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ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE PLANTS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 
Palms, 45c Each 
Kentia Balmoreana 
'best Palm for house culture as well as the most 
graceful and handsome. There are few plants that 
give more satisfaction all the year round. 
Kentia Forsteriana 
This is one of the fin¬ 
est pot plants imagin¬ 
able, and the easiest to grow of any of the palm 
family. Being almost hardy, it is not injured by 
slight changes in the temperature, and its stiff, 
glossy leaves enable it to stand the dry, hot air 
of the living room without injury. The leaves are 
a deep, glossy green, fan-shaped, split deeply into 
segments. Very graceful for table decorations. 
New Baby Rambler, 25c Each 
Dwarf Baby Crimson Rambler, greatest bedding 
.and pot rose. 
The Four Climbing Ramblers, 25c Each 
Yellow Rambler. Pink Rambler. 
White Rambler. Crimson Rambler. 
A Blue Rose 
The Blue Rose. 
(Schmidt, 1 9 0 0 ) 
(H. M.) This is a much better Rose 
than some give it credit for. It opens 
a reddish-violet, quickly changing to the 
violet-blue. 25c. 
Veilchenblau, 
A 11. a A popular house 
*^**’plant blooming in 
sprays of 10 to 20 flowers shaped much 
like Sweet Peas. A grand everblooming 
plant, its pure white flowers are now 
used extensively in cut-flower work. 25c. 
Saxifraga 
Sarmentosa 
A handsome 
plant of low 
habit, leaves 
nearly round 
and striped 
freely with 
silver bands, 
blooms white, 
of great 
beauty and 
borne in 
spikes nearly 
12 inches 
high. Fine 
for hanging 
baskets, 
vases, etc. 
25c each. 
Saxifraga Sarmentosa 
Umbrella Plant Aitenifoiius). 
As handsome and grace¬ 
ful as a palm, yet of easier culture. It will 
grow and flourish in rooms that have only par¬ 
tial light, 20c. 
WANDERING JEW 
Tradescantia Zebrina leaves highly 
colored, are of 
a green, variegated with red and purple. Price, 
20c each. 
Double Roses, 25c Each 
(Hill, 1918), It is a big Rose, the 
open flower measuring six inches 
across. The color is a true pink, about the shade 
of a_ perfect Shawyer, deepening as it opens to 
glowing pink. A peculiarity of the variety is that 
the shades all become more intense until the full 
maturity of the open flower is reached and this 
color is enduring. A great Rose, 25c. 
PlTGmi©!* (H. T.) (Hill, 1919) Already too 
well known to need description. A 
magnificent novelty in the class with Russell. Deep 
rose; fragrant; thornless-free. 25c. 
Ophelia. 1912) Salmon-flesh shad- 
^ ed with rose large and of perfect 
shape; of excellent habit, the flowers standing up 
Well on long, stiff stems and produced in great 
profusion. Excellent for forcing and a fine dec¬ 
orative variety. Growth vigorous. Certainly a 
glorious Rose. Be sure to have “Ophelia” fixed in' 
your memory. 25c. 
Sunburst^ (Pemet Ducher, 1912) This mag¬ 
nificent giant yellow Rose is a fine 
forcer; it_ stands head and shoulders above all 
other of its color, and will rank with American 
Beauty and_ the Kilameys in value and grandeur. 
The color is orange-copper or golden-orange and 
golden-yellow; edge of petals lighter; all intense 
shades, extremely brilliant in effect. Some call the 
color cadmium-yellow. It is the yellowest of all 
Boses. 25c. 
Ruellia Mokoyana —Each, 25 Cents 
This is a charming indoor plant for culture in pots or may be used in vases and 
baskets; of bushy spreading habit and finely marked leaves. A neat and handsome plant, 
always bright and pretty. The flowers are exceedingly beautiful, trumpet-shaped and of 
a rosy-lavender color, almost covering the plant in their great profusion. It blooms 
profusely all winter, coming into flower in November. 
Crown of 
Thorns 
Very curious 
and remarkable 
window plant. 
Strong - growing 
plant that can be 
trained over any 
desired form. 
Bright scarlet 
flowers. An ob¬ 
ject of rare and 
striking beauty. 
Easily grown. It 
grows wild in Ju¬ 
dea, and it is said 
that it was from 
this plant that 
the crown of 
thorns was made 
which was worn 
by our Saviour. 
Each, 30c. 
CROWN OF THORNS. 
