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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
PENTSTEMONS are, from the garden standpoint, easily the best flower for the 
California garden. The plants branch freely at the base and give many erect flowering 
stems well clothed with handsome glossy foliage. The many-flowered stems bear large 
showy flowers, pretty in texture and clear in color. As a rule, the body of the petal is of 
one color and the open throat of a lighter shade. Unlike their cousins, the snapdragons, 
they are free from disease and are equally good for cutting and free blooming. Their 
flowering season begins in late spring, and if they are cared for, they have one long suc- 
cession of bloom until winter, and in the milder sections, even throughout the winter. 
In April, I have strong plants ready to distribute, which will give fine bloom by 
early summer. These are 10 cts. each, $i per doz. Strong, heavy plants, ready at any 
time in fall or winter, at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. In a fine mixture, or separately in 
Pink with White Throat, Soft Pink, Red, Lavender and Maroon. 
P. barbatus Torreyi is a handsomely foliaged, erect-stemmed plant, growing to 2 to 
3 feet. The stems bear many long, scarlet flowers in clusters of two or three. A very 
beautiful and very hardy plant. Especially adapted to hot and dry places. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
CALIFORNIA PENTSTEMONS. There are many superb Pentstemons in the West, 
and three of these are particularly desirable for ordinary garden cultivation. They are 
easily grown. 
P., California Blue Bedder. This has many stems, decumbent at the base, but with 
rather erect-flowering stalks 8 inches to a foot high. They form a low circle of foliage and 
flowers and bloom for a long time with most lovely, usually gentian-blue flowers. 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
P. spectabilis grows erect, but graceful, with very handsome foliage and stems 
usually 2 to 3 feet, but when well grown, 4 feet high. The many very pretty flowers are 
lavender below the middle, with the top of deep blue. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
P. Palmeri has much the habit of P. spectabilis, with most striking soft pink flowers. 
At the Government experimental station at Chico, Calif., this has been very much 
admired and is considered one of their most striking novelties. 25 cts. each. 
P. ovatus, from eastern Washington, grows to 2 to 2K feet and has very handsome 
foliage. The many flowers are deep blue. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
PEONIES 
are plants that when well grown cannot be surpassed in superb flowers, while the fra- 
grance ot some is not equaled by the finest roses. They flower in May or early June and 
the flowers grown at The Terraces are generally admitted to be the finest on this coast. 
Peonies cannot be grown successfully in California in the same manner that they 
are grown in the East. The plants themselves grow admirably, but as they flower at a 
time when the weather is very hot in California, either the flowers are burnt or the 
plants are pushed to early maturity and very poor bloom results. In a cold, foggy sea- 
Double Peonies 
