California Bulbs, Rock Plants, Unusual Perennials 
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PERSONAL SERVICE. I shall be glad to answer specific questions or advise 
in any problems that my customers may submit to me where no detailed plans 
are entailed. In the selection of plants to fill the rock garden I am always glad 
to advise and if you wish, the entire selection may be left to me. 
SECTION 2 
r PLANTS FOR THE ROCK AND ALPINE GARDEN 
PLEASE NOTE: In bringing to you in one section as complete a set of 
Rock Garden plants as possible nearly every low growing plant I have is 
<> > offered here. This does not mean that they are suited to rock gardens <? 
| only for this list contains the very best low growing plants for every , 
garden use. 
Note: For the finest effects in a rock garden neat compact clumps are desir¬ 
able. To insure this shear stems off closely immediately after flowering. Allowing 
to seed makes plants weak and straggly. Many most beautiful plants grow too 
rampantly for desired spaces but by a little trimming through the season and 
this shearing after flowering all such objections are removed. Above notes apply 
to nearly everything but most particularly to Aethionemas, Alyssums, Iberis, 
Helianthemums and Pentstemons. 
SPECIAL OFFER OF ROCK GARDEN PLANTS Perhaps you are a beginner 
at rock gardening and would like help in making your selection. You may have 
an odd corner or a difficult corner to fill. Just write to me the details. Where 
the selection is thus left to me I make the following attractive special offer: 
For $5 I will send $6 worth of plants. For $10 I will send to value of $12.50. 
For larger amount 25 per cent additional value will be sent. 
ACHILLEIAS are most excellent in the rock garden to give neat, pretty 
foliage masses at all times. They are evergreen and every rock garden should 
have as many such plants to relieve it in winter and the off season. Beauty of 
mass is quite as essential in the rock garden as beauty of flower. Achilleias in 
bloom, too, while not showy, are pretty and Tomentosum is one of the really 
fine yellow mass effects. 
Ageratifolia has fine cut foliage of a most pleasing gray green. Flowers white. 
Millefolium roseum is a rose-colored Millefoil of real beauty. Makes rather a 
large mass. 
Nana makes most neat tufts in light green. Flowers white. 
Tomentosum is still more compact; the leaves are light green and very woolly, 
and the low flower stems bear masses of flat corymbs of bright yellow. Fine 
for both sun and shade. 
Umbellata is most pleasing in gray green. White flowers. 
All like hot, dry places and can be planted from September to May. All at 
25 cts. each; 3 for 60 cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
AETHIONEMAS are amongst the most valuable of rock garden plants and 
especially for the dry hot situations. If they have a chance to root deeply, as 
they will have in a properly constructed rock work, they bloom wonderfully, 
and in about two years are treasures in bloom and decidedly ornamental little 
shrubs at all times. (They are really shrubs.) Sit., sun. Soil, any loose soil, 
fairly rich in leaf mold. A deep root-hold, even if a crevice, just such moisture 
as happens, and leave them alone. Prop., seeds. 
Coridifolium. A prostrate mass of pretty bluish foliage a foot or so across 
which at flowering time is a solid mass of small deep rose-pink flowers. If 
sheared foliage mass is always attractive. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Grandiflorum stands up to make a low, shrubby mass with flowers borne in 
erect racemes. The color is a brilliant rose-pink and a plant in full flower is a 
most pleasing sight. 40 cts. each. 
Kotschii is like a miniature prostrate conifer with slender greyish leaves. 
In spring smothered with soft pink flowers. Rare. Each 50 cts. 
Persicum is a form like coridifolium but with the softest of soft pink flowers. 
30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pulchellum makes a flat trailing mass a foot or so across, with many pink 
tlowers. At its best, excellent. 40 cts. each. 
