TO CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS: California Retail Sales Tax Law requires 
that sales tax at the rate of 2*4% be added to your order. 
SPECIAL NOTICE OF IMPORTANCE 
'XVHIS SUMMER I am not issuing two separate catalogs as heretofore but in 
this catalog I am combining my several offerings. In the following pages 
you will find in three separate sections: 
I— CALIFORNIAN BULBS AND OTHER WEST AMERICAN PLANTS—A 
complete offering of this material. Pages 2 to 29. 
II— PLANTS FOR ROCK AND ALPINE GARDENS, in which is included a 
very long list of rock garden plants. These plants also represent the very best 
low growing plants for any garden situation. Pages 30 to 55. 
III— “NOT NOVELTIES.” A choice list of perennials that are either rare, 
unusual or of very special merit. Pages 56 to 65. 
While I am not sending out a descriptive catalog of the well known old favorite 
perennials, I still grow a large collection. You will find an alphabetical list of 
these varieties, with price, on pages 65 and 66 of this catalog. 
Greetings to Garden-Lovers Everywhere 
TT is my intention to make firm friends of every person who entrusts me with 
an order. I have thousands of such friends now, and I fully expect to add 
you, the first-time reader of this catalog, to that list. 
To do this I must first of all be truthful, and grow good plants and deliver 
them to my customers in good condition. But, in addition to this primary ser¬ 
vice, it is my practice to give close study to my customers’ needs and problems, 
to give planting' directions which will be very helpful, and still more, to go as 
far as a catalog can go in teaching the best use of plants. 
If I add that every complaint is met in a spirit of reason, and that I always go 
farther than I promise in rectifying any errors or oversights, have I not said 
enough? 
The cultural directions in this catalog seem to be much appreciated. To save 
space they are abbreviated as follows: 
Michaelmas Daisies. Sit. (situation), sun. Soil, any loam. PI. (plant), Octo¬ 
ber to April. Prop, (propagate), divisions. 
TERMS AND DELIVERY 
Delivery Dates: California Bulbs, except Lilies, must be planted in fall 
and I will not send any of these later than January 1, except Lilies and Orchids 
may be sent into March; Lewisias any month in the year. All Perennials can 
be shipped from September 1 to May 1. If ordered early we can retard many 
things to be delivered later than May 1. Sempervivums and Sedums can be sent 
throughout the year. 
At the Terraces the season is fully six weeks later than about San Francisco 
Bay or Southern California. Plants like Phlox or Delphiniums, which are a foot 
or more high there in early April, are, as> a rule, about as dormant on April 1 
here as in winter. Our stock is in excellent shipping condition until early April. 
In fact, I have had shipments dug in Vermont after spring opened which were 
further advanced than the same things in the open ground here. This is be¬ 
cause we have many cold nights until early April, and the cold winds harden 
and retard growth. 
Quantities. Six of a sort at the dozen rate. Less at single rates. 
Remittances can be made by personal check, money order, or, if less than 
one dollar, in stamps. 
Carriage. The price of every item includes postage prepaid. Express rates are 
much higher for small shipments and if expressly ordered sent via express the 
carriage charges will be your expense but extra plants are added to cover what 
the postage charges would have been. Safe delivery to any point is guaranteed. 
In case of loss, we reserve the right to replace goods. 
Quality of stocks. I do not grow potted plants, and the stock that I send out 
is all field-grown, hardened, and stocky. I do not believe that better plants are 
General Index will be found on page 67 
