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CARL PURDY, UKIAII, CALIFORNIA 
LARKSPURS, or DELPHINIUMS are plants that California is rich in, and with 
one exception they are sorts the roots of which become perfectly dry in summer and 
which can be handled like bulbs. For dry roots, sec my California Bulb Catalogue in the 
fall. All except Scopulorum can be shipped dry in the fall. 
Growing plants as follows: 
D. cardinale, the giant Scarlet I^arkspur of southern California grows often 3 to 4 
feet high, and as much as 8 feet. Scarlet-orange flowers. 25 cts. each. 
D. Emilas grows about a foot high, with very pretty, light clear blue flowers in May. 
Our best blue sort. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
Delphinium nudicaule is the northern Scarlet Larkspur, growing a foot or so high, and 
having scarlet flowers 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 
hnc blue flowers on stems which are 4 or 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 
are 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. 50 cts. each, $4 per doz. 
L. cotyledon, with long and more slender leaves and flowers similar to Columbianum. 
50 cts. each, $4 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 
lorms many-headed clusters. Same price. 
L. oppositifolia is smaller and deciduous. The flowers starry, pure white. 10 cts. 
each, Si 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, finall>- 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 pineapjjle cone. 50 cts. each. 
MONARDELLA villosa belongs to the Mint family, and is one of the best plants for 
summer bloojii in very dry soils. Much like a Verbena in habit, with lavender flowers. 
15 cts. each, S11.25 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 sih'cry leaf, the other with a light green leaf. 15 cts. each, 
£1.25 per doz. 
OE. ovata is the Sun-Cujis, 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 0-xalis of the redwood forest, is a most useful plant for the 
fern-bed or shaded border. It spreads slowly and never comes 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. 
P.ffiONIA 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. 
