PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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AQUILEGIAS, or Columbines, combine as many good points as any group of 
garden flowers. With hardiness and ease of culture, they have handsome foliage at all 
seasons and beautiful flowers borne gracefully on long stems. While a light shade and 
loose loamy soil are best, they do well in the full sun, and in any soil from light loam 
to adobe. Fall or winter planting is preferable. They are admirable for a fern-bed. 
Long-spurred Columbines. Beginning with two American sorts, one the lovely 
Colorado, blue, and the clear yellow and most graceful A. chrysantha, hybridizers have 
evolved a wonderful race of Long-spurred Columbines of the greatest garden value. 
This includes many shades from blues to soft pink. 
My lovely Wolley Dod strain of long-spurred hybrids is sold out and cannot be 
replenished. I can offer a fine strain, including charming tones in cream, pink, lavender, 
blue, white, and red. In mixed only, 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Strong plants of a fine strain at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
A. Skinneri is a new 
strain of Long- spurred 
Columbines, only in red and 
yellow and red. It is exceed- 
ingly bright and pretty. 
25 cts. each. 
A. Helense is midway be- 
tween the long- and short- 
spurred sorts, with very 
stout plants and large hand- 
some flowers, deep blue out- 
side with pure white centers. 
Very lovely. 20 cts. each, 
$2 per doz. 
A., Short-Spurred, Rose, 
is a very handsome, large- 
flowered variety, with soft, 
old-rose flowers. It has been 
much admired by all visi- 
tors. 20 cts. each. 
California has two short- 
spurred native species of 
great beauty. The common 
red-flowered sort, growing 
throughout the state, is 
A. truncata. It is hardy, 
and, if watered the first 
year, can be naturalized in 
woodlands and makes a fine 
garden plant. A. eximia is 
rare. Naturally it grows in 
wet places or along stream- 
banks and can stand in 
water. The orange-colored 
flowers stand up boldly on 
long stems and are very 
showy. One great merit lies 
in the fact that the flower- 
ing season is midsummer 
after other species have 
passed their prime. I have 
fine, strong plants. The 
two California sorts, 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz., $7.50 
per 100. Very heavy plants 
of all Columbines at 25 cts. 
•each. Handsome, showy, dainty, graceful Columbines 
You will be greatlj interested in my catalogue of Hardy California Bulbs, 
which introduces many desirable things from the Coast. If you have not received 
a copy, write me. 
