' NEW PLANTS 
We specialize in rare plants that 
you do not find in most nursery cat- 
alogs. Such rare plants usually cost 
more to produce. It takes several 
years to get a new plant, learn how 
to grow it, get a supply ready. Our 
list of rare and imported plants is 
continually expanding — we hope 
to have other new plants ready 
each year. 
NEW PLANTS we hope to have SOON. 
A black-and-gold velvet 'sweet-pea". 
A "camellia" that contains BLUE. 
A "crysanthemum" that grows on a bush. 
Several orchids native to Greenland! 
World's Only 10 
GREEN ROSE ‘4’ 
ROSA CHINENSIS - VAR. VIRIDIFLORA 
Probably the most ancient form of rose-- 
has not yet learned how to make petals. - 
Soft, yellowish - green sepals, slightl 
twisted, surround the stameéns--each with 
a cherry-red stain at its base. As bloom 
matures, it turns more-yellowish inside, 
and the red stains become streaks, making 
a weird, unique rose--a strange novelty. 
Typical rose leaves, medium sized and 
thin. Moderately thorny stems. May be 
trained as bush or climber. Potted plants 
from tuttings, small but vigorous growers. 
A FEW now ready. Each-$4.75. 
The REDWOOD ROSE a0 
ROSA GYMNOCARPA 
One of the world's smallest wild roses, 
Dainty weeping bush ideal for dwarfing in 
a pot--or may be grown to 10 ft. tall in 
favorable location planted. Small, neat 
leaves, moderate prickles. Flower wild 
rose color and shape, little odor. 
Blooms early, in deep shade of giant Red- 
wood trees-acid oak-leaf mold next best 
to Redwood humus. Same culture as ferns. 
We have some potted three years. We hope 
some day to offer this rose DWARFED-- 
as it should be even better. Each-$4.75 
ROBERT LOUIS A 
STEVENSON VIOLET & 
Nearly a mile high on Mount St. Helena, 
on the path to the old Silverado mine, 
climbed by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 
honeymoon days, when he wrote ''Silverado 
Squatters'' -- we found this white violet. 
The path was carpeted with violet plants 
so tiny they looked like a dichondra lawn. 
The leaves’ were 1/4 inch diameter and the 
violets only about 1/8 inch size. Beside 
the path, they were average sized plants 
and flowers, which suggests that this vio- 
let can be planted, grown as a pot-plant, 
or DWARFED. Multiplies fast, by both 
seeds and runners. Large potted plants- 
$2.75 each. Small plants-$1.00 
