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For Growers In Warm Regions 
General Reference Books 
STANDARD CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICUL- 
TURE (Bailey). Complete reference work on 
plants grown in U. S. and Canada. 8 volumes, 
splendidly illustrated. $52.00, postage 60c. 
DICTIONARY OF GARDENING (Chittenden). 
4 vol. 2200 pages. A practical and scientific 
encyclopedia, based on Nicholson’s but com- 
pletely revised and enlarged. Many keys and 
illustrations. $55, post. 40c. 
HORTUS SECOND (Bailey). Concise diction- 
ary of gardening and horticulture. $12.50, post- 
age 20c. 
SHRUBS FOR THE MILDER COUNTIES 
(Arnold-Forster). This magnificent book, al- 
though written for southwest England, is the 
best source of information for residents of north 
Florida, Texas, and the fringe along the Gulf of 
Mexico, on border-line plants from tropical or 
sub-tropical regions that will survive the occa- 
sional low temperatures in those regions. I 
strongly recommend this volume for growers of 
central and north Florida. $10. Postage 20c. 
* THE MAJOR KINDS OF PALMS (Hawkes). 
Handsomely illustrated, loose leaf, printed de- 
scriptions of 150 trees, published by Fairchild 
Tropical Garden, complete in binder. $4.50, post- 
age 25c. Clothbound, $5.40, postage 25c. 
HORTICULTURAL COLOR CHART. 2 volumes, 
adopted by American Hibiscus Society as author- 
ity on colors. Prepared by Royal Horticultural 
Society. Set $9, postage 20c. 
MANUAL OF CULTIVATED PLANTS (Bailey). 
Indispensable key. Revised (1949) edition. 
$18.50, post. 20e. 
STANDARDIZED PLANT NAMES (Kelsey- 
Dayton). 90,000 entries. 675 pages. $10.50, 
postage 20c. 
WEEDS OF THE TROPICS (Plantas Inde- 
seables en los Cultivoe Tropicales (Velez-Over- 
beek). New Puerto Rican manual (in Spanish) 
with 250 excellent full page photographs of pest 
plants; applicable to Florida. 500 pp.; paper $5, 
cloth, $7. Postage 20c. 
FLOWERS OF THE SOUTH (Greene-Blom- 
quist). Excellent guide to the exotic as well as 
native plants you find commonly in the south- 
east, from the Carolinas to Florida. 54 full color 
plates, 500 flowers described and accompanied 
by pen and ink drawings. Fully indexed. $5, 
postage 16c. 
MY GREEN THUMB GARDEN RECORD 
(Morton-Alexander). Loose-leaf inventory for 
keeping track of plants in your own garden, 
where and when you got them, ete. £3.50, post- 
age 15c. 
*® VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION. Finest sympo- 
sium in print. January 1954 issue of National 
Hort. Mag. $1, postage 16c. 
*% HIBISCUS — Official Nomenclature List of 
American Hibiscus Society. 135 pages. Types 
illustrated. Free to $5 members of Society. 
%*..HIBISCUS UNLIMITED and How to Know 
Them (Palmer). 120 pages. Leaves and types 
illus. by line drawings. Emphasis on RHS color 
chart separations. $3, postage 20c. 
EDWIN A. MENNINGER 
MACMILLAN’S WILD FLOWER BOOK (Hy- 
lander). This wonderfully new book illustrating 
415 wild flowers in six to eight colors, with 
descriptive text covering 500 plants, has been in 
preparation ten years. Size 8x10 inches, 500 
pages, bound in green cloth. $15, postage 28c. 
See 
“TROPICAL PLA N‘TING 
AND GARDENING. 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CEYLON 
CASHS SORE BAA TINK Canis 
By H. F. MACMIL LAN 
: 
TROPICAL PLANTING AND GARD- 
ENING (Macmillan). 5th edition. Copi- 
ously illustrated and best book in the 
field, particularly for beginners in Flor- 
ida gardens. $6, postage 20c. 
Orchids 
% ORCHIDS ARE EASY TO GROW (Logan & 
Cosper). A complete manual of orchid culture. 
Illustrated. 312 pages. $6. Postage 20c. 
ORCHIDS OF MALAYA (Holttum). ‘This is 
first volume of a revised Flora of Malaya. Sys- 
tematic account of all orchids of the Malay 
Peninsula, and survey of exotic cultivated species. 
740 pages, 234 drawings, 4 color plates. $7.50, 
postage 24c. 
ORCHIDS OF GUATEMALA (Ames & Cor- 
rell). 89 genera beautifully illustrated with line 
drawings as are many of the 527 species. 800 
pages, two volumes. Paper $8 per set, buckram 
$10. Postage 32c. 
%* PHILIPPINE ORCHIDS (Davis-Steiner). De- 
tailed treatment of some 100 native species ex- 
tensively illustrated with black and white plates. 
270 pages $5, postage 20c. 
The Flowering Tree Man 
Stuart, Florida 
