BLETILLA 
HYACINTHINA 
Bletilla 
Chinese Ground Orchid 
HYACINTHINA. A very attractive ground 
orchid that is hardy except perhaps in_ the 
extreme North. Plant in the late fall or 
winter in a sunny location with lots of leafmould 
and peat mixed into a sandy loam. It will 
appreciate a top dressing of manure in the 
winter. Provide light shade if grown in 
pots. Six to ten flowers of a rosy-purple 
color on a 14” stem in early spring. Pleated 
foliage. Fall and winter delivery. 75¢ ea. 
Billbergia 
Bird of Paradise 
These are bromeliads, air plants, related 
to the pineapple. They naturally grow on 
trees like orchids but under cultivation seem 
to thrive under any and all conditions. They 
may be grown in sand, peat, leafmould, moss, 
osmunda fiber or any comination of these 
ingrediants. The main point to consider is 
that they must have perfect drainage. They 
may be grown on limbs of trees or may be 
tied to a piece of rustic wood with sphagnum 
moss and hung. They like filtered sunlight 
or light shade, overhead watering and not too 
wet at the roots. They hold water in the 
rosette of leaves and use it from there rather 
than from the roots. These cultural conditions 
apply to all bromeliads we list in this catalog 
unless otherwise ‘noted elsewhere. Delivery 
anytime. 
NOTE—AII bromeliads are mailed dry and 
bareroot. Occasionally they will come without 
any roots but will form roots soon after 
being planted. 
AMOENA. A dwarf variety with brilliant 
orange-scarlet bracts. Flowers deepest blue. 
Well established plants will bloom thruout 
the summer. $1.50 ea. 
AMOENA X RUBRO-CYANEA. A _ new 
hybrid combining the brilliant color of amoena 
with the attractive foliage of Rubro--Cyanea. 
May bloom at any time. $1.50 ea. 
BURKHOLTZI. Tall, light green foliage. 
Rose bracts and lavender flowers. Rare. 
$2.50 ea. 
CALOPHYLLA. (Red, white and blue). 
Foliage wide, bronzy green heavily barred trans- 
versely with gray. Blood red bracts, white 
ovary and dark blue flowers. Everblooming. 
A grand house plant. $1.50 ea. 
DISTACHIA. Long, pointed foliage heavily 
spotted cream. Tall pendant flowers appear 
in the spring. Bracts deep rose, flowers blue 
and green. 50¢ ea. 
EUPHEMIAE. A sstoloniferus_ plant that 
is ideal for hanging baskets. Wide, reflexed 
blue green leaves 12 inches high. The powdery 
bracts are rose followed by violet colored 
large flowers. $2.00 ea. 
NUTANS. This is the 
grown everywhere in Southern California. 
Narrow leaves. Compact grower. Winter 
bloomer. Bracts light pink. Flowers blue 
and green on pendant stem. 50¢ ea. 
NUTANS X ALBERTI. Very long, strap 
shaped deep green leaves which turn purplish 
common variety 
bronze in the sun. Flower stems sometimes 
nearly three feet long. Bracts bright red. 
Flowers deep purple. A very thrifty grower 
and a fine pot plant. Spring bloomer. 
NOBILE. Largest of the varieties listed, 
both in foliage and flower. The leaves are 
wide, stiff and deep green. The pendant 
flower stem hangs over the side and the tips 
of the flowers touch the ground. The bracts 
are brilliant rose, wide-spread and a_ foot 
across. The tassel of closely packed flowers 
are yellowish green and the petals are tightly 
recurved. Rare. $3.50 ea. 
RUBRO-CYANEA. A _ cross of .B. 
and B. Saundersi. 
$1.50 ea. 
Nutans 
Red bracts and deep blue 
flowers. Spring and summer bloomer. Foliage 
variable, mostly bronzy with cream _ spotting. 
$1.00 ea. 
SPECIOSA X NUTANS. prolific grower. 
Attractive foliage. Pink bracts and yellowish 
flowers in late spring. $1.00 ea. 
THEODORE L. MEADE. A lovely variety 
produced by this well known Florida horti- 
culturist but although widely grown all over 
Southern California has never had a_ name. 
We are taking the liberty of naming it after 
the breeder. A luxurious grower with low 
spreading shiney foliage and huge pendant 
spikes of flowers. Pink bracts and green an 
blue flowers. Superb plant for hanging basket 
culture. Everblooming habit. $1.50 ea. 
THYRSIFLORA HYBRIDS. A cross be- 
tween B. Thyrsiflota and B. Amoena. We 
believe this is the finest of all hybrid bill- 
bergias to date. Light green to bronzy, wide, 
upright leaves. Stem stiff and upright. Large 
rosettes of scarlet bracts and violet flowers. 
Winter and summer blooming. $1.50 ea. 
SAUNDERSI. A very striking foliage plant 
with purplish bronze leaves heavily spotted 
cream. Bracts bright red. Flowers blue. 
$1.50 ea. 
