PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 19 
HOLLYHOCKS will withstand the hardest conditions, and even utter neglect, yet 
give a beauty display of flowers in the most uncared-for garden, while with good soil, 
tillage, and water, they repay with wonderful color masses hardly to be obtained with 
any other garden flower. 
What other plant has so many clear, lovely colors or so stately a habit? They can 
hardly be placed amiss. In single plants or in groups against walls or buildings, in groups 
at the rear of the hardy border, interspersed with low shrubbery, or in bold masses along 
drives or walks they are alike effective. 
Then, too, they are treasures in the newly planted garden when the trees and shrubs 
are small and the general effect too bare of foliage and color. My fine plants will give the 
fullest effect the first year and can be planted liberally to beautify and soften, to give 
color and to hide bare and unsightly places until the trees and shrubs fulfill their purpose. 
Sit., sun or light shade. Soil, any garden soil, but rich, well-drained soil will pay. 
Prop., seeds which will not do much the first year, or plants. PL, October to April, but 
the earlier planting will do better. 
For massing, plant 18 inches apart each way. If they are planted, say 15 inches 
apart each way, and the flowering stalks of alternate plants cut when a foot or so high, 
the mass will be fine for the entire season, as 
by cutting the flowering stalk when they have 
only a few buds remaining, new stalks will be 
produced — sometimes three crops. 
My stock of Hollyhocks are famous both 
for the colors and the fine plants. In doubles 
I have the following: White, White with 
Violet Center, Canary, Apple Bloom Pink, 
Rose, Crimson, Maroon, Brown, Black, Lav- 
ender, Purple. Also Newport Pink, an ex- 
quisite pure pink with double flower. 
Singles: Pink, Red, White, Yellow, Mixed. 
Allegheny, semi-double and fringed mixed. 
All plants are 1 -year-old, fine and strong. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., but east of the 
Rockies add 50 cts. per doz. 
IBERIS gibraltarica is a Perennial Candy- 
tuft of great value in California where it is one 
of the best winter or very early spring bloom- 
ers. It is an evergreen, and makes low mats 
a foot or more across which in season are 
densely covered with clusters of white flowers 
richly tinted rose-lavender. After flowering 
it can be dried off and will survive our hot, dry 
summers without watering, even on open, 
rocky ledges. Fine for the front of the border 
and one of the best rock plants. Where dry 
places are to be beautified, it can be planted in 
the fall and will survive the hot summer. Fine 
plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $7.50 
per 100. 
I. gibraltarica Hybrids are perhaps no bet- 
ter than the type, although they contain some 
forms in a lovely bluish lavender which I find 
greatly admired by some. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
I am quite sure that you will find 
the lists of plants printed on pages 1 
and 2 of great help in planning your 
garden. I have used all of them in my 
own work here in California, and am 
thoroughly familiar with their habits 
and growth in the East, so I feel per- 
fectly safe in commending them to 
gardeners everywhere. 
Double Hollyhocks 
