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_ ANEMONE occidentale is an Alpine Anemone, with fcatlicry foliage and large 
white flowers. 75 cts. each, $1.25 per cloz. 
ARALIA Californica. See Spikenard, page 29. 
AQUILEGIAS. See page 6. 
ARGEMONE platyceras is one of the Desert Poppies, with very large white 
flowers and prickly leaves. 25 cts. each. 
ASTERS. The true wild Aster of the valleys is As/er Chamissonis, which has blue 
flowers ill the late fall. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
Beach Asters are really Erigcron. They are fine plants, making large masses and 
bearing many pretty flowers, with bright violet rays and golden centers. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 ]3er doz., for fine plants. 
BAHIA arachnoides is a hardy Daisy, with woolly leaves in tufts at the grotmd, 
and tall stems bearing very many bright yellow flowers in midsummer. Easily grown 
and withstanding drought. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
BLUE-EYED GRASS, or Sysyrinchium bellum is related to the Iris, and pretty. 
10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
S. Californica is like it, with >-ellow flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
COLUMBINES are always lovely, and California has two fine ones. Find des- 
criptions under Aquilegias, page 6. 
COTYLEDONS are thick-leaved rock plants and both interesting and pretty. 
A set of thri'e at 15 els. each. 
COWSLIPS. In the genus Dodecatheon we ha\'e many fine plants, and, as a rule, 
they are handled Ijest dry in the fall. I offer these in my Californian Bulb Catalogue, 
bill; can supply growing plants at 75 cts. per doz. D. Jeflfreyi is a plant for wet places, 
with very large leaves and rosy flowers. 15 cts. each. 
CYNOGLOSSUM grande is Ilound's Tongue of our woods, and a handsome 
early flower, dark blue, like forget-me-nots, on stems a foot or more high, from a leafy 
base. 15 cts. each. Si. 25 per doz. 
DELPHINIUMS. See Larkspurs, below. 
DICENTRA formosa. Sec Plants for Shaded Borders, page 25. 
EPILOBIUM spicatum, or Fire Weed, is a handsome plant allied to the Godetias, 
with tail stems aiul many rosy magenla flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
ERIOGONUMS are wideK' varied on this coast. I offer a shrubby sort which does 
well on the driesi lianks, and is in bloom from July on. 15 cts. each. 
HYPERICUM concinnum, an exquisitely pretty, low-growing plant, with golden 
yellow flowers and many golden stamens. It forms low groups of great beauty. 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
IRISES arc well represented on ihis coast, and as pretly ;is ihe best of the world's 
sorts. I offer the following: Bracteata, light \'ellow; Douglasiana, from cream to purple; 
Longipetala, tall, light blue; Watsoniana, light blue to purple, strong growing; Tenax,, 
low, with blue flowers; Tenax, in yellow; Purdyi, cream lined with ptirple, very fine. I 
ha\'e garden plants of all at 25 cts., and collected plants at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
LARKSPURS, or DELPHINIUMS are plants that California is rich in, and with 
one e.vceplion lhe\- are sorts the njots of which become perfectly dry in summer and 
which can be handled like bulbs. For drv roots, see Californian Bulb Catalogue in the 
fall. 
(Growing plants as follows: 
D. cardinals, the giant Scarlet Larks|3ur of southern California grows often 3 104. 
feet high, and as much as 8 feet. Scarlet-orange flowers. 25 cts. each. 
D. Emilae grows about a foot high, with wry prett\-, light clear blue flowers in 
iMa\'. Our best blue sort. 10 cis. each, 75 els. per doz. 
D. nudicaule is the norllu rn Scarki Larkspur, growing a foot or so high, and 
ha\'iiig scarlet flowers and handsonu' k'ax es. Il likes shade. 15 cts. each, Si. 25 per doz. 
D. scopulorum is \ rr\' much like I he Perennial Larkspurs of the garden, and with 
fine blue flowers on stems w hich are 4 (5r 5 feet high. Il likes damp soils. 25 cts. each. 
D. variegatum is a deep purple sort, growing a foot or so high and ver\- pretty. 
10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
