GARDEN REFERENCE BOOKS 
Bailey’s Cyclopedia of Horticulture. This 3-vol. set of over 3,600 pages describes 
almost every cultivated plant and has a wealth of culture information. Price $52.00. 
Hortus Second (Bailey). A concise Dictionary of Gardening. This 778-page volume 
lists and describes nearly every plant offered in catalogs, and some that are not in the 
Cyclopedia of Hort. It contains a few culture hints. Price $12.50. 
Amaryllis and How to Grow Them. By Peggy Schulz. This book was written for 
amateurs and by a well known amateur. It contains much useful information. 128 pages, 
many line drawings, photographs and two colored plates. $2.95. 
A Southern Garden, by Elizabeth Lawrence, a handbook for the Middle South. Bulbs 
and all garden plants. 251 pages. Price, $3.50. 
Enjoy Your House Plants. Excellent handbook of window gardening by Dorothy 
Jenkins and Helen Van Pelt Wilson. 238 pages. Price, $3.00. 
Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book. This book contains more complete culture 
advice on every ornamental plant, than any other similar book. It covers vegetables, 
flowers, shrubs and trees; their culture in all sections, their relative value and uses. 480 
pages. Fully illustrated by photographs, color plates and line drawings. Loose leaf binding 
so that many more pages of notes or clippings can be added. Thumb indexed. Price, $3.95. 
Greenhouse Gardening For Everyone. Ernest Chabot. Important factors are noted, 
including correct temperatures for forcing plants, bulbs, and orchids. 266 pages, $4.00. 
How To Grow Rare Greenhouse Plants. A new book on greenhouse gardening by 
Ernest Chabot. Complete directions for greenhouse culture of 260 rare plants. Everyone 
having a greenhouse should have both books. 182 pages. Illustrated. $4.00. 
Geraniums, Pelargoniums, by Helen Van Pelt Wilson. 248 pages, 7 color plates, 
many drawings and illustrations. Best book on this subject. $3.95. 
Gloxinias, and How to Grow Them, by Peggy Schulz. Illustrated by colored plates 
and line drawings. Many Gloxinia relatives discussed, 128 pages. $2.95. 
Tuberous Begonias, by Worth Brown. Mr. Brown is one of our most important 
hybridizers and wholesale growers. His book is a complete guide for the successful 
growing and propagation, outdoors or as house plants. 128 pages, illustrated. $2.75. 
Bulbs For Beauty. Charles H. Mueller. 296 pages, illustrated. Experienced gardeners 
will gain new information about bulb culture from this book. Price, $3.50. 
How To Grow Orchids. By Cecil Houdyshel. A 12-page pamphlet, no illustrations, 
carefully explains requirements of easily grown orchids. Price 25c. 
How to Grow Cattleya Orchids and a few others is told briefly in our 1949 Orchid 
Price List. The listings are now all cancelled. Price, 15c. 
The Complete Book of African Violets. By Helen Van Pelt Wilson. This is completely 
new and gives best information on hundreds of varieties. 29 Saintpaulias are shown in 
full color. 256 pages, fully illustrated. $2.95. 
How To Grow African Violets. By Carolyn Rector. 94 pages, paper-board covers. 
Illustrated. How to pollinate, hybridize, grow from seed or leaf cuttings, prepare soils, 
control pests and diseases, groom plants for show, etc., by a real grower. $1.35. 
A to Z On Fuchsias. 136 pages. Cloth bound. Illustrations, some in color. 700 
varieties described. $3.00. 
Garden Supplies 
Postage Extra is necessary on several items below. The weight when packed is 
given on these items. It is clearly stated that you must send the postage when you order. 
Many do not and we must write for it. Here is how to find it. We are very near Los 
Angeles. Call your P.O. and ask the cost of postage on the packed weight given from your 
P.O. to Los Angeles and send us that amount. If you do not send the postage in full 
with order, (sales tax too if in Calif.) we write and ask for it before shipping and 
charge you 5c extra for the notice. 
If your shipment goes by express, no postage is due. But the minimum cost of an 
express package is now $1.85, any weight, any distance. 
Snail-Kil Pellets. 1 lb., 45c, plus postage for 2 lbs. Two pounds, 75c, plus postage 
for 3 Ibs. 
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