PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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Delphiniums are tall, stately and excellent for cutting 
DAY LILIES arc of two types, quite different in habit. The White Day Lily is 
Funkia; see that name. The Yellow Day Lily is Hemerocallis; see that title. 
DAISY. See Bellis Perennis, page 6. 
DELPHINIUMS, or Perennial Larkspurs, are among the most popular of garden 
flowers. Look at the fine illustration accompanying this and picture to yourself grand 
masses 5 to 7 feet high, with the entire gamut of fine light, medium, and dark blues rep- 
resented, together with deep sapphire and rich purple, all with centers as beautiful and 
varied. Any fine blue can be had among them, and I sell the single and double varieties. 
Each spike has a long life of beauty in the garden, and if they are cut close to (lie ground 
when they wane, others follow in succession, with sometimes three crops a year. Wonder- 
ful for garden massing, they are also fine for cut-flowers. They have many places in 
the garden; singly or in groups in the border or along walks or drives; in large masses 
by themselves. Among open shrubbery plantings, or combined with, we will say, 
Campanula pyramidalis and C. persicifolia in separate groups they are alike fine. Sit., 
sun or at most partial shade. Soil, any garden loam, but for the best results a rich, well- 
drained soil, a mulch of well-rotted manure and liberal watering. Prop., seeds which 
do not flower fully till the second year. PL, October to April. Plants in pots till later_ 
There arc many named sorts in Europe but I, as well as most American dealers, 
have found them unsatisfactory to handle. 
I offer plants from seeds taken from one of the finest collections of named plants in 
Europe. These I have mixed in light to medium blues and mixed in dark blues and purples. 
I have not the heavy, two-year-old plants that I have carried heretofore, but will 
