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I arrange Mariposa Tulips in a number of groups 
affinities. 
according to 
I heir 
GROUP 1. SPLENDfl) MAIUPOSAK. 
Splendens This is the type, a tall stately plant with pale lilac, satiny tlowers, 
the lower half of which are covered with cobwebby hairs The individual 
blossoms are often three inches across. Supply uncertain and late BUY 
THE NEXT TWO. ' $3.00 ' $20.00 
Splendens var. Rubra. A grand plant and the best of the group. As it 
Comes from much farther north and from a colder legion than the others 
superior hardiness is assured. The stout stem is from 12 to 30 inches high 
the flowers even larger than in the preeeeding, and of an exquisite pink- 
lavender that cannot be overpraised. 
Bulbs very large. Supply sure. August $4.b0 $30.00 
Splendens. Atroviolacea. An excellent species resembling the last, but the 
blossoms are more numerous and one half the size. 
Supply certain, can be shipped in .July. $3.00 $20.00 
Palmerii. The true C. Pahnerii is not in cultivation. The plant that I 
sell is properly U. splendens var. montanum, and is a charming rather low- 
growing sort resembling var. Atroviolacea but a satiny pink shaded to sal¬ 
mon and with short yellow hairs on the lower third. 
Supply sure duly.i $4.50 
GROUP IP THU TRUE BUTTERFLY TULTP 
To this group of bulbs is very appropriately applied the Spanish name 
‘‘Las Mariposas” the butterflies. 'Their brilliantly colored flowers with 
eye-like spots on each petal and sepal, and other delicate markings with 
dots, lines and hairs, are strongly suggestive of brilliantly colored butterflies. 
Only the Orchids can vie'with them in beauty. Botanists have variously 
divided the species between (’. luteus and venustus. 'They can all be con¬ 
sidered either strains of one variable species or many species. I follow the 
usual horticultural naming. 
Venustus var. roseus. This is the typical C. venustus as described by 
Brntham. It grows in the Southern (hast Range of California. 1 have 
discovered-a form far larger, finer, and a better grower than the rather weak 
for n Ion <; used. The petals are broa 1, creamy-white suffused with pale lilac, 
a ro ;e colored blotch is at the apex of the petal, a richly marked eye in the 
middle, while the base is hairy and beautifully tinted. .'The back of 
the petal is also richly colored with carmine. A most lovely species. 
Supply sure and usually reaching me in July. $3.00 20.00 
Var. Sulphureus. A very few of the latter species have clear yellow Mowers 
Very beautiful. Uncertain supply. $ 10.00 
Var. Purpurascens. In this the flowers may be three inches in diameter, creamy 
whi.te inside for half way, but with purplish center and purple outside. They 
have no rose colored blotch but have the usual eye It is a strong grower 
native to heavy soils and is one of the best of all calochorti. Colored plate in 
(larden ( 1 jondon ) 1805. 
Supply quite reliable but collected bulbs come in 
ember. 
August and Sept- 
$3.00 $ 20.00 
