PURDY'S CALIFORNIA BULBS AND SEEDS 
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WOODLAND FRITILLARIAS 
This group of llicse plants is slender and very graceful with nian>- pendent bells. 
They delight in woodland soils and conditions, and naturalize very easil\- in any shaded 
place or dell. The flowers are most charming lor boutpiets when mi.\ed with grasses 
or other filmy greens. 
Lanceolata grows from i8 inches to several feet high; the flowers are mollled 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. My price for both is 7 cts. each, 70 cts. 
per doz. 
When I'ritillarias are grown in the garden, treat the same as Calochortus. 
DOG'S-TOOTH VIOLETS (Erythroniums) 
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, all hough oftener from 3 to 6 inches. The colors run in delicate tints of white, 
pink, criain, bright yellow 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 soil, rich in leaf-mold, they also thrive in the greatest variety of clays, 
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 2 inches deep 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. Eyythrouium 
Hartwegii is the best for pots. All my varieties are described on the ne.xt two page;^. 
A customer within the city limits of San I-'rancisco planted a colony of Dog's-tooth 
Dog's-tooth Violets, Revoiutum type. White flowers, beautifully tinged ^with purple; one 
to four on a long stem. Giganteum is of this class 
