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Carl Purdy, Ukiah, California 
(POPPIES— Continued) 
soft-colored sorts, as Mrs. Perry, blend well with almost any color massing. A 
sowing of the common Gypsophila among the plants in spring will give a light 
cover after they dry off. Sit., sun. Soil, deep, and better if sandy or gritty. 
Prop., root-cuttings in summer. PL, September to March. 
E. A. Bowles. Medium-sized flowers, prettily crimped and of a most charm¬ 
ing shade of apricot, changing to shell-pink with age. 50 cts. each. 
Enfield Beauty. Perhaps the finest of the salmon-pink shades. 50 cts. each. 
Royal Scarlet. A wonderful glowing scarlet. 50 cts. each. 
Finest Mixed, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
POPPY Olympia is a most unusual new thing. They form a clump, not a 
heavy one like Oriental Poppies, but by underground runners which in time 
becomes a broad mass. The flowers 4 to 5 inches across are semi-double, and 
of a very pleasing shade between apricot and light orange. The stems are 2 feet 
or more high. 40 cts. each; $4.00 per doz. 
HORNED POPPY is Glaucium flavum tricolor and no plant that we grow 
pleases visitors more or gives more effect for so little trouble. The foliage is 
pretty and plant stout and much branched, carrying very many showy flowers 
from a clear yellow to flame color through a long period. After bloom cut it 
back and another crop comes and then a third. Heat just suits it, it is one of 
the very best drouth resisters. An average plant is 3 ft. high and as broad and 
in flower there is no more brilliant effect. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts.; $2.50 doz. 
PENTSTEMONS (Native). See under Rock Garden Plants. 
PRIMULA acaulis is the English Primrose and differs from the Polyanthus 
Primrose in that each flower is borne on a separate stem and they continue to 
flower over a very much longer season. They thrive in any situation in light to 
medium shade and in ordinary rich soil. I offer the following very rare 
varieties: 
PRIMROSES in Blue Shades. These are so rare and beautiful that they 
always attract. I have a very fine lot of them raised from the finest seed obtain¬ 
able in Europe. These in varying shades of very deep blue. Cult., as for English 
Primroses. Mixed blues only at 40 cts. each; $4.00 per doz. 
DOUBLE LAVENDER PRIMROSES. Of the same habit they have the many 
flowers borne on separate stems and very double deep lavender. If you do not 
just love them at first sight you differ from the many visitors to my gardens. 
50 cts. each; 3 for $1.25. 
DOUBLE PINK TO WHITE PRIMROSES. Like last excepting in color and 
equally as dainty. They vary from white to pink, and apparently same plant 
may bloom either white or pink according to conditions and season. 50 cts. 
each; 3 for $1.25. 
BLUE SALVIAS. Many people ask for blue flowers and there are no finer 
blues than the following perennial Salvias: 
Azurea produces many slender but very stout and wiry stems from a woody 
base to make a bush-like mass 3 to 4 feet high. They flower after midsummer 
and are a fine light blue. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
Bracteata rosea (Turkestanica) makes a bold, much branched plant 2 to 3 ft. 
high with heavy, bluish basal leaves. On the branches are many whitish to 
lavender bracts, that give the full effect of flowers. Admired by all who see it. 
25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
Patens is quite different. It grows to 18 inches high with soft foliage and 
bears large flowers of deep indigo blue throughout the summer. I know of no 
other blue to equal it. It simply must have a rich moist soil to do well. Tender 
in the East and it should be taken up and stored over winter like dahlias. 
Each 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pitcheri is exactly like Azurea, but has intense gentian-blue flowers (deep 
blue) and blooms from late summer until very cold weather. One of the best 
late fall flowers. 30 cts. each; $3 per doz. 
