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Carl Purtly, l^kiah, Cjalif oriii ji 
OXALIS Oregana, liic Oxalis of llie redwood forest, is a most iiseftil plant for the 
fcrn-l)ed or shaded liorder. It spreads siowh' and never comes from seeds or becomes a 
weed. The leaves arc 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, i,s CIS. each. Si. 25 per doz.; plants for nal lu-alizing, S2.50 per 100. 
SAXIFRAGA, European rock plants with handsome leaves in rosettes and low, 
slender sienis, with dainty white or pink (lowers. Very desirable rock plants. I have 
Aizoon, Andrewsii and Wallacei at 15 els. each. 
Saxifraga Mertensiana is an cxf|uisitely beautiful Californian rock plant. It is really 
bulbous, with a number of bulLis in a luft, as 1 sell them. It can be handled dry in 
the fall, but when planted soon ptishes out main- tufts of beautiful, crcnated, shining 
leaves and later slender stems with while llowers with conspicuous red anthers. Very 
dainty for rockwork. Dr\- cliniips in fall, 6 els. each, 75 els. per doz.; growing clumps, 
$1 per doz. 
Saxifraga sarmentosa is ihe Strawberry Geranium of older gardens, and a useful 
plant for hanging-baskets, rockwork and for covering shaded Ixxis. Planted a foot 
apart, and allowed to mass in a shaded corner, it makes a pretty sight at all times. 
10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., S5 per 100. 
TELLIMA grandiflora. Its beauty is in its hardiness and its pretty foliage. It 
makes an admirable grotuid-cover with large ferns. 10 cts. each, Si per doz. 
TIARELLA uniflora is the Foam Flower and, like the other Saxifragas, dainty and 
hard)-. 1 5 cts. each, 5i .25 per doz. 
TOLMIEA Menziesii is another plant related to Heucheras, which spreads out 
into dense colonics. 15 cts. each. Si. 25 per doz. 
VERONICA repens is a delightful creeping plani, with blue (lowers. 15 cts. each, 
Si .25 per doz. 
Among other excellent plants for shatlcd beds are Forget-me-nots (see Hardy 
•Garden Flowers, page 13), Kenilworth Ivy, Ivy Fern, Yerba Buena and Spikenard 
(see page 29), a novel plant for fern-beds. 
Rock Plants for Sunny Rockeries 
For sunny rockeries quite a different set of plants are required from those fit for 
shaded rocks or fcrn-bcds. Of course one can fill such a rockery with cactus and those 
fleshy semi-tropical things so much affected in southern California, but such rockeries 
soon became monotonous. 
In the first place, the rockery should be buill with the rocks slanting inward so that 
moisture will reach deeply and deep-rooting rock plants can get a foothold. The soil 
should be extra good, and worked in to a depth of a( leasl 18 inches. Such a rockerv 
should be built to afford a great many pockels and Utile beds a lew feel across. For this 
the following arc a few of the good plants to use: 
Alyssum, both saxatile and the annual, Arabis; Aquilegias for carl\- bloonr the 
WBellfiowers; the lufled Pinks are especialK- good; Gazanias, kepi wlihinVlose bounds; 
Heucheras, Ins pumila, Lychnis Haageana, are wrv fine; Sun Cups, CEnothera Arendsii, 
Pentstemons in nali\ es; Plumbago Larpenta, Rudbeckia nitida, Kenilworth Ivy, Jacob's 
Ladder kepi down well; ihe lufled Saxifragas, Sedums of ihe lower sorts. Cotyledons, 
Cerastium tomentosum, Aubrietias are espeeiali\- fine ; Wallflowers siarved lo low shrubs- 
Lewisias; Convolvulus Mauritanica, which grows in low liifls; Coreopsis siarx-ed'; 
Cotoneaster, ihe creeping son wiih red berries; Geranium sanguineum, Geums, creep- 
ing Gypsophilas; Iberis Gibraltarica is especialK- fine; Linum Lewisii, Forget-me-nots, 
Othonna Capensis kepi d(,wn, make a \ t line cclony lor such places. 
These are onl\- a few of ihe fine ihiiigs wilh which a sunnv rockwork can be brighl- 
ened. The rock gardens ard so-called .Alpine gardens, for w'hich Englishmen arc now 
spending lorlunes, are fillerl wilh such plants as ihese and oilier like sorls, and we can 
do the same thing beller heri'. 
California Perennial Plants 
I am giving more allenlion lo this inleresliiig deparlmeni of m\- work, and am glad 
to subniu this >ear a much enlarged lisl of good things. 1 collecra large number' not 
here listed. Special price-list on applical i(jn. 
ASARUM caudatum. .See Rock Plants, page 25. 
ACTiEA spicata rubra is a lo\'ely plain related lo the Wood Anemones. The red 
herries are verv brilliani but poisonous. 25 els. each. 
