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SPRING BULBS 
ACIDANTHERA 
(Abyssinum Gladiolus) 
BICCLOR MUHIELAE. Although not a 
true Gladiolus, this novelty resembles it 
very closely and should be handled in the 
same manner. The white flowers with 
purple blotch have a distinctive fragrance, 
Easily grown, produces bulblets like Glad- 
iolus and is a good propagator. Each 25¢; 
Dozen $2.00; 100, $10.00; 1,000, $65.00. 
TUBEROUS BEGONIAS 
Select Strain of the very. best colors. 
DOUBLE CAMELLIA FLOWERED. Red, 
scarlet, pink, salmon, orange, copper, 
yellow, white, in seperate colors or all 
colors mixed. Each Doz 
112-2 inches diameter 3D $3.00 
2 inches and up -40 3.50 
GLOXINIAS 
BLANCHE DE MERU. Pinkish rose, white 
throat. 
EMPESOi FAEDERICK. Scarlet, 
border. 
EMPEROR WILLIAM. 
edge. 
ETOILE DE FEU. Carmine-red. 
FIRE KING. Brillant red. 
MONT BLANC. Pure white. 
TIG INA. (Pointille). Spotted and stained 
hybrids. 
VIOLACEA. Violet-blue. 
Your choice of any Variety or a mixture 
of ali colors. Top size, 2’’ diameter and 
up. Each 45¢; Dozen $4.50; 100, $25.00 
Ist Size: Each, 35¢; Dozen $3.20; 100, $20.00 
CALADIUMS 
Caladium Esculentum. (Elephant’s Ears) 
9-11” cir. Each 59¢; Dozen $3.75; 100, $30.00 
7’-9” cir. Each 40¢; Dozen $3.40; 100, $20.00 
FANCY LEAVED CALADIUM. Rich or- 
amental leaves, marbled, veined and 
striped with white, pink and dark red. 
22 inch aud up, diam. Each 50¢; Doz. $4.50; 
100, $35.00. 
2-2 inch diam. Each 50¢: Doz. $4.00; 106, 
$30.00. 
CALLAS  Richdrdia 
ALBA MACULATA. Baby White Calla, 
with spotted leaves. 114-2 inch diam. 
Each 35¢; Doz. $3.00; 100, $16.00 
ELLIOTTIANA. Large yellow. 2-215” diam. 
Each 40j¢ Dozen $4.25; 100, $18.00 
REHMANNI SUPERBA. Pink Calla. 
2” up. Ea. 60¢; Dozen $5.00; -00, $22.00 
TUBEROSES 
SINGLE MEXICAN. 4-6” cir. 
Dozen $1.40; 100, $12.00. 
DOUBLE, DWARF PEARL. 
25¢; Dozen $1.60; 100, $9.50. 
ZEPHYRANTHES 
AJAX (Zephyr Lily) Canary yellow, 
blooms in August. Each 25¢; Doz. $2.00; 
100, $11.00. 
PRICES ARE PREPAID: = 
HARRY E. SAIER 
Dimondale, Michigan. 
white 
Deep blue, white 
Each 25¢; 
4-6” cir. Each 
PLANT YOUR OWN GARDEN 
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to perfection. Those who have poultry 
should never overlook the green-food item, 
not only during the summer, when sucn 
vegetables as Swiss Chard can be grown but 
also Mangles for winter; how the hens like 
their mangles! a 
The garden soil should not only be man- 
ured but more important, it should be at 
all times protected from the hot sun, tramp- 
ing, over watering with hard water, etc. 
Part of every garden should lay idle one 
year, during which all grass and weeds 
should be mowed a couple inches above the 
surface and then allowed to remain as a 
mulch. Even fruit trees can be given sey- 
eral light mulches during the summer even 
where you maintain a lawn under them. 
Foods raised from such soil can be either 
dried, frozen, canned or kept in storage as 
dry roots. all making excellent food if pro- 
duced properly to begin with. ‘ 
So this year start to grow your own food 
and to grow it on proper soil. 
CLARENDON GARDENS OPENING 
We intended giving some space to the 
opening of the Clarendon Gardens at Pine- 
hurst, North Carolina but space in this issue 
being so short, we have to carry over several 
interesting articles to the next issue and in 
the meantime we may be able to have some 
pictures of their garden. Any of our read- 
ers driving South or returning from the 
South and near Pinehurst should make them 
a visit; they will be welcomed. 
ELATUS: ee-LAY-tus; tall. 
FALCATUS: fal-KAY-tus; — sickle-shape. 
FERTILIS: FER-til-iss; fruitful. 
FILIFORMIS: fil-if-FORM-iss;_thread-like. 
WINTER FLOWERING PLANTS FOR OUT 
DOOR BORDERS. $1.75 
Cultural details of trees and _ shrubs, 
bulbs that flower outdoors in the British 
Isles during the winter months. 123 pp. 20 
pp. plates, 4 in color, London, 1947. This 
book should be of special interest to those 
in the Southern States. 
Mich. 
HARRY E. SAIER -- Dimondaie, 
Tropical Rarities 
MIAMI SUPREME GARDINIA 
PEDILANTHUS, BRYOPHYLLUM 
DRACAENA, WHITE HAWAIIAN 
GINGER LILY, VARIEGATED 
CROTON, IXORA, BILBERGIA, 
HOUSE PALM, VARIEGATED 
HIBISCUS, 10 cuttings TRIPLE 
FIREBALL POINSETTIA, 
each item $1.25 prepaid.....Complete 
Corsage Kit or Dried Tropical Ar- 
rangement Kit $1.75 prepaid. Any 
5 Tropical Plante $4.50 prepaid 
JUDY'S JUNGLE 
6318 NE Miami Pl., Miami, 38, Fla. 
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THE SEED LISTINGS 
The source of seeds and plants has always 
been neglected in other publications and it 
seems that the rarity of some flower 1s its 
first point for articles. The feeling that, 
“T have it and you don’t” is too common. 
If you contradict this then you should get 
into the commercial end of the seed supply. 
When the magazine was first started, the 
idea that the offering of the seed of the plant 
written about would be best handled if tha 
lists could run along from month to month 
and thus be as complete and up-to-date as 
would be possible to get them. However, 
this is not the way it has worked out; the 
flower seed buyer evidently wants them all 
in one catalog, with the biggest pictures and 
the most flowery descriptions. 
Therefore in the future the list will be 
in a complete book by itself and not a part 
of the magazine. 
Another thing that has to be changed is 
the idea that the listing would permit the 
supply of fresh seeds. With the ordinary 
kinds like Marigolds, Zinnias, Petunias, etc., 
that are grown by commercial seedsmen, 
the seeds are as fresh as is possible, but it 
is different with the more uncommon seeds 
many of which have to be gotten thru var- 
ious collectors and private gardeners. The 
economic conditions of late have completely 
changed all this and each year more and 
more failures have occured and always after 
the seeds have been listed, thus causing toa 
many back-orders and unfinished orders. 
Tt also is impossible to write letters about 
many of these bback-orders; the cost usually 
is more than the order. Where we know 
the order cannot ‘be filled in the future, it 
is refunded otherwise the order is filed in 
the source file for the seed and when it doea 
come, the order can be filled immediately. 
This will explain, too, why some inquiries 
en orders have not been answered promptly; 
however, in the future there will be less of 
this sort of orders for many of the uncertain 
kinds will not be listed until seeds are act- 
ually in stock. 
We have mentioned the help proposition 
several times in the past and for fear our 
readers may get the idea that ‘something 
must be wrong’ let us say that it is difficult 
to either hire anyone posted in the detail of 
our type of business or to find anyone want- 
ing to learn, so that in the end too much 
work finally gets down to one or two per- 
sons. We hope this will clear up some of 
the letters received this winter. 
FELIX, PANSY 
This is the new ‘whiskered’ type of Pansy 
of which there has been a very good demand. 
The failure to make deliveries on the quanti- 
ty orders was due to a complete failure of 
this flower this year. A little seed was 
offered in this country recently at $15.00 
per ounce wholesale and as far as we can 
guess this was 1951 crop seed carried over. 
As our price as listed in the July issue was 
so much below this retail it would be im=- 
possibe to fill orders from this source, even 
if we thot best. We have already contracted 
for our share from the 1953 crop and feel 
as sure aS one can in seed production, that 
we will have sufficient seed for our custom- 
ers this coming July. It might also be well 
to mention here about the harvesting of 
Pansy seed. The seed has -to be picked 
by hand every day, before the seed pods get 
ripe and burst open; this makes it so that the 
crop harvest runs along for some time dur- 
ing June and July. Now at this time it seems 
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