MATILIJA POPPY 
(ROMNEYA COULTERI). 
Fo'' supreme and stately beauty this magnificent plant is conceded the queen of our native 
flowers. It is of great value as a cat flower, lasting well in water, and its delicaie primrose-lilie 
perfume is most acceptable in a room. The flowers are very large, four to five inches across, 
pure white, with a fine bunch of yellow stamens, resembling large white single Paeonies. The 
seed of this beautiful plant takes several mouths to germinate. Pkt., 25 cents. 
THE YELLOW TREE POPPY OF 
CALIFORNIA 
(OENDROMECON RIGIDUM). 
It grows about three feet high, has willow-shaped, rigid, glaucous leaves, contrasting elegantly 
with the color of the flowers, which are of a lovely lemon yellow, Pkt., 15 cents. 
GILIA DIANTHOIDES 
Scarcely anything can be prettier than this bright little hardy annual. The tiny plants are often 
no more than an inch high, but are covered with rosy lilac star blossoms, exquisitely delii'ate 
in texture and form. Sing e pUnts produce little show, but grown in masses they form a charm- 
ing color picture. Pkt., 10 cents. 
PILLAR OF FIRE 
(DELPHINIUM CAROINALE). 
" Pillar of Fire " is no misnomer for this highly attractive scarlet Larkspur. Of a strong, vig- 
orous habit of growth, with clean, pretty foliage, it throws up flower stems from four to six feet 
high, covered with flowers of the most dazzling scarlet imaginable. Pkt., 10U seeds, 10 cents. 
PHACELIA TANACETIFOLIA 
This hardy and easily grown flower Is better known as the Oallfornla Bee Fodder Plant, owing to 
its being largely used for that purpose. It forms great mounds of foliage, often two io three 
feet across, and thickly covered with bright violet-blue blossoms. Among the Spanish-Uallfornl- 
ans it is known as " Vervenia." Pkt., 6 cents. 
PHACELIA VISCIDA 
A handsome annual, growing about one foot high, and producing a terminal raceme of dark 
blue flowers, each flower being about three-quarters of an Inch across. This plant produces a 
magniflcsnt effect as it remains in flower most of the season. Pkt., 6 cants. 
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