Retail price list of California bulbs / Carl Purdy

              PURDY'S CALIFORNIA FLOWERING PLANTS
25
as high as 12 feet; in fact if one is looking
for a plant that will furnish a screen effect
combined with a mass of gorgeous yellow
flowers this variety will meet your requirements. It is extremely strong and produces
a multitude of blooms that are fully as desirable for cutting as they are for furnishing a
mass of color in the garden. I offer fine
plants, which will give abundant bloom, at
15 cts. each, or $1.25 per doz.
In Rudbeckia Newmani we have one of
the finest of plants for a rich yellow mass-
effect. The flowering stems are 18 inches to
nearly 3 feet in height, with many fine, rich
orange flowers with black centers. For a
most showy border plant a foot apart each
way. Notice the fine effect of such a border
in the picture. I sell them at 15 cts. each,
$1.25 per doz.
Rudbeckia purpurea is the Purple Coneflower, and one well worth growing. The
stems, 2 feet or so in height, bear large,
spreading and very showy flowers of a vivid
lilac-purple shade which last with scarcely a
change for months. 15 cts. each, $1.25
per doz.
The well-known Rudbeckia nitida is a
truly lovely thing. With the foliage of Golden
Glow it grows about 4 to 5 feet in height,
with large, single, clear yellow flowers with
long cones. The petals droop in a very attractive way. It likes a rich, moist soil and
will grow in almost a bog. It is worth taking
trouble with. Divide as Golden Glow. 25c. ea.
Rudbeckia sub-tomentosa is a new
species which I much admire.   It grows from 3
to 5 feet in height, and has rich yellow flowers with small, black, cone-like center.
More like a very pretty sunflower with black center.   15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
Rudbeckia laciniata is the single-flowered Golden Glow and a most excellent plant.
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
SALVIA azurea is an entirely new plant which gives one of the loveliest light blues
in the garden. The slender stem is 3 to 4 feet in height, and the flowers many. It likes a
loose, warm soil, in the sun.   25 cts. each.
Salvia leucantha is a half-shrubby Salvia which can be cut back every winter and
which produces a profusion of long, whorled, flowering stems during the entire season.
Its particular charm is in the gray woolly foliage and the soft lavender flower calyces.
The real flowers are white and small. A most useful bedding or edging plant. Fine
plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
Salvia Ringens is a stout Salvia, with soft blue flowers and bluish foliage. 25 cts. ea.
Salvia Turkestanica grows 2 to 3 feet high, with pretty white foliage and light-
colored bracts.   Quite striking.   25 cts. each.
SANGUINARD1 Canadensis is the Bloodroot, and belongs to the Poppy family, and
the pretty, spreading, white flowers flushed with pink are produced singly on slender
stems very early in the spring and before the leaves develop.   15 cts. each.
SCABIOSA Caucasica is one of the best plants that I have. In color it is a very
fine light blue, and the flowers are borne on stems a foot to 18 inches high and are excellent for cutting. There has not been a day in a year and a half that a bed in my garden
has been without flowers, and during that time the temperature went below twenty
degrees for many days. It only asks a garden soil in the sun and good tillage. 15 cts.
and 25 cts. each.
SHASTA DAISIES are surely our most useful flowers, and they are hardy,
long-flowering and thrive in almost any position not heavily shaded. Yet few are getting
the very best out of them, partly from poor care and partly from wrong handling.   I find
Rudbeckia Newmani