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Germain Seed Company, 326-330 South Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. 
CACTACEAE, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 
The home of many, if not quite all varieties of Cacti, native to the United States, is in the arid and 
mountainous regions of southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas. Conditions of 
soil and climate being naturally favorable, the species from other countries Old Mexico and South and 
Central America, flourish and are of easy growth. Owing to these advantages, we are enabled to offer 
first-class plants. In order to stimulate a keener interest and a wider appreciation of these denizens of 
the desert, we have made a couple of collections from our stock. For lack of space here we cannot cata¬ 
logue the full list in stock, but make up a few collections for mailing and expressing to those loving this 
family of the desert. 
The Sunset Collection 
Of our own selection and sent by mail or express to 
any part of the United States and Canada upon receipt of 
price. 
No. 1. 6 plants, our selection..$1.00 
No. 2. 12 plants, our selection. 1.75 
No. 3. 18 plants, our selection. 2.50 
No. 4. 24 plants, our selection. 3.50 
No. 5. 36 plants, our selection. 4.50 
The Old Mission Collection 
Composed of larger and higher-priced varieties. 
No. 1. 6 plants, our selection. $1.50 
No. 2. 12 plants, our selection ..... 2.50 
No. 3. 18 plants, our selection . 3.50 
No. 4. 24 plants, our selection .. 4.50 
No. 5. 36 plants, our selection. 6.50 
Mixed collections of Cacti and Succulents supplied at 
the same rates. 
The Cactus family contains some of the most singular and grotesque, as well as the most beautiful 
productions of the vegetable world. 
The flowers of many of the species are most gorgeous; of others the most delicate and beautiful 
known to botanists. Of distinctive and striking forms there is no end in this strange' family. 
Nearly all the species require but little care, and will endure any amount of ill-treatment, and will 
thrive and blossom where other plants starve. The plants themselves are a bright green during summer 
and winter, while their individuality is so marked and their manner of growth so curious and unique that 
no one who has ever cultivated them can fail to appreciate and admire them. 
As a house-plant they have no superiors, grouped with bright-colored stones in the form of a rockery 
or even massed artificially in a large flower-pot or fernery base they make a most handsome and unique 
parlor ornament. They may also be grown successfully out-of-doors, forming most beautiful and gro¬ 
tesque objects. 
LAWNS AND TERRACES 
LIPPIA repens. Excollent. Requires much less care than other lawn, materials. In flats, enough to 
cover about 250 square feet, $1 each, $8 for 10 flats. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM (Ice Plant). This is extensively used for creeping over stone walls and terraces. 
Its foliage is fine and apparently covered with frost or dew. It bears a small pink flower. In 
flats as above, $1.50 each; cuttings, $5 per 1,000. 
Cerise. Foliage is much coarser thau the above and the flower much larger and of a cerise color. In 
flats, $1.50 each, cuttings, $5 per 1,000. 
fj Our Q always have a list of names of reliable gardeners and 
— —— L- _: _■ ^ a ' J^ke ? our business to supply our patrons with eificient 
a gardener will dn wpII e p w hen needed. Parties, when in need of the services of 
gardener, will do well to take the matter up with us before engaging persons of doubtful ability. 
