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‘WATSONIAS White Hybrids. Flowers pur- 
est white and are produced on long 
branching flower stalks. Surpasses any 
other Watsonias ever grown. 15¢c each; 
$1.50 per dozen. 
PANCRATIUM or Spider Lily. ..Leaves 
glaucous; very free bloomer during sum- 
mer. Flowers white, delicately fragrant. 
15¢c each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Rare Succulent Plants 
No class of plants is more interesting 
than nature’s carved and sculptured forms 
decorated in wondrous patterns and col- 
ored in rarest tints. Dainty bits of carving 
that have the surprising habit of bursting 
into charming bloom. Among the most at- 
tractive are Echeverias, Aloes, Rochea, 
Haworthias, and a long list of others fresh 
from the studio of the Great Artist. Then 
their kindred the Cactus family, from pigmy 
to giant statues are ornamented with hooks 
and spears and spikes, pins, feathers, or 
hairs, aS may be, and decorated with flow- 
ers sO magnificent in color and size that 
one is lost in wonder. Nearly all the succu- 
lent plants are fine for house and conserva-' 
tory, and are very effective with cacti, their 
distinct and original forms and showy flow- 
ers, Making a fine display in the garden and 
adding much to the character of the col-— 
lections. 
“If you care to uSe My name as 
reference, you can do so with pleas- 
ure as I have received better, larger 
and healthier plants from you than 
I have from any other dealer, and 
I have bought from all the large 
dealers and fanciers of America.”’ 
“Yours respectfully, 
“RF A. O’DONAHUE, 
“Atlanta, Ga. 
CHOICE ALOES Arborescens. Low growing 
slender tree form. Leaves dark. green, 
glaucescent, gradually tapering | 
coarse teeth. Flowers, red. 15c and 25c. 
Climbing Aloe Citiris. A handsome vari- 
ety that grows rapidly. It can be trained to 
trellis, house, wall,“or fence, or grown in 
pots. It has many branches, and bears its 
beautiful waxen tubular flowers on long 
slender stems. Always in bloom. 15c and 25c. 
Striata. A most striking variety with trans- 
parent leaves of light green, beautifully 
striped with yellowish white; some times 
the leaves are half white and half green, It 
makes beautiful specimens. 25c, 35c and 50c. 
Hanburyana. Beautiful on account of the 
handsome shape and coloring of the leaves 
and the very large spreading panicles of ex- 
quisitely colored waxen flowers. The 
leaves are broad, flat, blunt pointed, 4 to 5 
inches across, light, bluish-green, translu- 
cent prettily marked, and have a _ pearly 
white line around the edge. The flower stem 
is very branching, 12 to 15 inches across 
TRY OUR FINE STRAINS OF “PETUNIA” 
ECHEVERIAS. 
the most beautiful of this class. 
with and pink—either directly marked 
when in bloom. Flowers, fine waxen, coral 
red, and remain in bloom several weeks. 
An especially beautiful ornament and fine 
for vases. Rare; small plants 25c and 50c. 
Mitraeformis. A handsome variety with 
thick, short, fleshy leaves, decorated with 
short yellow thorns. It grows 2 or 3 feet 
high, requiring support and bears fine red 
flowers. 25c. 
CARAGUACA or Heart of Fire, Of. the 
Pine Apple family, on account of its ag- 
gressive qualities, would be of little in- 
terest in the garden, were it not for the 
marvelous transformation that it assumes 
during the blooming period. The leaves 
on old plants are 2 feet long, rigid, arch- 
ing, deeply channeled, edged. with shin- 
ing hooks; the color light yellowish green 
above, gray underneath. As the time for 
flowering approaches, the plain looking 
plant is suddenly metamorphosed; the 
leaves assume a reddish tinge, and the 
entire center, a most intense and brilliant 
strawberry-red; in the center rises a 
creamy-pinkish stem and _ alternate red 
leaves, tipped with a bunch of brush-like 
flowers, cream and purplish-mauve. For 
a month or more the brilliant fire flames 
through the plant, then the illumination 
fades away, and the grand display is over. 
25¢c and 50c each. 
CRASSULA LACTEA. Fleshy leaves edged 
with white dots—large bunches of white 
star-like flowers. 15c. 3 
A most interesting elweé 
of plants, always rosette like in form and 
variously colored and marked. 
California. Gray pointed leaves the points 
tipped with dark maroon, forming a 
rosette. 10c. 
Echeverria, One of 
It is 
very brittle and requires much care in 
handling. It is exquisite in its lovely 
opaline coloring of milky white, opal blue 
in the 
three colors, or beautifully striated. Al- 
ways rare. 25c, 50c and $1 each. 
Metallica. A grand variety, with large 
foliage of a beautiful, pearly lavender 
pink color, a changeable metallic shade, 
that is a fine contrast to the tall spikes 
of the waxen, red flowers, with pinkish 
stems. Small plants 25¢c each, larger plants 
50¢ each. 
Orbiculata. Very striking on account of its 
flat, fleshy, bluish gray leaves, with red mar- 
gin. Flowers very beautiful, bell-shaped of 
a salmon color with recurved petals. 15¢ 
and 25c. 
Pulverulenta, .Narrow, voinced: fivene 
leaves covered with a white powder, Nice 
plants. Flowers flesh color. 25c. 
Hoveyii or the Opal 
Secunda. “Low growing, light green ; 
rosettes and pretty red flowers; ‘fine for. 
borders. 10c each; 75c doz. 
SEEDS.—THEY ARE THE BEST GROWN 
