Uakhurst’s Rare 
ACHIMENES 
Achimenes 
This year we are offering a really fine 
collection of these charming plants. Some of 
them are new to us, and all are very beautiful 
and worth while. Achimenes is related to 
the African Violets and if you can grow one 
you can grow the other, except that Achimenes 
can be grown to perfection out of doors where- 
as African Violets are strictly house plants. 
Plant the small rhizomes one inch deep in 
a porous soil such as you _would use for 
Gloxinia or Begonia. A soil rich in leaf- 
mould, peat and chopped sphagnum moss with 
no manure added is _ suitable. Place in a 
shaded location. Water sparingly until active 
growth starts. Then give more water and 
light and start to fertilize with liquid manure 
when the plants are about two inches high. 
Never allow them to become dry. They will start 
to bloom in late summer. The rhizomes are 
very small and look like some kind of seeds, 
but that has nothing to do with the quality 
of the plants. Some plants just naturally 
make large bulbs while others just as naturally 
make small ones. Delivery January to April. 
$2.00 doz. Please note that if you order less 
than six of any variety the price is 20c each. 
We can supply one each of 15 different 
varieties, each separately labelled for $3.50, or 
five varieties other than those listed above for 
$1.50. These five varieties are those we do 
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and Unusual Bulhs 
not have enough of to list, and we can not send 
description of them or tell you beforehand 
what thev will be. We send out what we hap- 
pen to have on hand at the time. 
ADELE DE LA HAUTE. The 2% inch 
flowers are shell pink shading to carmine at 
the center. Pinkish foliage. 
GIANT PANSY. 2% inch flowers of sky 
blue background Purple and yellow blotches on 
petals. Very dark foliage. 
IMPROVED EDMUND BOSSIER Veined 
blotched and dotted lilac on lighter ground with 
yellow cenzer. Two inch flowers. Prolific 
bloomer. 
LET LB aBEAU) x... OF dwarf habit with 
dark folince. 1'4 inch Salmon-cerese flowers. 
LONGIFLORA MAJOR. This is the largst 
blooming variety with 3% inch flowers that 
open out flat. The color is vivid bright blue. 
Tall grower. 
MINIATA. 2 inch flowers of velvety red. 
Yellow center. 
MARGARET. The purest white flowers 
are 2% inches across. ‘The foliage is bright, 
velvety green. 
MAXIMA. The flowers are three inches 
across, white with red veinings. Purple eye. 
PATENS. A very dwarf compact growing 
plant with overlapping foliage. The flowers 
are 1% inches in diameter and of a Fuchsia 
Red color. 
PULCHERRIMA. An easy to grow plant 
with large, bronze-purple foliage and 2% 
inch flowers of rich purple with pecoed edges. 
ACIDANTHERA MAURIELAE 
Acidanthera 
Fragrant Gladiolus 
MAURIELAE. Gladiolus like foliage. Tall, 
graceful spikes of fragrant white flowers with 
magenta throat. Useful for pot culture or in 
the flower border. Delivery January to April. 
$1.50 doz. 
