California Bulbs, Rock Plants, Unusual Perennials 
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SCILLA Peruviana is a rare bulbous plant with a heavy mass of dark, grassy 
leaves and an erect very many flowered stem, with flowers of the deepest delft 
blue. Very striking. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
SHASTA DAISY Double Fringed or “Chiffon Daisy” as it has been called in 
recent writings, is wonderful in the garden and most effective as a cut flower. 
2 feet high with attractive foliage. The very double flowers are pure white, the 
petals shredded, quilled and incurved to give a most enchanting effect. 25 cts. 
each; 3 for 60 cts. 
SHASTA DAISY Burbank’s Alaska. Of graceful habit with large 4 to 5 in. 
white flowers on 18 in. stems. 20 cts. each; 3 for 50 cts. 
THALICTRUM aguilegifolium is the most handsome of the Meadow Rues. 
A noble plant 2 to 4 feet high and in bloom has a solid mass of filmy flowers 
of great beauty. The true pink form is not well fixed as to color and plants are 
mixed in shades from deep cerise pink to pure white, mixed only but most 
effective in any color. 30 cts. each. 
THALICTRUM Dipterocarpum. This lovely plant grows from 18 in. to 5 ft. 
high, with fern-like foliage of deep green. The large branching panicles are 
most graceful and the mauve flowers delicately beautiful. Most charming. 
Prefers a heavy soil and light shade but will thrive in sun or shade in any soil, 
if moist. 30 cts. each. 
TIGRIDIAS, called Tiger Flower or Mexican Flame Flower, are lovely bulbous 
flowers of the Gladioli family and are among the most brilliant of all bulbous 
flowers. Flowering over a long period in midsummer, they produce large cup¬ 
shaped flowers of most brilliant coloring, usually richly spotted reddish maroon 
at center. I am able to offer for the first time the following sorts, quite rare 
in America. Spring delivesy only, after March 15. 
Pavonia alba. White, center blotched pinkish. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pavonia Grandiflora. Vivid scarlet. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pavonia Ruby King. Brilliant carmine-rose. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Lutea Immaculata. Clear yellow, unspotted. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
VANCOUVERIA hexandra is a woodland plant of the Western forests, pop¬ 
ularly called “Redwood Ivy” or “Mexican Ivy”; and easily the prettiest of all 
American woodland foliage plants. The pinnated leaves rise from a running 
rootstock to 8 to 12 inches and are used in great number for florists’ greens. 
The wiry running roots make large colonies which have the great merit of 
forming a lovely ground cover which does not choke out the dainty forest flow¬ 
ers. Perfectly hardy about Boston. Reports that this lovely ground cover did 
well brought me a flood of orders last spring. At Wellesley Hills, Mass., Van- 
couveria is perfectly hardy and spread rapidly in the shade. At Salt Lake City 
it thrives in the shade and is fine for years. 
The Vancouveria has a slender underground stem which grows flat a few 
inches below the surface of the ground and throws up leaf clusters at intervals. 
To plant, excavate so that this stem can be laid flat and covered, say three 
inches deep of course, with any leafy stems erect. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; 
$7.50 per 100. 
ZEPHYRANTHES Candida or Zephyr Lily. The 12 inch slender leaves appear 
in fall along with flowers and remain in mild climates until spring. Slender 
stems, 6 to 8 inches tall, bear single pure white flowers 1 y 2 to 2 inches long, 
spreading at top of trumpet. A little colony in the rock garden lies dormant all 
summer and delightfully surprises with its chastely beautiful bloom in early 
fall. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
A LIST OF WELL KNOWN PERENNIALS 
In the preceding pages I have concentrated on my specialties, but there are a 
lot of the fine old fashioned perennials that I cannot be without for my own 
pleasure so I still grow many of them in the most select form and varieties and 
I offer them below with brief descriptions. 
Prices of the following where not otherwise priced, are 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 
cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
ADJUGA reptans. 3 in. Ground cover. Flower blue. Sit., moist. 
