Retail price list of California bulbs / Carl Purdy

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CARL   PURDY,   UKIAH,   MENDOCINO   CO.,   CAL.
Trillium sessile Californicum.   An old group in a fern-bed
TRILLIUMS
Trilliums are very attractive plants of the Lily family. The forms known as Wood
Lilies or Wake-Robins are well known in the East and are fine woodland plants. Of these,
the best is T. grandiflorum, to be had from most eastern dealers. In the forms T. sessile,
we have an altogether different tribe and a much better one from the standpoint of easy
culture and-ability to hold their own for years in the garden. The accompanying photograph
is of a colony at Ukiah which, with no care, has increased in beauty for at least 15 years,
and I have seen many such.
Soils  Preferred  and  Characteristics
A better plant for the shaded corner, damp woodland, border of streams, where the
soil is moist, or for the shaded parts of the garden, does not grow. It takes a year for them
to take hold, but they will then improve for years. The flowers come early, are fine and
very lasting and the leaves are handsome. There is no better bulbous plant to naturalize,
and I have them in perfection in gravel, loam, sand and heavy clay, and in each case,'with
no care whatever, and with our dry Californian summer.   I have three color forms.
SESSILE  CALIFORNICUM
A strong plant, a foot high, with the separate leaves sH inches long, by 43^ inches
wide, and the petals 3J^ inches long. Flowers pure white, with purple centers. Very fragrant.    Forms masses of many individuals.
SESSILE. SNOW QUEEN
Same, with broader petals, flowers pure white, creamy centers.
SESSILE RUBRUM
Same, with narrow petals; deep maroon-purple to reddish purple.
All ol the above at 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., $4 per 100; good small bulbs of the first two
at $3 per 100, $25 for 1,000.   The larger part ot these small bulbs are of flowering size