ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE PLANTS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 
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Calla Lily 
Calla Lily 
Large, fine, strong 
plants. This popular 
house plant will 
prosper under almost 
any circumstances. 
White 
20c each 
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- 
tliUl shades that I ever 
saw in Gladiolus. 
MRS. CLAUDE REED 
Double Fuchsias, 20c each, dozen 
$1.75 
Corsican Shrimp Plant 
A heavy wooded, 
branching p o t- 
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 
F like scales, along 4 sides of a 3- to 5-inch droop¬ 
ing spike. These are very showy, sadanon-red 
and old rose, with brightly contrasting extremity 
of primrose-yellow. 35c each. 
Beloperone Guttata 
CYCLAMEN 
A beautiful plant 
for window, giv¬ 
ing more blossoms for less than any other plant. 
Persicum, 30c each 
FREE 
A 25c Plant 
(Your Own Choice) 
with Plant 
Order 
Amounting 
to $1.25 
or More 
Coleus 
Coleus 20c each 
The popular bedding 
plant with beautifully 
colored foliage. Used extensively for edging 
canna and geranium beds. 
Dazzling scarlet. One of the 
showiest. 
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. 
Fire Brand 
Christmas Gem 
Storm King 
A new superb Fuchsia 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. 
Ptxanrtmtanal This is the largest Fuchsia 
rnenomenai g^own, red tube and sepals, 
immense bright violet corolla. 
20c each, dozen, $1.75. 
Elegant flowering of 
hardy, rapid growth. The Fuchsia is a univer¬ 
sal favorite. 
Black PrinC© Corolla, a reddish rose; 
sepals, carmine. 
Spcciosa 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 600 flowers from December to May. 
Single Fuchsias 
WHITMANII. 
FERNS 
Trailing Queen .iiS 
over edge. Small escalloped leaves dark green 
checked in maroon, the wedge-shaped center gay 
with magenta and cream. 
Dracaena Indivisa. 
Tndivisfi This plant is used 
L^racaena inuivisa extensively as a 
1 center plant for vases, porch and window boxes, 
1' etc. It stands full exposure to the sun, and its 
long, narrow, graceful foliage contrasts beauti- 
' fully with other plants. 25c each. 
Whitmanii, or New Ostrich 
Plume 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, 2Sc 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 gp 
Duchesse de Montmort 
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. 
Radio Red 
large and double. 
Brilliantly colored, intensely 
glowing, flame red flowers. 
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. 
Mme. Buchner 
Large flowers of pure 
white. Vigorous grower. 
Wvona massive florets of deep 
VT jruno. salmon! We consider Wyona the 
nearest to pure salmon color of any geranium 
ever introduced. 
James Vick «aJmon, very large. 
S. A. Nut 
very dark crimson. 
Rose Scented 
20c each. 
The old-fashioned 
scented favorite. 
VARIEGATED 
sweet 
Price, 
Madame Salleroi 
bright green, silver 
edge. 15c. 
IVY-LEAVED GERANIUMS 
20c each 
Chas. Turner 
Caesar Franck ^ark red 
Joan of Arc white, 
PELARGONIUMS 
Also called Pansy Geraniums and Lady Washing¬ 
ton Geraniums. Prices include postage. 
Azalea Flowered 
flowers and large clusters. 
Rosy red. Free 
bloomer, very large 
Each 30c. 
Glorv This splendid novelty is quite remon- 
VAiui y ,t;ant, 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. 
Easter Greeting 
a large black blotch. 
Fiery amaranth red, 
each petal marked with 
Each 30c. 
Gardener’s 
heavily blotched. 
Jov Apple-blossom pink, 
'*'^3 the two upper petals 
30c each. 
Out friends go wild over 
iTiyri c 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. 
