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Burgess’ Select House Plants 
WE GUARANTEE ALL POT PLANTS TO REACH YOU IN GOOD GROW- 
(NG CONDITION and will replace free of charge any that do not, provided 
we are notified within ten days from date plants reach you. We can not 
ship house plants outside of the Continental United States. i: 
House Plant 
Seeds 
Much enjoyment can 
be had growing House 
Plants from seed. We 
are offering seed of 
such varieties as we can 
supply and recommend. 
Our house plant seeds 
are fresh and of the 
very best strains, and 
we sell them at the low- 
est prices for which 
strictly high grade seeds 
can be produced. 
GROW THEM INDOORS 

__ Most Comprehensive Book on House Plants Ever 
Published. Covers All Problems That Arise in the 
Successful Growing of House Plants. 
For years we looked for a book of this kind to 
meet the demands of our customers. At last we 
found it. In this book, explained in simple, non- 
technical language and clarified by numerous draw- 


Our greenhouse department offers you a list of house plants most of which 
we can supply throughout the year. Shipping dates given for individual 
varieties may vary a few weeks, depending on growing conditions, and if no 
dates are given we can usually ship throughout the year. We exercise the 



greatest care in packing to insure against frost and breakage in transit. 
House plant orders are sometimes held up during sub-zero winter weather, 
and extreme heat of mid-summer, but never for more than a week or two. 
PLANTS IN POTS. Unless otherwise instructed, all house plants will be 
packed with damp moss around the roots and delivered postpaid at the 
prices quoted. Because of packing problems, it is impossible for us to ship 
plants in clay pots but if you prefer them shipped in paper pots, we can 
do so if you add 10c per plant to your remittance to cover the extra postage 
and packing. i 
ings and photographs, are answers to the successful 
culture of plants indoors. Planting tables, direc- 
tions for potting and soil mixtures, lighting, water- 
ing, feeding, ventilation, insect pests—all house 
plant problems are brought forth and discussed. 
Hundreds of plants from all corners of the earth 
are described; and there is a valuable chart of 
plants for interior decoration giving colors and flow- 
ering calendar. 221 pages. Price—$2.50 per copy, 
postpaid. ; 






Giant Angel's Trumpet 
The Giant 
Angel’s Trum- 
pet (Datura) is 
a magnificent 
plant. Hardy 
outside in the 
South. In the 
Northern 
States it can 
be kept in- 
doors in winter 
and on the 
poreh or gar- 
denin summer. 
Blooms both 
winter and 
summer. Large 
treo pi ¢.ai 
leaves ; beauti- 
ful trumpet- 
shaped f 1 0 w- 
ers_nearly a 
Watermelon Begonia 
foot long, pure 
white, and as 
WATERM ELON BEGONIA fragrant as the 
An excellent house plant for the window or Painted Leaf Begonia ' Jasmine. One 
table. The leaves withstand the dry air of rooms of the most 
gorgeous of all 
h jori lants. ick 
and waxy-like, are distinetly variegated wate = PAINTED LEAF BEGONIA — *):o mine 


and green, and have the appearance of being Tew house plants are so entirely satisfactory in every 25c per packet. , 
powdered with frosted silver. Plants 60c each; way as the Painted Leaf or Rex Begonias. They are rich Blooming age 
3 for $1.50, postpaid. in color and beautiful in design and are easily handled plants, $1.00 
: under almost any condition. The large, broad leaves, each; 3 for 
high colorings and exquisite markings make them in- $2.50, post- 
valuable as decorative plants for house culture. They paid. 
BEEFSTEAK BEGONIA make excellent plants for baskets and vases if given 
plenty of moisture and not exposed to the full rays of 
A low spreading Begonia, with cireu- the sun. We can supply a fine assortment of varieties, 
all beautifully marked, some with broad bands and borders, some 
lar leaves, red beneath and dark glossy blotched and speckled. Many odd combinations of colors, some 
green above, with markings of deep maroon, various shades of red, silvery-rose, 
silver, bronze, etc. 
n ea z Bess 
tery YY. We cannot fill orders for special colors or varieties but each 
texture. plant on-your order will be a different variety. Delivered from 
Decade. We bY September until June. 
coralred Each Plant a Different Variety $1.00 each; 3 for $2.50, postpaid. 
flowers. The 
Beate BEGONIA SEED 
Begonia for 
house cul- 
pro gerony SEMPERFLORENS HYBRIDS. As a bedding plant, it 
ranks with Coleus and Geraniums. Of sturdy growth, about 
one foot high, forming dense bushes, which from May until 
as easily as 
a@ geranium. 
8 -frost are completely hidden with flowers. As a house plant, 

50c each ; it blooms throughout the entire year. A fine mixture of col- 
3 for $1.25, ors, from pure white to deepest crimson. Pkt., 35c. 
postpaid. Beefsteak Begonia Calceolaria 
. TRAILING BRAZILIAN 
BLOOD LEAF BEGONIA PLUME PLANT 
The. Blood Leaf Begonia is not a true Begonia A native of Brazil. It 
_ but is known botanically as Irisine. It so closely is of the easiest possible 
Tesembles the Begonias in habit that it is often culture, and seems to do 
mistaken for one. We know of no plant that is well everywhere, requir- 
easier to grow, thriving under conditions so ing but little attention. 
poor that most plants will die. The oval shaped Ii isvalstir one, rapid 
leaves up to 2 inches long are blood red in grower, throwing many 
color with darkér blotches. They are produced shoots, each of which is 
the entire length of long drooping branches tipped with beautiful pink, 
CALCEOLARIA 
An ornamental house plant, producing a mass 
of beautiful pocket-like flowers in the spring; a 
universal favorite with florists. The Calceolaria 
is grown from seed. Our select strain of seed is, 
we believe, the finest in cultivation; flowers large 
in size and beautifully spotted and blotched in 
exceedingly rich and varied colors; very free 
flowering. No plants to offer. Seed, Pkt. 50c; 
2 pkts. 90c. 

. that hang over the edge of the pot.’ An excel- plume-like flowers. Plants, Foil ubercusRasicl Begonias 
Tent plant for urns, hanging baskets and fern- 60c each; 3 for $1.50, see page 52 57 
_ eries. 50c each; 3 for $1.25, postpaid. postpaid. Brazilian Plume Plant 

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