PURDY'S CALIFORNIA BULBS AND SEEDS 15 
Lilium Humboldtii. One of the grandest of the world's Lihes. The type; orange, spotted 
maroon. The easily grown variety Magniticum is the same, richly eyed with scarlet 
CALIFORNIA LILIES 
In number and bcauly of its Lilies, California ranks next to Japan. 
LILIUM HUMBOLDTII AND ALLIED SPECIES 
HUMBOLDTII. A grand Lily, growing as tall as lO feet, but usually 4 or 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 
