The Most Thrilling of all Small Gardens 
Imagine Rocks Blooming 1 . Garden Excitement Galore 
Flowering and Curious Desert Plants 
MINIATURE FLOWER GARDEN 
COLLECTION No. 151 
Something unique and different. A lilli- 
put desert garden of flowering kinds all 
easy to grow. Hedge Hog Cactus, Star¬ 
fish Flower, Peanut Cactus, Airplant, 
Echeveria simulans, $100 
Xmas Cheer. 1 
7 FLOWERING CACTI 
COLLECTION No. 152 
All easily grown kinds with very pretty 
flowers. You can flower them all on the 
window sill! Xmas Cactus, Hybrid Hedge 
Hog Cactus, Snake Cactus, Thanksgiving 
Cactus, Phyllocactus Ackermanii, Mamil- 
laria elegans, Peanut $150 
Cactus. 1 
D O you enjoy growing Cactus in the 
house? Have you been deterred by the 
thought of their care? Cactus and suc¬ 
culents require practically no attention and if 
you forget to water them for weeks they will 
still be fresh and growing! We have had a 
bowl of them in the living room for two years 
that have had hardly any care. They may be 
planted in ornamental pottery dishes, in pots 
or in window boxes. Simple and full instruc¬ 
tions on their planting and care sent free with 
every order. 
if AIR PLANTS. (Kalanchoe). Pretty African 
succulents forming tiny plants on the older 
leaves. Grows anywhere. K. tubiflora. (See 
illustration page 25.) Curious mottled reptile- 
like plants with gorgeous masses of red flow¬ 
ers at Xmas. 25c. K. Fedschenkoi. Produces 
many young plants when leaves are pinned 
to wall. 25c. Five different kinds for $1.00. 
Silver Hechtia. Grows like a miniature pine¬ 
apple plant. Silvery green and red leaves. 25c. 
Orange Bells. You will like this. White pow¬ 
dered leaves and sprays of orange colored 
bells. 25c. 
BOXING GLOVE CACTUS 
(Opuntia mamillata cristata) 
Crested Cacti are what all fanciers seek most. This 
is a beautiful, completely crested variety that every 
collection should have! Forms a short trunk and then 
begins to crest. As it expands you will see how it 
secured its name. 50c. 
PRAISE FROM NEW ZEALAND 
April 20th, 1935. 
Dear Sir: 
Three days ago I received from you the two boxes 
of Cacti. First, many thanks for your prompt de¬ 
spatch and also for the way the plants were packed. 
I have handled plants from Germany. Belgium, Aus¬ 
tralia. and several American States, but I can safely 
state I have never received plants in such wonderful 
condition. The roots were fresh and pliable, the 
bodies perfectly green and I will have no trouble in 
starting them off. Please keep me in touch with any 
new lists you publish for I shall be sending for more, 
in fact I will send nowhere else as long as you have 
plants I want. Again thanking you. With kind re¬ 
gards. Yours faithfully, 
H. M. GARRICK. 
Christchurch, New Zealand. 
A COLLECTOR 80 YEARS YOUNG 
★ 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 31 for illus¬ 
tration. 25c. 
Polka Dot Aloe. Each saw-toothed leaf is 
heavily spotted with white on a bronze 
field. 25c. 
White Torch Cactus. See page 27 for illus¬ 
tration. 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. 
MAM I LLAR IA BOCASANA 
Snowy white wool covers this handsome Dumpling 
Cactus! Flowers freely and has Quantities of beautiful 
red berries. Easiest to grow. 25c. 
Sept. 8th, 1935. 
Dear Mr. Johnson: 
Surely you didn’t know when you shipped out that 
package containing the half dozen fine, pretty, healthy 
Cactus that you were making an eighty year young 
lady as happy as can be. I received them yesterday 
and have them planted and am now setting by my 
window where I have been all forenoon. I have 
looked and looked, admired and consulted my catalog 
and you will never know how much I prize and love 
them. California, including Johnson’s Water Gardens, 
has a big corner in my heart. Yours truly, 
EMMA SHIELDS, 
Ellis, Kansas. 
Pleasure from a Window Garden 
Mrs. Harry Lewis of Washington sent in this picture 
of her splendid window garden. Can you imagine a 
more interesting feature in a room? Note how well it 
fits in with the furnishings. There is no untidy mess, 
nor do they require daily care. 
FLOWERING AND CURIOUS 
SUCCULENTS 
COLLECTION No. 153 
All these curious and 
pretty flowering desert 
plants require practically 
no care. Full instructions 
with each order. Candle 
Plant, Cotyledon decussala, 
Airplant, Peanut Cactus, 
Sempervivum Ha- $ 1 00 
worthii, Red Tips I 
12 CURIOUS PLANTS 
COLLECTION No. 154 
In this group I will select you a dozen 
fine and curious succulents S 1 50 
for only. 1 
WINDOW PLANTS. The sunlight of African 
deserts is so intense that many plants hide 
their chlorophyll inside the leaves, admitting 
light only through a transparent window. 
Klienia repens. A creeper with pickle shaped 
leaves and long slit like windows. 20c. K. 
acaulis. Long narrow windows. 25c. 
★ HAWORTHIA CYMBIFORMIS. Another win¬ 
dow plant with an almost transparent cluster 
of leaves. Curious. Very attractive. Easy to 
grow. 25c. 
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. 
★ HEDGE HOG CACTUS. An easily grown 
small Cactus bearing big pink flowers. Splen¬ 
did. Turn to rear cover for colored picture. 
Blooms for months. 25c. 
TONGUE LEAF. Curious and pretty plants 
with tongue-like green leaves and large yel¬ 
low blossoms Easy to grow. 25c. 
★ POWDER BLUE CEREUS. This easily grown 
Cactus has silvery, club-shaped stems flushed 
with purple. 25c. 
RED TIPS. Each fat green leaf is clearly 
tipped with red. Grows anywhere, an excel¬ 
lent plant. 15c. 
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. 
Sprouting Leaf. Pin the leaves to the wall 
where they will sprout tiny plants. A peculiar 
African plant 25c. 
if HARTS TONGUE. See illustration page 25. 
One of the prettiest succulents and very easy 
to grow. Splendid. 25c. 
CANADA GROWS FINE CACTUS 
Dear Mr. Johnson: 14th, 1935 
I want to take this opportunity to thank you not 
only for your generous count of plants for my small 
remittance, but for the variety sent. It is the few 
spined or no spined. odd plants that appeal to me 
most. Again let me express my thanks and satisfac¬ 
tion at your manner of business. My leaving the 
choice of items in your hands was certainly a good 
idea - NORMAN M. STOREY, 
Regina, Sask., Canada. 
MAMILLARIA SCHI EDI ANA 
A handsome small plant with harmless yellow bris¬ 
tles set on the ends of each nipple. Blooms most 
freely 1 25c. 
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