CARPENTERIA CALIFORNICA. California's rarest and 
most beautiful native shrub and one of the easiest 
in cultivation. It has glossy evergreen leaves and 
great white flowers like single camellias. The bushes 
grow four feet tall. Plant it in sun or part shade. 
Pkt. 25c. 
CEANOTHUS or California Wild Lilac is the most 
familiar of our native shrubs, growing in one form 
or another all over the state. We list a number of 
them briefly here and will be glad to supply addi¬ 
tional information. Pkt. 25c. 
CEANOTHUS Arboreus. Pale blue flowers. Tall shrub 
or small tree. 6 ft. 
C. Cordulatus. "Snowbrush”. Large clusters of cream 
flowers. 3 ft. Hardy. 
C. Cuneatus. "Buckbrush". White flowers clustered 
along branches. 5 ft. Hardy. 
C. Cyaneus. "San Diego Lilac". Beautiful 12 in. 
spikes of royal blue flowers. 4 ft. 
C. Dentatus. "Monterey Lilac". Round clusters of 
intense blue flowers. 2 ft. 
C. Gloriosus. "Point Reyes Lilac". Marvelous for 
banks and slopes. Makes an eight in. high ground 
cover with thick glossy leaves. Lavender flowers. 
C. Impressus. "Santa Barbara Lilac". Small dark 
leaves and bright blue flowers. 3 ft. 
C. Integerrimus. "Deer Brush". Long, feathery, 
fluffy bunches of white or blue flowers. 5 ft. Hardy. 
C. Prostratus. "Mahala Mat". Prostrate. Glossy 
leaves, lilac-blue flowers. Hardy. 
C. Sorediatus. "Jim Brush". Foamy gray-blue flow¬ 
ers. 4 ft. 
C. Thyrsiflorus. "Blue-blossom". Large bunches of 
deep blue flowers. 5 ft. 
DENDROMECON RIGIDA. "Tree Poppy". The butter¬ 
cup yellow flowers bloom all the year round. Give it 
a sunny, well-drained place. 5 ft. tall, with willow¬ 
like gray leaves. Pkt. 25c. 
FREMONTIA MEXICANA. "Fremontia". This beautiful 
shrub con be grown as a small tree or trained to*^a 
low shape. Its broad cup-shaped flowers are rich 
waxy yellow inside while the outside of the petals 
shows rust-orange tones. It likes a warm, sunny 
location. Pkt. 25c. 
RIBES SPECIOSUM. "Fuchsia-flowered Gooseberry". 
The brilliant red and purple blossoms, very like small 
fuchsia flowers, hang like eardrops along the slender 
curving branches. A beautiful shrub, growing well 
in either sun or part shade, and reaching about 3 ft. 
Pkt. 25c. 
PLEASE NOTE 
We can supply seeds of a great many native Cali¬ 
fornia annuals, perennials, shrubs, bulbs and suc¬ 
culents, which are not included in this list. If you 
want seeds which you do not find listed here, send 
us your inquiries. We will probably be able to fill 
your order. If we do not have the seed ourselves we 
will be glad to suggest possible sources for it. 
LESTER ROWNTREE & CO. 
Carmel.California 
Many interesting Wild Flowers grow among the giant Redwoods of California. 
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