Retail price list of California bulbs / Carl Purdy

              CARL   PURDY,  UKIAH,   CALIFORNIA
Old Canterbury Bells or " Cup-and-Saucer'
ASTERS,   Michaelmas   Daisies.
These perennial Asters grow to a
height of from 2 to 4 feet and
bear great numbers of pretty,
daisy-like flowers in blues, pinks
and purples. While not so good
for borders, they naturalize well
and will hold their own with the
wild growth on moist stream
banks, or any moist place, and
will bloom splendidly with little
care. Blues and purples, 15 cts.
each, $1.25 per doz.
Novae-Angliae   Soft pink.   25c. ea.
Culture.—In the border divide
to a few strong sprouts each winter,
manure and work well and good
results will be had.
Aquilegias, or Columbines
No hardy plants combine more
good points than this lovely genus.
With handsome foliage, graceful
habit, dainty yet showy flowers,
they are very hardy and resist
drought well. For the shaded fern bed, rockwork in shaded dells, or naturalizing on
slopes among trees, there are no better plants; while in the mixed border they are as
good. Groups of a half dozen or more a foot apart each way show much better than
single plants strung along.
Culture.—While Columbines grow well in either sun or shade, in almost any fair
soil, as long as well watered while growing, they do their very best in a moist soil, rich
with leaf-mold, and in light shades.   I offer strong plants of all.   Sure to do well.
A. ccerulea.   The Rocky Mountain Columbine which has the airiest of long-spurred
flowers, with sky-blue spurs and white center.   It is not a strong grower, but well
worth while.   Strong plants, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.
A. coerulea alba.   As pretty as the last and a fine, strong grower.   Flowers are white
flushed pink.   15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
A. chrysantha.   A beauty and a fine grower, light yellow.   15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.
A., WoUey Dod Hybrids.    Most exquisite long-spurred hybrids from England.    In
many colors, mixed.   Each, 25 cts.
A. eximia.   A Californian species which blooms in midsummer with very showy, short-
spurred, orange flowers.  It likes a wet place and will thrive on the water's edge or in
raised places in bogs, but also does well with ordinary treatment.   New.   Collected
plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.
A. truncata.   This is the ordinary wild Columbine of California, with red flowers.   A
fine thing and the thing to naturalize in woods.   Collected plants, 15 cts. each, $1.20
per doz., $7.50 per 100.
A. flavescens.   A very tall sort, and in rich soil with moisture, very showy; flowers
yellow.    Growing to even 6 feet in height.    25 cts. each.
A. nivea.   A strong-growing, short-spurred sort from Europe, with pure white flowers.
A most satisfactory plant.    25 cts. each.
Special.   Leave alone, only giving a coat of leaf mold or old manure every year.
CALENDULA, or MARIGOLD. Very fine plants ready to flower, of the best double
yellow. A showy flower to mass, and blooms very early; each 10 cts., 75 cts. per doz.,
$5 per 100.
CHRYSANTHEMUM maximum, Triumph. Something like the Shasta Daisy. It grows
a foot high with long stems, each bearing a single white flower 3 to 4 inches across
Fine for cut-flowers.   A splendid plant.   Each 15 cts.
COREOPSIS lanceolata grandiflora. One of our best yellow flowers, wonderfully free
blooming.   Small plants, 60 cts., per doz.; strong plants, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.