16 CARL PURDY, UKIAH, MENDOCINO CO., CAL. 
Revolutum Dog's-tooth Violets 
A bed of these superb llowers is shown very Irue to nature in the halftone accompany- 
iuK- The stems are long, the flowers hirge and exquisitely tinted, often single, never more 
than four to the stem, and the leaves are mottled in white and green. While the plants 
thrive in garden loam, they do well in heavy soils which are quite wet in winter. I have 
secii them where a stream flowed over them constantly in winter. 
Revolutum is the type with white flowers, more or less tinged purple. For these the 
price is 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., Sj.so per 100. 
Pink Beauty. A soft shade of pink. 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz. 
Johnsonii. A deep rose, unique in color and beauty. It sells for $i per doz. 
Watsonii is also known as Giganteum, and is hardly of this class. It has white flowers, 
beautifully toned with brown. My price for it, 4 cts. each, 40 cts. per doz., .$3 per 100. 
I^egarding Revolutum prascox, years ago I first found this fine form and named it. 
Then for a long time I could not secure it. It is of a creamy color, with tall stems and most 
ibeautifully marked flowers. Can now supply good bulbs at 4 cts. each, 40 cts. per doz., 
$3 per 100. 
Mixed Erythroniums. I put up a line mi.xture at 20 cts. per doz., sSi.so per 100, $10 
per 1,000, 
It is a pleasure to me to know that many of my liastern customers have succeeded 
in making the lo\el\' Western Dog's-tooth Violets bloom at home without any s|)ecial care. 
Instances are common, 
A gentleman at Kalamazoo, .Michigan, wrote last fall that several species, bought four 
years before, had bloomed each year, increasing in number of flowers and getting flner with 
time. .Mr. Jaiiseii. of Chicago, reported last fall that the bulbs bought the previous fall 
had (lone wonderfull\- well. .\ lady living on the Hudson says of Erythroniums that "These 
alwa.\s do well with me. " .\ noted gardener of South Lancaster, Mass., writes in Garden 
M Hi; '.I zinc, "Our one great success with California bulbs has been with the Dog's-tooth 
Avoids. 
It is useless to e.xpect the best effect from small plantings. 'I'hey need to be massed 
to look best. Better buy the cheaper but excellent bulbs for naturalizing and iilanl a thousand 
or more. If some enthusiast would once go into planting with tens of thousands, he would 
nev er again he satisfied with any less number. 
Dog's-tooth Violets, Revolutum type. White flowers, beautifully tinged with purple; one to four on a 
long stem 
