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TLiBRARY | 
| RpeEecHEIVED | 
lv JAN3 11952 * 
| UJ. S. Department of AgricuRure 
‘ LAKEVIEW GARDENS 
BOX 20, FENTON, MICHIGAN 
In reply to your recent letter inquiring about African Violet 
plants, this is to advise you that we will have Saintpaulia grotei 
ready for shipment in small lots of not more than ten plants about 
October 15, 1951. A limited number of Saintpaulia magungensia and 
Saintpaulia tongwensia should be ready for shipment about the same 
time, 
The price of these plants is $2.50 per plant from two inch 
pots. Orders accompanied by cash or money order will be filled 
arter Octoter 15, 195liin the order:in which received and until the 
supply is exhausted, 
Recently brought from Africa, the new species, Saintpaulia 
grotei, has brown, creeping stem which grows up to two feet the 
first year, leaf stem up to ten inches long and leaves up to four 
inches across. Its light blue flowers shade to deep violet at the 
center. 
Saintpaulia magungensis has creeping and branching brown stems 
which hang down over the rim of the container. The stem may be tied 
to a stake and it will grow upright, Similiar in growth to 4 staked 
tomato, The leaves are medium green on the upper surface and pale 
greenish white on the lower and cupped downward, It has violet blue 
petals with darker centers and bright yellow anthers. 
Saintpaulia tongwensis, of which we have a very limited supply, 
has a broad pale green band along the center of each leaf parallel 
to the mid-vein in the leaf, The flowers are pale violet blue. 
Trusting that we may have the opportunity of serving you, we 
are, 
Yours very truly, 
LAKEVIEW GARDENS, 
GROWERS OF NW SPECIES OF AFRICAN VIOLETS 
