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Florida Beauty: a floriferous purple-blue smaller-flowered 
type, easy to grow and fine for pots or window boxes, 
$1.00 per dozen. 
Purity: the best pure white variety, very beautiful, 
25c each. 
Magnificum: outstanding large purple variety, 25c each, 
3 for 50c. 
Pink Beauty: a rare variety, 50c each. 
Galatea: large deep lavender, 10c each. 
Purple King: a good rich color, 15c each. 
Sutton’s mixed, fine English varieties, eight for $1.00. 
All colors mixed, 15 for $1.00. 
FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS 
These colorful plants are attracting the attention of 
more thousands of indoor and outdoor garden growers 
every year, because they have a direct fascination for the 
lover of beauty in nature’s handiwork, assisted by man’s 
hybridizing. 
Fancy leaved caladiums are easily grown in the home, 
the greenhouse or conservatory, and make a good show 
in the north if planted out in a garden bed after warm 
weather has safely arrived. Large tubers, under proper 
treatment will make gorgeous masses of foliage which 
bring the spell of the tropics right into the locality 
where grown, even though a thousand miles away from 
Florida. 
Caladiums like warmth and moisture, but should have 
good drainage. For the best plants, some protection 
from sun, wind and rain is best, north or south. They 
do not require a sweet soil, but like rather heavy earth 
to grow in, and in warm climates are subject to root 
knot nematode damage in light soils. For house culture 
the bulbs are sometimes started on a warm radiator in 
March or April, one bulb to a five or six inch pot or 
three to an eight inch pot. In the greenhouse greater 
warmth can be applied and specimen plants produced 
early in the spring. 
A rich leaf mold loam, with some sand and also some 
well rotted cow manure added, suits them perfectly. 
Direct sunlight will sometimes injure the foliage of the 
more tender varieties, although most growers in Florida 
have their commercial plantings in the full sun. Half 
shade heightens the delicate shading of the colors, which 
range from pure white with green veins to the deepest 
purple-reds. 
We have a choice collection of these tubers, including 
some of the outstanding novelties from European growers 
and most of the standard favorites. 
They are easier to grow than most flowers, have a 
long season of color and display and are most useful for 
decorative pot plant purposes. The tubers are planted 
in spring and dried off in the late Fall. Water should 
be given sparingly when the bulbs are newly planted, 
but it is not easy to over-water the plants when they 
are in full growth. Chills or cold should be avoided. 
We grow our bulbs on the best rich hammock soils 
available in Florida and have selected those types which 
make the most handsome showing and are of the easiest 
culture for the amateur and professional growers. 
Below we list a few of the finest varieties which 
should be included in every good collection of the plants: 
“Mrs. N. W. Haldeman’’, one of the best, glowing 
pink and rose with green veins and borders. Vigorous. 
“Pink Beauty Improved”, pinkish-rose with showy 
transparent type leaves, nevertheless vigorous. 
“D. M. Cook,” vigorous, bronzy leaf, slightly waved 
and crinkled so as to be quite distinctive among cala¬ 
diums. 
“Cratiosum”, thrifty growing variety with creamy 
center and red and purple dots sprinkled on leaf. 
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