VENTUEA-BY-THE-SEA, CALIFORNIA 



Beautiful Bouvardias 



These beautiful and almost perpetual 

 blooming plants, not new, but rarely seen, 

 should be more cultivated, especially in 

 Southern California where they grow into 

 small shrubs and bloom outside all winter. 

 The flowers are in clusters, bright red rich 

 pink, yellow and pure white, double and 

 single. We have four sorts, Rosa multiflora. 

 pink.. "President Garfield" fiery scarlet, and 

 Humboldti, Corymbiflora, pure white. Flave- 

 scens, double yellow. 25 to 50c. 



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Single Bloom of Mad. Gaelbert. 



New Marguerite Mad. Gaelbert 



We wish to call especial attention to Mar- 

 guerite "Madam Gaelbert " beautiful but 

 little known. Its habit is dwarf, not over 

 two feet high, having handsome lacinated 

 fern-like bright green foliage, with which the 

 stems are well clothed, giving it a character 

 quite different from the wirey appearance 

 of other varieties. The flowers are snow 

 white with two rows of green petals irregu- 

 lar lengths and a small refined center like 

 greenish yellow velvet. The stems are 12 

 inches long, but rarely rise more than a few 

 inches above the foliage, the flowers lying 

 like stars in the green. A most lovely mar- 

 guerite, fine for specimens, groups, or long 

 lines or borders, and does well in pots. Splen- 

 did for cut flowers. 15to25c.$1.50to$2.50doz. 



Bouvardias. 



Marguerite Mad. Gaelbert. 



Camellia Japonica 



These beautiful plants are rarely seen outside in Southern California, [though they are 

 often seen in Sacramento where they do well, ]probably because people do not know their value, 

 or that they can be grown successfully in the ground. One of the reasons of failure is that 

 the ball is packed and hard and when put in the ground the roots are rarely moved and after- 

 wards the ball is never thoroughly soaked with water. If examined, it will frequently be found 

 that the water has never gone through it and the plant only lived as long as its old roots fur- 

 nished life. 



These plants grow into fine young trees and will bloom nine months of the year, giving 

 hundreds of beautiful flowers. The roots should be loosened a little, when the plant is put in 

 the ground, not enough to break them, but sufficient to start them away from the ball and 

 out into the surrounding soil. When once well established they grow fast into a beau- 

 tiful little tree, highly prized by the owner and very attractive to everyone else. The 

 foliage is shiny and shaped something like the orange leaf, but thicker and rounded 

 at the ends. Flowers double, waxen, shaped like roses In various colors. We offer white 

 and pink, strong large plants. $2.00 to $2.50 each. 



