THE BLUE BOOK FOR FLORISTS 
13 
Plants and Bulbs for Greenhouse and Nursery Planting 
(Continued) 
Crepe Myrtle 
A real southern plant, not hardy north of Bal¬ 
timore, but should be in every yard in the South. 
Our friends go wild over this magnificent plant 
with its profusion of bloom and lustrous green 
foliage, turning red in the fall. It will attract at¬ 
tention in any landscape. Dwarf blue, Purple, 
Imperial pink, Lilac, Rubra, Magenta, Light pink. 
Doz. ioo 
2% inch pots .$i.oo $7.00 
Cyperus Alternifolius 
Umbrella Plant 
Doz. 
2 x A inch pots .$0.70 
Cuphea Platycentra 
Or Cigar Plant 
Fine for baskets and vases. Doz. 
2*4 inch pots .$°-55 
Gnaphalium Lanatum 
(Trailing Dusty Miller) 
Snow-white foliage, splendid trailing plant for 
baskets and boxes. Doz. 100 1000 
214 inch pots .$0.70 $5.00 $45.00 
Euphorbia Splendens 
CROWN OF THORNS—A curious plant with 
thick, fleshy stems which are covered with 
stout, sharp thorns, many an inch long. The 
foliage is bright green and the flowers are a 
beautiful coral-pink. Very pretty when in 
bloom and a great curiosity at any 
time. 
Doz. 
100 
214 inch pots . 
.$1.50 
$10.00 
Dracaena Indivisa 
The popular ornamental plant. 
Doz. 
100 
1000 
2*4 inch pots .$0.70 
$5.00 
$45.00 
4 inch pots . 3.25 
25.00 
Echeveria Secunda Glauca 
An old time favorite that is rapidly becoming 
popular again. Very useful both as a pot plant 
and for bedding. 
Doz. 100 
2 1 4 inch pots .$1.20 $8.00 
Euonymus Radicans Colorata 
Decidedly creeping ever-green plant introduced 
by Dept, of Agriculture from China lately. Very 
green leaves all summer, turning copper red in 
autumn. Creeps and roots as it goes. Finest 
ground cover for banks, under trees, on big rock¬ 
eries. Something new and good. 
Doz. 100 1000 
2 1 /4 inch pots, ....$1.50 $10.00 $90.00 
Epiphyllum (Christmas Cactus) 
TRUNCATUM — The increasingly popular 
Christmas plant flowering in December and 
January. 
Doz. 100 
214 inch pots .$1.20 $8.00 
Erlangea Tomentosa 
A wonderfully free-blooming plant; fine for 
funeral work when blue is scarce; blooms all win¬ 
ter; Heliotrope-like flowers, easy to grow; for the 
grower who has limited room, a small space on 
bench will produce flowers all winter long; excel¬ 
lent for use with pink Roses. 214 inch. Price 75 
cents per dozen; $5.00 per hundred. 
100 
$5.00 
100 
$4.00 
Grevillea Robusta (Silk Oak) 
Another grand plant for center piece for your 
vase. Sunshine enriches its color—foliage as pretty 
as an ostrich plume fern. 
Doz. 100 1000 
214 in. pots .$0.75 $5.00 $45.00 
Good and Reese, Dwarf Flowering 
Florists’ Fuchsias 
We are large growers of Fuchsias and we call 
special attention to the varieties listed below— 
they.are dwarf branching and free flowering. Good 
214 inch Fuchsias now will make splendid 6 and 
7 inch specimen plants for Easter. 
BLACK PRINCE—The finest single variety. It 
makes a shapely bush, is robust in growth, free 
from disease and insects, and is probably the 
freest in blooming. Blossoms of a beautiful 
waxy-carmine or pink color. 
IRWIN’S GIANT PINK—The best Fuchsia yet 
introduced. Enormous flowers of beautiful sal¬ 
mon-pink. 
LITTLE BEAUTY—Red sepals, double purple 
corolla. Dwarf. Very free flowering. 
LORD BYRON—Red sepals, corolla of the rich¬ 
est royal purple. 
MADAMS VAN DER STRASS—This is the 
best of the double white-corolla Fuchsia. 
SPECIOSA—Well known variety, producing 
large flowers two inches in length, tubes and 
sepals of which are blush, the corolla crimson. 
Some plants of this variety grown in eight or 
nine-inch pots will produce from 300 to 500 
flowers from December to May. 
Doz. 100 1000 
2 1 A inch pots .$0.75 $5.00 $45.00 
Heliotrope 
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE—A splendid lav¬ 
ender shade. “The variety grown in our grand¬ 
mothers’ gardens.” 
Doz. 100 1000 
2^4, inch pots .$0.75 $5.00 $45.00 
CENTEFLEUR—Dwarf growing with fine, neat 
foliage, florets wide and flat, deep true helio¬ 
trope, with conspicuous white eye. Sprays are 
of the largest size. 
Doz. 100 
2% inch pots .$0.85 $6.00 
ROYAL FRAGRANS—Extremely dark violet 
purple in extra large florets compactly set in 
heavy cymes. 
Doz. 100 
2 1 A inch pots .$0.85 $6.00 
Hexia—Baby Tears or Irish Moss 
Compact, dense growing plant with miniature 
leaves; forms a rounded mass of moss-like foliage. 
A wonderful pot plant. $1.20 per 12, $8.00 per 100. 
1000 
$65.00 
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the richest 
Chinese Hibiscus 
Doz. 100 
2 x A inch ..$1.00 $7.00 
4 inch . 3.00 20.00 
DOUBLE CRIMSON—Flower of 
crimson; combined with glossy foliage. 
GRANDIFLORUS—Rich, glossy, cut-leaved fo¬ 
liage, literally covering the plant with scarlet- 
crimson flowers. 
PEACHBLOW—A sport from the Double Red 
Hibiscus Rosea Sinensis. Flowers double and 
from four to five inches in diameter, of a charm - 
