crimson rose, yellow, apricot, salmon, orange, scarlet. 30c ea. One var. or 
assorted, $3.00/doz. One each of 9 colors, in one bag, for $2.50. 
Giant Double Picotee. Also similar to Camellia Flowered but petals are 
edged white. 5 colors, pink, rose, salmon, apricot, red. 30c ea., $3.00/ doz., one 
kind or assorted. 5 colors, one of ea. in one bag, $1.40. 
Double Hanging Basket or Lloydi. Smaller, double fls. on pendulant 
stems. Nice in pots, hanging baskets or rock gardens. 9 colors, red, white, 
rose, scarlet, pink, orange, yellow, salmon, apricot. 30c ea. $3.00/doz. for one 
var. or assorted. One of each 9 colors in one bag, for $2.50. 
Giant Single Crispa or Frilled. Very large, profusely frilled and ruffled, 
single flowers. 9 colors, red, rose, scarlet, pink, salmon, apricot, yellow, 
orange, white. 30c ea. $3.00/doz. one var. or mixed. The 9 colors in one bag 
for $2.50. 
Giant Single Marginata. This is a two toned crispa type in 2 colors, white, 
edged pink, and salmon, edged scarlet. Either color, 35c ea. $3.50/doz.. You 
may have 6 of each at doz. rate. 
Giant Single Cristata. Derived from Crispa but less frilled. Each petal 
bears a coxcomb-like crest. Very new and novel. Assorted colors, 35c, 
$3.50/doz. 
Hollyhock Begonias. Single, mallow pink flowers along a single stem, 
as in Hollyhock. They make only small tubers. 45c ea., $4.25/doz. 
Complete Collection of above, one of each type and color, 47 varieties 
for $12.75. 
Named Varieties. (Illustrated in Life.) Red Triumph, pure deep red, 
ruffled Camellia type; Rose Dawn, large rose pink, ruffled. Like a full blown 
rose; Sunset, profusely frilled Crispa type, light copper with scarlet edge; 
Autumn Glow, extremely large, often 10” wide, Cristata type. The crests are 
deep copper color contrasting with the apricot flower. Foliage is the most 
attractive and luxuriant of Tub. Begonias. Prices. These are all large tubers. 
The usual price has been $2.00 each or more. Our special price this year is 
$1.00 ea. All four for $3.85. If you order all these and the collection above 
listed, we will include free, one tuber of Begonia evansiana, hardy in Calif. 
and even colder climates, but not too cold. Total cost $16.50. 
THE ORCHID FAMILY — Orchidaceae 
Many of the plants we grow in our flower gardens have been known 
and perhaps cultivated for 2000 years or more. But the successful cultivation 
of tropical epiphytic orchids is a comparatively recent achievement. Epiden- 
drum cochleatum was the first to be flowered and exhibited in England in 
1791. Marshall P. Wilder grew, flowered and exhibited the first one, Oncidium 
flexuosum, in America in 1837. 
It required many years of experimenting before practical methods of 
culture under artificial conditions could be developed. 
But look at them now. Any gardener may grow a few orchids and very 
many do. We can tell you only briefly here as to culture. For fuller dis- 
cussions consult the following, which are listed in Garden Reference books. 
Our pamphlet, “How To Grow Orchids,” 25¢c. Our 1949 Orchid Price List 
containing, “How To Grow Cattleyas,”’ 10c. White’s “American Orchid 
Culture,” beautifully illustrated in color, $6.00. Chabot’s ‘““Greenhouse Garden- 
ing for Everyone,” $4.00, which all who have a small greenhouse should own. 
Bailey’s “Cyclopedia of Horticulture,” 3 vols. $37.50. This work tells you 
how to grow practically every cultivated plant. 
Orchids cannot be shipped by parcel post before April 1, to the colder 
states. It is a hazard for us to send that way in winter except to So. Calif. 
and to deep south. Most of them will go safely by express, anywhere, if you 
can arrange to call at your express office at once when they arrive. Most of 
them will survive temperatures down to almost 33°, but it is better to order 
them and tell us to ship when positively safe. This may be as late as April 1 
to the north or even later to very cold states. . 
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