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 Balti¬ 
more, 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, turn¬ 
ing red in the fall. It will attract attention in any 
landscape. Dwarf blue, Purple, Imperial Pink, Lilac, 
Rubra, Magenta, Light Pink. 
Doz. 100 
214 inch pots.$1.00 $7.00 
CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS 
Umbrella Plant 
Doz. 100 
214 inch pots._...$0.70 $5.00 
CUPHEA PLATYCEhJTRA 
Or Cigar Plant 
Fine for baskets and vases. 
Doz. 100 
2!4 inch pots.$0.55 $4.00 
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 
2% inch pots. 
$1.50 
$10.00 
DRACAENA INDIVISA 
The popular ornamental plant. 
Doz. 
100 
1000 
2% 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 
214 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 rockeries. Something 
new and good. 
Doz. 100 1000 
214 inch pots.$1.50 $10.00 $90.00 
EPIPHYLLUM (Christmas Cactus) 
TRLTNCATUM—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 winter; Helio¬ 
trope-like flowers, easy to grow; for the grower who 
has limited room, a small space on bench will pro¬ 
duce flowers all winter long; excellent for use with 
pink Roses. 214 inch. Price, 75 cents per dozen; 
$5.00 per hundred. 
FARFUGIUM (Leopard Plant) 
Fine stock. Price. 3 inch, $3.50 per dozen; $25.00 
per hundred. 
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 inch 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 PRINCF—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- 
cai’mine or pink color. 
IRWIN’S GIANT PINK—The best Fuchsia yet in¬ 
troduced. Enormous flowers of beautiful salmon- 
pink. 
LITTLE BEAUTY — Red sepals, double purple 
corolla. Dwarf. Very free flowering. 
LORD BYRON—Red sepals, corolla of the richest 
royal purple. 
MADAM VAN DER STRASS—This is the best of 
the double white-corolla Fuchsias. 
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 De¬ 
cember to May. Doz. 100 1000 
2!4 inch pots.$0.75 $5.00 $45.00 
HELIOTROPE 
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE—A splendid lavender 
shade. “The variety grown in our grandmothers’ 
gardens.” Doz. 100 1000 
2% inch pots..$0.75 $5.00 $45.00 
CENTEFLEUR—Dwarf growing with fine, neat 
foliage, florets wide and flat, deep true heliotrope, 
with conspicuous white eye. Sprays are of the 
largest size. 
Doz. 100 
2!4 inch pots...$0.85 $6.00 
ROYAL FRAGRANS—Extremely dark violet purple 
in extra large florets compactly set in heavy cymes. 
Doz. 100 
2V4, 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. 
CHINESE HIBISCUS 
Doz. 100 1000 
2% inch pots..$1.00 $7.00 $65.00 
4 inch pots. 3.00 20.00 
DOUBLE CRIMSON—Flower of the richest crimson, 
combined with glossy foliage. 
GRANDIFLORUS—Rich, glossy, cut-leaved foliage, 
literally covering the plant with scarlet-crimson 
flowers. 
REACH BLOW—A sport from the Double Red Hi¬ 
biscus Rosea Sinensis. Flowers double and from 
four to five inches in diameter, of a charming rich, 
clear pink color, with small, deep crimson center. 
It is one of the freest flowering plant novelties 
recently offered. The color is an entirely new 
and beautiful shade and it blooms abundantly and 
continuously during the summer and fall months. 
Large plants two and three years old make a 
magnificent show. It will give general satisfac¬ 
tion to those who grow it, either in pots or planted 
out in the garden. It blooms well in winter in 
trreenhouses or in any sunny window. 
SUB-VIOLACEOUS — Flowers of enormous size, 
beautiful carmine, tinted violet. Probably the 
largest flower of the Hibiscus family, and an un¬ 
usually free bloomer. 
Buddleia Hartwegi is the outstanding new plant for 1937. See page 1. 
