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Californian ‘Bulbs, Grolvn by Carl Vurdy 
PARRY’S LILY 
Parryii. One of the world’s finest species. The slender, leafy stem is from 3 to 5 feet 
high and bears from a few to twenty-five long, trumpet-shaped, lemon-yellow 
flowers. It is sweetly fragrant. In some forms, the center is faintly dotted brown; 
in others the color is solid. Very large bulbs, $1 each; fair bulbs, 40 cts. each, 
$4 per doz. 
I sent a special collector to the high mountains where it grows, with instruc¬ 
tions to spare no trouble to secure the finest bulbs. Lilium Parryii is not a very 
easy Lily to grow. My collectors find it finest along the banks of streams where the 
water has made deposits of silt, leaves and charcoal and dead wood. There, with 
its bulb well above the water, the roots run down to perpetual moisture. L. Parryii 
can at this time only be found in high alpine valleys, and the bulbs flower when 
very small. 
SMALL-FLOWERED BOG LILIES 
Parvum. A charming little Lily, which, under favorable treatment, grows 5 or 6 feet 
high, with many small, bell-shaped flowers. It is orange at the center, with crimson 
tips. From the subalpine regions about Lake Tahoe. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Parvum luteum. A taller variety, with clear yellow flowers, more revolute at the tips. 
20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Parviflorum. A very charming Lily, like a miniature Pardalinum. The earliest-flowering 
of our species. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Maritimum. A beautiful Lily, with dark red funnel-formed flowers. 20 cts. each, 
$2 per doz. 
BURBANK’S HYBRID LILIES 
During a period extending over a number of years, Luther Burbank, who is now 
recognized as the greatest improver of plants the world has ever known, crossed and 
hybridized Lilies. In the course of his experiments, thirty or forty of the world’s Lilies 
were used, and hundreds of thousands of plants grown from the seed and flowered. 
No experiment in the improvement of Lilies can be mentioned in the same breath, either 
when the number of individuals grown in the effort or the results produced are consid¬ 
ered. At the conclusion of his work, he had perhaps a hundred plants which had been 
selected from a vast number of the very best. One of these, a cross between Pardalinum 
and Washingtonianum, a good Lily, but, by no means, the best, was introduced and, 
with his consent, called L. Burbankii. The others were turned over to me to be put in 
my Lyons Valley garden (where conditions were ideal for their culture), to be further 
selected from, and the very best propagated. In their new home, they have done well, 
but the process of scale-propagation is a slow one, and it will be several years before 
some of the magnificent species which were represented by a single bulb will be grown 
in sufficient quantity to offer to the world. I am able to offer to the world on joint account 
of Mr. Burbank and myself these fine varieties, either of which is a grand acquisition. 
Hybrids of Pardalinum and Humboldtii. Of these there are fifty forms which I will sell 
in mixture. All share in the vigor of Pardalinum as a grower and the very strong 
habit of Humboldtii. All are splendid flowers, in shades of orange and crimson, 
and dotted maroon. The bulbs are rhizomatous, very large and heavy, and the 
stalks grow from 5 to 7 feet high. They are truly grand Lilies. 50 cts. each. 
Pardalinum, Red Giant. Mr. Burbank’s records were not perfect as to the parentage 
of all of the hybrids. This is unquestionably of hybrid origin, but its parentage 
is not traceable. The stems are very heavy and leafy and of medium height. The 
immense broadly spreading flowers are orange at center, with a broad expanse 
of the deepest crimson. A most striking novelty. 75 cts. each. 
There are still to come a set of fragrant Pardalinum-Parryii hybrids, with yellow 
and lemon-colored flowers as large as a Harrisii, and very beautiful. 
TRILLIUMS 
Trilliums are very attractive plants of the lily family, and the forms known as 
Wood Lilies or Wake Robins are well known in the East and are fine woodland plants. 
Of these, the best is T. grandiflorum , to be had from most Eastern dealers. In the forms 
T. sessile, we have an altogether different tribe and a much better one from the stand¬ 
point of easy culture and ability to hold their own for years in the garden. The accom¬ 
panying photograph is of a colony at Ukiah which, with no care, has increased in beauty 
