BLUE CAMAS LILY 
Camas Lily, Camassia quamash, grows from 18 to 24 inches 
high, and the blossoms are wide and informal stars, carried 
in loose spikes. Blue they are always, but the blue may vary 
from soft shades, through indigo, to a rich violet. The 
Camas Lily gives splendid effects for many weeks, beginning 
just as the late Tulips are fading. As hardy and as easy 
as the Tulip, there is no good reason why this truly 
beautiful bulb-flower should not be as widely grown. Put 
clumps of them in the border, group them about the pool, 
or if you have a meadow that you would submerge in a 
sea of blue, then mass them there. The cost is low 
enough so that one can afford to use them liberally, but 
whether you plant few or many, they will give you pleasure; 
more so as years roll by, for they are enduringly persistent. 
16 for 60c; 33 for $1.00; 100 for $2.50; 500 for $11.00. 
ROCK CARDENS IN SPRING 
Here are dainty bulb-flowers. Blend them with rocks and 
spring-time for garden, and your own, delighting. If there 
are no rocky pockets for them, just plant in little clustered 
colonies in sheltered corners, or at the front of the hardy 
border. All are garden-hardy. 
IRIS RETICULATA—Blossoms of deep, brilliant purple, 
streaked with gold, rich with fragrance of violets, brave the 
cold winds of earliest March in their opening. May be forced, 
also. Each 20c; 3 for 50c ; 7 for $1.00. 
SPRING STAR FLOWER—A splendid little bulb-flower, 
Triteleia coerulea, easily grown and free in bloom. There 
are masses of upfacing stars that vary from soft blue dif¬ 
fusions to a rich indigo. It winters here without the slightest 
protection, but should, perhaps, have a bit of straw or litter 
over it when grown well north. 4 for 25c; 9 for 50c; 
20 for $1.00. 
LEWISIA BRACHYCALYX—Thick, succulent leaf-rosettes, 
earth-flat, and centered with a long succession of feathery 
flowers that almost hide the plant. The petals are enamel 
white, but with a faint lavender overtone that carries a 
suggestion of mother-of-pearl iridescence. A rare, but gar¬ 
den-easy species, in bloom here from mid-March to the 
first week of May. Each 25c; 3 for 60c; 10 for $1.75. 
CHIONODOXA LUCILIAE—Sprays of soft blue starlets, 
each with a milk-white center. Pretty, and easy. 10 for 
25c; 35 for 75c. 
ALLIUM FLAVUM—Clustered bell-lets in oddly explosive 
form, rich glossy yellow within, but tawny buff in reverse. 
Grows to ten inches, and blooms all through June. Each 
20c; 3 for 50c. 
ALLIUM PULCHELLUM—More or less, it’s Allium Flavum 
with six inches added to its stature, and the flowers dipped 
in raspberry jam. Raspberry purple effectively describes the 
coloring, and it is really highly attractive, as well as highly 
visible. Each 20c; 3 for 50c. 
HYACINTHUS AZUREUS—It is the daintiest of baby Hya¬ 
cinths, but a true Hyacinth nevertheless, with flaring bells 
of most intense azure, bluer and brighter than sky blue. 
Then it is the earliest of Hyacinths, maybe the earliest of 
flowering bulbs, blooming^ often in February, surely in early 
March. Hardy and persistent. Highly distinctive. 10 for 
45c; 25 for $1.00 ; 100 for $3.50. 
SHOOTING STAR—Though the Shooting Star, Dodecatheon 
Meadia, is not truly a bulb, it has yet many bulblike 
habits, and goes well with them. Clustered flowers, always 
fragrant, that vary from palest pink to deepest rose. 20 
inches. Excellent in light shade, but where the soil is 
deep and rich, will do pretty well in sun, too. Sometimes 
it is called “Hardy Cyclamen”, from the blossom form. It 
is not really a Cyclamen, though. Each 25c; 3 for 65c; 
10 for $1.85. 
ROCK GARDEN BULB COLLECTION—Three Shooting Star, 
3 Iris reticulata, 4 Spring Star Flower, 3 Lewisia brachy- 
calyx, 3 Allium flavum, 3 Allium pulchellum, 10 Hyacinthus 
azureus. 29 bulbs, 7 separately labeled kinds, for Three 
Dollars. No changes made. 
NAMES OF FRIENDS. If you have two or three garden- 
loving friends, and care to send me their full names and 
addresses, it will be an appreciated favor that I shall try to 
repay in filling your order. 
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