HOUSE PLANTS 
Why not grow your own house plants from seed? There 
is nothing very hard about it, and if you really love flowers, 
you will be interested in watching them from the moment 
the first sprout breaks through until they are ready to burst 
into bloom. And then, if there are more of them than you 
need, there can surely be no more gracious gift for your 
friends. The seeds, of course, may be sown at any time of 
year, simply in pots in a sunny window, or, if you are 
fortunate, in your greenhouse. 
ABOUT PLANTS—The plants offered here are 
usually available throughout year unless contrary 
statement is made. They are in most instances young 
plants that are just ready to begin blooming, or that 
have but recently begun to flower. They ship best 
in this size, and will grow rapidly after you have 
them replanted. All plants are shipped without soil, 
roots packed in damp moss. Safe arrival in good 
shape is guaranteed. If they do not so arrive, please 
report at once on condition so that replacement or 
adjustment may be made Our guarantee does not 
hold beyond arrival in good growable condition, for 
how they do afterward depends upon the care you 
give them, and other conditions that we can’t con- 
trol. Plants go by express unless allowance for post- 
age and mail-packing is included. Such allowance 
should be 5% of plant value for points east of 
Pittsburgh and north of Potomac, 10% for points 
beyond but still east of the Mississippi, and 15% 
for all destinations west of that river. 

ACACIA BLEND—Flowers usually fluffy balls in widely 
varied yellows. Foliage slender, graceful. Attractive large 
pot or tub plants. Soak seed. Pkt. 10c. 
AEONIUM HAWORTHI—Many crooked branches that end 
in rosettes of thick delta-shaped leaves, all of a rich suc- 
culence, and a finish as of silver powder laid over blue- 
green glossiness. Pkt. 20c. Young, single-rosette plants, 
each 25c. 
AGAVE MARMORATA—Outcurving leaves of deep green 
that become banded with gray. Inflorescence golden yellow, 
flowers good size. Plants eventually reach spectacular pro- 
portions. Plants, each 40c. 
ALOE BREVIFOLIA—Short and thick gray-green leaves, 
near triangular and piled in close vertical plane. Red 
flowers. An Aloe miniature. Pkt. 15c. Plants each 25c. . 
ALOE CILIARIS—Vivid green, leaves thinner than in other 
Aloes, ciliate-margined, widely spaced. Semi-climber. Red 
flowers. Plants, each 25c. 
ALOE VARIEGATA—Tiger Aloe or Partridge Breast. Tri- 
angular serrate leaves, thick and solid, are marbled and 
margined silver on deep, dark green. Tubular red flowers. 
Pkt. 25e. Young plants, each 40c. 
ALOE BLEND—Few succulents are more 
satisfying for pot culture. Always attrac- 
tive, particularly so in rare flower. Wide 
variations in. plant form and coloring, 
from triangular pie-wedges of leaves in 
dense rosettes, to long, curving, serrate 
swords. Sometimes fat leaves are stacked 
like a child’s pile of blocks, but again 
they may be so widely spaced on drawn- 
out stems that climbing habit is ap- 
proached. Often they are marbled, stained, 
silver-powdered, color-edged, or blued 
like tempered steel. Panicled’ inflores- 
cence, usually in buff, red, or cinnabar. 
Fine mixture. Pkt. 15c; 7 oz. 45c; % oz. 
80c; % oz. $1.35. 
pees CURASSAVICA—See page 

ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS—The 
well-known “Asparagus Fern,’ grown for fine lace-like 
foliage effects. Rich green. Pkt. 15c; 100 seeds for 50c. 
BILLBERGIA NUTANS 
Delightful, and very easy plants for pot culture, distantly 
in the Pineapple relationship. The leaves are rich green, 
many, slender, arching, just a bit too wide and thick to be 
grass-like. Clusters of pretty and unusual pendant blos- 
soms, bracts bright red, petals green, edged with vivid 
blue. Long in bloom. Tolerant of adverse conditions. 
Illustrated above. Plants each 35c; 3 for $1.00. 
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ARDISIA CRENULATA — Perhaps best 
pot plant for brilliant berries. Cymes of 
4-parted rose-violet flowers, these fra- 
grant, followed by drooping clusters of 
shining coral-red berries that remain 
showy and good for months. Pkt. 15c 
(3 for 40c). 
BORONIA MEGASTIGMA 
Called the ‘‘world’s sweetest flower’ 
from the delightful and pervasive per- 
fume. Bell-shaped blossoms, rich brown- 
maroon outside, yellow within, make a 
pleasant showing for some three months. 
It cuts well. Fairly quick in coming into 
bloom. A superb pot plant for the cool 

house. Illustrated opposite. Pkt. 15c 
(3 for 40c). 
BEGONIAS 
BEGONIA EVERBLOOMING BLEND—Grown as pot 
plants, may be kept in bloom pretty much the year through. 
Indeed an old name for it is “‘Blossom Fool,’ for it never 
stops blooming as long as there is life in it. May be used 
also for summer bedding. Flowers will be white, palest 
pink, deep pink, rose, scarlet or crimson, and the foliage 
may be bronzed or red-tinged. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. 
BEGONIA CHATELAINE SUPREME—You can have it 
flower-filled through the whole circle of the year, a wealth 
of salmon-pink blossoms with golden anthers. No freer nor 
more continuous bloomer. Plants each 30c; 3 for 80c. 
BEGONIA—CORALLINA DE LUCERNE—Waxen flowers 
of brilliant coral red in such great clusters that they almost 
hide the foliage. Good, long, blooming season, though not 
continuous. Foliage white-spotted. Plants, each 25c; 3 for 
70¢e. 
BELOPERONE GUTTATA — Another near-continuous 
bloomer. Closely imbricated floral bracts in elongated 
with primrose tip. The 
Plants, each 25c; 
series, salmon red to old rose, 
blossoms are white with purple spots. 
3 for 70ce. 
BROWALLIA SAPPHIRE—Wide and even ten-inch plants 
in long mantling of brilliant sapphire blue. Desirable for 
pots or window boxes. Pkt. 20c. 
CACTUS—For plants of the Night-blooming Cereus, of the 
bright Christmas Cactus, and of other decorative kinds, 
see page 25. On same page are offerings of seeds of some 
25 different kinds of ornamental Cactus varieties, includ- 
ing Blends. 
CALCEOLARIA PEERLESS HYBRIDS—Giant purse-shaped 
blossoms in continuity and freedom beyond belief. Brilliant 
and variable colorings that vary from lemon, through gold 
and brown, to copper and crimson, often splashed and 
tigered contrastingly. Pkt. 25c. 
CARICA PAPAYA—It makes an easy and speedy pot or 
tub plant, giving decorative effects in Palm reminder. 
Well-grown plants bear the melon-shaped papaya fruits 
the second year. The fruits are edible, highly esteemed in 
the tropics. Few exotics so curious may be grown with 
such scant worry or care. Pkt. 15c; 3 for 40c. 
CARNATION CONSERVATORY BLEND—A blend of va- 
ried giant-flowered types that are suited particularly to pot 
culture in window or greenhouse. Blossoms in full Carna- 
tion color range, rich in pure self tones, but with a small 
proportion of the fantastically gay flaked and splashed sorts. 
Pkt, 25¢;=3 for 65c. 
CHAMAELAUCIUM CILIATUM — Geraldton Waxflower. 
Waxlike blossoms of delicate pink, five-lobed flaring bells. 
Foliage fine, heathery. Australia. Pkt. 15c. 
CHIRONIA BACCIFERA—Massed starry blossoms of deep 
pink for months on end. A lovely South African ‘House- 
Gentian.” Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
CHORIZEMA CORDATUM—Blossoms of brilliant scarlet 
in close racemes. Handsome, evergreen, leguminous plants 
from Australia, to be grown in full sun in cool house. 10 
seeds for 25c; 50 for $1.00. 
CINERARIA MULTIFLORA NANA—Blues of _ intense, 
burning brilliance, with rich carmine, rose, white and 
pink. Great showy clusters of closely packed flowers. This 
is the best of Cinerarias for window culture. Pkt. 2b5c. 
CLERODENDRON SPECIOSISSIMUM—Panicles of grace- 
fully formed blossoms in brilliant scarlet. A most hand- 
some ornamental that may be kept in bloom most of the 
year. 6 seeds for 20c. Plants, each $1.00. 
