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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Californian Native Bulbs 
I will not issue a catalogue of Californian bulbs and plants this fall, but my 1016 
beautifully illustrated catalogue can be had on application by those particularly inter- 
ested. In it are full cultural directions for both East and West. Also a list of Californian 
Shrubs and Hardy Plants and Ferns. The next issue will be in 1918. 
I am here giving a list of the most popular varieties. 
Delivery. Calochorti, Brodiasas, Camassias, Erythroniums, and Fritillarias 
are ready to deliver the first of October, and accumulated orders will be sent on that 
date. After that orders will be filled as fast as received until December 1. It is not 
wise to plant these bulbs any later than that, although I may have some in stock. 
Planting should be done as soon as they are received. 
Lilies are ready in October and November and can be shipped until about March 1. 
Fall planting is much better. Trilliums will be ready and shipped with first ship- 
ments and can be sent until February. 
BRODLEAS have small bulbs and grassy leaves. The slender naked stems produce 
umbels of waxy lily-like flowers. They arc pretty and in the West are easily grown in 
either pots or the open. Plant 2 inches deep and a few inches apart. Sit., sun or shade. 
Soil, loose and mellow and a loam preferable. PL, October to December. Dry off after 
flowering. Water freely until then. Set in pots or open ground. 
B. coccinea is the Floral Firecracker, with its bunch of brilliantly crimson flowers 
vividly suggestive of a bunch of firecrackers. Large bulbs, 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz. 
Giant bulbs, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
B. laxa, or Blue Milla, has a many-flowered umbel of light blue flowers and is very 
handsome. 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., $1.50 per 100. 
B. lactea is milky white with green center. 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., $1.50 per 100. 
B. grandiflora has few glossy purple flowers of much beauty and very lasting. 3 cts. 
each, 25 cts per doz., $1.50 per 100. 
B. capitata, or Californian Hyacinth, has a head of violet-colored flowers and is much 
loved as our earliest bulbous flower. 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., $1.50 per 100. 
CALOCHORTUS. Globe Tulips, or Fairy Lanterns. 
C. albus is the pearly white Fairy Lantern and has a single broad basal leaf and a 
branching stem with pendent globes of pearly white; very beautiful flowers. 3 cts. each, 
25 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
