


Holmes Butterfly $2.50 
Amazing New Holmes Hibiscus Giant! 
New BUTTERFLY—Golden King of the new race of 
SUPER Hibiscus! Destined to rule your garden too! Nurtured 
in Holmes Dyna-Gro Compost, its vigorous stamina brings 
you giant blooms 5 to 6 in. across, 21% to 3 in. deep, filled with 
40 to 50 lacy petals. Our 3-yr. Butterfly has up to two dozen 
blooms at a time. Get it! In all sizes listed on page 10. 
HOLMES DYNA-GROW CULTURED 
BUSH-FUL HIBISCUS 
Now! Combine all the beauty and bloom of 
Entire Rose and Camellia Gardens in 
a Single Plant! 
eBush-Ful Hibiscus—Most Vigorous Growers, Prolific 
Bloomers in all the South! 
@One Holmes Bush-Ful Hibiscus Equals the Beauty and 
Blooms of dozens of Rose or Camellia plants! 
@More than 10 months of continuous bloom per year. 
Single Plants produce thousands of flowers, often 20 or 
more every day for 300 days. 
@Holmes Giant Varieties—Blooms up to 9 in. across, 
growth up to 8 feet in 3 years! 
@Holmes Daintee Varieties—Blooms tiny as 3 in., maxi- 
mum growth under 6 feet! 
In this 1951 Holmes catalog of Tampa’s BEAUTY 
SECRETS you may find many of the same varieties 
offered by chains and others. But there the resemblance 
ends! 
Hibiscus of the same name can be just as unlike as T- 
Bone steaks! Where the cheap steak is tough, and the 
good steak is tender, you trace the difference to the way 
the beef was fed and grown. It’s identically the same with 
Hibiscus—you, the purchaser, get out of it exactly what 
we, the grower, put into it! 
Holmes BUSH-FUL Hibiscus get their over-abundant 
blooming vigor, their prolific growing habit, their con- 
sistently great flower size and beauty from years of feed- 
ing on Holmes DYNA-GRO Hibiscus Compost, the al- 
most magic plant food in which they spend their entire 
life in our nursery. 
This is the only reason Holmes BUSH-FUL Hibiscus 
can be factually described. What you find in our catalog 
descriptions YOU CAN SEE in the mature ‘mother’ 
plants any time, any day, in our Nursery. Come visit us— 
we're always elad to show you around. 


HOLMES APEX HIBISCUS 
Originated in Holmes Nurseries $3.00 
Banishes all reason for disappointment in your gardening 
efforts! Lusty grower—this size usually turns into 4 to 5-foot 
bushes of startlingly brilliant bloom 2 years after planting in 
Holmes Hibiscus Compost! Huge single petals—flowers 41% 
to 5 in. across. Native of Tampa! 
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COPYRIGHT 1950 JACK O. HOLMES, INC. PRINTED IN U.S.A. 
