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CARL PURDY, URIAH, CALIFORNIA 
Parrot Tulips 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS, oon. 
TERRA- C O TT A ; Thomas Moore 
is a handsome flower. The color is 
fine tcrra-cotta, flushed with gold; 
it pleases every one. Price 3 cts. 
each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
See No. 3, front cover. 
A Fine Collection of 
Early Single Tulips 
For $2 I will send a collection of 
100 Tulips, selected by me from 
above sets, giving ten each, all 
separately labeled. This will give 
a fine variety of color and form, 
and will be of great value to all 
interested in growing Tulips. 
DOUBLE EARLY 
TULIPS 
There are many Double Early 
Tulips, and while I have little use 
for most of them, Murillo is too 
good to pass by. It is a double 
Cottage Maid in soft rose-flushed 
white. The flowers suggest pond- 
lilies. Either in pots or in the 
garden it is charming, and it is 
very decorative when picked. 4 cts. 
each, 40 cts. per doz., $3 per 100. 
See No. I, front cover. Couronne 
d'Or, a fine yellow, and one of 
the best for forcing, splendid 
double. Same price as Murillo. 
Salvator Rosa is white, flamed deep rose, and very fine for forcing. 75 cts. per doz. 
Vuurbaak is red, and one of the best of this color; price, 7 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
PARROT TULIPS 
This is a race of georgeously colored Tulips, with very large flowers fancifully cut 
and slashed in the oddest way. They have short stems, and must be grown here like 
early single Tulips — with considerable light shade. Can be forced late without heat. 
Mixed bulbs, all colors, 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2.25 per 100. 
MAY-FLOWERING or COTTAGE TULIPS 
These splendid, long-stemmed Tulips, and the equally tall Darwins and their 
cousins, the Rembrandts, are late-flowering classes well adapted to California conditions. 
When a few points are carefully observed, they can be grown in wonderful perfection. 
In exceptional springs they do well in the open sun — such a spring as that of 191 1; 
but more often hot days come early, and a light shade is essential to get all of the beauty 
they are capable of producing. 
If your object is cut-flowers, and the bed is large, the best possible shade is a frame- 
work with movable laths. Next to that is the shade of deciduous trees which are in 
leaf at Tulip-time. Apples or other fruit trees are particularly good. Or a bed can 
be so planted that it gets intervals of sunshine at different times during the day, and 
the shadows of any sort of trees or of buildings at intervals. The shade of a house well 
answers, and the bed may be either on the east or west side, but not north or south 
of a building; a situation where the shade of a building covers the bed at some time of 
the day but leaves sun earlier or later, is an excellent arrangement. 
Again, if we would have the best, we must water liberally when the buds first 
show and until the flowers fade. I do not mean simply holding the hose on them a 
