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Carl Purdy, Uriah, California 
EUPATORIUM coelestinum grows to 18 inches h:'gh, forms a fine mass, and 
bears many panicles of flossy light blue flowers. Coming late in the season it is 
most welcome and is very beautiful. It likes moisture and sun. Divide to small 
sections every year. A fine cut flower and much admired as such. Each 25 cts.; 
3 for GO cts.; $2.00 per doz. 
EUPATORIUM occidentalis. A Californian shrubby perennial 18 in. high, 
with many leafy stems terminating in broad umbels of filmy soft pink flowers. 
Prefers gritty well drained soil. 30 cts. each. 
GAILLARDIA Portola bears flowers of great size on long stems. The rays 
are broad, somewhat doubled, and of rich bright crimson tipped with yellow. By 
far the best of all Giillardias. It was introduced fully ten years ago yet propa¬ 
gators have never been able to keep up with the insistent demand for it. 30 cts. 
each; $3.00 per doz. 
GAURA Lindheimeri is a most hardy plant, with strong, leafy stems growing 
from 3 to 4 feet in height, bearing a very large number of white flowers, flushed 
wi h pink, throughout a long season. They make a most excellent background 
for such tall plants as peremral Phlox, Michaelmas Daisies, or anything of that 
habit. No plant stands heat or drouth better, and after the first season the 
Gaura will live through the Ca’ifornia summer with ease if necessary. It is 
especially adapted to the hotter sections, although it thrives in the coastal re¬ 
gions. Sit., full sun or light shade. Prop., seeds or divisions. PI., winter. 
Flowers second year from seed. Any soil will do. Especially sun-loving and 
drouth-resisting. 
A lovely combination is to plant Gaura in front of Hollyhocks with a few 
plants of Salvia jarinacea mingled with the Gaura. The flowering seasons 
supplement admirably. 25 cts. each; $2 50 per doz. 
GERBERA Jamesonii Hybrids. Not new to this catalog, but cannot be too 
much praised. I have an unusually fine mixture of all of the shades from pink 
to scarlet with light yellow and buff. The plants have basal leaves, while the 
flowers are borne singly on long slender stems. In the East a greenhouse plant. 
From state of Washington south on the Western Coast and in the Southern states 
entirely hardy. Give a warm situation, well worked, rich, well-drained soil. 
Plant fall or spring. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 
While the large plants are more satisfactory, I can also supply smaller plants 
at 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
GLAUCIUM. See Horned Poppy under “Poppies.” 
GYPSOPHILA Bristol Fairy is of the very finest of the newer introductions. 
Like the double Paniculata it forms a large bush as much as 2 feet high by 4 
feet across, but of an opener more branching habit and with much larger and 
whiter flowers. Flowers profusely all summer. The very finest of airy flowers 
for making bouquets and when cut and dried in a cool place makes a wonderful 
everlasting. Each, 60 cts.; $G.OO per doz. 
HELLEBORES are known as Christmas Roses or Lenten Roses. The name 
Christmas Rose is properly applied to H. Niger and Lenten Rose to H. Orientalis 
but the names are now practically interchangeable. They are among the sturdi¬ 
est of sturdy plants and will be good for a great many years and improve stead¬ 
ily for years when well placed. H. Niger is well known as thoroughly hardy and 
many reports from Virginia to Maine thoroughly establish the hardiness of 
H. Orientalis throughout the East. 
H. Orientalis Hybrids. Many large palmate leaves arising from the base 
make a bold almost evergreen clump 18 inches high and fully as wide. I have 
had clumps 30 inches across which have borne 125 flowers in season. The 
flowers in many beautiful shades are often 3 inches across and last for months. 
In a mild winter they begin to flower here in October and in the East flowers 
may appear with the first mild spell of the new year. Really pretty of them¬ 
selves, they are doubly valuable coming at a time when no other flowers are in 
bloom. Three years ago I imported, under permit, a fine selection that com¬ 
prised a large part of the very best of the newer introductions of the foremost 
European breeder and these plants have now been released for sale. A second 
importation of the still newer introductions of this same breeder came this past 
winter and I hope to be able to offer them a year from now. Of the set just 
released I offer strong plants of the following named sorts: 
