SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1891. 
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Established (%cti. 
We say ESTABLISHED, as the Plants we offer are all pot grown, with plenty of roots, acclimated, strong and 
vigorous, and every one will llvo and flourish. 
J TfTIIE CACTI is a most curious, beautiful, and rare class of plants, and arc admired wherever flowers are loved and 
I v» grown. When once established no plant Is easier to manage or more satisfactory in results. The one great cause 
which has kept it out of general cultivation, is the fact that it has not been cultivated and offered for sale in good 
I growing condition. With very few exceptions, wherever plants have been offered they have been collected stock, 
gathered at their native haunts in Mexico, thrown Into barrels like potatoes, sent north for sale, and reach the ama¬ 
teur, after being knocked about, in this manner for several months. The result is that nine out of every ten dies, and the 
purchaser feels discouraged and gives up trying to grow them. We have gone into the Cacti business on an entirely new 
principle, and one that is sure to succeed and give satisfaction to our customers, viz.: We grow and propagate many sorts 
either from cuttings or seed. The Mexican sorts we collect in large lots, and have them sent here to our greenhouses, where 
we "row them in pots for a year or more before offering them for sale. They become acclimated, well rooted, strong and 
vigorous and every one we send out is sure to jflvc salt Isfaetion. Our prices may in some eases lx; higher than those who sell 
collected trash or cuttings but if you try a few they will please you so much that you will add to your collect ion every year. 
Our collection embraces only the rarest and most desirable kinds, and of many of these wo have the finest stock in the 
country. Cacti are fast becoming ono of the most popular of all pot plants, and well do they deserve it, for they are both 
curious and beautiful, and very easily grown. In pots give them clear sand and rich soil mixed halt and half, and water 
sparingly. They will live months without a drop of water. Tor bedding out in summer plant them in a sandy soil and art 
exposed 'sunny situation, a few Cacti proven most interesting feature to any collection of plants. We have studied them 
carefully aud'these hero offered are the vmiY iikht. 
Night Blooming Cereus, here we 
offer the three distinct sorts of 
the grand Night Hloom.ng Cere¬ 
us. They a re free and rapid 
growers, and great bloomers, 
their flowers being from 13 to 
18 inches across and of indes¬ 
cribable beauty. No collection 
of plants is complete without 
one or more of these glorious 
bloomers. 
Orandlflora, the true Night 
Blooming Cereus from the Mi¬ 
ter Mountains of Mexico. Hus 
deliciously fragrant white Hew¬ 
ers, a foot across, and of a fas¬ 
cinating beauty impossible) to 
describe. It is a rapid grower, 
and free bloomer. If wo were 
asked to name the handsomest 
flower that blooms wo should 
say the True Night Blooming 
Cereus. Its delicate beauty is 
unsurpassed. Fine plants, SOc. 
each. 
Nycticalls, like the abovo except 
the flowers are larger in size, 
and of a delicate straw yellow 
color. Superb. 60c. cuch. 
Rostratus, of this rare sort, the 
enormous flowers are a beauti¬ 
ful wine red color outside, light¬ 
er within. It is grand to con¬ 
trast with the above white and 
yellow sorts. 50c. each. 
SPECIAL OFFER.— On* each of 
these, three 'jrcat Night Blooming 
Cereus for only SI.00. 
Cereus Tuberose, one to four 
feet high, covered with a deli¬ 
cate lacework of Interlacing 
white spines flowers pale rose, 
very large aud beautiful. Tills 
sort lias a tuberous root like a 
small dahlia, and is tine of the 
most interesting to grow. 38c. 
each. 
Cereus Speclosslma, the enor¬ 
mous flowers are rich crimson 
with a delicate purple shading 
toward t he center. The flowers 
keep perfect several days and It 
is not uncommon for a good 
sized plant, to have more than 
100 of these gisrant ie flowers open 
at once. 50c. each. 
Cereus Colubrinus, a grand 
sort, growing in a straight col¬ 
umn to several feet in lieight, 
and covered with beautiful 
whitish spines. It. beam most 
NIOMT OLOOMINO CESrU®. 
wilinsu spines, 11 . uears most . --— -v .. . . _ . ,, ...... 
lovely white flowers of enormous slzo and great beauty, followed by the large fruit, almost the color and size or 
orange. 30c. each. 
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