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leaves from its base much like a hyacinth. The stem is stout, from 
one to three feet high, according to variety. The many flowers are 
borne in racemes. Flowers for every ones yard and window. 
79. CAMASSIA ESCULENTA. 
A foot high, deep blue. 
•83. C\ ESCULENTA. Var. ALBA. Same white. 
80. C. CUSICKIL 
I take pleasure in bringing this grand new species within the 
reach of the general public. It is destined to become a general 
favorite. I have grown it for three years very successfully. The 
bulbs are very large, weighing from two to eight ounces. The 
leaves large—a foot long. The flowers produced in great racemes 
two to three feet in height, and with hundreds of pale sky blue 
flowers. 
81. C. LEICHTLINII. 
So tar as I have seen this is the finest Camassia in flower, tall, 
and a splendid purple. Ver}^ showy. 
82. C. LEICHTLINII. Cream. 
Cream, a very handsome form. 
84. C. montanum. A beautiful species like C. esculenta, a pale sky 
blue, flowering after all others. 
Dog Tooth Violets , 
Genus ERYTHRONWM. 
These charming lily-like plants have two broad handsome leaves, 
growing from the ground, which are usualy richly colored and mottled, 
and in themselves verv ornamental. The slender leafless stem bears 
lovely flowers, which are like small lilies, of exquisite coloring, and 
droop gracefully. They are perfectly hardy anywhere, and grow best 
in a cool, moist climate and a sheltered location. Their culture is easy, 
a well-drained loose soil, rich in mould, perfectly meeting their require¬ 
ments, and they flower early when all flowers arc more appreciated. 
With so much of beauty, and so many excellent qualities, they cannot 
help becoming immensely popular. The European and Eastern 
American sorts are not to be compared with our large flowered sorts. 
All are beautiful, and cheap or dear every one will prove a delight. 
Our Pacific Coast Erythroniums are the finest known. All are 
large of flower except E. purpurascens, and diffei but little in that 
respect. They differ much in time of flowering: E. Hartwegii is very 
early; it is followed by E. revolution prmeox; then Hendersonii, grandi- 
florum (type), grandiflorum album, and purpurascens follow, the next 
in flower is revolution Bolanderii, followed quickly by revolution 
Johnsonii; next comes giganteum and revolution (type); revolutum 
Watsonii lingers after all the foregoing have gone, and montanum 
comes weeks later. The delicate shadings, from white to bright yellow, 
while very difficult to describe, are easily caught by the eye, and give a 
