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GOLDEN BOWL MARIPOSAS 
GROUP IV. 
Clavalus El Dorado. Tall and very large dowered. 
CLAVATUS VENTURA. Not so tall as last, but a better grower 
and of the richest of yellow dowers of large size, most daintily 
marked. $i 0 00 
CONCOLOR. I have never seen a finer Mariposa than this as it 
dowered with me in 1904. Grand yellow flowers, dazzling ‘in brilliance 
and most beautifully marl ed with maroon bands. $10 00 
DESERT MARIPOSAS 
GROUP V. 
A desert species, with low stem and scant grayish foliage, but most 
dazzling vermillion dower. It grows in the Mohave and other deserts, 
where in dry years the rainfall is not enough to even start them. On 
account of this and the distance to be traversed, supply is uncertain. 
The Arizona form is orange; I have the vermillion one only. $10 00 
Aureus. In the same way yellow. 
CALOCHORTUS VENUSTuS ROSEUS 
BUTTERFLY TULIPS 
GROUP VI. 
The Spanish word, Mariposa, means butterfly, and never was a 
floral name more fitly applied than to these most exquisite colored and 
marked dowers. Only the orchids vie with them in beauty. With 
brilliant colors, eye-like spots, and da'inty pencilings and hairy mark¬ 
ings, the likeness to butterflies is startling. Botanists class them as 
