most useful handbook for all gardeners, north or south. Bulbs and all garden plants. 251 
pages. Price, $3.00. 
Enjoy Your House Plants. Excellent handbook of window gardening by Dorothy 
Jenkins and Helen Van Pelt Wilson. 238 pages. Price, $3.00. 
American Orchid Culture. Edward A. White. This is a complete handbook of Ameri- 
can Orchid Culture for both commercial and amateur growers. Most interesting accounts 
of Orchid hunting trips, in many lands, are related. 14 beautiful color plates and many 
other illustrations. A beautiful, interesting, useful book. 276 pp., $6.00. 
Greenhouse Gardening For Everyone. Ernest Chabot. Important factors are noted, 
including correct temperatures for forcing plants, bulbs, and orchids. 266 pp., $4.00. If 
you have a greenhouse, this is a necessity. 
How To Grow Rare Greenhouse Plants. A new book on greenhouse gardening by 
Ernest Chabot. Complete directions for greenhouse cuiture of 260 rare plants. Being 
non-professional or amateur, Mr. Chabot knows best an amateur’s problems and how 
to advise him. Everyone having a greenhouse should have both books. 182 pages. Illus- 
trated. $4.00. 
Geraniums. The best for amateurs on this subject. By Helen V. P. Wilson. $3.95. 
Tuberous-Rooted Begonias and Their Culture. George Otten, veteran grower of 
Tuberous Begonias, with 60 years experience. An 88-page book, with 35 excellent illus- 
trations. Price, $2.00. 
Tuberous Begonias, by Worth Brown. Mr. Brown is one of our most important 
hybridizers and wholesale growers. His book is a complete guide for the successful 
growing and propagation, outdoors or as house plants. 128 pages, illustrated. $2.75. 
Bulbs For Beauty. Charles H. Mueller. 296 pages, illustrated. Experienced gardeners 
will gain new information about bulb culture from this book. Price, $3.50. 
How To Grow Orchids. By Cecil Houdyshel. A 12-page pamphlet, no illustrations, 
carefully explains requirements of easily grown orchids. Price, 25c. 
How to Grow Cattleya orchids and a few others is told briefly in our 1949 Orchid 
Price List. The listings are now all cancelled. Price, 15c. 
The Complete Book of African Violets. By Helen Van Pelt Wilson. This is completely 
new and gives best information on hundreds of varieties. 29 Saintpaulias are shown in 
full color. 256 pages, fully illustrated. $2.95. 
The African Violet, Saintpaulia. This is Mrs. Wilson’s first book and the first book 
published on Saintpaulias. It is one of the best. Revised. We have only 3 copies and reduce 
the price from $2.75 to $1.75. 
How To Grow African Violets. By Carolyn Rector. 94 pages, paper-board covers. 
Illustrated. How to pollinate, hybridize, grow from seed or leaf cuttings, prepare soils, 
control pests and diseases, groom plants for show, etc., by a real grower. $1.35. 
Trees For American Gardens, by Dr. Donald Wyman of Arnold Arboratum. Illus- 
trated. 376 pages. If interested in the most beautiful trees and the proper ones for your 
conditions, you need this book. $7.50. 
The Wise Garden Encyclopedia. By a group of American authorities. Edited by 
E. L. D. Seymour. 1,380 pages. Profuse illustrations, 64 pages in color. Price, $5.00. 
Please note. Book prices are being advanced and we cannot guarantee above prices 
to continue long. Best to order promptly. 
A to Z On Fuschias. 136 pp. Cloth bound. Illustrations, some in color. 700 varieties 
described. $3.00. 
Garden Supplies 
Postage Extra is necessary on several items below. The weight when packed is given 
on these items. It is clearly stated that you must send the postage when you order. Many 
do not and we must write for it. This loses time and expense for both of us. Please do 
not order such items unless you include the postage. 
Here is how to find cost of postage. We are very near Los Angeles. Call your P. O. 
and ask the cost of postage on the packed weight given, from your P.O. to Los Angeles. 
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