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FOR FALL PLANTING. 
VjVO understand our offer, it is necessary for you to read these 
pages. Many people will be amazed at the great floral 
wealth found on the great mountain slopes, the beautiful 
hills and in the fine valleys of California, Oregon and Washing- 
ton. Hundreds of lovely flowers (mostly bulbous, and just the 
thing for fall planting) are indigenous to the soil of this vast 
region. 
The California bulb is usually a very small affair ; yet, dimin- 
utive as most of them are, they will grow a sturdy, vigorous 
plant, and furnish an elaborate display of quaint flowers of en- 
trancing beauty, and entirely new and strange to most Eastern 
homes. They are easily cultivated, see “Instructions as to 
Culture,” on page 8. 
We give a careful description of each class or species , while 
the detailed description of each variety follows its name in 
“ Catalogue of Bulbs and Prices.’’ It would be well to note that 
in the Catalogue the initial only is used to denote the species, 
j as for instance, “ Calochortus Splendens ” is given C. Splendens, 
; B. standing for Broditea, E. for Erythronium, F. for Frittillaria 
and L. for Eilium, or Lily. 
BRODI/EA. 
There are many varieties of this quaint and beautiful flower. 
Some are considered among the greatest novelties of recent 
years and are strikingly handsome. They are perfectly hardy 
in the East, and easily adapt themselves to any soil. The stalks 
are erect and leafless, and bear large umbels of lily-like flowers ; 
in some varieties as high as fifty to the stalk. Bulb small, and 
leaves grass}' in appearance. 
CALOCHORTUS. 
These beautiful bulbous plants have small bulbs, equally 
branched, stiff, leafy stems, from six inches in some varieties to 
several feet high in others, and bearing from a half-dozen to 
twenty flowers. The flowers are erect, cup-shaped and very 
brilliant. In some the colors are solid and uniform ; but in 
many varieties, especially of the Venustus class (the true But- 
terfly Tulips), the flowers carry the richest combination of 
colors, with spots, dots, lines, eyes and hairs to vie with the 
plumage of the most brilliant butterfly. They equal in colors 
the most brilliant flowers known to the floral world ; well de- 
serving their Spanish name of “ Mariposa” (a butterfly). 
