ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE PLANTS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 
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Calla Lily 
Large, fine, strong 
plants. This popular 
house plant will 
prosper under almost 
any circumstances. 
White 
20c each 
Double Fuchsias, 20c each, dozen 
$1.75 
Calla Lily 
Cameron, Mo. 
Last year I ordered your 
Special on Gladiolus and 
1 wish to tell you how 
well pleased I was with 
them. The flowers were 
the largest and most beau¬ 
tiful shades that I ever 
saw in Gladiolus. 
MBS. CLAUDE REED 
CYCLAMEN 
FREE 
A 25c Plant 
(Your Own Choice) 
with Plant 
Order 
Amounting 
to $1.25 
or More 
Showy in box and 
basket for trailing 
over edge. Small escalloped leaves dark green 
checked in maroon, the wedge-shaped center gay 
with magenta and cream. 
Dracaena Indivisa. 
Dracppv.j. Inrlivi^ta This plant is used 
uracaena inaivisa very extensive i y as a 
center plant for vases, porch and window boxes, 
etc. It stands full exposure to the sun, and its 
long, narrow, graceful foliage contrasts beauti¬ 
fully with other plants. 25c each. 
Corsican Shrimp Plant 
Beloperone Guttata 
plant up to 2 or more feet, with dark green leaves; 
almost continuously displaying its uniquely 
beautiful flowers. These are 2-lipped tubes, 
white with purple spots, surrounded by %-inch, 
heart-shaped bracts which lie flat and overlapping 
like scales, along 4 sides of a 3- to 5-inph droop¬ 
ing spike. These are very showy, salmon-red 
and old rose, with brightly contrasting extremity 
of primrose-yellow. 35c each. 
A beautiful plant 
for window, giv¬ 
ing more blossoms for less than any other plant. 
Storm King a n{ T. superb F^hsia of ex- 
° traordinary qualities. It is 
of somewhat drooping habit with enormous 
double white flowers. For winter blooming it 
cannot be surpassed. By mail, 20c each, 
dozen, $1.75. 
Phenomenal This is the largest Fuchsia 
grown, red tube and sepals, 
immense bright violet corolla. 
Single Fuchsias 20 c each, dozen, $1.75. 
0 Elegant flowering of 
hardy, rapid growth. The Fuchsia is a univer¬ 
sal favorite. 
Black Prince Corolla, a reddish rose; 
sepals, carmine. 
Sneciosa 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 December to May. 
Coleus 
Coleus 20c each Tbe , poppla r b ? ddipg 
plant with beautifully 
colored foliage. Used extensively for edging 
canna and geranium beds. 
Fire Brand Dazzling scarlet. One of the 
showiest. 
Christmas Gem Leaves bright carmine 
shading to deep 
maroon, margin being yellow and green. 
Joseph’s Coat dominant center wedge of 
purpled carmine, splashed 
ivory; this raggedly bordered violet-maroon; 
all within a scalloped deep green margin. 
Yellow Bird Bright golden yellow. 
FERNS 
Whitmanii, or New Ostrich 
Plume A new type of the plume or feather 
fern. Dwarf and more compact in 
growth than the Elegantissima with the pinnae 
still more deeply divided, giving the plant a 
feathery daintiness. 30c each. 
Scotti short bushy fine pot fern, 30c. 
Piersonii fringed, 30c. 
Boston or Sword—30c 
Australian 
Silk Oak 
(Grevillea 
Robusta) 
A magnificent 
plant for decora- 
t i v e purposes, 
of rapid, easy 
growth, finely cut 
foliage rivaling a 
rare fern. The 
young growing 
leaves are light 
brown in color, 
the tips being 
covered with a 
soft down, closely 
resembling raw 
GREVILLEA OR SILK OAK silk, hence the 
name “Silk Oak.” Price, nice plants, 25c each. 
Geranium 
GERANIUMS 
We have improved our list of Geraniums by 
adding several new and valuable varieties so that 
the list we now offer is as nearly complete as 
can be had. 
Double Geraniums 
15c each, 
$1.50. 
Duchesse de Montmort 
dozen 
brilliant 
purple 
Irvington Beauty 
The freest blooming 
of all Geraniums. It 
is of branching habit, every branch producing an 
immense truss of dark rosy pink flowers. 
Brilliantly colored, intensely 
glowing, flame red flowers, 
Radio Red 
large and double. 
Fiat (The True Variety)—No Geranium has 
ever been so favorably received as Fiat. 
We have the true stock of Fiat. The most bril¬ 
liantly colored of all Geraniums. Of good growth, 
and an intense dark salmon pink in color. 
Large flowers of pure 
white. Vigorous grower. 
massive florets of deep 
salmon! We consider Wyona the 
nearest to pure salmon color of any geranium 
ever introduced. 
James Vick salmon, very large. 
S. A. Nut very dark crimson. 
Wyona ^ 
Rose Scented 
20c each. 
VARIEGATED 
Madame Salleroi 
The old-fashioned sweet 
scented favorite. Price, 
bright 
edge. 
green, 
15c. 
silver 
IVY-LEAVED GERANIUMS 
20c each 
Chas. Turner pink - 
Caesar Franck dark 
red. 
Joan of Arc 
white. 
PELARGONIUMS 
Also called Pansy Geraniums and Lady Washing¬ 
ton Geraniums. Prices include postage. 
7 aFI Rosy red. F l e e 
/\zaiea riowerea bloomer very i ar g e 
flowers and large clusters. Each 30c. 
Olorv Tbis splendid novelty is quite remon- 
y tant, florets and cluster very large; 
ground color, cattleya-blue, very much like the 
cattleya-orchid. The upper petals contain two 
large purple magenta-red spots, distinctly veined. 
30c. 
Fa«f#»¥* r.rpplrn or Fiery amaranth red, 
taster greeting each petal marked with 
a large black blotch. Each 30c. 
r.arrlpner’s Tov Apple-blossom pink, 
baraener s Joy the two upper peta is 
heavily blotched. 30c each. 
Crepe Myrtle 
Our friends go wild over 
this magnificent plant 
with its profusion of bloom and lustrous green 
foliage, turning red in the fall. It will attract 
attention in any landscape. 30c each. 
