IT’S TIME FOR.... 
Oriental Magnolias (ten named varieties 
—see front page}, budded Loquats (two 
varieties), bareroot Roses, Acacias (numer- 
ous species), late spring and summer bulbs, 
flat stock fill-ins, winter blooming succu- 
lents, and certain broad-leafed evergreen 
shrubs soon to add color to the winter 
garden. 
Our BARE-ROOT ROSES ($1.25 to $3) 
are as always the best quality, and we 
have tried more than ever to stock most 
heavily those named varieties which do 
best in the areas from Beverly Hills to the 
sea—those varieties most free from mil- 
dew and which bloom best with not too 
high summer temperatures. We call your 
attention particularly to the new Chrysler 
Imperial, a fragrant red which seems to 
pertorm, like Peace, most anywhere. The 
polyantha is a dwarf bush rose with smali 
flowers in clusters — China Doll (pink) 18 
inches or Pinkie (light pink) 15 to 20 
inches. Polyanthas may be low (Pinocchio, 
salmon, 24 to 30 inches) or quite tall 
(Floradora, orange-red, four feet) because 
they were originally crosses between poly- 
anthas and hybrid teas. Outstanding flori- 
bundas which are always scarce include the 
incomparable Pink Rosette $1.75, Rose Elf 
$1.25, Ma Perkins $2.25, and Baby Cha- 
teau $1.25, all pink; and Easter Parade, 
multicolor, $2. 
Any LOQUAT is ornamental and _ its 
leaves are prized in flower arrangement, 
but the fruit of seedlings is mediocre. Our 
budded varieties produce quantities of de- 
licious pear-shaped yellow fruits that are 
a real addition to the diet, fresh or jellied. 
Advance’ ripens a little earlier than 
Champagne.’ ($8.) 
ACACIAS are blooming early this year 
and we can give you A. Baileyana and A. 
saligna in $12.50 to $17.50 sizes as well 
as the customary one gallon and five gallon 
cans ($1 and $4 respectively). A. saligna 
is a wide-leafed species with handsome 
bark and extra-large flowers late in the 
season. By careful choosing one may have 
Acacias in bloom from early December 
into April or later. And A. saligna and A. 
pycnantha make handsome quick small 
trees for small gardens that are not too 
wet. There are still other Acacias that 
grow as shrubs; A. vestita is one of the 
smallest and most choice. (Mostly $4.) 
Timely bulbs include GLADIOLUS, sep- 
arate colors, $1 per dozen; giant AMA- 
RYLLIS (Hippeastrum), $1 apiece, $11 a 
dozen; SPREKELIA FORMOSISIMA  (Ja- 
cobean lily), blood red, summer-blooming, 
low-growing, 75 cents apiece, $7.50 a 
dozen; and all the true LILIES—L. Henryi, 
L. tigrinum, L. rubrum, L. regale, and the 
incomparable L. auratum (Gold Band lily), 
all 40 cents apiece, $4 per dozen. 
In addition to the Snaps, Stocks, Iceland 
Poppies and Pansies already established in 
your garden, some of them gaily blooming 
we hope, add now for fill in and diversity 
NEMESIA, SCABIOSA, CORNFLOWERS, 
LARKSPUR, AGATHEA, and ENGLISH 
DAISY. And don't forget good old sweet 
ALYSSUM—set it in large bunches, bloom- 
ing out of a flat; you can thin it out later 
when slower things spread out. Or give 
your soon-to-bloom bulbs a foreplanting 
of white swatches. 
Don't overlook the winter-blooming suc- 
culents—red-hot pokers of ALOE ARBOR- 
ESGENSt$4> exotic. rosettes note came 
VERIA ROSEA-GRANDIS, $6.85; and E. 
SAN FERNANDO, $7.50; a ground cover 
or hanging basket of butter-yellow 
OTHONNA CRASSIFOLIA ($1.25 a dozen 
from flats), and endless others. No place 
will you find a more alluring array of cacti 
and exotic succulents. 
The Geralton Wax Flower, CHAMAE. 
LAUCIUM UNCINATUM, is now in. full 
glory with myriads of waxy pink and white 
tlowers in appearance. A sturdy, fine-leafed 
shrub of extended blooming period, it pro- 
duces delicate flowers of longest lasting 
qualities. $4. 
A very few of the lesser known broad- 
leated shrubs appropriately planted at this 
season are RONDELETIA CORDATA and 
R. AMOENA, both tall salmon-flowered 
subjects with opposite leaves, the former 
smooth green and the latter wrinkled and 
ribbed with bronze, both for half a day's 
sun in not too frosty areas; RAPHIOLEPIS 
INDICA RUBRA, the new almost red In- 
dian hawthorne, rare grafted plants, $3 in 
one gallon cans; MAKAYA BELLA, a 
black-green shrub for espalier or back- 
ground in real shade, handsome Wistaria- 
colored flowers in spring, $1.25 and $4; 
CORDYLINETAUS TALIS SATR@PUR: 
PUREA, the bronze-leafed Dracaena, most 
arresting and very cold hardy, $1.25 and 
$4; the ever-adaptable MELIANTHUS MA- 
JOR which brings big tropical leaves into 
the sun, and maroon flowers in February, 
$4; and the showy SENECIO PETASITIS 
with its large wooly leaves and great red- 
stemmed heads of bright gold blossoms, 
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