EVANS GARDENS 
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA 
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HELIANTHEMUM Formosum. (Sun Rose) 
(Spain and Portugal). Makes a small bush about 
two feet in height and three feet through. Small 
silvery-gray foliage, yellow flowers, purple at the 
base, about two inches across. Very pretty shrub. 
Likes full sun. Highly recommended. Gallon 
containers, $.60. 
HELIANTHEMUM Ocymoides. (Sun Rose) 
(Spain and Portugal). Somewhat similar to the 
preceding with the exception that it grows tall¬ 
er, branches are twiggy, abundant cymes of yel¬ 
low flowers with a dark eye about an inch and 
a half across. Very pretty and free flowering, 
being in bloom nearly all the time. Full sun. 
Highly recommended. Gallon containers, $.60. 
HETEROCENTRON Mexicanum 
(Mexico). Can be grown either as a shrub or 
herbaceous plant, four angled branches, terminal 
panicles of pure white flowers. Either sun or 
half-shade. Gallon containers, $.50. 
HETEROCENTRON Mexicanum 
Var. Roseum 
(Mexico). Similar to the preceding with the ex¬ 
ception that the flowers are deep rosy pink of 
a beautiful soft shade. This is a very beautiful 
and desirable thing. Gallon containers, $.75. 
LINUM Flavum 
(South Europe). Herbaceous, makes a good- 
sized spreading mass about six inches high, very 
pretty and free blooming, sheet of yellow flowers 
in summer. Full sun. $.35. 
MAHERNIA Verticillata 
(South Africa). Trailing evergreen shrub, in 
summer is literally covered with small bell-shaped 
clear yellow flowers, delightfully fragrant. Very 
beautiful for ground covering or rockery. $.50. 
MORAEA Bicolor 
(South Africa). Iridaceous evergreen foliage. 
Same habit as the ordinary Moraea with the ex¬ 
ception that the flowers are cream yellow with 
dark center. Free blooming and attractive. $.75. 
MORAEA Iridioides 
(South Africa). Iridaceous evergreen plant, 
sword-shaped slender foliage to about three feet, 
the flowering spikes are about four to five feet 
high, large iris-like flowers with pure white pet¬ 
als, beautifully marked with violet and yellow. 
Extremely free blooming. Very easy to grow. 
Happy in almost any situation either with or 
without water. A particularly free flowering and 
desirable garden plant. Large clumps of this in 
our garden have had hundreds of blooms on them 
at one time. Strongly recommended. $.50. 
MALVASTRUM Species 
(Mexico). Gray foliage, grows to about five feet 
tall, salmon-pink flowers with yellow stamens. 
Very pretty herbaceous plant. Good for cut 
flowers. Splendid thing for naturalizing in dry 
places. $.50. 
PELARGONIUM Coccineum 
(South Africa species). Very dark green leaves, 
spikes of small vivid scarlet flowers in good-sized 
clusters, makes large spreading clumps. A very 
choice and beautiful plant for a garden Rare 
$.35. 
PELARGONIUM Crispum 
(South Africa). Small neat compact bush, small 
dark green very fragrant foliage, heads of single 
purple flowers. Sun or half-shade. $.35. 
PELARGONIUM Echinatum 
(South Africa). The parent of most of our white 
show Pelargoniums. Semi-tuberous root, stems 
somewhat thorny, profuse bloomer with white 
flowers like a geranium in good-sized heads 
changing to pink. Makes a bush about one foot 
high and two feet across. Likes full sun and will 
stand any amount of neglect and drought. Rare. 
$.35. 
PELARGONIUM Zonale 
(South Africa) The original wild scarlet geran¬ 
ium. Offered because it is the parent of most 
of our scarlet geraniums. Single scarlet flowers. 
$.25. 
PENTAS Carnea. (Star Clusters) 
(South Africa). Small shrub growing to about 
two feet high and three feet across, large heads 
of beautiful lavender pink flowers somewhat re¬ 
sembling a Bouvardia. In our opinion more sat¬ 
isfactory as it is more floriferous, blooming with 
us during the entire spring and summer up to 
winter. A very choice and desirable small shrub. 
Will not stand too much cold. Highly recom¬ 
mended. Excellent pot plant. 5 inch pots, $.75. 
REINWARDTIA Tetragynum 
(India). Low growing shrubby plant with beauti¬ 
ful clear yellow tubular-shaped blooms, much 
lighter in color than Reinwardtia trigyna, which 
it resembles in many particulars. Very scarce 
$.50. 
REINWARDTIA Trigynum 
(India). A dwarf evergreen shrub, large trumpet¬ 
shaped deep yellow flowers along the branches. 
Does well in either sun or shade. Very fine win¬ 
ter bloomer. Lights up a dark place well. An 
old thing in our gardens, but not seen nearly 
enough. Recommended. $.50. 
RUELLIA Macrantha 
(Brazil). Can be grown either as a shrub or 
herbaceous perennial. Spikes of deep pink trum¬ 
pet-shaped flowers with a touch of magenta, in 
good-sized panicles at the end of the young 
growth. The plant grows to about six feet in 
height. A good winter bloomer. Uncommon. 
$.75. 
