PURDY'S CALIFORNIA BULBS AND PLANTS 15 
Lilium Humboldtii. One of the grandest of the world's Lilies. The type; orange, spotted maroon. 
The easily grown variety Magnificum is the same, richly eyed with scarlet 
CALIFORNIA LILIES 
In number and beauty of its Lilies, California ranks next to Japan. 
LILIUM HUMBOLDTII AND ALLIED SPECIES 
HUMBOLDTIL A grand Lily, growing as tall as lo feet, but usually 4 to 5 feet 
high, with very stout stem and many large, orange-red flowers, spotted with small 
maroon spots. This species does well in the adobe soils prevailing about San Francisco 
Bay. Immense bulbs, 9 inches and upward in circumference, 40 cts. each, $4 per doz. ; 
very large bulbs, 8 to 9 inches in circumference, 30 cts. each, $3 per doz.; fine bulbs, 
7 to 8 inches in circumference, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
