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CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Delphinium nudicaule is the northern Scarlet Larkspur, growing a foot or so high, and 
having scarlet liowers and handsome leaves. It likes shade. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
D. scopulorum is very much like the Perennial Larkspurs of the garden, and with 
fine blue liowers on stems which are 4 to 5 feet high. It likes damp soils. 25 cts. each. 
D. variegatum is a deep purple sort, growing a foot or so high, and very pretty. 
10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
LEWISIAS are among the most beautiful of the world's rock-plants. With us they 
arc in the higher mountains, growing in leaf-mold under trees, or in the accumulated 
soil in rocky points and in the sun. All alike have thick, fleshy leaves, making handsome 
rosettes at the ground, and short racemes of satiny flowers with golden stamens. They 
thrive in loose, well-worked soil preferably gravelly or gritty. 
L. Columbianum has a rosette of short leaves and rosy flowers with dark lines down 
the midrib. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
L. Cotyledon, with long and more slender leaves and flowers similar to Columbianum. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
L. Howellii, with beautifully crested leaves and similar flowers. Same price. 
L. Leeana, with slender, pine-like leaves and many small magenta flowers. It 
forms many-hcaclcd clusters. Same price. 
L. oppositifolia is smaller and deciduous. The flowers starr3% pure white. 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz. 
L. rediviva, also deciduous, is a small plant, with large, satiny pink flowers of great 
beauty. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
L. Tweedii is a great plant with leaves 6 to 8 inches, finally making mats 18 inches 
across, with very many soft salmon-pink flowers. $1 each. 
LYSOCHITON is the western Skunk Cabbage, a remarkable plant of the calla 
family, with yellow flowers in very early spring, immense leaves and a seed-pod much 
like a pineapple cone. 50 cts. each. 
MONARDELLA villosa belongs to the mint family, and is one of the best plants for 
summer bloom in very dry soils. Much like a verbena in habit, with lavender flowers. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
CENOTHERA californica is the fine Evening Primrose of our semi-desert region, 
and forms low masses producing pure white flowers in abundance. The flowers appear 
in the early evening, turn pink in the morning and fade by noon. It is a native of loose, 
sandy or gravelly soils, stands much drought, but will thrive in ordinary garden soil. 
I have two forms, one with a silvery leaf, the other with a light green leaf. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doz. 
(E. ovata is the Sun-Cups, and flowers very early. A fine thing. Dry roots in the fall; 
growing plants in the winter, at 7 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
OXALIS oregona, the Oxalis of the redwood forest, is a most useful plant for the 
fern-bed or shaded border. It spreads slowly and never conies from seeds or becomes a 
weed. The leaves are evergreen and very pretty. It has just that delightful woodsy 
touch to complete a fern-bed. To mass quickly, plant 8 inches apart each way. Fine 
plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.; plants for naturalizing, $2.50 per 100. 
PjEONIA Brownii is our Wild Peony. 25 cts. each. 
PETASITES palmata has very large leaves borne on stems a foot or two high. The 
roots run along the top of the ground and form colonies which are quite attractive for 
wet or shady places. 25 cts. each. 
In PENTSTEMONS we have about our best perennial plants, especially for dry 
places and hot regions. All are pretty and all are showy. They like well-drained soil 
and prefer it loose, yet take to ordinary garden treatment. 
P., California Blue Bedder, is perhaps the best. Low-growing with many blue to 
pink flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100. I put them low in price to encourage 
naturalization. 
P. heterophyllus. Tall and slender, with blue flowers. 
P. Menziesii, Newberry, is the pink-flowered sort of the high Sierras; fine. 
P. ovatus has a very handsome foliage, making a clump i}4 feet high. The flowers 
are clear sky-blue; fine. 25 cts. each. 
P. Palmeri rather resembles P. spectahilis in habit, but makes a striking mass of soft 
pink. Well grown, a plant which will attract attention in any garden. 25 cts. each. 
P. spectabilis makes a large, many-branched plant, 2 to 3 feet high. The leaves are 
large and especially ornamental; the many racemes of flowers are light blue. A striking 
plant. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
P. Roezlii has bluish foliage and many light blue flowers, and is good. 10 cts. each, 
$1 per doz., $6 per 100. 
All these named Pentstcmons are 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., except as noted. 
