Purdy's California Flowerina Plants 
Androsace lanuginosa 
ANDROSACE lanuginosa is a little the most attractive rock or cushion plant that 
I have. The leaves form a low, dense clump of silvery gray. The flowers arc like prim- 
roses — pinkj borne on stems a few inches high. In summer runners like those of the 
strawberry increase the colony. 30 cts. each. 
ANEMONES of the fall-flowering sorts are Anemone Japonica, and in their season 
have no competitors in their style of beauty. Tall, strong, excellent for cutting and 
beautifully delicate, they have the further virtue of being very hardy and of growing 
well in either sun or shade. Single plants or small groups in the border arc fine; strong 
colonies are attractive and, as companions for ferns in shaded corners, they make a 
happy combination. 
I have found that any good loam suits them. The soil had better be fairly well 
enriched with old manure, the plants put in not closer than iS inches each way, and it 
is better not to disturb them for years. They have underground runners, which soon 
make the bed a solid mass. If the soil is good let them, and give the bed only top- 
dressing each winter, biu if the soil is hea\-\- take suckers out and cultivate. 
Anemone Japonica 
