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Carl Purdy, Uriah, California 
(BRODIAEAS — Continued) 
Laxa. See colored plate, No. 1. 1 to 2 feet high, with very many fine blue 
flowers. One of California’s finest blue Towers. 6 cts. each; 60 cts. per doz. 
Laxa, “Blue King”, has deep, almost indigo blue flowers. 7 cts each; 
70 cts. per doz. 
Purdyii is low growing, say 6 inches high. The color is reddish lilac and the 
flower is broadly spreading with tips of petals recurved. Very pretty. 6 cts. 
each; 60 cts. per doz. 
Stellaris. Low growing with starry blue flowers with contrasting white cen¬ 
ters. A real rock garden bulb. 6 cts. each; 60 cts. per doz. 
Volubilis, the Twining Hyacinth, is most interesting of all. The flowering 
stem begins to climb at once, and may grow up on other plants or bushes to 
3 or 4 feet. Flowers are pink and very lasting. See colored plate, No. 7. 10 cts. 
each; $1 per doz. 
Mixed Brodiaeas, 40 cts. per doz.; $3 per 100. 
Brodiaea Collection. 100 bulbs, 5 varieties, my selection, $3.50; 50 bulbs, $2. 
The culture of Brodiaeas in the East is as for Caloehortus, and they are 
about as hardy. They all do well in pots. Brodiaeas are fine cut flowers and 
wonderfu ly lasting. 
BRODIAEAS. I feel that these lovely and easily grown bulbs should be more 
planted and appreciated. Pictures do not do justice to them, but they are very 
charming, very easy, and as cut flowers, wonderfully lasting. 
DODECATHEON 
DODECATHEONS or Shooting Stars, also caked Wild Cyclamens and Cow¬ 
slips, are among the finest of early flowering plants throughout the West, and 
are also among the high Alpines of the West. All alike form close rosettes of 
broad leaves, from which naked stems arise with umbels of Cyclamen-like 
flowers. They die down by early summer. The dry roots should be planted 
quite shallow, and iy 2 to 2 inches depth is enough. A colony in a pocket of the 
rock garden is a joy. 
Clevelandii is, I think, the prettiest of this pretty genus. The stems are as 
much as a foot high, willi white to soft pink flowers beautifully zoned. 25 cts. 
each; $2.50 per doz. 
Hendersonii, a Ca’ifornian, has proved hardy in the East. It forms a rosette 
of handsome leaves and in earliest spring has slender stems with umbels of rose 
flowers. Handsome and fragrant. Dies to the ground later. Nice clumps 25 cts. 
each; 3 for 60 cts.; $1.50 per doz. Ripe roots, fall planting only. 
Meadia. I flowered a beautiful form of this, the Eastern Shooting Star with 
which all fell in love. About 1 foot high, with broad basal leaves and rose colored 
flowers, cream at center and with reddish stamens. It likes a moist well drained 
soil and a rich loam suits it. Each 25 cts.; 3 for 60 cts. 
Patulum is a dwarf Shooting Star of great beauty and it is a gem for the rock 
garden. Foliage very low, stems 6 to 8 in. with quite large flowers for the genus 
and white, beautifully tinted lavender. 25 cts. each; 3 for 60 cts. 
Greencastle, Penna.: “The flowers I received from you last spring were 
packed so well that they arrived in better condition than some of same kinds 
from New Jersey.” 
Rozelle Park, N. Y.: “You will doubtless be pleased to learn that the last lot 
of bulbs arrived on time and all did quite well. The purple Washingtonianum 
Lily had about a doze.n flowers, and the Fairy Lanterns all did well.” 
Germantown, Penn.: “The Caloehortus albus and amabilis both bloomed. 
Camassias seem to do well in this climate as the same bulbs have flowered 
three years.” 
Raleigh, N. C. (1932): “Had some butterfly tulips from you several years ago 
and they have proven very satisfactory.” 
