Home owners in South Florida have the opportunity to grow more different kinds 
of ornamental and showy-flowered trees than any other people on earth. The wide 
variations of suitable soils, the adequate rainfall and our equable temperatures combine 
to offer a climate unexcelled for the production of landscape beauty. 
This booklet combines my 1954 presentation of 
1. Price list of plants on hand and immediately available for the beautification 
of your garden. 
Description of 100 new trees and shrubs not previously offered. 
3. List of horticultural books that I carry in stock at publisher’s prices for the 
benefit of growers in warm regions. 
Please note that I ship by railway express Pict unless otherwise instructed. 
There is a crating charge of $1. on shipments costing less than $5. 
In this price list many items are marked “price on application” or “available 
later.” This indicates that my stock is too limited, too immature or too ragged for 
general listing, or that I have the tree in my garden and expect to propagate later. 
Advance orders and reservations are accepted for such items. 
There are probably 3,000 different tropical trees that bear beautiful flowers. You 
and I cannot know them all. Yet for a score of years I have been an arm chair traveller 
of the highways of the tropics, looking for the outstanding ornamentals of all countries, 
seeking to understand which can be called the most beautiful, getting seed of hundreds 
and hundreds of them, undertaking to grow them in my backyard so that I may learn 
at first hand what they will do in Florida. If you get trees from me, you are sharing 
in that experiment. There are a large number of tropical trees that rival the Royal 
Poinciana in magnificence, yet I venture to say that most of them you have never heard 
of. Some of them are offered in my catalogs; others are promised for the future. 
They are definite prospects for a more beautiful Florida landscape. 
Earnest seekers for the unusual and the beautiful will find in my 1947 and 1953 
catalogs the keys to escape from the commonplace. These catalogs sell for one 
dollar each. I particularly recommend the 1953 catalog because the prices and page 
references in this 1954 list refer to that booklet. This price list is of only minor 
value without the full descriptions and the excellent photographs that appear in the 
earlier booklets. 
to 
EDWIN A. MENNINGER 
“The Flowering Tree Man” 
STUART, FLORIDA 
ORDER BLANK 
Edwin A. Menninger 
The Flowering Tree Man 
Stuart, Florida 
Dear Sir: 
For the enclosed, please send me: 
[] 1958 CATALOG OF FLOWERING TROPICAL TREES, $1.00 
[] 1947 CATALOG, $1.00 
