Peanut Cactus Fish Hook Mamillaria Huernia Xmas Cheer 
Silver Dumpling Cactus 
The six plants pictured above will thrive as pot plants in the window garden or, during the summer, planted out in the Rock <tj m 
Garden. Cacti and Succulents will thrive in gas heated rooms for they are not affected by dry heat as are less hardy plants. ^ I 
These are excellent gifts for shut-ins..... ^ 
SOME CACTI and SUCCULENTS 
FOR DISH GARDENS and WINDOW BOXES 
H AVE you ever grown a dish garden? We have 
had one in the living room for two years now 
that has had practically no care. This would 
be hard to duplicate with plants other than Cacti or 
Succulents. Planted in a shallow ornamental bowl 
and "landscaped" with rough pebbles these pretty 
plants will thrive for years. If you forget them for 
months they will still be fresh and green. They make 
fine gifts for friends and if you want to cheer an in¬ 
valid they will enjoy these permanent tiny gardens. 
if AIR PLANTS. (Ealanchoe). Pretty African succu¬ 
lents forming tiny plants on the older leaves. Grow 
anywhere. E. tubiilora. (See illustration below). 
Curious mottled reptile-like plants with gorgeous 
masses of red flowers at Xmas. 25c. K. Fedschenkoi. 
Produces many young plants when leaves are pinned 
to wall. 25c. Five varieties for SI. 
if TIGER'S JAWS. See illustration on front cover. 25c. 
Silver Hechtia. Grows like a miniature pineapple 
plant. Silvery green and red leaves. 25c. 
Orange Bells. You will like this. White powdered 
leaves and sprays of orange colored bells. 25c. 
if PRETTY PEBBLES. Clusters of fat variegated leaves 
that look like colored pebbles. If the leaves are 
broken off they will sprout into new plants. 25c. 
Red Sedum. About the easiest plant there is to 
grow. Red leaves shaped like footballs. Trusses of 
yellow flowers. 15c. 
Candle Plant. Quite unusual. Leafless candle-like 
stems. You will like it. 20c. 
Purple Tree Sempervivum. A beauty with clusters 
of purple leaves. 25c. Also a green leaved variety. 
The 2 for 35c. 
Cereus peruvianus. See page 23 for illustration. 25c. 
Polka Dot Aloe. Each saw-toothed leaf is heavily 
spotted with white on a bronze field. 25c. 
White Torch Cactus. See pg 27 for illustration. 25c. 
★ ECHEVERIA MULTICAULIS. One of the best dish 
garden plants. Deep red leaves. 25c. E. expatriata. 
Pretty flowers and leaves. 25c. E. simulans. A 
closely set rosette of green leaves. 25c. 
Silver Torch Cactus. Turn to page 27. 
Love Plant. Small rosettes of fleshy leaves bearing 
satiny pink flowers like roses. 25c. 
Hedge Hog Aloe. Fine spikes of scarlet flowers 
from an attractive rosette of silvery green leaves. 25c. 
Window Plants. The sunlight of African deserts is 
so intense that many plants hide their chlorophyll in¬ 
side the leaves admitting light only through a trans¬ 
parent window. Elienia repens. A creeper with pickle 
shaped leaves and long slit like windows. 20c. 
E. acaulis. Long narrow windows. 25c. 
Haworthia cymbiformis. Another window plant 
with an almost transparent cluster of leaves. Curi¬ 
ous. 25c. 
GHOST PLANT 
Have you ever seen a plant grow from 
just a leaf? Every leaf when pulled off 
and laid on the ground will form a 
small plant. Handsome and easily grown 
and fine for dish gardens. 25c. 
GRIZZLY BEAR 
This white haired Tuna Cactus fre¬ 
quents the desolate parts of our deserts. 
They like to grow in communities, white 
patches like grazing sheep scattered on 
rock strewn slopes. Our plants are col¬ 
lected where the temperature falls to 
10° below zero. 35c. 
Hedge Hog Cactus. An easily grown small cactus 
bearing big pink flowers. Splendid. Turn to page 29 
for colored picture. 25c. 
Tongue Leaf. Curious and pretty plants with tongue 
like green leaves and large yellow blossoms. Easy 
to grow. 25c. 
if POWDER BLUE CEREUS. This easily grown cactus 
has silvery stems flushed with purple. 25c. 
Red Tips. Each fat green leaf is clearly tipped 
with red! Grows anywhere; an excellent plant. 15c. 
Elephant Bush. The round leaves are carried on 
thick red stems. In Africa it is a favorite food of 
wild elephants. 25c. 
Star Fish Flowers. These are more fully described 
on page 31. 
Japanese Pine. An odd plant with leaves set in 4 
distinct rows like a cross. 25c. 
if NECELACE VINE. For full description see rear 
cover. 25c. 
Trailing Figmarigold. Bears so many pink flowers 
that they touch to form a carpet. Nice to hang over 
the edge of a pot. 25c. 
Sprouting Leaf. Pin the leaves to the wall where 
they will sprout tiny plants. A peculiar African 
plant. 25c. 
if HARTS TONGUE. See illustration below. One of 
the prettiest succulents and very easy to grow. 
Splendid. 25c. 
EASY COLLECTIONS 
TO START WITH 
COLLECTION NO. 53 
Six easy to grow succulents. Plant 
them together in a dish using sand or 
a sandy soil watering only when dry 
They will thrive where other plants die 
Candle Plant, Red Tips, Echeveria mul- 
ticaulis. Elephant Bush, Window Plant. 
$ 1 . 
DISH GARDEN COLLECTION 
Collection No. 54 
(A.) Something unique and different. Peanut 
Cactus, Red flowers. Red Sedum, Red leaves. 
Airplant, Blooms at Xmas. Echeveria expatriata. 
Red flowers. Cereus peruvianus. Night nn 
blooming. Necklace Vine, Curious Ij> | UU 
leaves. “ 
(B.) Fifteen easily grown succulents, my selec¬ 
tion, just the thing for the window box or for 
planting out in the rock garden during nAnn 
the summer time. A collection of cacti ^ LIU 
has perennial interest. 
T 
O 
Y 
CACTUS 
Collection 
No. 
52 
STAR CACTUS 
STONE FACE 
HARTS TONGUE 
AIR PLANT MAMILLARIA 
The three center plants come from Africa. The Stone Face is found in the barren parts of the Karoo where it mim¬ 
ics the pebbles among which it is found so closely as to be invisible. The Airplant produces babies on the tips 
of every leaf. An interesting and curious collection. 
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NO PLANTS ARE MORE EASY TO GROW THAN THE DESERT PLANTS. THEY WILL THRIVE IN APARTMENTS ANYWHERE. 
