STAPELIA HIRSUTA~—A strange, but al- 
together decorative house plant of easy 
having in any sunny window. Many 
thick, upright, leafless stems of soft, 
downy green. Big, furry star-flowers, to 
5-inch diameters, in tones of cream, 
brown and purple. Illustrated opposite. 
Each 45c; 3 for $1.15. 
GERANIUM ZONALE—This is the Gera- 
nium of the home grower or the florist, 
but technically Pelargonium hortorum. 
The Geraniums of this section are de- 
desirable and handsome pot plants, flowering long and 
freely in any sunny window. They are also often planted 
outside in summer. We offer four fine varieties of the 
Springfield series. All of them have fully double flowers of 
fine form, carried in heavy trusses. SPRINGFIELD PINK 
—Pure pink, deep and glowing. SPRINGFIELD CRIM- 
SON—A rich, tone of velvet crimson. SPRINGFIELD 
ORANGE—Big full blossoms of an orange that approaches 
scarlet. SPRINGFIELD WHITE—Heavy trusses of snowy 
white. UNIFORM PRICE, young plants of mailing size, 5 to 
7 inches high, each 45c; 3 of one kind for $1.25. Or order 
as OFFER 87A36 and we will send one plant ¢€ach of the 
four, with labels, for $1.65. 
GERANIUMS IVY or TRAILING—The Ivy Geraniums (Pel- 
argonium peltatum) have thick, shiny, crispy leaves of 
Ivy form, and attractive flowers of distinctive shape. They 
are naturally of a drooping or slightly trailing habit of 
growth, so particularly fitted for hanging baskets, win- 
dow boxes, urns and the like, or they may be used for 
bedding. IVY DOUBLE RED—Showy, a most brilliant 
scarlet. Each 40c. IVY DOUBLE PINK—Large rose pink 
flowers, with maroon marking on upper petals. Each 40c. 
STRAWBERRY GERANIUM—An attractive old-fashioned 
window plant of the Saxifrage family (Saxifraga sarmen- 
tosa). Decorative foliage, the thick leaves red below, | 
white-veined above. Open sprays of small but pretty 
white flowers, dotted with yellow and scarlet. It gets the 
“Strawberry” part of its name from the habit of making 
strawberry-like runners. Hanging baskets, porch boxes, 
etc. Each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
MARICA GRACILIS—One of the _ less 
usual pot plants, with Iris-shaped flowers 4 
of waxy white, the reflexed inner seg- 
ments bright blue, the petal bases brown- 
chestnut. Each lovely, fragrant blossom 
fades at day’s-end, morning usually 
bringing another in its place. New plants 
are produced from the tip of the flower 
scape that eventually arches over and # 
roots. From this, called Walking Iris. | 
Illustrated opposite. Plants, each 75c. aps. 
PASITHEA COERULEA -— A_ Chilean 
beauty for pot culture in an east window 
of a cool room. High sprays of starry 
flowers in the deepest and richest of blues. 
A showy plant, even the old, closed flow- 
ers retaining their depth of coloring. 
Long-lived, but foliage disappears during 
the summer resting period, and plant is . 
then supplied as a tangled cluster of tiny tubers. Each 40c. 
PEPEROMIA OBTUSIFOLIA—An attractive foliage pot 
plant of easy handling. Shining leaves of richest possible 
green. Long-lived plants, each 35c. 
KLEINIA MANDRALISCAE—Decorative foliage plant with 
leaves like fat pencils of dusty near-blue. Rather good, 
and needed for form and color contrast. Each 40c. 
GARDENIA VEITCHI—A tender evergreen shrublet that 
bears a long succession of sweetly perfumed, large and 
double Camellia-like blossoms, pure white and with thick, 
waxy petals. Grown as a pot or conservatory plant. Nice 
young plants, each 65c; 3 for $1.80. 
SANSEVIERIA LAURENTI—Decorative foliage plant with 
thick upright leaves of sword shape, bright glossy green, 
but yellow-edged and with white crossbars. Easy and 
long-lived house plant that will thrive under adverse con- 
ditions, including even scanty light. Plaats, each 40c. 
KAFFIR LILY—Schizostylis coccinea. Blossoms of vivid, 
vans oA abel crimson oe late autumn. Near-hardy, but 
usually grown as a pot plant north. Young, single-crown 
plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.20. 2 
STAPELIA. 


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