GREETINGS 
T'o Our Many Friends and Customers 
Sooner or later nearly everyone visits Southern California. When you do, we shall be glad to have you visit SO LED AD 
GARDENS. The Gardens comprise four and a half acres situated on the southern slope of Mt. Soledad one mile from and 
over-looking the Pacific Ocean, in a nearly frost free area. It is within the city limits of Pacific P>each, a suburb of San 
Diego, California. 
Here you will find some 1000 varieties of Cacti and other Succulent Plants growing. You will always find something 
of interest in bloom. But our best flowering months are December, Eebruary, March, April and May. 
We will endeavor to make your visit an enjoyable one. 
Lewis A. Walmsley 
Eaye Walmsley 
Most of our propagating stock is grown in open field rows under over-head irrigation. Seedlings are started under glass 
and both seedlings and many cuttings are grown on in flats, under cloth houses, in a mixture of leaf-mold and sand, half and 
half by bulk, with the addition of blood meal when rapid growth is desired. Our flats are sterilized in a dip of sodium cyanide 
each time they are used and our flatting soil is used but once for flatting purposes. After growing one crop, it is distributed 
over our fields. We are not sparing in our use of Naphthalene, Volk, nicotine, sulphur, tobacco dust, snail and sow-bug poison 
and other insecticides and control chemicals, and all of our stock will be found exceedingly clean and free from insects and 
disease. 
Eor Poinsettias write PAUL ECKE, Poinsettia Specialist, 
Encinitas, California 
A visit to his growing grounds when the Poinsettias are in bloom is a 
sight you will always remember. 
