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Carl Purdy, Uriah, California 
(AETH IONEMAS — Continued) 
Schistosum is similar to Ae. cordifolium but is taller and has soft pink 
flowers. Very nice. Each 30 cts. 
Warley Hybrid. A very compact mass of most pleasing foliage and in season 
densely covered with many flowers of deep rose which remain fine over a long 
period. We consider it the finest. Each 75 cts. 
ALYSSUMS. All Alyssums stand much drouth and will live in dry, rocky 
places. When established they will go through our dry hot summers in splendid 
shape without water. Few plants excel them for the sunny rock garden or for 
dry hot banks or walls. They are also splendid low plants for the perennial 
border. Soil, any loam. PI., fall or spring. Prop., seeds. Following are the best 
species: 
Moellendorffianum makes a dense cushion a foot or so across. In spring it 
is covered with deep yellow flowers. More compact than Saxatile. 30 cts. 
Saxatile Compacta is splendid for border or dry rock garden Flowers of 
bright yellow. Each 25 cts.; $2 per doz. 
Serpyllifolium is rather rare. It makes a very dense gray, woolly carpet, and 
has many yellow flowers in time. Always attractive. 30 cts. each; $3. per doz. 
Dry walls, too. 
Spinosum is a very spiny, woody stemmed little plant with silvery foliage and 
small white flowers. A good novelty. 50 cts. 
ALLIUMS are fine bulbs for the rock garden. See page 3. Plant them in 
groups of 3 to 6 bulbs 2 inches apart. 
ANCHUSA Myosotidiflora. A charming plant with the exquisite blue flowers 
of Forget-Me-Nots and large heart-shaped basal leaves. A clump of this beautiful 
plant is about a foot high, as much across, and a more beautiful subject for the 
cool rock garden or the border is not easy to find. Each 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts. 
AND ROSACES are counted among the choicest of alpine plants. There are 
very many in cultivation, although very few are offered in this country. To suc¬ 
ceed one must suit their need but so suited they are easy and an everlasting 
joy. A well drained soil, rich in leaf-mold and evenly moderately moist at all 
times is the prime factor. They form low carpets made up of many little rosettes 
and from these rosettes slender stems to 3 or 4 inches crowned by umbels of 
little primroses. 
Carnea has small very dense green rosettes with bright rose flowers on stems 
2 to 3 inches high. A gem. Each $1.00. 
Sarmentosa var. Chumbyii has rosettes of densely hairy leaves which in 
winter take on much color. They spread by tiny strawberry-like runners so 
that they make a very attractive colony. The little primrose-like flowers are a 
soft pink. Each 40 cts. 
Vittalina makes a very dense rosette not over an inch high and has umbels 
of yellow flowers. Quite rare. 50 cts. each. 
ANEMONE pulsatilla or Pasque Flower, from the Swiss Alps, is a most 
lovely plant. The flowering stems 9 to 12 inches high arise from the half devel¬ 
oped mass of silky foliage in early spring and the flowers 2 inches across are 
of a fine clear blue. It is a superb rock garden plant for a cool moist situation 
in light shade. In Oregon I saw it in many gardens in full sun but nowhere to 
approach my own in light shade. PI., fall to spring. Soil, a good loam with 
humus and moderate moisture. Each 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pulsatilla Rubra is like the type but has very dark ruby red flowers. Each 30 
cts.; 3 for 75 cts. 
AQUILEGIAS are too large for the small rock garden but for the cooler, shady 
sections of the large rock garden there is nothing that gives a finer color effect. 
(See Not Novelties.) 
ARABIS are compact plants making low masses and flowering very early. 
All are fine rock plants or for dry borders. Hardy anywhere. Sit., sun and heat. 
Soil, any but loose and a little gritty suits it better. Prop., seeds or divisions. 
PL, fall or spring. 
Albida Nana Compacta. Neat plants smothered with flowers of white in very 
early spring. Fine for the rock garden. 20 cts. each; $2 per doz. 
