SPECIALLY GROWN CALILORNIA BULBS 
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loam. All are quite hardy. 
Fritillaria recurva. 
The finest of the 
world's Fritillarias; 
orange and scarlet. 
Woodland Species 
The second group of these 
plants is slender and very 
graceful with many pen- 
1 dent bells. They delight in 
) woodland soils and conditions, and 
naturalize very easily in any shaded 
| place or dell. The dowers are most 
charming for bouquets when mixed 
with grasses or other filmy greens. 
Lanceolata grows from 18 inches to 
several feet high; the dowers are mottled 
in green and brown, and are very odd and 
pretty. Its variety, Gracilis, has purple- 
black dowers; Recurva is another, in most 
beautiful orange-scarlet, as pretty as a 
red lily. Coccinea, just as pretty in crim¬ 
son, will do well in heavy soils. One spe¬ 
cies only, a clear yellow, low-growing 
sort, called Pudica, likes open situations 
and sandy soil, and dowers with the earliest 
spring blossoms. 
My price for all is 7 cts. each, 70 cts. 
per doz. 
When Fritillarias are grown in the 
garden, treat the same as calochortus. 
FRITILLARIAS 
(Western Crown Imperials) 
These dowers give us splendid coloring, together with 
the lily-like charm of the genus. All are as pretty as 
the lilies which they so much resemble. It is a truly 
imperial plant and rejoices the children early in every 
spring with its marvelous pearly drops of nectar, which 
never seem to fall. 
Mission Bells 
This is the pretty name by which southern Califor¬ 
nians call the group that grows in heavy 
soils in the open. The real Mission Bells 
is Bidora (almost black); but Agretis (green¬ 
ish white), Liliacea (white) and Pluridora 
(reddish purple), 
are all similar 
in habit; a 1 1 
easily grown 
in heavy soils 
in open places, 
but still do 
well in any 
On the third cover page of this booklet I mention some of the catalogues 
that describe the various bulbs and plants I offer to my customers. These 
catalogues contain descriptions written from my own experience in growing 
the native plants of California as well as those that have been introduced 
rom other states. 
Fritillaria lanceolata 
