PERENNIALS FOR MILD CLIMATES 
These flowers will of course flourish anywhere in California if they have the right growing 
conditions. In the East, those gardeners who live in and south of the latitude of Washington, 
D. C. should have good success with them. And many kinds, if given proper care and protection, 
will add much beauty to gardens in more northerly states. Sow* the seed in flats in rather 
light soil, and transplant early to their permanent locations. 
COREOPSIS GIGANTEA. "Giant Coreopsis". 
ABRONIA UMBELLATA. "Pink Sand Verbena". Trail¬ 
ing stems and many clusters of gay pink flowers. A 
familiar sight along the shore of the 17-Mile Drive. 
Plant it in sun in a sandy well-drained soil. Pkt. 25c. 
ASTER TORTIFOLIUS. "Desert Aster". The leaves 
are flecked with silvery down and the long-stemmed 
lavender flowers glisten like spun glass. Give it a 
sunny place, gravel or small rock and not too much 
water. Pkt. 25c. 
COREOPSIS GIGANTEA. "Giant Coreopsis". A fine 
flower from the beautiful islands of the Santa Bar¬ 
bara Channel. The plants are bushlike with thick 
fleshy trunks and masses of lacy green foliage. They 
are covered with big rich yellow daisies, three 
inches across. Plant in sun or part shade,—it looks 
beautiful on a lightly shaded hillside. Pkt. 25c. 
COREOTHROGYNE CALIFORNICA. "Coast Daisy". 
Like the wild aster of the East the Coast Daisy 
blooms in late summer when wild flowers are scarce. 
The silvery bushy plants grow a foot tall and are 
covered with pink-lavender flowers an inch across. 
Plant in sun or part shade. Pkt. 25c. 
DELPHINIUM CARDINALE. "Scarlet Larkspur". A 
stunning California wild flower. Give it a hot sunny 
place and light, well-drained soil. The loose sprays 
of fiery scarlet flowers grow on many tall stems from 
a single root. Pkt. 25c. 
ENCELIA FARINOSA. "Incienso". A rounded mass 
of silver-white leaves, topped with long-stemmed 
golden daisies. Excellent for a hot, dry corner. 
(Note; Too much water will change the silver leaves 
to an ordinary gray-green.) Pkt. 25c. 
ERIOGONUM GIGANTEUM. "Giant Buckwheat, or 
St. Catherine's Lace". Another beautiful plant from 
the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. The large leaves 
are silver-gray and the long-stemmed flat sprays of 
small flowers, at first ivory and pink, darken to 
copper-brown. Excellent for cutting and for flower 
arrangements. Pkt. 25c. 
ERIOGONUM PARVIFLORUM. "Peppermint Balls". 
Every plant bears dozens of ball-shaped flower clus¬ 
ters. At first they are cream, or pale pink; then they 
change to brilliant rose, or particolored rose and 
white and finally to copper. The plant is a little 
woody bush a foot tall. This pink Buckwheat colors 
all the mountainsides around Carmel Highlands. 
Pkt. 25c. 
LATHYRUS SPLENDENS. "Pride of California". A 
climbing Pea, with sweetpea sized flowers of the 
most brilliant pure crimson in large sprays. Plant 
it in a hot sunny place, for it grows far souin in 
the mountains on the Mexican border. The best way 
to display it is to give it an open-branched bush to 
climb through. Pkt. 25c. 
LUPINUS ALBIFRONS. "Silver Bush Lupin". The 
bushes, about two feet high, are a mass of silvery, 
velvety leaflets; above them wave the sprays of 
violet-blue flowers. Sun or part shade. Pkt. 25c. 
LUPINUS ARBOREUS. "Yellow Bush Lupin". This is 
the Bush Lupin which masses its spikes of golden 
flowers all along the roadsides around historic Mon¬ 
terey and beautiful Carmel. Three or four feet tall. 
Pkt. 25c. 
MIMULUS AURANTIACUS. "California Sunshine Flow¬ 
er". This is another of California's wild Monkey- 
flowers. Its rich buff-yellow trumpets light up shaded 
pine woods or shine in the sun on open hillsides. 
Pkt. 25c. 
MIMULUS HYBRIDS. "Hybrid Monkey-flower". These 
are natural hybrids between the red and yellow 
forms of woody Monkey-flowers. The flowers are 
two inches long and the colors are beautiful. They 
range from mahogany, deep rust and scarlet, 
through rose, pale pink and chamois to ivory white. 
We recommend this as a pot plant in the colder 
Eastern climates. Should be cut back severely after 
blooming. Pkt. 25c. 
EGRIOGONUM GIGANTEUM. "Giant Buckwheat, 
St. Catherine's Lace". 
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