MIXTURES 
An excellent way to get a good quick effect with a planting of California wild flowers is to 
use a mixture,—either a general mixture or one selected in special colors. We make up our 
mixtures personally, and use the proportions of the various kinds of seed which we have found 
will give the best effect and the longest season of bloom. No seed other than wild flower seed 
is ever used in our mixtures. 
GENERAL PURPOSE MIXTURE. We recommend this 
for general use, where a planting is to be made in 
open ground and where a good assortment of 
colors and a long blooming season is wanted. There 
are twenty kinds of flowers here and a wide range 
of colors. Pkt. 10c, oz. 50c, lb. $5.00. 
LOW-GROWING FLOWERS. MIXED. This is a mix¬ 
ture of the more delicate or slender-stemmed plants. 
Use this along the edge of a path or in front of 
taller plants, where the beauty of these daintier ones 
will show to best advantage. Many colors. Pkt. 10c, 
oz. 50c, lb. $5.00. 
TALL FLOWERS, MIXED. This is a good mixture to 
fill up a sunny corner or to make a splash of color 
at the edge of the garden. Pkt. 10c, oz. 50c, lb. $5.00. 
BLUE & GOLDEN FLOWERS, MIXED. This mixture 
is adapted for a sunny place in which a special 
effect is wanted and where pinks and reds will not 
look well. We have selected kinds of flowers which 
will give a long season of bloom. Pkt. 10c, oz. 50c, 
lb. $5.00. 
PINK & LAVENDER FLOWERS. MIXED. This is another 
special color combination in soft harmonizing shades 
of pink, lavender and purple. This can be used in 
part shade. Pkt. 10c, oz. 60c, lb. $6.00. 
MIXTURE FOR SHADED PLACES. Not all California 
native annuals will do well in shade. We have 
made a selection of a well-assorted group which 
will grow well and blossom freely in shade or part 
shade and give a long blooming season. Pkt. lOc, 
oz. 60c, lb. $6.00. 
ROADSIDE BROADCASTING MIXTURE. This mixture 
is designed for places where a rough, sturdy, col¬ 
orful planting is needed. We have chosen strong¬ 
growing free-blooming kinds of wild flowers. Recom¬ 
mended for vacant lots, roadsides, and the like. 
Pkt. 10c, oz. 30c. lb. $3.00. 
GIFT PACKETS OF CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWER SEEDS 
A pretty packet of seeds of our lovely California wild flowers makes a charming gift for a 
gardening friend, whether the garden is here in California or "back East". We have selected 
flowers which will do well anywhere in the country and have enclosed full directions and a 
list of the flower names in each packet. 
WILD FLOWER PACKET "Eighteen Variety". Eighteen 
of our best wild flowers in a gayly colored packet. 
Single pkt. 50c, doz. $4.50. 
V/ILD FLOWER PACKET "Six Variety Low-growing". 
Six kinds of dainty flowers. Makes a lovely planting 
on a rock-garden. Single pkt. 25c, doz. $2.25. 
WILD FLOWER PACKET "Six Variety Tall". Six 
brilliantly colored tall wild flowers. Fine for a 
sunny corner. Single pkt. 25c, doz. $2.25. 
WILD FLpWER PACKET "California Poppies, Wild 
and Hybrid". This Souvenir packet contains liberal 
portions, in separate envelopes, of the orange, yel¬ 
low and cream wild Poppies and the pink, copper, 
salmon and scarlet Hybrids which have been devel¬ 
oped from the wild forms. Two beautiful plantings. 
Single pkt. lOc, doz. $1.00. 
ROCK PLANTS (Perennial and hardy) 
The high mountains of California,—the Sierra, as the first Spanish explorers named them— 
abound in beautiful flowers which seem only waiting for a chance to bloom in our rock gar¬ 
dens. But not all of them are of equally easy culture. We list here a selection which we recom¬ 
mend for all gardeners. Sow the seeds in flats or seed pans in soil which contains plenty of 
gravel and some humus and transplant the little plants as soon as possible to their permanent 
locations. The descriptions we give here of their habitats will indicate the sorts of places in 
which they like to grow. All are perennials and hardy. 
AQUILEGIA PUBESCENS. “Rock Columbine". This 
is unquestionably California's most beautiful wild 
Columbine, with immense flowers in every pos¬ 
sible combination of wine, blue, yellow, pink, purple 
and cream. It grows high in the Sierra in full sun, 
always among boulders and with moisture down 
under its feet. Its height is about ten inches. Pkt. 25c. 
ASTER ANDERSONII. “Alpine Daisy." This dainty 
aster, six inches tall, with a lilac-pink flower topping 
each slender stem, blooms in the moist mountain 
meadows above Yosemite Valley and along Tioga 
Pass Road across the Sierra. Its narrow leaves are 
matted and grass-like. It should do well in full sun 
at the base of a moist rock-garden. Pkt. 25c. 
CALYPTRIDIUM UMBELLATUM. “Pussy Paws". A 
delightful plant for a sunny rock-garden. It grows 
in open gravelly places all through the high moun¬ 
tains, lying flat to the ground and spreading all 
around it its round clusters of papery pink’ and 
white flowers, which really do look like the paws 
of fluffy white kittens. Pkt. 25c. 
ERIOGONUM UMBELLATUM. “Sulphur Flower". In 
August and September the rocky, gravelly banks 
and slopes of the Sierra glow with the yellow, 
gold, copper and garnet flowers of this little shrubby 
Buckwheat which grows generally in full sun, and 
is about eight inches tall. The whole plant is 
massed with flowers, completely hiding the leaves 
Pkt. 25c. 
CALYPTRIDIUM UMBELLATUM. "Pussy Paws". 
