2 CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
until it covered the entire Pacific Coast of the United States and later 1 found a market 
for large numbers of bulbs abroad. 
Then came two years in which the school-room work gave way to an office training 
and after that the time came when I could devote all of my energies to the collection 
and culture of flowers. 
All over the world there are people who love the rare and beautiful in plant life and 
to their needs I catered. Fifteen years ago I added landscape gardening to my work and 
in that line I have had connections with many fine gardens. It was my privilege to act 
as Superintendent of the Exhibit Gardens at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, a privilege 
which you may be sure I appreciated. 
From the first I had sought a location where the natural conditions would favor the 
culture of the native bulbs that I dealt in and after several trials I found it high in the 
mountains which divide Mendocino from Lake County in California. Lying a little 
over twenty-three hundred feet above the sea and seventeen hundred feet above Ukiah 
Valley, "The Terraces" have a wonderful situation, a favorable climate, abundant 
spring water, a rich soil, and an endless variation of exposures. Altogether it is one of 
the most uniquely beautiful gardens in the world. 
While I have many man-built terraces, those from which the garden is named are 
natural and are from fifty to seventy-five feet high. A stream fed by my own springs 
plunges over them in cascades and waterfalls with each step down a section of the garden. 
Adapting Foreign Flowers to California Gardens 
Since 1907 1 have given much time to testing hardy plants from many parts of the 
world. I seek the best that is to be had and offer them in my Hardy I^lant Catalogue. 
A superb collection of Irises, wonderful Peonies, an unexcelled strain of perennial 
Larkspurs, fine Dahlias, and a wide variety of border and rock plants grow with me. 
The old favorites are not forgotten, for I have such things as superfine Hollyhocks in 
many separate colors, a superb line of Phloxes, Wallflowers, Columbines and Bellflowers. 
Visitors are Welcome at "The Terraces" 
Ukiah is on the main line of the Northwestern Pacific Railway, running from San 
Francisco north, and is also on the State Highway. The trip from San Francisco takes 
a little over four hours and time-tables are in all city papers. 
From Ukiah it is eight miles to "The Terraces." The first four miles are across the 
valley, the nest three miles are up the lovely Mill Creek Cafion by excellent roads, 
and then a mile of mountain grade. The road-bed is good and the road perfectly safe 
for either automobile or carriage, although no place for careless or inexperienced drivers. 
Telephones connect "The Terraces" with Ukiah and all points. No number needed. 
