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 
20 c each 
Cameron, Mo. 
Last year I ordered your 
Special on Gladiolus and 
I 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. 
MRS. CLAUDE REED 
Corsican Shrimp Plant 
Beloperone Guttata 
A heavy wooded, 
branching pot- 
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-inch droop¬ 
ing spike. These are very showy, saimon-red 
and old rose, with brightly contrasting extremity 
of primrose-yellow. 35c each. 
Double Fuchsias, 20c each, dozen 
$1.75 
Storm Kiricr 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. 
CYCLAMEN 
Persicum, 30c each 
A beautiful plant 
for window, giv¬ 
ing more blossoms for less than any other plant. 
FREE 
A 25c Plant 
(Your Own Choice) 
with Plant 
Order 
Amounting 
to $1.25 
or More 
Coleus 
Coleus 20c each 
Fire Brand 
The popular bedding 
plant with beautifully 
colored foliage. Used extensively for edging 
canna and geranium beds. 
Dazzling fecarlet. One of the 
showiest. 
Christmas Gem Leaves bright carmine 
shading to deep 
maroon, margin being yellow and green. 
Joseph’s Coat A domina nt center wedge of 
r purpled carmine, splashed 
raggedly bordered violet-maroon; 
scalloped deep green margin. 
Yellow Bird Bright golden yellow. 
ivory; this 
all within a 
Phenomenal This is th , e largest Fuchsia 
grown, red tube and sepals, 
immense bright violet corolla. 
Single Fuchsias 
hardy, rapid growth, 
sal favorite. 
20c each, dozen, $1.75. 
Elegant flowering of 
The Fuchsia is a univer- 
Black Prince Corolla, a reddish rose; 
sepals, carmine. 
Speciosa 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. 
FERNS 
Trailing Queen basket ^for ^trailing 
over edge. Small escalloped leaves dark green 
checked in maroon, the wedge-shaped center gay 
with magenta and cream. 
Dracaena Indivisa. 
Dracaena Indivisa Tllls plant is used 
Mia. iiiui.iou very extensively 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. 
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 
CREVILLEA OR SILK OAK 
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 
silk, hence the 
name “Silk Oak.” Price, nice plants, 25c each. 
(Grevillea 
Robusta) 
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 ^ c 50 each ’ dozen 
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. 
Large flowers of pure 
white. Vigorous grower. 
Wvona Large, massive florets of deep 
* salmon! We consider Wyona the 
nearest to pure salmon color of any geranium 
ever introduced. . 
James Vick salmon, very large. 
Mme. Buchner 
S. A. Nut very dark crimson. 
Rose Scented 
20c each. 
The old-fashioned sweet 
scented favorite. Price, 
VARIEGATED 
Madame Salleroi 
bright green, silver 
edge. 15c. 
IVY-LEAVED GERANIUMS 
20 c 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. 
Azalea Flowered , R , osy red Free 
bloomer, very large 
flowers and large clusters. Each 30c. 
Glorv This splendid novelty is quite remon- 
* 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. 
Easter Greeting Fier J amaranth red 
° each petal marked with 
a large black blotch. Each 30c. 
Gardener’s Joy Apple-blossom pink, 
J the two upper petals 
heavily blotched. 30c each. 
Mvrtlf* 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. 
