COLORFUL COLLECTION 
COLLECTION No. 175 
5 colorful plants as illustrated below, $ 1 00 
All easy to grow... 1 
JOHNSON WATER GARDENS 
Water Lilies CACTI Succulents 
HYNES (Los Angeles County) CALIFORNIA 
Harry 
Johnson 
Nurseries 
Established 
1876 
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, classified 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. 
I have a really fine collection of clean, healthy, well rooted Cacti correctly labelled. 
Be sure and write for my 1937 CACTUS CATALOG. Free with orders. Price 10c. 
OLD MAN CACTUS 
(CeBhalocereus senilis) 
Can you Imagine a more curious plant 
than this white haired Old Man? It is 
completely clothed with snowy hair even 
the tiny plants are covered. An extraor¬ 
dinary addition to your collection. Pine 
plants, 35c; large $1. 
BRAZILIAN OLD MAN 
(Cephalocereus Dybowskii) 
Certainly one of the finest novelties 
ever introduced. Beautiful cottony-white 
wool completely clothes the plant. Grows 
quite rapidly and easily. In Bahia it 
grows on dry hills forming dense thick- 
etc. Nice plants 35c and 50c. 
Figmarigolds 
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 Chickens 
These little plants 
raise big families. 
15c. 
