PURDY'S PERENNIAL PLANTS AND SHRUBS 23 
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. lo cts. each, Si per doz., $(i per loo. 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. Roezlii has bluish foliage and many light blue flowers, and is good. 
All these named Pentstenions are 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., except Roezlii, which 
is the same price as California Blue Bedder. 
SAXIFRAGA Mertensiana is an e.Kquisitely beautiful California rock-plant. It is 
really bulbous, with a number of bulbs in a tuft, as I sell them. ]t can be handled 
dry in the fall, but when planted soon pushes out many tufts of beautiful, crenatcd, 
shining leaves and later slender stems with white flowers with conspicuous red anthers. 
Very dainty for rockwork. Dry clumps in fall, 6 cts. each, 70 cts. per doz.; growing 
clumps, $1 per doz. 
S. peltata is the immense water plant, with shield-shaped leaves, in Sierran stream- 
courses. A fine plant. 50 cts. each. 
SEDUM spathulifolium covers a rock surface with a close mat of pretty, thick 
leaves and produces many yellow flowers. The prettiest of all Sedums. 15 cts. each, 
Si. 2 5 per doz. for clumps. 
SILENE californica, or the Mountain Pink. A most showy plant thriving in dry 
soils and with little care producing its brilliant scarlet flowers all summer. Silene 
Hookerii forms a low circling mat with the most exquisite soft pink flowers with cut 
petals. One of the most beautiful wild flowers in America. Both of them at 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
SMILACINA amplexicaulis is our best I^'alse Solomon's Seal, a fine plant for shade. 
10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
SOLIDAGO californica is a low-growing C.oldenrod. Solidago occidentalis grows 
4 or 5 feet high, with fine, feathery panicles 
and is splendid. Either sort at 10 cts. 
each, 75 cts. per doz. 
SPIKENARD, or Aralia californica. 
Sec Aralia, page 20. 
SYNTHYRIS rotundifolia is one of the 
pretty woods plants which have their best 
place in a rock-garden. We have no pret- 
tier foliage plant in the forest region. 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
TELLIMA grandiflora is closely related 
to the Heuchera, and is a most excellent 
plant for rockwork for shady places. The 
leaves are cpiitc ornamental. 
TIARErLA unifoliata, the Foam 
Flower, belongs to the same group as the 
preceding; it has pretty leaves and filmy 
white flowers on tall stems, which will 
make a beatitiful effect when the [ilants 
are placed closely. 
TOLMIEA Menziesii is another plant 
of the same group, and is a strong grower 
which spreads by runners and forms dense 
colonies, making a most excellent ground- 
cover under shrubs or ferns in shady places. 
I can furnish plants of these three at 15 
cts. each, $1.25 per doz. Smilacina amplexicaulis 
