VIVE ROUGE 
This striking blossom is one of my favorites. The grace¬ 
ful flowers are very brilliant red with curving white Bta- 
mens and reach 6 to 7 inches in diameter. The plant is 
rigorous and healthy and produces blossoms in abundance. 
As in most Orchid Cacti the "leaves" are spineless, cre- 
nate and dark green in color the flowers being ja_ 
borne in the notches____-. 
GLORIA. See cover ior color illustration. 
This magnificent variety has gorgeous flame- 
colored blossoms 8*' to 9" in diameter. Its 
season of bloom is one of the longest of all 
—-flowers being found from April till August. 
The color is very clear and bright. It is very 
easy to grow and flowers when quite small, 
3 and 4 inch pot plants making nice flower¬ 
ing specimens. Do not fail to add this 
sterling variety to your cactus collec¬ 
tion. A rare plant at a bargain price. 
Each 50c 
Etoile de Contich. A fine Belgian va¬ 
riety with 8 inch blossoms. The petals 
are broad, the outer series salmon red, 
the inner flushed with violet. It is a 
very strong grower, many of the stems 
being triangular. Flowers exceedingly 
freely and consistently. The large and 
fragrant fruits following are delicious 
to eat, 50c 
Pink Nymph. This charming peach 
pink variety is a great bloomer, the 
petals being slightly shirred. Will 
stand considerable sun and blooms 
regularly, 35c 
Peacockii. One of the most gorge¬ 
ously colored of all with huge 10 inch 
blossoms and broad, undulate petals. 
The bright carmine-red outer petals 
shade gradually into an intense lumin¬ 
escent violet that seems to shine like 
neon lights. Give it good drainage 
and a porous soil and it will reward 
you beyond compare, 75c 
Red Empress. This graceful plant is 
charming in a hanging basket where 
its spiraled stems and brilliant crimson 
blossoms show to advantage, 30c 
EMPRESS. A pink Shower. 
I have counted as many as 500 flowers on one 
plant of this handsome variety! An old favorite 
In window gardens where it thrives producing a 
fine display of the daintiest pink blossoms imagin¬ 
able. Give it a soil with some leafmold and q p 
a little shade in summer. Larger 35c. Each.. *3C 
PEACOCK COLLECTION 
COLLECTION F2 
5 gorgeous varieties in a wide range 
of rich colors. Gloria. Etoile de 
Contich, Scarlet Giant. Cooperi. ff n 
Latona. All vigorous plants..- v A 
Dr. Houghton. A grand flower vividly 
striped red violet and orange with 
luminescent violet-blue throat. Ex¬ 
tremely free in bloom and a vigorous 
healthy grower, $1. 
Frieda Weingart. A large flower with 
broad, silky-pink petals with deep rose 
center. Beautiful, SI 
Tulip. A medium sized flower with 
broad, blood - red petals. Good 
bloomer, 60c 
SURPRISE SPECIMENS 
Large Flowering Size 
I have a few splendid flowering 
specimens 14 to 24 inches tall. Since 1 
have not had time to verify the names 
they are shipped unlabelled but all are 
first class named varieties, none being 
cheap or common plants. They are 
big, expensive plants to ship. 
Bargain jjrice of only $1 
RED ORCHID CACTUS 
Nopalxochia Ackermannii YELLOW ORCHID CACTUS 
CHRISTMAS CACTUS 
Zygocactua trunoatua 
Showers of Fuchsia-like pink blossoms at 
Christmas. Grows with the greatest of ease, 
liking moisture and shade. Old house plants 
will often have 500 flowers. 5-year-old bloom¬ 
ing plants, each 35o. 
Nice 3" to 5" young plants. 
OR PHYLLOCACTI 
These glorious large and brilliant flowers are hardly equalled in the whole plant 
kingdom. In size they are as large as dinner plates with petals fresh as China silks. 
They run the gamut of the color scale—brilliant reds, electric blues shading into scarlets, 
brilliant orange, bright pinks, lavender, a glorious array. There are scores of named 
kinds for they have been favorites in Europe for a hundred years. Unlike other cacti they 
like moisture for they come from the moist rain-forests of the semi-tropics. You will find 
them particularly easy to grow. 
CULTURE: In general they 
should be treated very much 
like ferns or begonias. Give 
them adequate pots but see that 
the soil is porous or “open'' 
for though they like plenty of 
water and a moist atmosphere 
they do not tolerate stagna¬ 
tion. A soil of gritty sand, 
leafmold and light loam in 
about equal proportions suits 
them nicely. They like being 
put out under a tree in sum¬ 
mer where they will make a 
lusty well matured growth. They 
bloom principally in April, May 
and June. 
I have a special culture leaf* 
let for Shade Loving Cacti that 
I send (to cover mailing) for 
10c. 
RAINBOW COLLECTION 
Collection No. FI 
4 Orchid Cacti as described in 
Red. White. Yellow 
and Orange... TUC 
White Orchid Cactus 
(Epiphyllum strictum). 
Bears long, arching stems 
with many star - shaped 
snowy blossoms with red 
stigma. Flowers all spring 
and summer, 25c 
Orange Orchid. A pretty 
orange flowered variety 
that blooms freely, 25c 
Joseph de Last. A par¬ 
ticularly brilliant colored 
flower, violet red and or¬ 
ange striped, $1 
Bohemia. A pleasing 
shell-pink blossom freely 
borne. Good bloomer, 35c 
Oberst P. M. Eunrich. A 
large orange and red 
striped variety, 75c 
Knebel. Deep scarlet with 
broad violet edged petals. 
$1.25 
Wrayi. The nearest 
approach to a yellow. 
Outer petals quite golden, 
inner series white, 50c 
Stein von Erlau. A red 
and orange variety with 
lavender throat, $1 
The Orchid Cacti 
£ 
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Many of my customers have written to tell me that we have never 
described this gorgeous blossom with full Justice. The flowers are ei 
uuisite, shining as though with frost, while from the throat cascades a 
snowy mass of stamens. It is very easy to grow, lilting quite a bit of 
water and some shade, for it grows in the shelter of trees in Mexico. 
Some of the finest specimens l have seen were growing in old kettles 
on front porches. 
Heavier older plants, each 35c. nw 
Vigorous healthy young plants. Each. 
Scarlet Giant. A large flower with slender scarlet petals and 
bright orange stripe down the center, the throat tinged with 
lavender. A striking blossom hardy vigorous plant and free 
bloomer, 50c 
LATONA. This huge many-petaled flower is an exquisite 
orchid pink with broad overlapping petals and so freely borne 
that the stems are weighted down in wreath-like arches. A 
truly magnificent flower, 55c 
Padre. A large "climbing' 1 variety, the leaves often reaching 
8 feet in length. The flowers are a very pleasing warm pink. 
An abundant bloomer and much cherished in California for its 
unique growth and exquisite color, 50c 
Hermossissimus. A huge red blossom 10" across each petal 
banded violet with an orange stripe down the middle. A gor¬ 
geous blossom and rare plant, 75c 
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Phyllocactus Cooperi 
A quick-growing bushy variety with large blos¬ 
soms. The outer petals being rich yellow, the 
inner ones snowy white. Buds aa 
arise from the base!__ jIaC 
