SPECIALLY GROWN CALILORNIA BULBS 
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Various Species of Mariposa Tulips 
All are superb flowers, which differ from the true Butterfly Tulips in that they are des¬ 
titute of eye-like spots on the petals, and vary much less in markings. Every one of these is 
beautiful, and some of them are simply exquisite in shadings. 
SPLENDENS 
The Lilac Mariposa Tulip is greatly admired in southern California. It grows as far 
south as San Diego County. The tall, slender stems bear many lovely lilac flowers that have 
a pinkish tinge and a satiny luster in the light, with a darker eye at the base. It grows in 
heavy clay and adobes, often in wet soil. 7 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
SPLENDENS RUBRA 
There is nothing more exquisitely beautiful in the Mariposa family than this tall, strong. 
Lake County plant. The flowers are large, pinkish lilac and satiny.' It likes heavy clays. 
7 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
PLUMMERS ROSEA 
Often 3 or 4 feet high and much branched, with great, satinv pink flowers that are 
covered on the lower half of the inside with long, silky yellow hairs. It must have a gritty 
or sandy soil, especially well drained. 10 cts. each, Si per doz. 
CLAVATUS 
The largest-flowered and the stoutest-stemmed of all the Mariposa Tulips. The blooms, 
which are shaped like a broad bowl, are over 4 inches across, of a deep yellow, and the lower 
half covered by stiff yellow hairs, each tipped with a translucent knob, which in the light 
looks like an icicle. The stem is very stout and zigzagged. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
NUTTALLII 
An exquisitely lovely, white-flowered plant, from the arid portions of the Great Basin. 
Pure in color and dainty in marking. 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
GUNNISONI 
(The Colorado' Mariposa Tulip) 
An exquisitely beautiful species with white flowers, banded with green hairs at base, 
and often with color markings. Very hardy. 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz. 
LEICHTLINII 
A sub-alpine form of the latter, growing as high up in the Sierra Nevadas as 9,000 feet, 
—a slender plant with smoky white flowers, beautifully marked and quite pretty. It should 
be perfectly hardy in cold regions. 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
MACROCARPUS 
Unique in the shape of the flowers, which have long, narrow-pointed petals, of a pale 
silvery lilac, with bands of green down the back. 6 cts. each, 60 cts. per doz. 
CATALIN^E 
A superb thing in lilac, with almost black spot at base; resembles the Butterfly Tulips. 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
NITIDUS 
A most unique and lovely plant midway between the Mariposa Tulips and the Star 
Tulips. It is a native of the northwestern regions, where it grows in cold, wet spots, and 
endures great cold. Strong-growing, with from five to ten blossoms in a head. The flowers 
are large and white, with an indigo blotch in the center of each petal, and are covered inside 
with silky hairs. 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz. 
KENNEDYI 
In this we have good-sized flowers of a most intense vermilion—a color that is simply 
dazzling. Probably this plant from the Mohave desert is the rarest of all of the Mariposa 
family. 15 cts. each, Si.50 per doz. 
