ALANWOLD NURSERY 
Street Road, One Mile West of Easton Road 
NESHAMINY, BUCKS CoO., PA. 
SIX MILES ABOVE WILLOW GROVE 


Hours: 8 to 5—Closed Sundays 
RARE PLANTS 
NBSHAMINY, PA. 
Permit No. 2 
, ' Now that the war is over, we can get down to the business of gardening. Try to 
imagine it without trees and shrubs. Do your part by making your own home grounds more 
beautiful. You can do this at suiall cost and have a lot of fun doing it, if you will grow 
your own plants. 
For a few dollars you can select from this list enough plants to landscape a 
fair size home with the choicest and rarest plants obtainable. 
These plants are too small now for landscaping; but put them in a little nursery 
and in 2 or 3 years most of them will be large enough to give a good effect. When grown 
on for a while they make ideal gifts for your friends. 
Old customers teil us about the specimen Azaleas, Pieris Japonica, Flowering 
trees and shrubs grown from our plants. One man counted 200 flowers on a Magnolia; another 
has a dense yew hedge 100 feet long and 3 feet high. Another had a riot of color, with 
or 100 Azaleas in bloom at one time. With a little time and patience you can do 
the same. 
These are the same baby plants that Nurserymen use to grow specimen plants that 
sell at fanev prices. 
The plants we have to offer are vividly described in Hotte's Book on Shrubs 
@ $5.50 postpaid and Book on Trees at $3.50 postpaid. We can supply both. Make good Christ- 
mas and birthday presents. All plants should be grown in a bed for one or more years before 
planting in permanent places. 
: For $5.00 you can select $6.00 worth of plants from this list. Prices in- 
elude packing and postai charges. AS we sell our plants at such low priees no order 
for less than $2.00 will be sceepted. No broken lots will be sold. Where order calls 
for B for 50 ets., one will not be sold for 10 cts. 5 must be ordered. 26 sold at 100 rate. 
Please suggest one substitute per 10 items ordered. 
Owing to our careful packing with wet peat moss3 the cost of Express and 
Parcel Post to points bevond Rocky Mountains, eliminate the profits. Therefore, please 
add 10% to remittances from these places. 
The group containing Azaleas are very easy to handle if planted in part shade, 
provided either by a building or a lath screen; this should be elevated 4' to 5' on stakes 
to provide free circulation of air underneath. Plant in a soil mixture containing 50% good 
light garden loam and 50% granulated peat moss or oak leaf mould. Water well after planting 
and muleh with leaf mould or peat moss. Do not cultivate but pick weeds out by pulling. De 
not allow ground to get dry, but do not water too much or too often, there is a happy medium. 
These plants will all do well in part shade and also in sun. Cut off 75% of light for 
first 8 weeks and then 50%. 
AZALEAS AND OTHER ACID LOVING PLANTS: 
"Chinese" E. H. Wilson said, speaking of Azaleas, "They are not surpassed in 
wealth of blossom by any class of hardy shrubs. The flowers vary enormously in size in 
the different species and embrace all shades of every color except blue. In many the 
flowers are delightfully fragrant, -—— small wonder the desire to possess them i8 So gen- 
eral. No class of shrubs possess greater attractions, and given certain essential con- 
ditions and provided the varieties are perfectly hardy their culture is fairly simple." 
A Philadelphia collestion of Asaleas and Khododendrons is visited each year 
by thousands of people who marvel at the brilliant, vivid colors and profusion of bloom, 
which ts almost unbelievable, and yet for a few dollars and a bit of patience a more 
extensive range of colors and varieties is available from this list. 
Azalea AMOENA - Semi double purplish red flowers in profusion. Small evergreen leaves, 
turning beautiful bronze in fall - 3-53" ~- 3 for 50 cents 
be Alanwold Brick, vivid brick red flowers, semi evergreen, grows tall, 3-5" 3 for S80c. 
Azalea Cleopatra = large clear vivid pink flowers 2-2%" across 3-5" - 3 for 50 cents 
hs Hinodegeri -— brilliant red flowers, evergreen = 3-5". = 3 for 50 cents. 
Azalea Kaempferi Arensidi Hybrids — evergreen Orchid — 3-6" — 3 for 50 cents. Very large 
flowered, elear colors. An easy one to grow. Makes a handsome shrub. 
" KURUME HYBRIDS = Choice from cuttings - selected from clear pinks, reds and 
maroon shades — 3-5" - 3 for 50 cents 
Ledifolia Alba — evergreen 4-6" — 3 for 50 cents. White flowers. 
- Othello. large maroon red flowers, semi evergreen leaves turn red in fall - 3-§* - 
> for 60 cents. 
