TERMS 
This catalog cancels all previous catalogs and 
prices. Please do not order from old catalogs, 
as plants are often out of stock. 
| GUARANTEE SAFE DELIVERY 
ANYWHERE IN U. S. OR CANADA 
No Shipments During December Because of 
Crowded Christmas Mails and Cold Weather. 
MINIMUM ORDER FDR FREE DELIVERY IS 
$2.00. Orders for less must include 50c extra 
to cover packing costs. 
FREE DELIVERY on all orders amounting to 
$2.00 or more. 
HOW TO REMIT: By check, postal note, 
money order or stamps. When stamps are sent 
| appreciate larger denominations. 10¢ and 25c. 
NO C.0.D. ORDERS ACCEPTED. 
HOW WE SHIP. By guaranteed Parcel Post, 
which delivers directly to your door. All plants 
are passed by State Horticultural Inspectors to 
insure freedom from insect pests. They are 
packed by experts in strong, especially made 
boxes, heavily insulated from cold and clearly 
marked Rush—Perishable—Tender Plants. 
OWING to our doubled costs and very low 
prices we have had to raise our minimum free 
delivery order to $2.00. Otherwise we would 
have to raise all catalog prices. Orders for 
less than $2.00 please add 50c for packing. 
MAY WE SUBSTITUTE IF OUT? 
We have fine stocks of all items offered, but 
owing to the great number of items listed we 
ask if you will add to the bottom of your list 
two or three second choices. 
CACTUS HELPS 
COLLECTION S100 
Items to make the growing of your plants 
easier and more enjoyable. Included here are 
all the things to root and grow your plants 
except loam and sand. Sand may be purchased 
from poultry houses or builders. Loam from 
garden or hillside. 
Book, “Cacti and Succulents and How to 
Grow Them.” 
715¢ package Cactus Compost. 
Johnson’s Cactus Food. 
Johnson’s Cactus Soil Conditioner. 
Quart of Cactus Hardwood Charcoal. 
Bottle of Johnson’s B1 Tablets. 
50 Painted Wooden Plant Labels. 
Items to Make Cactus Growing 
7 Easy. Postpaid.........................-.-------. $3.00 
CATALOG INDEX 
Acanthocalycium ....16 Lithops -......... 7-8-10 
Adromischus .......- 7-8 Lophophora _.......... 18 
Aloe. 3 i-4 Loxanthocereus_ ....13 
Anacampseros ........ 
Ariocarpus ............-- Mamillaria 5-15-19 
Astrophytum 16-17-18 Monvillea .............. 1 
Cephalocereus eg Notocactus 16-17-18 
Cereus 22...252 - ro} 
2 puntia ........ 3-13-20 
Ceropegia ..........-- 4-6 
Chamaecersu. _...5-20 Othonna ................ 6 
Cleistocactus ....13-14 Pachycereus .......... 15 
Crassula -........... 5-7-8 ie tha oh aes 
: achyveria ............ 
Dolichothele ieee tee 19 Paridist. ae 16217 
Echeveria .........- 5-6-7 Pelecyphora 18 
Echinocactus .......... 18 Rareskia v sae at 3 
Echinocereus ...13-20 Pleiospilos 8 
Echinopsis -........-.... W7 Portulacaria 8 
Epiphyllum -..........- 4 Pseudospostos ____. 14 
Epithelantha _........ 19 32) te ba Oe 
Eriocereus _._.... 13-15 Rebutia ................. 16 
Espostoa ...............- 14. Rhipsalis _-............. 4 
Euphorbia _............- 8 Rochea -_................ 5 
Faucaria ..............---- 8 Sedium -........ 5-6-7-9 
Fenestraria ..........-- 6  Selenicereus 14-20 
Gymnocalycium 17-18 bak Beni 5-6- : ; 
Haageocereus ..14-15 — 9 0 0 
Hamatocactus ........ 17. Tephrocactus ______.. 3 
Haworthia ............ 5-6 Titanopsis —.......... 7 
Hoya 2. ee 4 Tradesca ntia 77.7 6 
Huernia -......... 5-9-12 Trichocereus ....14-15 
Kalanchoe peer a Trichodiadema _._.... 6 
Lapidaria _........ 8  Weberocereus _......14 
Lemaireocereus ...... 20 Zygocactus ............ 4 

selves use. 
JOHNSON’S CACTUS FOOD 
A very effective fertilizer with a good or- 
ganic base, the ingredients of which are blend- 
ed and proportioned to help your plants to make 
normal matured flowering growth. It is not a 
soluble fertilizer but should be scattered over 
the soil, a level teaspoonful to a 4-inch pot, 
three or four times during the growing season 
after the plants are well established. : 
Use only during the growing season. Light 
applications once a month are more effective 
than heavy applications. 
12=0unce Bag ee... eae eee 50c 
2-pound Bag) ..23 2.) She... $1.00 
ROOTWELL 
Want to raise Cactus cuttings? Our new 
hormone powder for rooting refractory cut- 
tings of all kinds designed particularly for 
quickly rooting Cacti and Succulents. Sterilizes 
the cut surface and induces luxuriant growth of 
roots. Apply dry with finger to fresh cut. 
Full Directions. Per Package..................-..- 50c 
JOHNSON’S VITAMIN BI 
Works miracles on cacti, often bringing re- 
fractory plants into bloom. Don’t fail to use 
this wonder working solution. Our custorners 
report success, particularly when used on old 
plants. Also to stimulate new root growth 
after transplanting. 
75 Double Strength Tablets, with full in- 
structions for Cacti. Bottle.............200222200..... 50c 
CACTUS AND SUCCULENT 
SOCIETY OF AMERICA 
The Cactus and Succulent Society was organ- 
ized more than 20 years ago to bring together 
those interested in these extraordinary plants 
and to publish a magazine which would pro- 
vide a forum for the exchange of information 
and for the publishing of new species and sci- 
entific data. The Journal, under the competent 
editorship of Scott Haselton, has well achieved 
these aims, and today is the world’s foremost 
publication about these plants. 
Everyone is invited to join the Society and 
to receive this splendidly illustrated magazine. 
It has many articles on new plants, stories on 
exploration trips to new localities, articles on 
culture, news of affiliated Cactus Clubs in 
every region of the U. S. Everyone interested 
in Cacti and Succulents will continue to tind 
this a most interesting magazine. 
Membership and Journal— 
Six double issues a year................---------- $3.00 
DIAMOND JUBILEE 
CACTUS HANDBOOK 
This fall we are issuing our Diamond Jubilee 
Cactus Handbook to celebrate our 75th year in 
the nursery business. In it will be scores of 
color plates of cacti and succulents, hundreds 
of photographs and much information on cul- 
ture such as how to water, how to rest plants, 
how to get them to bloom, seed raising, soils, 
etc. Also notes on the native lands of our 
plants, where cacti are found, how they are 
named and the general lore of cacti. 
There will be listings of hundreds of inter- 
esting plants together with sizes and prices of 
available supplies. It has been more or less 
impossible in our smaller yearly catalogs to list 
many items that have been available in the past. 
Cactus Handbook. 48 pages. Orders 
taken now. Ready in Fall, 1950 
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SUPPLIES for CACTI 
Few things are needed in the growing of cacti more than interest and 
a desire to form an increasing collection of them. However, for the city 
dweller and more serious collector | am offering a few things that may 
make their culture easier. 
The things we offer are the things we our- 
JOHNSON’S CACTUS SOIL 
CONDITIONER 
Of great assistance in keeping cacti in good 
health, it is designed to add the minerals ordi- 
nary garden soils often lack. Desert soils are 
often high in mineral content, for there is little 
rain to leach them away. A spoonful of my 
Conditioner placed about a Cactus plant and 
stirred lightly into the soil will often bring an 
ailing one back to health. Mix it with your 
potting soils. 
Small Size, 10 Ounces, Postpaid_............... 60c 
Large Size, 32 Oounces, Postpaid.......... $1.00 
JOHNSON’S CACTUS COMPOST 
Mix With Your Own Sand and Soil 
An economical compost for Cacti and Succu- 
lents which when mixed with equal or larger 
quantities of both sand and light loam makes a 
very suitable soil for all desert plants. Com- 
posed of our recleaned sclerophyllous leafmold, 
lime, gypsum in the proper proportions for all 
potted cacti. A light and bulky mixture, the 
same as we use in our own potting soils for 
both seedling and specimen plants. 
Per Peck, Postpaid ..................-.-......-------- $1.95 
4 Pints or 2 Pounds to Make 6-10 715 
Quarts of Potting Soil. Postpaid_._........ c 
OUR SPECIAL CACTUS LEAFMOLD 
A recleaned, sclerophyllous desert leafmold, 
sifted, light and dry. Mixed with equal parts 
of both sand and loam, it makes a fine, eco- 
nomical cactus soil. 
Pints or 2 Pounds to Make 6-10 
4 Quarts of Potting Soil. Postpaid__....... 70¢ 
HARDWOOD CACTUS CHARCOAL 
Useful in keeping cactus soils sweet and 
aerated. Helpful in heavy soil. 
Per Quart 
CACTUS INSECTICIDES 
Our special instruction sheet describing com- 
mon cactus pests and treatment, with spray 
formulas. We recommnd Red Arrow Spray as 
effective and non-injurious to cacti or other 
house or garden plants. 
Instruction Sheet and Bottle of Red Arrow 
Spray. Postpaid 
VOLCK SPRAY. An oil spray recommended 
for any kind of scale insect and for mealy bug. 
These two insects are hard to kill as they have 
a waxy covering which repels water. We have 
used it for years, but only recently has it been 
put up in small bottles. 4-ounce bottle pre- 
paid (with orders only) with chart describing 
cactus pests. Full instructions for use_........ 50c 
BLACK ROT PREVENTIVE 
With light waterings, fresh air and sun, rot 
will not appear. If through too much watering 
plants turn black and watery its spread may be 
checked by saturating the top soil with a 
Semesan solution. It is useful also to spray tiny 
seedlings to prevent “damping off’ or rotting. 
1/3-ounce envelope, with cactus instruc- 
tions 
PLASTIC PLANT LABELS 
You may write with pencil on these labels 
and it will remain clear for years. As near a 
permanent label as | have tried. 
Pure white, 6-inch, pot labels, per 100..$1.75 
PLANT CHEM SALTS 
Cacti grown in pure sand and watered regu- 
larly with this nutrient solution make healthy 
vigorous growth. An occasional watering of al 
your house plants will supply the rare minerals 
sometimes lacking. ' 
16-gallon pkg., with full instructions......30¢ 
100-galion pkg., with full instructions..$1.10 
400-gallon pkg., with full instructions..$2.10 
