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CARL PURDY, URIAH, CALIFORNIA 
WOODLAND FRITILLARIAS 
This group of tliL'sc plants is slender and very graceful, with many pendent bells. 
They deligiit in woodland soils and conditions, and naturalize very easily in any shaded 
place or dell. The flowers aie most charming for bouquets when mixed with grasses or 
other filmy greens. 
Lanceolata grows from i8 inches to several feet high; the flowers are mottled in 
green and brown, and are very odd and pretty. Recurva is another variety in most 
beautiful orange-scarlet, as pretty as a red lily. When Fritillarias are grown in the 
garden, treat the same as calochortus. My price for both is 7 cts. each, 70 cts. per doz. 
DOG'S-TOOTH VIOLETS (E.ni,~) 
The charm of these most beautiful woodland plants is well pictured in the accom- 
panying halftones. If they had no other beauty than that of their richly mottled leaves, 
they would be well worth a place in the shady corner. Their flowers are indeed very 
fine, and, in the western species, often 3 inches across, with stems at the most 18 inches 
high, although oftcner from 3 to 6 inches. The colors run in delicate tints of white, 
pink, cream, bright y ellow and even rose. If given a winter covering of leaves, they are 
hardy in the coldest parts of the United States, and while they are at their best in a 
loose, gritty ooil, rich in leaf-mold, they also thrive in the greatest variety of clayj, 
grits, and rocky soils. In woodlands, in shaded corners, or in the crevices of rockwork 
in shade, is the place to naturalize them; they should carpet the ground. Plant in early 
fall, covering with 2 to 3 inches of soil over the bulbs, and from 2 inches apart up. Dog's- 
tooth Violets can be grown in pots or in the coldframe in the way recommended for 
calochortus. E. Hartivegii is the best for pots. All my varieties are described on the 
next page. 
A customer within the city limits of San Francisco planted a colony of Dog's-Tooth 
Violet; years ago on the shady side of her house, and it has maintained itself since and 
flowered beautifully every year without care. 
In a shaded spot in one Berkeley garden, in the natural soil, a fine colony flowers 
yearly to the delight of its owner. 
Violets, Revolutum type. White flowers, beautifully tinged with purple, one to 
four on a long stem 
