BOOKS ON GARDENING 
AMERICA’S GARDEN BOOK—Bush-Brown. Covers flowers, 
fruits, vegetables, lawns, shrubs, trees, roses, perennials, land- 
scape planning, fertilization, spraying etc. 1240 pages. Fully 
illustrated. $4.60. 
ANNUALS FOR EVERY GARDEN—Jenkins. 
scriptions, effective uses. Illustrated. $3.10. 
THE R.H.S. DICTIONARY OF GARDENING—Chittenden. 
Comprehensive horticultural encyclopedia, issued under aus- 
pices of the Royal Horticultural Society of England. Illus- 
trated by drawings. Four volumes. 2316 pages. $55.00. 
2 TENDER GERANIUMS (Pelargoniums) 
Geraniums for window garden, sun porch, greenhouse, or 
perhaps for outdoor bedding. Botanically they are all Pelar- 
goniums. 
GERANIUMS ZONALE HY- 
BRIDS—w. These are the win- 
dow plant or bedding Geraniums. 
They are easy from seed, flow- | 
ering same _ season, and _ the 
seedlings will show amazing 
range of colorings; white, pink, 
rose, salmon, scarlet, crimson. 
Near to ever-blooming. Pkt. 35c; 
3 pkts. for $1.00; 10 pkts. for 
$2.75. 
FOR SUNNY WINDOWS — 
Seven of the better Geraniums. 
CHERRY VALLEY—tTrue 
Cherry red, with live-coal bril- 
liance. Fine double flowers. 
Plants, each $1.00. PEACHES 
AND CREAM—Big trusses of double blossoms 
salmon pink. A natural winter bloomer. 
zoned. Illustrated opposite. Plants, each $1.15. 
Culture, de- 
in creamy 
Leaves heavily 
OLIVIA 
KUSER—Splendid snowy white. Good in every way. Each 
$1.00. SPRINGFIELD ORANGE—Large trusses of fully 
double flowers in a scarlet-hinting rich orange. Each $1.00. 
MONTMORT—Called ‘‘The Blue Geranium,” but actually 
it is closer to a violet purple. Different, and good. Each 
$1.10. FIAT ENCHANTRESS—Fine double in pure pink, 
lighter at the edges. Each $1.25. PATRICIA AUDETTE— 
Fine Hydrangea-flowered single, big in blossom, immense in 
truss. Delightful mauve pink. In bloom every month of the 
ear Each $1.15. OFFER 341AN—One plant each of the 7 
or $7.20. 
THE SEVEN DWARFS—Plants of this group are dwarf, 
close-branching compact, carrying a profusion flowers in fine 
trusses. They are just right for the sunny window ledge. 
ALDEBARAN—Compact dwarf. Clear 
salmon pink ffowers over rich, dark 
foliage. Illustrated below. Plants, 
each $1.10. ANTARES—Single flow- 
ers of radiant scarlet, over foliage 
that is banded brown-black. Each 
$1.10. PYGMY—Charming miniature, 
smallest of all. Well-doubled blos- 
soms of intense scarlet. Each $1.10. 
BROOKES BARNES—Large flowers 
in exquisite salmon pink. Foliage of 
: “i deepest purple, so dark that the over- 
laying zone of near black, is scarcely visible. Each $2.20. 
ARCTURUS—Double flowers in fire-glowing red. Undulate 
foliage. Each $2.20. LITTLE DARLING—A dainty dwarf 
with flowers of tyrian rose, carried in clusters of six. Plants, 
each 75c. KIFFA—The double blossoms of pale pink, deeper 
at the center, have a delicate beauty. Compact grower. Free 
bloomer. Each $2.20. OFFER 3841BN—One each of the 
seven dwarfs, for $10.00. 
SIX UNUSUAL GERANIUMS—tThey break the general 
Geranium line. POINSETTIA—tThe brilliantly red blossoms 
have twisted petals of varied lengths. Each $1.15. CARNA- 
TION—Free blooming, deep salmon pink, with fringed petals 
in effect of a single Carnation. Each 90c. PANSY—Flowers 
like pansies, face-markings of velvety purple over suffused 
white. Pretty, and easy. Pelargonium Mrs. Layal. Each 95c. 
APPLEBLOSSOM ROSEBUD—Clusters of intensely double 
flowers, formed like half-opened rosebuds. White, flushed 
deeper to rosy margin. Each 90c. PEPPERMINT STICK— 
Clusters of large, flat flowers in bright scarlet, with contrast- 
ing white stripes. Each $1.10. BIRD’S EGG—The flowers have 
a near-white background, blush suffused and stippled with 
dottings. Each $1.20. OFFER 341CN—One plant each of the 
above, for $5.80. 
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FANCY-LEAF GERANIUMS—Quaintly beautiful, with oddly 
marked foliage that is as brightly colored as the flowers. 
MRS. COX—A beauty, with its richly painted foliage. About 
each small green leaf-center is a zone of vermilion, with rose 
and purple splashings, the whole margined creamy white. 
Salmon pink flowers. Illustrated below. Plants, each $2.20. MRS. 
LANGGUTH—Silvery green leaves with wide white border. 
Faint brown zone. Flowers cherry red. 
Each 95c. DISTINCTION—Undulate 
leaves carry wide, brown-purple rings, 
near, but not at the margin. A well- 
shaped grower. Vermilion flowers. 
Each 95c. ALPHA—Narrow, definite 
red-brown zone on shiny leaf of soft 
yellow-green. Freely produced, single 
scarlet flowers. Compact, bushy plant. 
Each 80c. ITALIAN SKIES—Maple- 
like leaves are zoned with orange- 
splashed crimson, and edged creamy 
white. Red flowers. Vigorous, easy, 
good. Each 95e. BLACK DIAMOND— 
Leaves that are wine-purple above, 
wine-red below,—a beauty either side up. Salmon pink flowers. 
Each $1.25. JUBILEE—A wide, clear-cut band of brown 
purple is laid over soft green on each leaf. Pretty salmon 
pink flowers. Each $1.20. BURDETTE COUTTS—Called ‘‘the 
gayest Geranium.” The leaf is marked with a wide, irregular, 
purple band that is brightly splashed with pink, red and 
yellow, the whole then margined white. Scarlet blossoms. 
Each $1.75. HAPPY THOUGHT—Wavy leaves, with big, 
butterfly wing-splashes of creamy white. Gay, cherry-colored 
ees Each 80c. OFFER 341DN—One each of the 9 for 
10.25. : 
SCENTED-LEAF GERANIUM SEEDS—We offer seeds saved 
by a specialist grower from not less than ten of the better 
kinds with pleasingly scented leaves. Mixture only. 6 seeds 
for 25c; 28 seeds for $1.00. 
THE SCENTED-LEAF GERANIUMS—Here add to beauty of 
form and foliage, the delightful aromatic fragrances of the 
leaves. LADY PLYMOUTH ROSE—Deeply cut leaves with 
pleasing rose scent, each leaf prettily edged white. Compact 
grower. Lavender flowers. Each 80c. PEPPERMINT—Velvety, 
downy “‘grape’’ leaves with the aromatic pungence of pepper- 
mint. Hach 75e. PRETTY POLLY—AlImond-scented. Crispy, 
cordate, lobed foliage. Delightful pink flowers, marked 
maroon. Each $1.00. CALIFORNIA ROSE—The leaves are 
richly, intensely, rose-scented. Good, lavender pink flowers. 
Tomato-like foliage. Each 70c. CARLTON FERN—Mucbh-cut, 
pleasantly aromatic foliage of deepest green. As attractive 
and graceful as any fern. Each 75e. FRENCH LACE—The 
lemon-scented leaves are intensely ruffled. Each carries a 
cream-white edging. Effect of the waved, convolute white 
against green, is one of intense laciness. A mutation of 
Prince Rupert Lemon. Each $1.00. OFFER 341BN—One 
each of the six for $5.70. 
MARTHA WASHINGTON GERANIUM — Large showy 
flowers, usually with contrasting darker blotchings. This is 
the group that most folks mean when they say PELAR- 
GONIUM, though the name botanically has wider coverage. 
Seeds, 6 for 25c; 28 for $1.00. For plants, see page 5. 
BOOK—GERANIUMS, Wilson. All about the varied Pelar- 
goniums and “‘Geraniums” of window, greenhouse and garden. 
Illustrated. 248 pages, $4.05. 
2 GESNERIA SCARLET HYBRIDS 
Exceedingly showy plants in the Achimenes-Gloxinia-Saint- 
paulia relationship. Blossoms in varied, brilliant reds and 
searlets, perhaps most usually a vivid orange scarlet, with 
darker markings. Exceedingly floriferous. African Violet 
conditions suit them, but they are rather easier to handle 
than are African Violets. Delightful window plants. Pkt. 
50c. Plants, each $1.35. 
2 GESNERIAD DELIGHT 
There are few more beautiful pot plants than the Gesner- 
iads, and our GESNERIAD BLEND includes many of the 
more desirable of them, as Gesneria, Didymocarpus, Corythol- 
ma, Streptocarpus, Saintpaulia, Sinningia, Achimenes, 
Rechsteineria, Isoloma, Naegelia and Chirita. Most, at least, 
of these will be in the Blend. Expect rich colorings, and 
varied interesting flower forms “w.” Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.40. - 
