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Living gifts that keep alive the spirit of Christm “titoughoue call / 
twelve months. It happens that in California there are-.available, 
in December some of the choicest of the world’s fine plants, din 
we suggest that you make use of these as presents for your 
choicest friends. 
No design in all nature is more exotic than the hybrid Echeveria 
rosea-grandis (I), a spectacular sun-loving rosette of metallic blue- 
green with amethyst crevices and fluted margins of dusty red overlaid 
pink and bronze. In a pot of old terra cotta or an antiqued gray 
Botany planter this rare succulent will throw long stems of multicolored 
jewel-like flowers to open on Christmas Day. 
An equally amazing subject is Platycerium alcicorne, better known 
as staghorn fern (2), a handsome antler-like aerial plant that can be 
mounted on the natural stone or brick of a living room wall, or better, 
grown on a tree trunk or supporting beam of a shaded patio. It re- 
quires some moisture but little care and eventually achieves consider- 
able size and fantastic conformations. 
This year we are able to offer you southern California-grown 
Rhododendrons (3) in eight-inch pots at $4.25—the ever-popular 
Pink Pearl with bloom buds; three gallon cans of several rich reds, $7.50, also budding; and 
(1) roseas are too 
larger balled specimens 
heavily budded at $10. 
Rhododendrons aren't 
fool-proof in southern 
California and we do 
not guarantee them, 
but they are no more 
capricious than many 
subjects of which we 
have only adobe soil), lots of peat 
moss, consistent moisture, and acid- 
ity. Cottonseed meal several times 
during the growing season is ade- 
quate fertilizer, but in addition to 
this we strongly recommend aciditier 
about every four weeks from March 
through September. An occasional 
application of rontone is helpful in 
fall and winter. 
are less shy (Gardenias, 
for instance]. They do 
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LIGULARIA KAEMFERI VARIETY 
require perfect drain- ARGENTEA (4) is the answer for nu- 
age (in tubs if you merous problem spots in complete 
shade. Two and a half feet high and as much or more across this ever-handsome Japanese plant 
with round heads of yellow daisy-like flowers lights up 
boldly the darkest corner of porch or garden, in pots 
or as deep ground-cover under big-leafed tropicals. 
We have been unusually fortunate this season in un- 
earthing some extra-large years-old tubbed specimens 
of this slow-growing plant that sell at $7.50 and $12.50. 
There's always something new turning up at Evans & 
Reeves—new to our part of the world at least—and this 
year it's YELLOW Cinerarias grown by our famed Wal- 
ter Oertel from seed procured in south Germany. Fancy 
a mass of these flanked with our well-known azure blues! 
We also offer a new extra-dwarf multicolor, a limited 
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