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Dos Rios, Mendocino County, Califojjiia 
MRS. EDITH MURPHEY MR. AND MRS. £•. M. CALMER 
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Note: Most of our material is grown and collected on our premises’ 
on ranches where this flora might be destroyed by cattle or sheep. 
Our Nursery is located on a mountain-side in the Coast Range at an elevation of 2800 feet. 
We collect up to 7000 feet altitude. Many varieties of bulbs, ferns and plants naturally 
adapted to rock gardens are native here and as they endure our rigorous winters, are hardy. 
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BULBS 
Lilies, large and small, all easy of culture. 
LARGE: 
Mt. Hood and Shasta lilies from Trinity 
County. 
Lilium Kelloggii, rarest form of L. Ru- 
bescens, is a native of this canyon. Good 
for broken shade. 
For margins of pools: L. Pardalinum or 
( Leopard lily, red and orange; Camassias, 
blue; Zygadenus Fremontii, Star hyacinth, 
white. 
SMALL: 
All suited to rock gardens, or beds where 
they dry off naturally after flowering: 
n Brodiaeas, three blue, one red (Floral Fire¬ 
cracker) ; Calochortus, four (Mariposa tu¬ 
lips, and Diogenes Lanterns, yellow); Fritil- 
^ larias, four (Mission Bell type); Dog-tooth 
Violets, cream; Alliums, two, one pink, one 
magenta, dwarf. 
FERNS 
/ For Sunny Rockwork, or partial shade: 
* Bluish stiff ferns, Bird-foot, Coffee fern, 
QP f Tea fern; also Oregon cliff brake, Licorice 
fern, Poonkinney fern (Cheilanthescalif). 
For Shade: Woodwardias, for size and 
background; Shield fern, for delicacy; 
Sword ferns, both erect and drooping forms. 
SHRUBS 
Red-bud; Dogwood; Mountain Spray 
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(Hoiodiscus Aerifolia); Oregon Grape, both 
high and low; Toyon; Quinine Bush; Ma- 
drone; Manzanita; Wild Lilac or Ceanothus,VV 
two varieties. Seeds of all also. 
VINES 
Mountain clematis (Lasiantha), beautiful 
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CORRESPONDENCE IS WELCOMED 
white flowers. 
PLANTS 
For ground cover, some shade: Nepeta or 
Ground Mint; Vancouveria or Redwood Ivy; 
Yerba Buena; Trientalis or Star Flower. 
For shade and background: Iris, Iblue, 
yellow or white; Trilliums; Columbine; Vio¬ 
lets, four; Alum Root; False Solomon’s 
Seal, fragrant. 
ROCK GARDENS 
Sedums and Sempervivums (Hen and 
Chickens); Mosses; Pentstemons, blue, red 
or pink; Indian Pinks, red, or pink; Lark¬ 
spurs, scarlet or purple, dwarf; Poppies; 
Shooting Stars. 
SEEDS 
We collect seeds of nearly all the fore¬ 
going items, as well as many others. We 
are constantly looking for and finding ma¬ 
terial which is unusual and which improves 
under cultivation. We sell collections of 
seeds, which will give a succession of 
bloom, and also those arranged according 
to color. 
