HOW TO GET TO HOWARD E. GATES’ 
FAMOUS CACTUS GARDENS 
From Los Angeles or San Diego take U.S.-CALIF. Highway No. 101 to 
Anaheim. West on Center to Illinois Street, left 200 feet. From Inglewood 
and Santa Monica Bay District follow Mancliester-Firestone Blvd. to crossing 
of Lincoln Ave., turn left one-half mile to Illinois St., right 200 feet. From 
Long Beach, north on any through street to Carson Blvd. (called Lincoln in 
Orange County) east to the junction with Center Street, right 200 feet. From 
Pomona, Ontaria, Covina, etc., Brea Canyon road through Brea and Fullerton 
to Anaheim, west on Center St. to Illinois St. From San Bernardino, Red= 
lands, Riverside via Santa Ana Canyon Highway to Olive, right to Anaheim, 
west on Center St. to Illinois St. 
CACTUS & SUCCULENT JOURNAL OF AMERICA 
The best English language periodical on this class of plants is the Journal 
of the Cactus & Succulent Society of America. It is a monthly magazine con¬ 
taining a varied list of interesting articles, beautifully illustrated. The sub¬ 
scription price includes membership in the Cactus & Succulent Society of 
America which has numerous local affiliated Societies operating both a Service 
Bureau to assist affiliates and a Plant Identification Service for the benefit of 
its members. We will be glad to handle your subscription without profit to 
ourselves. Either United States or Foreign $3.00 per year. 
DESERT PLANT LIFE MAGAZINE 
This is a snappy, informal monthly magazine, well illustrated, telling of 
the desert and its plant life. It fills a niche that no other pubication fills. It 
will interest you. It is published by The Desert Publishing Co. at $1.50 per 
year and we would be delighted to handle your subscription order. 
THE OPUNTIA BOOK 
Volume One of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America’s reprint of 
“Cactaceae” by the late Messrs. Britton & Rose is now bound and ready for 
distribution. This exhaustive and authoritative work covers the Pereskias, 
Pereskiopsis and Opuntias. It gives the names, synonyms, description and 
many notes on the various species as well as a multitude of handsome illustra¬ 
tions. There are only a hundred copies to be sold. They will soon be gone. 
Order now from us. The price is $10.00 post paid. 
WINDOW GARDEN PICTURES 
We wish some good pictures of indoor cactus window gardens, suitable for 
publication. We will offer plant orders for the best pictures received by Octo¬ 
ber 1, 193G, as follows: First award, $25; Second, $15; Third, $7.50. 
CACTUS PLANT PICTURES 
Help us provide good pictures for our next catalogue. Send us prints of 
your cactus pictures. Next October we will send plant orders as follows: First 
award, $10.00; Second, $7.50; Third, $5.00. For any others we may wish 
to keep, $2.50. 
In return for awards under either of the above offers we expect the sole 
right to copyright and publish such pictures as Ave may select. 
HARDY CACTUS PLANTS 
These plants grow naturally where the winters are very cold. We cannot 
promise success with them in any given locality owing to various soil and 
moisture conditions. They are worth trying where hardy plants are desired. 
Ecliinocereus coccineus, engelmannii, mojavensis, perbellus, rosei, viridiflorus; 
Ferocactus acanthodes; Coryphantha neo-mexicanna, vivapara; Neobesseya 
similis; Opuntia aurea, basilaris, opuntia, santa rita, spinosior, ursina, whitney - 
ana. 
DO YOU KNOW 
That Howard E. Gates’ Famous Cactus Gardens is the only firm in the 
United States that devotes over 95% of its time to the culture and propagation 
of cactus? Our cactus business is not a side line. You will be pleased if you 
buy from Gates. 
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