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Luteus. A nict* dwarfish species without an eye. Supply reliable. Ready 
.Jillv 30th. |51.50 $10.00 
CATALINAE. A lovely species between C. Venustusand C. Splendensin char¬ 
acteristics. Large flowers are white or lilac, with a large round nearly black 
spot at base of each petal. It flowers some weeks earlier than the other 
Mariposas. A beautiful sort. Supply reliable. Ready August 1st. $6.00 
GROUP III CL A VAT US. 
Calochortus Clavatus. The largest flowered and stoutest stemmed of all of the 
Mariposa Tulips. The blooms, which are shaped like a broad bowl, are 
over four inches across, of a deep rich yellow, and the lower half covered 
by stitt’yellow hairs each tipped with a translucent knob, which in the 
light looks like an icicle. The stem is very stout and zigzaged. 
Vnr Eldorado has very large bulbs and flowers. Supply reliable. Ready 
July 30th. $10.00 
VAR. VENTURA. Although not so large is a better grower, and is more richly 
colored. Supply reliable. Ready July 30th. $10.00 
CONCOLOR. is a related species with straight erect stems, and fine large yellow 
flowers. It should not be left out of any line collection. Supply only 
fairly reliable. August. $10.00 
GROUP IV. WEE DPI FORMS. 
Weedii. In this snowy species a tall slender stem bears a cup-shaped 
flower, the inner surface of which is densely covered with long silky hairs, 
each of which is seated in a brown dot. Supply reliable. Usually ready 
by July 30th. $4.50 
VAR. PLUMMERAE. Or C. Plummerae. A queen among Calochorti. In color a 
rich lavender lined with long yellow hairs, large flowered. 
Supply reliable. August or early September. $ 0.00 
VARIOUS SPECIES. 
Kenned /U. A most brilliantly flowered species, but not easily grown. It 
grows in the deserts of Southern California and flowers in the brief spring- 
time. If is there all but leafless when flowering and the stem is short, but the 
blossom is of the most dazzling scarlet. I find it necessary to send a special 
collector into the desert region for this each season, and in dry years if can 
not be bad If obtainable ready July 30th. $10.00 
NUrTALLIl. An exquisitely lovely, white flowered plant, from the arid 
portions of the Great Basin. 1 n purity of color and daintiness of marking 
it is notable. Very hardy but subject to the attacks of the lily leaf rot, 
t Botrytis), just before flowering. It should be watched closely and sprayed 
with Bordeaux mixture on the first symptoms ol the 
reliable. Delivery late. 
Leichtlinii. A subalpine form of the latter growing to an altitude of 901)0 feet 
in the Sierra Nevadas, slender, smoky white, prettily marked and quite 
pretty. D should be perfectly hardy in cold regions. Supply reliable. If 
collected bulbs September. $4.00 $20.00 
GUNNISONII. A superb species now unluckily becoming rare. White, tint¬ 
ed creeii, a band of green bail's across the petals at the base, and a puiple 
gus. Supply iin- 
$4.50 
