IT’S TIME FOR... CHRISTMAS 
And Christmas gifts—tfor holiday host- 
esses, acquaintances, business and social, 
that difficult friend of the family, and best 
of all one's choicest friends. LIVING GIFTS 
CAN BE THE ANSWER to them all, plants 
which will remind the recipient of the don- 
or many times throughout next year. 
For friends with new homes or old gar- 
dens being restyled, allow us to help you 
select the exact tree or shrub for the spot 
considered. A SOMEWHAT SHADED 
TERRACE MAY CALL FOR A GROUP 
OF HOLLIES — ENGLISH, WILSON'S, 
CHINESE OR BURFORD, all different but 
attractive together, of varying height, leaf 
shape, luster and berrying habits, all $1.25 
to $10 with slight addition for fancy gift 
wrap. AN ALTERNATE FOR THIS SITU- 
ATION IS THE EVER INCOMPARABLE 
CAMELLIA of palest pink, formal red, pas- 
tel stripe, gaudy variegated or purest 
white, single like a water lily or double as 
a pom pom, from $2.50 in one gallon, from 
$7.50 in five gallon. 
TO ANOTHER FRIEND ALSO WITH 
HIGH-SHADED PATIO YOU MAY GIVE 
ONE OR MORE OF THE MAHONIA 
SPECIES—Oregon Holly Grape is the 
commonest but still a descriminating choice 
among ornamentals. Two real aristocrats in 
the genus are MAHONIA BEALI with 
stiffly glossy larger leaves, and an even 
larger addition of yellow spiked blossoms 
in spring followed by navy blue fruit; and 
M. LOMARIFOLIA whose leaves are ele- 
gantly cut, spined, and arranged in gray- 
green whorls, both $5. 
A third friend has a similar garden he 
or she is developing BUT THIS PERSON 
YOU KNOW PREFERS THE TROPICAL 
LOOK. FOR HIM YOU MAY CHOOSE 
FROM PHILODENDRON EVANSII with 
its great elephant-ear leaves equally dra- 
matic in pot or open ground, from $7.50; 
PHILODENDRON SELLOUM, the vigor- 
ous lobed-leaved giant, from $2.50; 
PSEUDOPANAX; NOTHOPANAX; DISY- 
GOTHECA (Aralia) ELEGANTISSIMA with 
its purplish green fine-cut foliage and verti- 
cal stems—tfrom $5; the green and white 
striped formality of DRACAENA WER- 
NECKE, from $2.50; the Kelly-green lush- 
ness of HELICONIA, $5, so complimentary 
to the great round leaves of the WERCK- 
LEA INSIGNIS, $7.50: and the ever-in- 
creasing beauty, also golden green, of 
cibotium chamissoi, the regal high-plumed 
HAWAIIAN TREE FERN, from $7.50. To 
those with deep shade give CYCLAMEN 
($2.50 up) for winter bloom and CLIVIA 
tor late winter and spring — trom $2.50, 
SUN-DRENCHED TERRACES MAY BE 
LIGHTED UP ON CHRISTMAS MORN- 
ING WITH a great clump of magnificent 
BIRD OF PARADISE (Strelitzia reginae) 
with its orange and blue beak-like flowers, 
$35. for a really showy old plant (and from 
$6.50), arresting potted or bedded in 
an island of Festuca glauca (blue-gray 
clumping grass); flanked with KALAN- 
CHOE BEHARENSIS, the exotic Felt 
Plant ($7.50, five gallon) and sword-like 
New Zealand Flax (PHORMIUM) in gray- 
green, bronze or red, $4 to $10. 
MANY OF US HAVE FRIENDS WHO 
ARE AZALEA COLLECTORS, and no 
flowering shrub offers greater challenge to 
the grower, from late September to June, 
in dwarf, medium and tall shrubs, from 
mostly shade to mostly sun! They want 
perfect drainage and some acidity. Colors 
include reds, pinks, salmons, lavenders and 
white, single and double, early, midseason 
and late, from $1.85 to $8.50. 
APARTMENT DWELLERS AND THOSE 
WHOSE LIVING ROOMS AND LANAIS 
NEED BRIGHTENING WILL RECEIVE 
THROUGH EVANS AND REEVES AT 
LEAST TWO EXQUISITE TROPICAL 
PLANTS NOWHERE ELSE AVAILABLE— 
THE GREAT PARASOL-LEAVED MACA- 
RANGA GRANDIFOLIA, from $3, of in- 
credible speed of growth and _ startling 
form, especially successful in sunny en- 
closed porches; AND PHILODENDRON 
WENDIMBE, which adapts to more limited 
space—say a coffee table in a not large 
room—a stunning composition of narrow 
diagonal leaves from a common center, 
subtly shaded in greens. 
Of course we offer too the TRADITION- 
AL POTTED SUBJECTS OF THE SEA- 
SON, TOOLS OF MAINTENANCE — 
good shears, pruners, rakes, scissors, hoes, 
hose reels, gloves, grass-catchers, watering 
cans, special food for special plant, as well 
as BOOKS, BEAUTIFUL AND PRACTI- 
CAL. Furthermore if your time doesn't 
permit personal gift selection, phone us to 
mail GIFT CERTICATES or use our new 
SHOPPING SERVICE. Poe G: 
