Water Lilies CACTI Succulents 
JOHNSON WATER GARDENS 
Harry 
Johnson 
HYNES (Los Angeles County) CALIFORNIA 
AN ADVENTURE IN GARDENING 
Have you experienced that most interesting of all gardening adventures, 
the collecting of Cacti and Succulents? These wonderfully interesting denizens 
of our deserts have for a hundred years been the exclusive collecting grounds 
of only the dyed-in-the-wool fancier. As in the collection of works of art and 
antiques fortunes have been spent in assembling great collections of cacti. 
Men have been sent out on long and arduous trips into the wilds of our 
waterless deserts, the bleak, snowbound fastnesses of the Andean mountains, 
into the hell of the Gran Chaco, the rainless wastes of Chilean plains and 
even into far Patagonia. The difficulties of 
getting their finds back into civilization, classi¬ 
fied and established in gardens, have been 
great but burning interest and love of the 
hobby have conquered all obstacles. 
Thousands of fanciers throughout the land 
have, in the past, been forced to rely upon 
exchanges with others or upon collectors of 
wild plants to enlarge their collections. Now 
the increasing attention being given to these 
enormously interesting plants has made it 
practical to assemble from the far corners of 
the earth the thousands of kinds available and 
to propagate them. For thirty years Cacti 
have been my hobby. Though I have grown 
or collected every class of plant from Algae 
to Orchids and spent years collecting in the 
jungles of Central America yet I have never 
found another group equal to them in intense 
interest. 
Now for the first time a really comprehen¬ 
sive collection is offered of clean, healthy, 
well rooted seedlings, plants free from pests 
and correctly labeled. In our new and modern 
greenhouses, built especially for the raising 
of Cacti, hundreds of thousands of beautiful, 
vigorous plants are growing. Under our Cal¬ 
ifornia sun they are developing into perfect 
specimens with a robust vitality that will 
make them the gems of your collection. This 
has been a task consuming many years and 
an enormous amount of preliminary work but 
at last we are ready to offer many 
of the newer kinds to our patrons. 
These are described with many 
pages of colored illustrations in my 
Special 1938 CACTUS and SUCCU¬ 
LENT CATALOG. 
CACTUS CATALOG SENT FOR Sc 
Free with Cactus Orders 
YOU CAN BUY WITH CON¬ 
FIDENCE FROM THIS CATA¬ 
LOG. IT'S INFORMATION IS 
COMPLETE AND CORRECT. 
Fairy Bells 
Masses of big 
bells to spring. 25c. 
Hedge Hog 
Gorgeous flowers 
and easy to grow. 
25c. 
Figroarigolds 
Purple and orange 
Free growers. Each 
15c, 
Orange Dyckia 
Easy to grow. 
Flowers freely. 25c. 
Scarlet Aloe 
Gorgeous trusses 
of scarlet blossoms. 
25c. 
Hen and Chickene 
These tittle plants 
rase big families. 
15c. 
COLORFUL COLLECTION 
COLLECTION No. 175 
7 colorful plants as illustrated below. $ 130 
All easy to grow-- 1 
Nurseries 
Established 
1878 
