California Bulbs, Rock Plants, Unusual Perennials 
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ARENARIAS have many places in the rock garden or dry wall and Arenaria 
caespitosa is the very best thing to plant in the spaces between stepping stones. 
Balearica is, I think, the tiniest plant that I know. It makes broad cushions 
of pretty green and in flower is covered with tiny white flowers. Delightful to 
soften down the cool rockwork. I find that it simply must have even moisture. 
Clumps, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. Not hardy north of New York. 
Caespitosa looks like a vividly green moss and has little white flowers. But 
little as it is, it is very hardy, rather drouth-resistant, and I think the very best 
of plants for the interstices in flagging or rocks as well as for delighful colonies 
in the rock garden. Divides easily. Clumps, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
Grandiflora has linear leaves and makes a clumip 9 in. high and a foot or 
more across which, through the entire season, bears many white flowers % in. 
across. I consider it most valuable in the rock garden as it is always good. 
Fine for edgings. Each 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts. 
Montana is quite different from preceding species. It forms strong masses of 
foliage several inches deep and a foot or so across, and its large white flowers 
of much beauty fairly cover it. One of the very best of the world’s rock plants. 
30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
SPERGULA pilifera, a near relative of the Arenarias I must list here. 
Leaves vivid green and most mossy, but taller than A. caespitosa. Each 25 cts. 
$2.50 per doz. 
ASARUMS or Snake Roots or Ginger Roots like a cool place and moderate 
moisture. Put there, they are decidedly valuable. 
Cauda^um has branches that root as they run and it makes a very fine cover 
for a shaded spot and especially under ferns. Excellent as a clump for shaded 
rock garden. 15 cts. each; per doz. $1.50. 
Hartwegii makes a dense clump with large heart-shaped leaves mottled white. 
Each 25 cts.; 3 for 65 cts. 
Lemmonii makes a close mass with several stems and leaves prettily mottled 
white. Each 25 cts.; 3 for 65 cts. 
In ASPERULA Cyananchina I am able to offer a rather unusual and strictly 
good rock plant It makes a dense mass of slender stems covered with slender 
leaves and a foot or more across. The flowers are small and very numerous; a 
pinkish white. If in a situation that does not get dry it continues good a long 
while. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
Odorata or “Woodruff” (previously listed “Galium Dwf .” in, error), is a most 
excellent ground cover, as it spreads by slender underground runners to make a 
very open ground cover which is excellent under ferns or woodland plants or 
even bulbs. The stem is 4 inches high and the small white flowers are dainty. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
ASTER alpinus Goliath. All alpine asters are fine, but this one quite excels 
them all. The leafy mats are 3 to 4 inches high and 6 to 8 inches across. The 
very many flowering stems are 6 to 9 inches tall and the very handsome flow¬ 
ers. often 1 V 2 inches across, are heliotrope. Most beautiful and easy. Likes 
moisture, either sun or light shade, but a cool lightly shaded situation will 
greatly prolong the flowering period. One of the most admired plants I have. 
30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
ASTER Delavayii has a few slender leaves at base and a lax stem 12 inches 
Ir'gh with a large flower having extremely slender purple violet rays. 50 cts. each. 
ASTER Forrestii has a dense low cluster of basal leaves and 4 to 6 inch stems 
with large purple violet flowers with orange yellow center. A handsome plant. 
50 cts. each. 
ASTER Pleiades is one of the new race of dwarf Michaelmas Daisies. It makes 
a thick clump less than 12 in. high and bears many pretty lavender pink flowers. 
35 cts. each; 3 for 90 cts. 
AUBRETIAS are among the very finest of early flowering rock garden plants. 
Hardy as rocks, resistant to heat and cold and dryness, and as winter bloomers 
in milder climates and very early spring bloomers everywhere, they are unex¬ 
celled. I have a plant that flowers from October to April, in freezing weather 
and often covered with snow, yet which has 1 survived many summers on one ol 
my dry hillsides without water. They form a low mass of dense, silvery foliage 
