Fantastic Gardens 
R. G. Wilson 
9550 S. W. 67TH AVENUE 
SOUTH MIAMI 43, FLA. 
GESNERIAD LIST 1953 
| know you folks will have lots of questions pertaining to 
these new plants and | wish | could answer them all fully, but 
at the present time | am not able to publish the complete cat- 
alog that both you and | would like. Any public library should 
have Bailey’s Cyclopedia of Horticulture and | am referring to 
this constantly for tips on culture and suggest that you do the 
same thing. And this brings up also the subject of names. We 
are trying our best to avoid confusion, but to straighten out 
the existing confusion is not only difficult, but in some cases, 
impossible. We have changed a few names this year, putting 
last year’s names (or synonyms) in parentheses. 
In most cases the plants we ship are out of 2'4’’ pots and 
have been grown to the maximum size for this pot. In some 
few cases, where the plant is naturally a large grower, they 
are from 3’’ and occasionally 4’’ pots. You should be pre- 
pared when receiving shipment to plant them in a larger 
container. 
GENERAL TERMS: Cash with order. We ship Prepaid by 
Parcel Post on all orders of $3.00 or more to any point in the 
United States. On orders of less than $3.00, please include 
50¢ to cover cost of postage, packing and handling. Certain 
of these plants rest after flowering, and if your order arrives 
when they are dormant, we will supply bulbs or tubers. 
In the event that the rumored increase of 33 1/3% in postal 
rates becomes effective, we will be unable to absorb this 
additional expense as we are already handling these plants 
at a minimum of profit. If this should come about, we will 
have to ask 75¢ on orders less than $3.00 and an additional 
5% of the total cost of the plants on all other orders. 
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