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CARL PURDY, URIAH, MENDOCINO CO., CAL. 
Revolutum Dog’s-tooth Violets 
A bed of these superb flowers is shown very true to nature in the halftone accompany¬ 
ing. The stems are long, the flowers large and exquisitely tinted, often single, never more 
than four to the stem; and the leaves are mottled in white and green. While the plants 
thrive in garden loam, they do well in heavy soils which are quite wet in winter. I have 
seen them where a stream flowed over them constantly in winter. 
Revolutum is the type with white flowers, more or less tinged purple. For these the 
price is 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., $3.75 per 100. 
Pink Beauty. A soft shade of pink. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Johnsonii. A deep rose, unique in color and beauty. It sells for 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Watsonii is also known as Giganteum, and is hardly of this class. It has white flowers, 
beautifully toned with brown. My price for it, 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., $3.75 per 100. 
Regarding Revolutum praecox, years ago I first found this fine form and named it. 
Then for a long time I could not secure it. It is of a creamy color, with tall stems and most 
beautifully marked flowers. Can now supply good bulbs at 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., 
$3.75 per 100. 
Mixed Erythroniums. I put up a fine mixture at 25 cts. per doz., $2 per 100, $15 per 
1,000. 
I will make a choice collection of Erythroniums in six species, 100 bulbs, for $3. 
It is a pleasure to me to know that many of my eastern customers have succeeded 
in making the lovely western Dog’s-tooth Violets bloom at home without any special care 
A gentleman at Kalamazoo, Michigan, wrote last fall that several species, bought four 
years before, had bloomed each year, increasing in number of flowers and getting finer with 
time. Mr. Jansen, of Chicago, reported last fall that the bulbs bought the previous fall 
had done wonderfully well. A lady living on the Hudson says of Erythroniums that “These 
always do well with me.” A gardener of South Lancaster, Mass., writes in Garden Magazine, 
“Our one great success with California bulbs has been with the Dog’s-tooth Violets.” 
It is useless to expect the best effect from small plantings. They need to be massed 
to look best. Better buy the cheaper but excellent bulbs for naturalizing and plant a thousand 
or more. If some enthusiast would once go into planting with tens of thousands, he would 
never again be satisfied with any less number. 
Dog’s-tooth Violets, Revolutum type. White flowers, beautifully tinged with purple; one to four on 
a long stem 
