RICHARD DIENER, OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. 
PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
By Robert A. Cridland 
Tells how to beautify and landscape your own plot 
of a medium-sized place. 280 pages with 260 illus¬ 
trations, planting plants and sketches. Cloth, $2.50; 
postpaid, $2.65. 
BOOK OF SHRUBS 
By Alfred C. Hottes 
A complete, nontechnical description of the common 
species with its characters, uses, soil, pruning and 
propagation. Lists of different shrubs for different 
purposes. 446 pages, 187 illustrations. Cloth, $3.00; 
postpaid, $3.15. 
PRACTICAL VEGETABLE CULTURE 
By A. E. Wilkinson 
The growing of vegetables for home consumption 
and on the farm for profit. 308 pages with 177 illus¬ 
trations. Cloth, $2.00; postpaid, $2.15. 
FLOWERS OF THE WILD 
By Frank C. Pellett 
Covers most of the common wild flowers suited for 
cultivation in the Northeastern States and the best 
of them from the West. 168 pages, 104 illustrations, 
and 4 color plates. Cloth, $2.15, postpaid. 
GARDEN GUIDE 
Each subject by different experts. Information on 
every phase of gardening pertaining to small or 
average sized homes. 388 pages, 275 teaching illus¬ 
trations. Cloth, $1.50; postpaid, $1.65. 
THE BOOK OF BULBS 
By F. F. Rockwell 
With this complete and practical book you can get 
the utmost in beauty from every kind of bulbous 
plant. Clearly written by one who knows ; illustrated 
with 187 beautiful photographs and instructive draw¬ 
ings. Includes tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, lilies, 
crocuses, glads, dahlias, peonies, irises, begonias, and 
scores of other beautiful but not-so-well-known 
bulbs. We recommend it as the best and most com¬ 
plete bulb book. 187 illustrations; 264 pages. $2.00. 
AMERICAN ALPINES IN THE GARDEN 
By Anderson McCully 
Hundreds of fine plants from our Pacific Northwest 
are fast coming into favor with garden makers 
everywhere. This new book describes and tells how 
co grow over 500 different kinds and gives full infor¬ 
mation on making a rock garden and moraine, pool, 
growing from seed, purchasing, and transplanting. 
19 illustrations, 262 pages. $2.50. 
FROM A SUNSET GARDEN 
Essays for Any Adventurous 
Gardener 
By Sidney B. Mitchell 
If you are an adventurous gar¬ 
dener who likes to try new 
plants, or to experiment with 
seeds and bulbs and to grow the 
odd and unusual, you will value and enjoy this new 
book. Mr. Mitchell knows plants, and his book will 
help you to enjoy them—particularly the native 
western sorts which are becoming so popular in all 
parts of America. Delightfully written, informative, 
and completely practical and useful. Order this new 
book for garden success and real enjoyment. 337 
pages, illustrated. Postpaid, $3.15. 
Horsham, Pa., Jan. 5, 1933. 
Richard Diener, Oxnard, Calif. 
Dear Sir: I had some very fine Petunias from your 
seeds last year and they sold on sight. My customers can¬ 
not help from buying them. Youis sincerely, 
T. A. DUBREE. 
VAPORITE 
This is a soil insecticide which destroys all insect 
pests living in the soil, such as wireworms, nemi- 
todes, cutworms, etc. Petunias are badly affected 
by nemitodes in many localities, which often kill 
many of the young plants. Vaporite mixed in the 
soil, one pound to a cubic yard, will completely 
destroy them. After mixing, cover the soil with 
empty sacks and allow it to stand for about three 
days so the gas which forms will have plenty of 
time to take effect. After three days it will do no 
harm to the plants. 
Vaporite Your Ground —Insure your flowers and 
crops against Pest Attack. ($1,000,000 annual loss 
in California from wireworms.) Vaporite is easy 
and harmless to handle and will rid your garden or 
grounds of all forms of soil pests. Vaporite is scat¬ 
tered over the soil and forked or raked in. Vaporite 
creates a gas which remains active in the soil for a 
month. Vaporite can be safely used with growing 
plants. Vaporite is recommended by leading Ameri¬ 
can and English Seedsmen. Vaporite has been suc¬ 
cessfully used in Europe for 30 years and has the 
largest sale of any insecticide there. 
4 lbs. in air-tight screw-top can, $1.50 
(Postage paid in U. S.) 
25 lbs. $5.50 50 lbs. $10.00 I 10-lb. keg $20.90 
(f. o. b. Oxnard) 
Use one pound to fifty square feet and 330 pounds 
to an acre outdoors. 
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