We offer "Shasta" only this season, do not ask for any of the others, unless you 
may desire to purchase the complete stock and control of some of them. The others 
will be introduced as soon as sufficient plants to supply customers can be produced. 
Ready after March 1st. Price, each, $1; five, $3; ten, $5. 
"Let not the thougtless imagine for an instant that this magnificent product of 
floriculture (the "Shasta" Daisy) is the result of brief effort on the part of the pro- 
ducer or merely the work of chance. The product is the result of years of constant 
effort, nor is that effort now withdrawn." — "Santa Rosa Republican." 
cKe<u) Verbena, Elegance 
STRONG, sweet perfume is the latest and most highly prized addition 
ever made to the Verbena. Its first appearance was in "May-flower," 
which graduated from my grounds six years ago, after a long and careful 
education. It is now known and grown all over the world. 
The new verbena "ELEGANCE" surpasses even "Mayflower" in fragrance. 
The plant is vigorous, compact and a perpetual bloomer. The clusters are nearly 
three inches across and unusually graceful and abundant. Each single floret 
will cover a silver 25-cent piece; but best of all "ELEGANCE" is the first of a 
new type in color plan, having a white center extending fully half across the 
breadth of the flower, with outer shadings of lavender purple and is as fragrant 
as a rose. Strong plants, each, 50c; six, $1.50; ten, $2. 
Tigridia Grandiflora, Nejfr Hybrids 
" SMexican Tiger or Shell Flo^ver " 
1 T is amazing that such a beautiful and easily grown bulbous plant should have 
been so long overlooked by hybridizers. Until these hybrids were produced 
1 the Tigridia was known in a few colors only, even less than the originals of 
the Gladiolus, and with flowers only four or five inches in diameter. 
Among these vigorous giant hybrids, flowers over six inches across may be 
seen in red, white, yellow, orange, rose, crimson and gold, with shades and color 
combinations never seen among them before, and as they are as easily grown 
from seed as the Gladioli and bloom the second season, a new field of delightful 
work has been opened for enthusiastic flower lovers. 
They are now placed in your hands for still higher development, as we have 
too many other plants on hand to allow further experiment with this, one of the 
most charming of all bulbous plants and now thoroughly crossed so that even 
grander new ones may be obtained by growing from the seed of these crossbred 
varieties. The Tigridia thrives best in a sandy soil, and should be treated in all 
respects like the Gladiolus. 
Bulbs, per ten, 75c ; per hundred, $5 ; per thousand, $40. No seed for sale 
this season. 
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"If Mr. Burbank had created nothing except the Burbank potato he would have 
been one of the greatest benefactors to mankind, and his yearly additions to improved 
varieties of fruits, vegetables and flowers mark him as one of the most wonderful and 
beneficent men of the nineteenth century."— "San Jose Mercury." 
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