SPECIALLY-GROWN CALIFORNIA BULBS 23 
Beautiful Hardy Plants of California 
From a vasl number of beautiful IhiuKs in ihis line I am selecliuK a few of easy cullure 
and special meril. There are luindreds of others. 
AMERICAN COWSLIPS (Dodecatheons) 
These earliest of spring flowers are known and loved under a variety of names and are 
much like a Cyclamen in flower. They like a loamy soil and naturalize easily. 
There are several Californian forms. In .San Diego count\' is Clevelandii" tall, with white 
flushed soft pink (lowers; in the north Hendersonii; verv lia'niw with rich redd'ish (lowers 
Other pretty ones are the pink Patulum, with e.\quisiie lililc pini; blossoms, and tiie Patulum' 
with light yellow (lowers. The roots become as dry as tinder and are handled drv. They arc 
good for pot-plants and will force well. The price of all is ,i cts. each, 30 cts. per do/,., $2.25 
per 100. 
LARKSPURS (Delphiniums) 
We have in California a most charming race of Larkspurs that grow vear after year. 
Two arc scarlet. Cardinale, known as the scarlet Larkspur of the South, g'rows as high as 
8 feet, and is most showy; it demands a warm situation and a loose soil. Nudicaule, on the 
other hand, likes shade even if it is heavy, and grows a foot or two high; it is ornamental in 
every part. My price for Cardinale, 25 cts. each, or $2.50 per doz.; for Nudicaule, 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz., S7.50 per 100. 
Different, but just as beautiful, are the sorts in blue and purple, growing from a foot 
to 3 feet high. Of these Decorum is deep blue-purjile; Emilse, light sky-blue. The roots of 
all are handled dry, and they take well to ordinary garden culture. 1 can supply the blue 
sorts at 60 els. per doz. 
OENOTHERAS, or EVENING PRIMROSES 
All the kinds are pretty, but iji Ovata we have something uiuisuallv attractive. The 
root is like a small parsnip, and ripens in the summer, so thai il can be handled drv like a 
bulb. It starts very early and woulil doubtless force well, ilarly in the spring a circle of leaves 
is formed flat on the ground, then a large number of bright .yellow (lowers follow for a long 
time. Planted S inches apart, it would make a most attractive early border for a bulb bed, 
or planted any place in the garden it would be line. Strong roots of this are worth 5 cts. each, 
SO cts. per doz. 
As pretty in a way is Oenothera speciosa, which has a running root that throws up 
stems e\er\- little way. k.ach stem has a circle of leaves, and, through midsummer, each 
night sends out luire white llowers of great beauty. Plant a cluster in some dry, sunny spot 
and you will be delighle.l. Price 15 cts. each, .$1.50 per doz. 
PLANTS FOR THE FERN BED 
All fern-lovers are looking for plants to go in the Fern bed, and f will put up a collection 
of 12 plants, in four line sorts, that will please all for this purpose. Price for the twelve, 
Sr.50. 
ROCK ROSES, or LEWISIAS 
Iir the dry great basin (here are lovelx' plants called Rock Roses, Bitter Root, orLewisias, 
which are found in rocky or gritt.\- soils, often in the scant soil on a rock face. These flower 
most beautiful early in the su ni mer. I hen dr\' off ajid rest till fall. All are exqinsitely lovely. 
Tweedii is a great planf, wdth soft salmon llowers, and is both rare and beautiful: this at Si 
each. Howellii is not so big, but a most lo\ely jjlant, So cts. each; while Oppositifolia is 
still smaller, with while, satiny llowers, 10 cts. each, .Si per doz. Smaller yet, but most ex- 
quisite in ils satiny jiink llowers, is Rediviva, wdiich might be pressed in a book for a season 
and then would grow if idanled. These at s cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
SAXIFRAGA MERTENSIANA, HOUND'S-TONGUE 
AND OTHERS 
The dainty Saxifraga Mertensiana is a splendid rock plant, f doubt its hardiness in 
the East, but in California it grows in loose soil on moist rock faces wdiere there is a drip. 
It has a bulb, and starts with early rains in generous clumps. In every part it is very lovely; 
the leaves are scalloped and of a shiny green; (lowers small and white with red stamens in 
pretty contrast. It takes kindly to cultivation and would be a dainty companion for the 
potted ferns in a cool house. 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., S4 per 100. 
Another most charming plant with us is the Hound's Tongue: large leaves; it has a 
panicle of blue flowers, each one rimmed with while, like forget - M e-Nols. 'J'he stem is about 
2 feet high. Price of these, is cts. each, Si. 50 per doz. 
All of our native Pentstemons are most charmiiig subjects for hot. dry. places, especially 
if rocky. I can supply them in reds or blues and in a dozen sorts, all at 15 cts. each, 81.50 
per doz. 
