PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 15 
FORGET-ME-NOTS. I have the per- 
ennial sort which prefers moist or wet soil. 
This is Myosotis scorpioides or M. palus- 
tris. It forms dense colonies and bears 
many pretty flowers, like the ordinary 
garden sort. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
FOXGLOVES (Digitalis) make a strong 
and most effective massing in the garden 
when in bloom. Stems 4 to 6 feet in height 
bear great, dense flower-spikes of large, 
richly spotted, mitten-shaped flowers. 
Usual colors white or rose. 
They are good wherever placed, either 
in the hardy border or in masses by them- 
selves. Their culture is very easy. They 
are biennials coming from seed one year, 
flowering and, as a rule, dying the next. 
Plant about 18 inches apart each way, and 
in the fall put new seedlings between the 
old plants. In this way the bed can be 
maintained. A most successful method of 
filling the gap in the garden when Fox- 
gloves wane is to have plants of scabiosa 
ready by sowing in April. They will give 
fine bloom in August to October. 
I have strong plants of Foxgloves many 
times heavier than the seedlings sold in 
California in flats. These are mixed. As Gaillardia grand.ift.ora 
all know, they do not flower the first year 
from seed. My strong yearling plants are ready to flower. Why wait a year for seed- 
lings, when I ask only 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Yellow Foxgloves are Digitalis lanata and are true perennials with very light yellow 
flowers of considerable beauty on stems about 2 feet high. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
FRAGARIA indica. See Strawberry, page 38. 
FUNKIA subcordata grandiflora is the White Day Lily. It forms strong clumps 
with large cordate leaves and in summer produces spikes of pure white fragrant flowers. 
Sit., shade. Soil, good, well worked. Prop., divisions in winter. PL, September to 
March. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
GAILLARDIAS are among the brightest, hardiest, and most easily grown hardy 
plants. Indeed you don't have to grow them, for they grow with or without care, and 
flower most profusely throughout the season from June on, and in California practically 
the entire year. Their colors are very showy. A center of dark reddish brown, then 
successive circles of scarlet or crimson finished with a border of yellow. Some are yellow 
throughout. They are excellent for cut-flowers. Sit., sun, and the warmer the better. 
Soil, any. PL, October to April, or even later, if potted plants can be secured. I have 
unusually fine, well-rooted plants at 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., incomparably superior to 
the small plants usually sold from flats at 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
GAURA Lindheimeri is a most hardy plant, with strong, leafy stems growing from 
3 to 4 feet in height, bearing a very large number of white flowers, flushed with pink, 
throughout a long season. They make a most excellent background for such tall plants 
as perennial phlox, Michaelmas daisies, or anything of that habit. No plant stands 
heat or drought better, and after the first season, the Gaura will live through the Cali- 
fornia summer with ease if necessary. It is especially adapted to the hotter sections, 
although it thrives in the coastal regions. Sit., full sun or light shade. Prop., seeds 
or divisions. PL, winter. Flowers second year from seed. Any soil will do. Especially 
sun-loving and drought-resisting. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
GAZANIA splendens is much used to cover bare rocky banks or along dry drive- 
ways in the coastal sections of California. The foliage makes a close, low mat, while in 
spring they are a mass of most brilliant orange-yellow flowers. Rooted cuttings, 
50 cts. per doz., $2.50 per 100. Strong potted plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
GERANIUM sanguineum is a Herb Robert which forms clumps a few inches high, 
with pretty rose-colored flowers borne above the foliage. It is daintily attractive. 
Sit., light shade. Soil, any garden loam. Prop., divisions. PL, October to March. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
