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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
PERENNIAL PHLOX, continued 
Watering. Phlox do not need any more water than is needed for general summer 
gardening, but they are especially averse to having their thick mass of upper roots 
dried out, hence the mulch. They should be thoroughly watered when it is done, and 
with a mulch this need not be often. Whenever a plant drops its lower leaves and the 
flowers come out small, you may be sure that the manner of watering is at fault. 
Phlox about San Francisco Bay. Using the methods I have outlined, and especially 
the summer mulch, I have grown superb Phlox all about the Bay region, whether in 
Alameda sand, Berkeley adobe or San Francisco sand and fog. They do as well in 
light shade in all of the Peninsula region and, with a little more care, throughout Cali- 
fornia, and luxuriate in the North of Bay regions. 
The set of named varieties given below represents most of the very best known. IS cts- 
each, or $1.50 per doz., except as noted 
Anna Cook. Very soft pink with pale red eye. One of the best true pinks. 
Antonin Mercie. The pure white center is bordered with lilac. Very large flowers. 
Baron Van Dedem. Glistening scarlet-blood-red. Large trusses. 
Caprice has a pure white rim and a bright red center; fine. 2 to 3 ft. 
Charles Darwin. Bright rose-scarlet, tinged salmon; rose-purple eye. 3 to 4 ft. 
Cornelia Potter. Dwarf, with large panicles of pure white flowers. 
Dawn. Salmon, fading to pink; red eye. 2 to 3 ft. 
Duguesclin. Bluish violet, shading to a white edging. 
Edmond Bossier. Carmine-analine, with a white star in center. 
Edmond Rostand. Violet-rose, with large white center. 
Etna. Brilliant orange-scarlet. 
F. C. Rea. P'ine compact truss. White, suffused rose, with large, dark rose eye. 
One of the best two-color sorts. 18 to 24 in. 
Gen. Van Heutz. Intensely brilliant salmon-red, with white eye. This makes a 
wonderful mass showing. 3 ft. 
Henri Murger. Pure white, with rose center. 
Hermione. A very dwarf pure white, with very large broad trusses. 12 in. 
Independence. Pure white. 1.2 to 18 in. 
James Bennett. Light salmon-rose with a large red center; general effect is a 
brilliant salmon-pink. A most striking group. 
L'Esperance. Blush-rose, with white center. Large fine flowers. 
Le Mahdi. Bluish violet. A very striking color indeed. 2 to 3 ft. 
Madame Muret. A brilliant salmon-scarlet, with dark red eye; one of the most 
striking of its class. 
Madame Paul Dutrie. A soft shade of pink; large flowers. 
Michael Buchner. Soft rose-pink at margin, deepening to rose-purple with large 
rose-purple center. Large flowers; very striking. 3 to 4 ft. 
Obergartner Wittig. Brilliant cerise-rose, with carmine eye. Large flowers and 
trusses. 3 ft. 
Penuribel. Opens deep salmon-red and changes to nearly white; large eye of red. 
Rijnstroom. Clear rose-pink, with very large flowers. One of the very finest known. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Stella's Choice. Pure white. 2 to 3 ft. 
Wolfgang von Goethe. Deep salmon-rose, with white center. Large trusses. 
18 to 24 in. 
P. subulata is a fine, low, massing plant. I have it in White, Rose, and Lilac, all 
strong plants, at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
P. suffruticosa is a new family, related to the common Perennial Phlox but in some 
ways better. The foliage is shining and handsome. The fine flowers are produced 
in large panicles for a long period and they may flower a second time if not allowed to 
go to seed. Miss Lingard is the first and best known of the type and is white, tinted 
pink, and very lovely. 2 to 3 ft. Mont Blanc is like it but never over a foot high. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz., for fine plants, sure to flower at once. 
PLUMBAGO Larpentse is one of the best low plants for fall bloom. It makes a low 
carpet with most intensely deep plumbago-blue flowers. Sit., sun or light shade. Soil, 
any, but heavy better. Prop., runners. PL, October to March. An excellent rock plant. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
