Gladioli and. OL eons en ieel Begonias 
Except for an excellent mixture of named varieties we are not offering Giant 
Breeder Gladioli. This decision has been in the making a long time—Giant o 3 
Glads have been too big and are getting bigger; they are of no use in the RW, 
perennial border; their chief value is as a cut flower during the heat of Ain 
summer. Our Breeder Mixture, planted every two weeks until July 15, will > 
produce an excellent succession of blooms for cut flowers until frost. On the < 
other hand, Miniature Gladioli have great charm and delicacy and are \) 
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useful almost anywhere. Miniatures are our favorite Glads and they'll be N< 
yours, too, if you grow them. 
Your special attention is called to the Tuberous Rooted Begonia list. They 
are all Camellia-Rose types and the tubers, only one year old, are the cream 
of the U.S. crop. The named varieties are all true to color and type and we 
look forward to a long and great list of distinctive new ones year after year. 
The development of this Begonia has amazed the horticultural world in the 
Miniature Gladioli 
past. These new flowers, however, are just as revolutionary as anything the 
hybridizers have yet done. 
GIANT AMERICAN BREEDER GLADIOLI 
Mixture Doz. 95c, 25 $1.80, 100 $7.00 
This is a service offer to those of our customers who are 
not Gladioli hobbyists but who want a succession of 
bloom in this type of flower for cutflowers. It contains 
only No. 1 bulbs of twenty top varieties with a heavy 
loading of whites and ivories. 
GLADIOL! (Miniatures) 
The miniature, branching Gladiolus is a very desirable 
flower. It is decorative indoors without being overpower- 
ing. 
Atom Six $1.35, Doz. $2.30, 25 $4.20, 100 $15.00 
A fine branching red delicately silver-edged. It is the 
most versatile Gladiolus ever grown. 
Six $1.40. Doz. $2.50, 25 $4.50, 100 $16.00 
Pleasant buff-pink. 
Little Gold Six $1.40, Doz. $2.50, 25 $4.50, 100 $16.00 
Deepest yellow. 
Bo-Peep 
Starlet Six $1.35, Doz. $2.30, 25 $4.20, 100 $15.00 
An excellent ruffled white. 
Six $1.35, Doz. $2.30, 25 $4.20, 100 $15.00 
We are proud of this mixture. It is loaded with Atom, 
Starlet, Bo-Peep and Little Gold, the very best of the 
miniatures. It also contains twelve other varieties, some 
of them quite expensive—plus all the bulbs from last 
year’s miniature gladioli test garden. 
Mixture 
TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS 
For those who demand the finest we are offering a series 
of named varieties in the Camellia or Rose form. Each 
will be true to color. Equally unusual are the Camellia- 
Rose types, not in named varieties, which we can supply 
in shades in immense tubers. Tubers of these are giants, 
all only one year old, are specially selected out of hun- 
dreds of thousands of seedlings. We don’t know where 
else you can get tubers of this size, each of which lit- 
erally will produce a bush. 
CAMELLIA-ROSE FORMS, Named Varieties 
These doubles are absolutely true to color and form and are 
invaluable for shaded window box or patio plantings. Tubers 
are not graded for size but all are large and will produce 
splendid plants. These are rarities and like all rarities they are 
very scarce and orders should be placed earliest. 
Santa Maria Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
A huge and heavily ruffled double Camellia-type white. 
Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
Ditto in delicate yellow. 
Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
Pastel pink, fully double and heavily ruffled. 
Red Triumph Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
Ruby-red velvet. 
Santa Barbara 
Santa Margarita 
Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
Ruffled camellia salmon. 
Each $1.75, Three $3.50, 12 $12.00 
Santa Paula 
Santa Rosa 
Ruffled camellia rose. 
CAMELLIA-ROSE TYPES, Unnamed 
Giant Tubers Each 95c, Three $2.35, Doz. $7.00 
These specimen Begonias can be ordered in shades 
of Red, Pink, Salmon and Yellow. Also a fine White. 
Tuber diameters are 2¥2 inches and up, mostly up. Order 
by shade but as these giant tubers (which produce giant 
plants) are scarce every year please indicate second and 
third choice of color. 
Each 75c, Three $1.80, Doz. $5.65 
You'll find these larger than most tubers sold for this 
price. Excellent for naturalizing. Order by color: Red, 
Rose, Pink, Salmon, Yellow, White. 
Big Tubers 
TRITOMA (Red Hot Poker) 
You won‘t want many of these but a few are extremely 
useful in the herbaceous border. Their common name is 
misleading (hybridizers have done wonders with them) 
and anyway we don’t stock the red hot variety which is 
simply a horticultural vulgarity. 
Maid of Orleans Each $1.15, Three $2.90, Ten 7.75 
Empire-yellow blooms on 36-40 inch spikes. Changes color 
to straw-yellow to ivory-white. July-August. 
Coral Sea Each $1.15, Three $2.90, Ten $7.75 
A pastel coral-red flower overlaid with a deep rose 
coloring on 30 inch spikes. June-July. An interesting and 
good cutflower. (Patented.) 
Primrose Beauty Each 90c, Three $2.25, Ten $6.50 
Primrose-yellow. 30 inches. June. 
Vanilla Each 90c, Three $2.25, Ten $6.50 
Clear pale yellow. 24 inches. June. Foliage is grass-like. 
Garden Gadgets 
Forks, hoes, rakes, spades or what common garden tools 
you need—we don’t have them. Buy them from your 
favorite hardware dealer; he has as good as we can get. 
Over the years we have found few special-purpose gar- 
den tools that lived up to their promotions. Here is the 
only one we recommend. 
Dutch Hook Each $2.75 
This is the small, forged, sharp weeder the Dutch use for 
hooking weeds out of daffodil and tulip rows. We use it 
for all kinds of close weeding. It has an 18-inch handle— 
you have to stoop. No one else has this tool. 
Winter Sunshine 
—house plants do better if you turn a sunlamp on 
them occasionally during dull winter weather. 
White Flower Farm SPRING, 1954 11 
