades. Soil, deep and well drained and better if sandy or 
gritty. PL, October to April. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
SPERGULA, or Velvet Lawn, is a tiny spreading plant which will make a complete 
velvety green ground-cover which does well in full sun. Used in cemeteries to cover 
graves or for small lawns. Clumps, 25 cts. each. 
SPTRiEA japonica, or Astilbe japonica, is not a shrub, but dies to the ground in 
the winter and sends up strong plants with pretty foliage and plume-like panicles of 
white flowers. Excellent for a shady place, and goes well in a fern-bed. 25 cts. each. 
STOCKS need no description as a whole. They arc most useful both for mass effect 
and for filling gaps where other flowers have had their season. Ten-Weeks' Stocks 
flower in summer. Winter Stocks will, if planted in the fall, flower profusely in early 
spring. If planted in the spring, they flower in summer, or if later, in the fall. I carry: 
Madame Rivoire, white; Beauty of Nice, pink; Monte Carlo, yellow (after this spring); 
Queen Alexandra, rosy lilac. 
These are ready the year through. Tree Stocks, or Bromptons, are the Gilli- 
flowers of the old gardens. They make tree-like stems 2 to 3 feet high, and flower a 
very long time. They are perennials. I have white, rose, scarlet, purple, and mixed, all 
at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Winter Stocks, good, small plants, at 30c. per doz.; large plants at 60c. per doz. 
STRAWBERRY, Creeping Wonder, grows rapidly with runners as much as 5 feet 
long._ It has a deep red, long-lasting fruit and is excellent either for hanging basicets, 
hanging over walls or rocks or covering steep banks. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $5 
per 100. 
SWEET WILLIAMS arc fine, old-fashioned flowers of much garden value. Their 
large masses of good green foliage arc always attractive and are valuable to fill with. 
The flowers arc handsome and fragrant. Sil., sunlight or shade. Any garden soil, but 
rich soil pays in results. PL, September till May. Prop., seeds or divisions. For mass- 
ing, plant 18 inches apart. 
Auricula-eyed, mixed; Pink Beauty, in good pink; Scarlet Beauty, in scarlet; 
Nigrescens, in a dark rich maroon with richlv bronzed leaves, arc my sorts and in 
strong plants cost 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., $6 per 100. Fine mixed seedlings, 30 
cts. per doz. 
