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1938 Price List 
HOWARD E. GATES 
Famous Cactus Gardens 
119 S. Illinois St Anaheim, California 
Cactus Exclusively Since 1930 
Visitors Welcome Closed Sundays 
TERMS 
Again it is a pleasure to present our Price List, offering 
a great variety of fascinating cactus plants. Fanciers will 
find a number of rare plants resulting from our own ex¬ 
ploration trips that are not obtainable any other place. 
Plant names a,re listed in accordance with the recommenda¬ 
tions of the Nomenclature Committee of the Cactus and 
Succulent Society of America. 
We are glad to say that practically all offerings are 
nursery grown in the favorable California coastal climate 
without forcing. This means strong, sturdy plants with 
roots that will grow. Growing instructions are packed in 
each shipment. All plants will be labeled. 
Please note that we list the size of the plants we offer. 
When possible we give a little larger. Prices include ex¬ 
cellent packing and free delivery. CALIFORNIA CLIENTS 
ONLY must add 3 per cent sales tax. We guarantee all 
plants to pass health inspection anywhere. We also guar¬ 
antee safe delivery in the United States, Canada, Cuba and 
Great Britain. 
CANADIAN CUSTOMERS. Please secure free importa¬ 
tion permits from Destructive Insect and Pest Advisory 
Board, Dept, of Agriculture, Ottawa. 
FOREIGN SHIPMENTS. Prices include carriage costs, 
but not customs duties to Great Britain, Canada, New Zea¬ 
land. Australia, Japan and other countries to which postal 
charges do not exceed 20 cents per pound. Prices quoted 
are in U. S. dollars, equal to approximately four shillings 
Sterling. Make remittances payable to Howard E. Gates. 
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SYMBOLS—Color name equals color of flowers; day or 
night equals blooming period; number equals size in inches; 
C, rooted cutting; G, grafted; S, seedling; P, plant. 
LARGE GROWING CEREUS TYPES 
ACANTHOCEREUS, angularly branched, shrubby plants, 
coastal tropical America. White, night. 
A. honduriensis, heavy branched, fast. 3 
A. pentagonus, 3-5 angled, Texas, Florida. 4 
BERGEROCACTUS emoryii, monotypic, yellow 
cane cactus, yellow, day, L. Calif. 3 
CARNEGIEA gigantea, Suwarro, Ariz. Giant 2 
CEPHALOCEREUS, heavy columnar or tree type, flowers 
from bristly lateral cephalium. 
C. dybowskii, silky white wool, Brazil. 3 S 
C. fluminensis, yellow spines, Brazil.1% S 
C. senilis. The Old Man.IJ/2 S .35 3 S 
CEREUS (Piptanthocereus), large shrubby or tree 
large flowers, night. 
C. alacriportanus, angular branches, brown sp.. 3 
C. alacriportanus . 4 
C. azureus, slender blue branches, black spines. 3 
C. caesius. Blue Beauty, yellow spines. 3 
dayami, tree like, few spines, white. 3 
gonacanthus, tree like, white. 3 
C. hankeanus, square, bluish branches. 3 
C. hexagonus ,tree like, six-angled branches.... 3 
C. hildmannianus, few spines, free flowering... 6 
hildmannianus . 12 
horribarbus . 3 
horridus . 3 
huntingtonianus, shrubby, pink, night. 2 
jamacaru .3 S .15 8 
jugatiflorus . 3 
lepidotus, large, tree like, white. 6 
C. microcarpus . 3 
C. milesimus 3 S .15, 8 S .35, monstrosus. .. 3 
C. monstrosus hybrids.3 S .25 8 
pernambucensis. 3 
pernambucensis monstrosus, compact, knobby 3 
peruvianus .3 S .15, 5 S .25 7 
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C. peruvianus monstrosus . 
C. pithaya . 
C. stenogcaus . 
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CLEI8TOCACTUS, erect slender branched shrubby plants 
from South America. 
C. areolatus, heavy branches, brown spines. 3 S .35 
C. baumannii, slender branches, red.U/, S .25 
C straussii, silvery white bristles, red. 3 C .35 
LEMAIREOCEREUS, large tree like plants. 
Ij. beneckii. The Silver Tip... 4 s .75 
L. chende, yellowish branches, brown spines.... 3 S .35 
LOPHOCEREUS, erect branches, short spines, changing 
on upper portions of old branches to long bristly spines. 
Pink, night. Mexico. 
L. australis, tall, slender branches. 3 S .35 
L. gatesii, new, different. 3 S .25 6 S .50 
L. sargentianus, medium branches. 3 S .35 
L. schottii...3 S .35, 4 S .35, 5 S .50 7 S .75 
L. schottii monstrosus, the queer Totem Pole 
Cactus of our introduction; smooth skinned 
bumps & knobs..2 C .35, 6 C 2.00, 9 C 3.00 12 C 4.00 
MACHAEROCEREUS, two interesting large plants from 
Lower California. 
M. eruca. The Creeping Devil.3 S .35 4 C .75 
M. gummosus, dagger like spines, night . 4 S .35 
OREOCEREUS, a small group of large columnar hairy 
plants from South America. 
O. celsianus, coarse white hair..!!/, S .25 21/, S .35 
C. trollii, fine white hair.1% S .25 2 G .50 
PACHYCEREUS, tall, heavy, columnar plants. Mexico. 
P. marginatus. The Organ Pipe.3 S .25 6 S .50 
P. pecten-aboriginum, fast growing..3 S .25 6 S .50 
P. pringlei. Giant of L. Calif.3 S .25 5 S .50 
PILOCEREUS (Cephalocereus), columnar and tree like 
plants usually bearing wool or long hair in their flowering 
branches. Florida to Argentina. 
P. alensis, Sonora, Mex.1% S .25 6 S .75 
P. euphorbioides, white spined. South America 4 S .50 
P. glaucescens . 1% S .25 
P. gounellii ..■».11/3 S .25 
P. hapalacanthus . 6 S .35 
P. robinii, fluted, stout branches, Cuba. 2 S .25 
P. sublanatus .3 S .25 8 S .50 
RATHBUNIA, slender branched, tall plants with red day 
blooming small flowers. 
R. alamosensis, heaviest branched. 3 S .25 
R. sonorensis . 3 S .25 
TRICHOCEREUS, a South American group with erect, 
heavy fluted branches. Large. White. Night. 
T. bridgesii, shrubby, few ribbed.3 S .25 6 S .50 
T. candicans, heavy, fluted branches.1% S .25 
T. chilensis, strong gray spines.1% S .25 
T. coquimbanus, strong spined.1% S .25 
T. fascicularis, clustering, erect branches. 2 S .35 
T. macrogonus, few ribs, short spines. 3 C .35 
T. pachanoi, stout, low ribs, few spines. 3 C .35 
T. pasacana, a giant, stiff yellow spines.1% S .25 
T. schickendantzii, short, clustering. 2 C .25 
T. shaferi, short, stout, clustering. 3 C .35 
T. spachianus, tall, clustering. 2 S .15 
T. strigosus, short, medium, clustering. IVs S .25 
NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS 
ERIOCEREUS, the South American climbing section of 
Harrisia B. & R. Large, fragrant, white flowers. 
E. guelichii, slender, angular branches . 3 C .25 
E. martinii, round, few spined branches . 3 C .25 
E. pomanensis, round, spiny branches . 3 C .25 
E. tortuosus, round, very spiny branches . 3 C .25 
HARRISIA, slender, tall clustering plants from the Carib¬ 
bean area. Large white flowers. 
H. brookii, ten spiny ribs . 3 C .25 
H, earlei, sprawling, 5-7 spiny ribs . 3 C .25 
H. eriophora, erect branches, spiny . 3 C .25 
H. fernowii, erect, slender, branches . 3 C .25 
H. fragrans, erect, 10-12 spiny ribs . 3 C .25 
H. portoricensis, erect, 11 spiny ribs . 3 C .25 
H. simpsonii, erect, 8-10 spiny ribs. 3 C .25 
HYLOCEREUS, climbers with aerial roots, winged, 
sparsely spined ribs. Very large white flowers. 
H. costaricensis, vigorous, rare . 3 C .50 
H. polyrhizus, slender, thin ribbed . 3 C .25 
H. triangularis, vigorous, few spines. 3 C .25 
H. undatus, wavy edges, few spines. 3 C .25 
MONVTLLEA cavendishii, round, spiny. 3 C .25 
