Retail price list of California bulbs / Carl Purdy

              PURDY'S   CALIFORNIA BULBS AND   PLANTS
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CALIFORNIA NATIVE SHRUBS
While a few of these can be had from the nurseries, very many of the finest cannot
be had in nursery-grown plants. There is a real need for a nursery making a specialty
of the native shrubs and trees of this coast, and it is a need that I hope soon to-fill.
At present the greater part of the stock offered is of collected plants, but the best that
can be found and handled carefully at the best time.
A charge will be made for packing trees and shrubs. Carriage on these is at customer's expense, but care is taken to pack as lightly as is consistent with safety.
The items marked (*) are nursery-grown and usually shipped in pots or boxes.
BUSH POPPY is Dendromecon rigidum, and is best described as a light yellow
California Poppy growing on a stout bush, from 3 to 8 feet high. The bark is grayish,
the leaves like olives and the flower ornamental. When well grown the shrub throws
up long canes each summer as much as 8 feet high which droop when spring comes and
are wonderful wreaths of yellow flowers. The Bush Poppy likes well-drained soils.
50 cts. each.
*AZALEA occidentalis is the native deciduous Azalea. It is a superb shrub, worthy
of any garden, but not too easy to establish. It demands leaf-mold and constant moisture. Flowers creamy white, often tinged pink and with yellow markings. I have a
nice stock of nursery-grown seedlings, about 8 inches to 1 foot high, well rooted and
branched.  Balled, 75 cts. each, $6 per doz.
CEANOTHUS. See Wild Lilacs, page 32.
CALIFORNIA WILD
CHERRY. These evergreen Cherries are very
fine shrubs and beautiful,
both as hedge plants and
as specimens. When used
as hedges the plants should
be set about a foot apart.
The Catalina Island form,
Prunus integrifolia, has a
large, broad, shiny leaf.
The common sort, Prunus ilicifolia, has a leaf
with prickly edges like a
holly, and is very beautiful. Either variety, I to
iyi feet, in pots, 50 cts.
each, $4 per doz.; 2 to 2yi
feet, 75 cts. each, $6 for
10.
The Deciduous Wild
Cherry, Prunus demissa,
becomes a small, round-
headed tree, and is quite
distinctive.   50 cts. each.
CALIFORNIA
CHRISTMAS BERRY, or
Toyon, is a most beautiful
shrub, well beloved for its
bright berries in fall and
winter. Easily grown and
rapid. 6 to 12 inches high,
in pots, 50 cts. each, ex-
pressage added.
■"CALIFORNIA WILD
GRAPE is a very lovely
vine, coloring beautifully
in autumn. Rooted vines,
50 cts. each.
Clematis ligusticifolia (see page 30)