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More Christmas Gift Ideas 
number of pure whites and light blues, as well as quantities of the usual pinks, dark blues, 
dark red, the Siter's Rainbow strain of calico patterns, Cremer's Berlin Market and H. and S. 
Giants. These are all available for Christmas gifts in three-inch pots at $2.50 a dozen, and 
larger. Plan your friends’ spring beds with plants of the season's best. 
The best in Camellias is always a matter of argument 
and there is no such a thing as a complete collection 
(but our stock is especially select this year), any more 
than there is ever a complete garden (Thats’ one of the 
great pleasures of gardening). But we venture to recom- 
mend as a good beginning the following eighteen named 
varieties of Camellia japonica that you may have quan- 
tities of blossoms October through April: WHITES: Alba 
Plena—early formal, Alba Fimbriata—midseason formal, 
Finlandia—midseason informal, Pax—late formal; PINKS: 
High Hat—early double (and often a second blooming 
in spring), Debutante—midseason double, Mrs. Tingley— 
large double midseason, Pink Ball—double mid-season to late, Mrs. Howard Asper—large sin- 
gle late; ROSE: Lady Clare (Grandiflora Rosea)—all season single, Rose Dawn—mid-season 
formal; REDS: Glen Forty—informal midseason, C. M. Hovey (Col. Firey]—midseason formal, 
(4) shady character 
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Pope Pius—late formal, Te 
Deum—very late informal; 
VARIEGATED: Gigantea 
(Emperor Wilhelm)—gigan- 
tic red and white all season, 
Aurora Borealis (Finlandia 
Variegated, Margaret Jack) 
light red and white infor- 
mal midseason, and Chand- 
leri elegans — rose and 
white double all season. 
Then there is the Camel- 
lia species sasanqua, small- 
(5) whorled wonder 
er, single, in pink white 
and red, the wild roses on 
gracetully open - branched 
plants which adapt them- 
selves to walls in full sun 
or shade and bloom Sep- 
tember to Christmas. And 
in addition there is the 
Camellia reticulata whose 
peony-like flowers appear 
in late winter very large, 
single, with curled petals 
of deep rose. 
In AZALEAS, too, our horizons have expanded. Besides the usual dazzling assortment of 
BELGIAN INDICA HYBRIDS, we now otp ay all colors in the taller and faster-growing 
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single-flowered SOUTHERN INDICAS which 
Snowbird, Blushing Bride, Seraphin and Pride of Darking. 
And the old-fashioned huge-growing purples—PHOENI- 
CIA and FORMOSANA. 
A rare shrub for sun or shade is Mahonia lomarifolia 
(5), its bold cart-wheels of spiny gray-green leaves are 
arranged in layers with open spaces of slender stems and 
new cart-wheels appearing at ground level. If you want 
to give a special friend a special plant, ask us to show 
you this, or a choice Rhaphidophora decursiva (6), a slow- 
growing, large-leaved shade vine suggestive of cut-leaf 
Scindapsus (Pothos}. We can plant these for you in stylish 
simplicity of Botany Planter or sturdy redwood tubs. 
Patented (only) bare-root Roses will be in before 
ossom late into the spring — April Snow, 
tropical twiner 
Christmas. Phone us about December I5th for these. Gift certificates will secure non-pat- 
ented roses for your friends. 
Finally there will be a glasshouse overflowing with gay plants for house gifts—Pe 
Heathers, Cyclamen, Azaleas and Poinsettias, all grown indoors for indoor use. é 
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