Retail price list of California bulbs / Carl Purdy

              CARL  PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA
iETHIONEMA grandiflorum is a dwarf, shrubby herb of real merit. It belongs to
the same group as arabis, stocks, and wallflowers, and has pretty foliage about the base
and many slender, leafy stems, bearing long racemes of bright rose-pink flowers. Makes
a most attractive clump a foot or so wide and high, and is most excellent for a dry rockery
in sun or the border. Sit., sun and well-drained soils, sandy or gravelly. Prop., seeds.
PL, October to March.   Strong plants, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz.'
AGAPANTHUS umbellatus. While a greenhouse plant in the cool East, in California
it is a strong-growing and very hardy garden flower—doubtless hardy as far as British
Columbia, as it easily withstands 16 degrees above. The numerous grassy leaves, 2 feet
long, form a dense mass, above which are borne great umbels, 2 to 3 feet high, with
1 o to 30 very handsome blue, lily-like flowers. Sit., sun or light shade. Soil, any not
wet. Prop., divisions. PL, October to March. A good loam and light shade will give
very fine results.   Clumps, 50 cts. each, smaller divisions, 30 cts. each.
AJUGA reptans purpurea forms a close carpet 2 or 3 inches high, of richly bronzed
purple leaves. It has creeping stems, rooting at every joint. The flowers are mint-like
and blue. An excellent evergreen, and if anything, higher colored in winter. It forms
an admirable ground-cover for shaded positidjis where grass will not thrive, for rather
wet positions, or is a pretty subject for moist positions in the rockery- Sit., sun or shade.
Soil, any, but dry.   Prop., divisions.   PL, October to June.   15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
ALLIUM cernuum is a little Leek with quite a pretty umbel of rose-colored, nodding
flowers.   10 cts. each, $1 per doz.
ALYSSUM saxatile is unexcelled as a hardy, drought-resisting plant for rockwork,
edging borders, street-curb planting, or groups in border. Its masses of light yellow
flowers in spring are most attractive; its leaves are evergreen and a good cover. Sit.,
sun or light shade. Soil, moist to dry. Prop., seedlings. PL, October to May. 8 cts.
each, 75 cts. per doz., $4 per 100.
AMARYLLIS Belladonna is the beautiful Belladonna Lily and one of the finest things
in the California garden. The great tubers make foliage in winter or early spring, and
these leaves die off in early summer, but later, usually late August, the tall, naked scapes
arise, bearing lovely pink flowers in umbels. Bulbs are not likely to flower the season
that they are moved and seem to flower more freely when somewhat root-bound. They
do well in sun but possibly better in light shade. Plant in clumps about a foot apart.
Soil, loose and sandy is preferable. Prop., bulblets. PL, August to spring. Heavy bulbs,
20 cts. each, $2 per doz.
ANCHUSA italica, in the Dropmore Variety, makes a bold mass of blue, 3 to 4
feet high in early summer. It flowers again if cut back before seeding. Hardy and long-
lasting plants. Sit., sun. Soil, good; moderate amount of water. Prop., divisions. PI.,
October to March.   Heavy roots, 25 cts. each.   Fair roots, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
FALL ANEMONES have no competitors in their style of beauty in the autumn.
Tall and stately, they bear many large, showy flowers, most delicate in texture and very
lasting as cut-flowers. In the cooler positions in sun or in shade, they are most useful,
either as single plants, in strong groups, or mingled with ferns in shaded corners. In
such regions as along our California coast or the San Francisco Bay region they do
excellently in any open situation. Sit., cooler position in sun or shade. Soil, any garden
soil, but a good well-worked loam is best. Prop., suckers. PL, October to April. In cold
climates they are hardy but must have a covering of 2 or 3 inches of leaves or litter.
Plant 18 inches apart. If soil is good allow the runners to fill up and only give a winter
dressing of well-rotted manure. If it packs, do not allow the underground runners to
grow; cultivate between plants. Honorine Joubert, a large, single, white is very fine.
Queen Charlotte is a silvery pink, the exquisite shade of the La France rose. It is semi-
double. Whirlwind is a beautiful pure white, semi-double. Rosea is a delicate silvery
rose, single.  All at 20 cts. each, $2 per doz,, in fine field-grown plants.
ANTHEMIS tinctoria is the Golden Marguerite and a sturdy, easily grown plant,
most excellent for hot, dry places. The plant is about a foot high, and bears a great
number of daisy-like, yellow flowers in midsummer and until fall. Almost any soil
suits it, but it needs sun.   It stands much drought.   15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
ANTHERICUMS, or St. Bruno's Lilies, have grassy leaves a foot or so high, with
erect, almost naked, stems, bearing many white flowers. A. graminifolium is more
graceful and the flowers are large" and quite attractive. Sit., sun. Soil, any garden
loarii but a moist situation, if well-drained, is best. Prop., divisions. PL, October to
March.   25 cts. each.