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Carl Purdy, Ukiali, California 
LEWISIAS arc among ihc 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. Columbianiim has a rosette of short leaves and rosy flowers with dark lines down 
the midrib. 50 cIs. each, $4. per doz. 
L. cotyledon, with long and more slender leaves and like flowers. 50 cts. each, 
$4 pvr 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 
forms main -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 i^lant, 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, finally 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 
famiK", with >elIow flowers in very early spring, immense leaves and a seed-pod much 
like a pineapple cone. 50 cts. each. 
MONARDELLA villosa belongs to the mint family, and is one of the best plants 
for summer bloom in very dry soils. Much like a verbena in habit, with lavender 
flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
OENOTHERA Californica is the fine Evening Primrose of our semi-desert region, 
having silvery leaves and pure white flowers. It likes loose sandy or gravelly soils and 
stands drought. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
CE. ovata is the Sun-Cups, 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. 
PjEONIA Brownii is our Wild Peony. 25 cts. each. 
In PENTSTEMONS we have about our best perennial plants, especially for 
dry |)laces and hot regions. All are pretty and all are showy. They like well-drained 
soil and prefer it loose yet take to ordi- 
nary garden treatment. 
P., California Blue Bedder, is perhaps 
the best. Low-growing with many blue 
to pink flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., 
$6 per 100. I put them low in price to 
encoin-agc naturalization. 
P. cseruleus. Slender, with blue flowers. 
P. Eatonii. Slender; scarlet flowers on 
long stems. 
P. glaber. With broad leaves and large 
blue flowers. 
P. heterophyllus. Tall and slender, with 
blue flowers. 
P. Menziesii, Newberry is the pink- 
llowered sort of the high Sierras; fine. 
P. Roezlii has bluish foliage and many 
light blue flowers, and is good. 
-Ml these named Pentstemons arc 15 cts. 
each. Si per doz., except P. Roezlii. 
which is the .same |3rice as California Blue 
Bedder. 
SAXIFRAGA peltata is the immense 
water plant, with shield-shajjcd leaves, in 
Sierran stream-courses. A fine plant. 
50 cts. each. 
SEDUM spathulifoliimi covers a rock 
surface with a close mat of pretty, thick 
leaves and produces many yellow flowers. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. for clumjis. 
