CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWER SEEDS 
California has a wealth of wild flower species both per¬ 
ennial and annual but it is the vast stretches of color pro¬ 
duced by certain prominent annuals that so attract visitors 
to our state, and I here offer the best of these. All are 
worthy of a place in the border and as fillers they are ex¬ 
cellent but their great value is in filling odd and difficult 
corners. 
Culture: They will grow in sun or light shade and are 
happy in any soil, even rocky and poor. Sow, either late 
fall or early spring where they are to bloom, thinning out 
to avoid crowding. They flower in spring but moderately 
watered the bloom extends well into the summer. 
Argemone platyceras. 2-3 ft. bushes, with pure white poppy¬ 
like flowers. Likes heat. $1 per oz. 
Bartonia aurea. 2-3 ft., with fine foliage and large cup¬ 
shaped flowers of soft yellow, with golden stamens. 
Worthy a place in any border. Oz. $1. 
Calandrina speciosa. A Portulaca like trailer with showy 
red flowers. Oz. 75 cts. 
Clarkias are lovely in light shade. 8 to 15 inches. 
Elegans, soft rose. Oz. 50 cts. 
Pulchella, rose red. Oz. 50 cts. 
COLLINSIA has full racemes of handsome flowers. 8 ins. 
Bicolor. Bright rose with white lip. Oz. 50 cts. 
Grandiflora. Dwarf blue. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA. The California Poppy is most hand¬ 
some. 
Californica is rich reddish orange, and large flowered. 
Oz. 50 cts. 
Maritima. Yellow at outer edge, pale at center. Oz. 50c. 
Caespitosa. Dwarf early golden yellow, desirable for 
border or rock garden. Pkt. 15 cts. 
Tenuifolium. Pale yellow dwarf. Pkt. 15 cts. 
GILIA are most lovely annuals. 
Achiliaefolia. 8-12 inches, bright lavender blue flowers 
in small heads. Oz. 40 cts. 
Capitata. 12-inch with heads of light blue flowers; 
branching habit. Lovely cut. Oz. 40 cts. 
Tricolor. Low plants with charming flowers. Like 
(Phlox Drummondii), smoky lilac, with yellow halo 
and purple center. Oz. 50 cts. 
GODETIA amoena. 12 to 15-inch branching, large bell¬ 
shaped flowers of soft rose. Oz. 50 cts. 
LINUM Lewisii. Lovely blue flax of the Sierras. Pkt. 15c. 
LAYIA elegans. 6 inches with dainty yellow daisies, like 
tiny (Coreopsis). Pkt. 15 cts. 
NEMOPHILA are most charming low plants. 
Insignis. Deep blue with lighter center. Oz. 40 cts. 
Maculata. White with vivid purple spots. Oz. 40 cts. 
Atomaria. Very dark blue and lovely. Pkt. 15 cts. 
PHACELIA. Attractive 12-inch branching plants. 
Congesta. Close whorls of blue bells. 
Campanulata. Loose heads of large deep blue bells. 
Pkt. 15 cts. 
Seed of Other Things That Blend With the Natives 
SHIRLEY POPPIES. Visitors here have been so enchanted 
with masses of glowing red shirley poppies that I have 
used to fill vacant area that I have saved a lot of seed 
for I know you will want some for your garden. Pkts. 
10 cts. Oz. 50 cts. 
NIGELLA, Miss Jekyll. “Love in a Mist.” Blue flowers 
surrounded by a filmy mass of green sepals. Lovely to 
naturalize under trees. Pkts. 15 cts. 
Prices: Unless otherwise noted, 10 cts. per pkt.; 3 pkts. 
for 25 cts. 
MIXED WILD FLOWER SEEDS. A specially prepared 
mixture of above kinds. Oz. 60 cts.; 2 ozs. for $1; y 2 
pound, $2.25; pound, $4. 
G-ordonia, South Africa: “I have to acknowledge receipt 
of the parcel of bulbs. They arrived in excellent condition 
after being two months on the way, and I must congratulate 
you on your excellent packing which enables them to stand 
such a test as this.” 
SECTION 3. 
Some Shrubs of Great 1 Beauty 
ARCTSTAPHYLLOS Manzanita is a handsome, round- 
headed shrub which is hardy south of Philadelphia. The 
flowers are like those of heather, white, flushed pink, and 
fragrant. 75 cts. each; 3 for $1.50, postage extra. 
ARCTSTAPHYLLOS Stanfordiana. Another fine Manzanita 
with vivid green pointed leaves and deep pink flower in 
early spring. 75 cts. each; 3 for $1.50, postage extra. 
ARCTSTAPHYLLOS nummularia is a very dwarf evergreen 
Manzanita of much beauty. Soft pink flowers. 75 cts. 
each; 3 for $1.50, postage extra. 
AZALEA Occidentalis is one of the most admired of all 
Californian shrubs. They grow from 3 to 10 feet high 
and bear great trusses of flowers from cream to pinkish 
in color and very fragrant. I have superb nursery- 
grown plants with a wonderful root system. Two feet 
high, very bushy, and most heavily budded for flower, 
$2.50 each; 15 to 18 inches, stout and bushy, $1.50 each. 
Postage extra. 
CALYCANTHUS occidentalis. Spice Bush. A deciduous 
shrub, 4 to 6 ft. in height, with large ovate glossy 
leaves. The large open scarlet flowers come in summer, 
and are followed by the thimble-like seed pods. Both 
the foliage and flower are most spicely fragrant. Each 
75 cts.; 3 for $2.00. Postage extra. 
CEANOTHUS Integerrimus. California Wild Lilac. A lovely 
shrub 6 to 8 feet high and bearing well above foliage 
fleecy panicles of fine flowers. Ours vary from white to 
pink to blue and all intermediate shades, but I can supply 
mixed only. 75 cts. each; 3 for $1.50, postage extra. 
REDBUD, Cercis occidentalis. A beautiful shrub from 4 
to 10 feet in height and spreading broadly and in May 
it is literally smothered with its blooms, which are 
large pea blossoms of purplish rose studded densely on 
the branchlets. When they are in flower, tourists come 
hundreds of miles to this, region to admire them. Hardy 
and drouth resistant and of rapid growth. Nursery 
grown trees, 18 to 24 inches high, at 75 cts. each. 
Postage extra. 
RHODODENDRON Californica. Our lovely native is one of 
the most beautiful of rhododendrons. Tall and spreading 
with luxuriant foliage and large rose-pink flowers. Not 
hardy north of Washington, D. C. Balled plants. 2 to 3 
ft. high, $2 each; 3 for $5. 1 to 2 ft. high, $1.25 each; 3 for 
$3. By express only. 
LONICERA Thibetica, Chinese Tree Honeysuckle, grows in¬ 
to round-headed large shrub or small tree. The yellow 
flowers are fragrant but its glory is in its brilliant red 
berries borne in great profusion in fall and lasting into 
winter. Most decorative in the garden and for cut sprays. 
$1 each, postage extra. 
ROMNEYA Coulterii, or Matilija Poppy, is a noble plant 
or shrub with smooth, bluish foliage and very large, 
white flowers filled with golden stamens. The roots run 
underground and form large colonies in time, and if left 
to grow it may make a bush 12 feet high. If, however, 
the stems are either cut to the ground yearly, as I do, or 
cut by frost, strong shoots appear which soon flower 
the same season. The Romneya has withstood winters 
near New York City in sheltered positions. Good stock 
is very hard to procure, but I can supply this year 
nice potted plants. 4-inch pots, 6 to 10 inches, $ 1 . 00 . 
Postage extra. 
Almost daily I receive inquiries, asking if it is possible 
for me to ship plants safely to the East. I think that the fol¬ 
lowing letters from customers will still any doubts on this 
point: 
“The plants I ordered from you arrived in perfect condi¬ 
tion and have already started to grow. I never received such 
lovely plants before. I was rather dubious about ordering 
so far away from home but I shall certainly not be afraid 
now and I am telling my friends about your lovely plants.” 
(Prom Marion, N. C.) 
Dunedin, New Zealand: “Plants arrived in perfect condi¬ 
tion and we are exceptionally well pleased with them. Had 
we known that they would have arrived in such order we 
would have taken dozens instead of singles.” 
Chihuahua, Mexico: “The plant on my order came in 
splendid condition, much better than any I have received 
from the East. Thank you very much for the extra ones. I 
am sorry that I did not discover you earlier.” 
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CARL PURDY, URIAH, CALIFORNIA 
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