PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING 
(Being Conditions of Sale) 
SEEDS, plants and other materials are forwarded as ready, 
and are offered subject to arrival or harvest. Minimum size 
acceptable order is One Dollar for seeds, or Two Dollars for 
plants and bulbs. Add 25 cents as a handling charge if you 
must order less than these amounts, otherwise we take an 
actual loss. Remittances should be by money order or postal 
note when possible. Please do not use a personal check in 
paying for any order if less than Two Dollars value. If you 
send actual cash, any loss is yours, so better register the letter. 
Seeds and books are quoted postpaid, but bulbs and plants 
are offered express shipment, collect for shipping charges. 
If you want plants or bulbs by mail, add to your remittance 
for postage and mail packing on basis of 10% for shipments 
to points east of the Mississippi, and of 15% for points west 
of the river. 
I try to send out only good seeds, bulbs and plants, but since 
I have no contro] over the purchaser’s degree of knowledge 
and skill, nor over climate or the weather of the particular 
season, I cannot be responsible for any results dependent on 
such factors. 
GUARANTEE—Seeds, bulbs or plants that we supply must 
reach customer in good, growable condition. We always pack 
carefully, and most shipments do go through in excellent 
shape. If, for any reason, yours does not, report to us promptly 
and we will either replace without charge, or make other 
satisfactory adjustment. This applies, on bulbs and plants, 
only to forwardings made during regular shipping seasons, 
as given in next paragraph. 
PLANT SHIPPING SEASONS—We send out bulbs and plants 
during three spring months (April, May and June), and 
again during three autumn months (September, October and 
November). Safe arrival guarantee covers shinments made 
during these two periods. If you want plants or bulbs shipped 
during other parts of the year, the risk of damage from heat 
or cold, must be yours, not ours. We do find, though, that 
winter shipments of plants by railway express usually get 
through safely, and we always try to pack carefully. 
REX. D. PEARCE 
Moorestown New Jersey 
PLANT ORDERS are filled in rotation when shipping season 
opens, each in its turn according to date of receipt. You see 
plant orders come in year around, while we can ship only 
part of the year. We are as anxious to send your plants as 
you are to receive them, but we can’t fill all orders at once. 
For early shipment, then, send an early order. Our hardy 
plants are outside-grown, and in some years it is close to the 
middle of April before we can start digging and packing 
them, but there is a lot of planting time after that. In most 
parts of the north, plants can be safely moved until at least 
middle of June. Actually in our own work at the Nursery we 
do a good bit of planting in late June. 
PLANT FINDER 
To help you in picking out plants suited to particular uses 
or purposes, we put key numerals before the names, meanings 
as given here. 
1—Plants winter-hardy outside at Philadelphia, stems not 
woody. The hardy herbaceous perennials. Does not include 
bulbs. 
2—Frost-tender plants for pot culture in window or green- 
house, or for temporary outdoor planting in summer. 
Mostly herbaceous, but includes a few low, woody kinds. 
8—Bulbs and bulb-like plants. Degree of hardiness, with 
uses and needs usually given in description. 
4—-Shrubs, trees or woody vines. Use and relative hardiness 
given in description. 
5—Annual plants. Here are the quick annual flowers that 
come into bloom within a few weeks of sowing, and live 
only One season. 
Philadelphia is taken as the determining point of hardiness. 
Plants tender at Philadelphia, may, of course, be of full 
hardiness in milder climates, and the reverse is also true. 
Judge then, by the relation of your climate to that of south- 
eastern Pennsylvania. 


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2 THE SCARLET ORCHID 
Here is a beautiful true Orchid, Epiden- 
drum O’Brienianum, that handles well as a 
pot plant under window conditions. Brilliant 
scarlet blossoms in big spray-clusters, lip 
touched with orange yellow. Illustrated op- 
posite. Pinch plants back occasionally to 
keep them bushy. Per pkt. 40c. Can also 
supply plants, good single-stem that should 
bloom within a few months at each $1.15; 
3 for $3.25. 

2 WELDENIA CANDIDA 
Hy A rare beauty of Mexican mountains. 
UV! From rosettes of glossy, succulent foliage 
come for months on end a succession of 
snowy white 3-petal flowers. Grow as a pot plant North. 4 
seeds for 25c; 30 for $1.00. 
1 THE HARDY WATER LILIES 
Fully winter-hardy sorts 
that may be left right 
outside in the pool year 
after year. Illustrated op- 
posite. Good strong plants. 
ATTRACTION — Great 
blossoms of rich mahog- 
any red. Each $8.00. 
PINK OPAL—Lovely 
deep pink. Fragrant. Does 
well in small pool or tub. 
Each $1.50. PAUL HARI- 
OT—Opens apricot yel- 
low, becoming orange 
pink. Will thrive in tub 
or small pool. Each $2.75. 
GLADSTONE —A pure 
white lily of great size. 
Bach $2.50. PINK 
CHARM—A delightful, fragrant, appleblossom pink. Each 
$1.25. GOLDEN CUP—Chrome to golden yellow. A profuse 
bloomer. Each $2.50. Water Lilies shipped by express only. 

KEY-LETTER EXPLANATION 
b—Suitable for the hardy border. 
c—The flowers cut well. 
d—Will grow in rather dry soils. 
e—Of easy culture for the beginner, if key letter and other 
directions are followed. 
g—Ground cover or carpeting plant. 
i—Useful for low edgings. 
ji—Soak seed before sowing. 
k—Sow in early spring while soil is cool. 
kt—As in ‘k’’, but may also be sown in latest fall. 
p—For pavements, step-crevices or walls. 
r—Of value in rock garden. 
s—Prefers shade. 
st—Tolerant of either light shade or sun. 
w—Sow in heat, in sunny window, frame or conservatory. 
x—Sow in spring or summer, up to September. If sown in 
heat of summer, be sure seedbed is shaded. 
y—Sow in late autumn or even in early winter, in open 
ground beds or unheated frames, germination to take 
place in spring. These are seeds that need cold to start 
them, not heat. May usually be sown in early spring also, 
providing they have been stratified, or have received 
refrigerator treatment. Cultural folder sent with seeds, 
gives directions for this. 
yt—Seeds so marked should be sown in late autumn or earliest 
spring in outdoor seedbed. If sown too late in spring, 
they may lie dormant until following year. 
z—Requires winter protection. 
NUMERALS IN PARENTHESES indicate season and dura- 
tion of bloom, as follows: (1) early spring, (2) late spring 
and early summer, (3) summer, (4) late summer and early 
autumn, (5) all autumn, (6) late autumn, (7) winter, (8) 
tends to be ever-blooming, (9) grown for fruit, form or 
foliage, rather than flowers) NUMERAL FOLLOWING 
PARENTHESES indicates normal mature height in inches 
(or in feet if so specified) under good culture. 
OTHER KEY-LETTERS—For explanation of any key-letters 
or symbols not listed above, see page one of our 1948 or 1949 
catalogs. These are keys of lesser importance. 
