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There is a Difference

Not all trees are the same. You have seen some trees loaded down with high

quality fruit and others that were scrubby

things -with little or no fruit on them and that

possibly of an inferior type. Care after -

ing has a lot to do with it (that is up to you), but in most cases the kind of mature tree you

get is determined by the kind of young tree

you plant (that is up to us).

Five, ten, twenty years after you plant, that's when you really appreciate an Armstrong Citrus Tree, because that's when you'll be en- Robertson The New Navel Orange joying the big crops, the superior quality for Produces heavier crops and starts to ripen several weeks earlier in the win- which Armstrong strains are famous. ter season.

Planting Calendar for Citrus No Magic Formula Are You Up-to-Date? For 53 years, always under the same just good citrus fruit The black squares under every month in the planting management, Armstrong Nurseries has Do you know how can be or what new improved kinds calendar below indicate that you can plant citrus trees been furnishing superior citrus trees to have been developed over the past ten (either balled or bare root) during any month in the the orchardists and home planters of the years? Most planters are not aware of year (spring months are slightly preferable). The few Southwest. Many of the finest and largest the progress made in citrus fruits re- citrus varieties that are available in tins may also be producing orchards in this State are cently. planted at any time during the year. planted with Armstrong grown trees, and no matter in what town you live, you're We are constantly testing new citrus va- Month JFMAM J JASOND sure to find in nearby home gardens rieties and offering them for your profit Armstrong citrus trees providing large and pleasure when we are convinced quantities of wonderful fruit for their that they are worthy of recommending owners. to you. New improved citrus kinds which Shipping Weights and Costs No magical secret methods are involved we definitely recommend include: The in the production of this superior type of heavy bearing, early ripening Robertson Citrus trees are usually supplied with a burlap-wrapped citrus tree by the Armstrong Nurseries Navel for winter oranges; the Armstrong ball of earth on the roots, but bare root trees may be but painstaking attention to the details Seedless Valencia for seedless summer supplied if specially requested, and we recommend bare of seed selection, rigid grading of seed- ; the Armstrong Seedless root trees to distant points to save transportation ex- lings, modern bud selection methods and for seedless the year pense. Balled, 1-year irees weigh 40 lbs.; 2-year trees, careful growing and digging practices around; the Summernavel, a delicious 60 lbs.; specimens 125 lbs. Bare root trees, 1-year, weigh produce an Armstrong tree which is in- juicy orange which reverses the Navel 2 lbs. for the first tree and 1 lb. for each added tree. herently vigorous and productive. season by ripening in the summer. See page 41 for shipping costs. Top-Work Your Then there are those richly flavored, Old Trees juicy Pearl ; the heavy bearing, Unauthorized reproduction of patented ornamental, cold-resistant Calamondin; citrus varieties, including Armstrong and +he juiciest and finest of all Tan- Seedless Valencia, Robertson Navel, gerines, the Kara and . Summernavel or Armstrong Seedless Lemon either as nursery grown trees or You might as well have the finest in as top-worked orchard trees is prohibited citrus fruits while you are planting. under the terms of the U. S. Plant Patent Many of these kinds are available only Laws. Licenses for top-working orchard at Armstrong because only Armstrongs trees to these varieties may be secured have taken the trouble to search them from the Armstrong Nurseries for a very out, test them and grow them for you. small charge. Write for information if interested in top-working. Be Sure It's Genuine For Arizona Planters Every tree sold of the Armstrong Seed- Trees of the Robertson Navel Orange, less Valencia (Plant Pat. No. 124), the Armstrong Seedless and Robertson Navel (Plant Pat. No. 126), the Summernavel Orange are available for Summernavel Orange (Plant Pat. No. planting in Arizona from Mr. H. H. 347), and the Armstrong Seedless Lemon Wasser, Nurseryman, Route 2, Box 217 (Plant Pat. No. 342), carries a bear- (7220 North Street), 12th Phoenix. Mr. ing its patent number, and unless it Wasser also is authorized to issue li- does carry such a tag, it is not a genu- censes for top-working orchard trees to ine tree of the varieties named. the above varieties in Arizona. Armstrong Seedless Valencia Orange Armstrong Seedless Valencia. FC20. Throughout the world wherever oranges are grown the Valencia has long been consjdered the finest summer juice orange, but until the introduction of the Armstrong Seedless Valencia two years ago, there had never been a Valen- cia without seeds. The ordinary kind contains from 4 to 8 seeds and usually 6 or 8 which must be strained out each time that juice is squeezed. Housewives throughout Armstrong the country will welcome this new seedless orange. Seedless Valencia In appearance the Armstrong Seedless Valencia is simi- When cut in half, lar to the ordinary Valencia, but possibly finer textured, the fruits of the with much less rag and a little better quality. The vig- Armstrong Seedless orous trees bear heavy crops of beautiful seedless fruit. Valencia Orange Although an occasional seed may be found, you will show only clear, have to hunt through hundreds of fruits to find one. juicy flesh, with no You can throw away your orange juice strainers when seeds in evidence, you have this new Seedless Valencia in bearing. as shown in this Each Per 10 picture. 1-year trees $2.75 $25.00 2-year trees 3.00 27.50 Ten assorted citrus at the 10-rate.

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California Citrus

Robertson Standard Navel Orange Orange Varieties

Robertson Navel. FC23. The finest Each Per 10 1 year trees $1.90 $16.50 winter ripening orange for California 2 year trees 2.35 21.00

—that is what we claim for this new, Ten assorted citrus at the 10-rate. Write for special low prices on 25 or more improved, early ripening, heavier pro- trees. See also "All-Year Trio" on page 3. ducing orange. Young trees two and Washington Navel. FC28. This famous three years old are loaded down with seedless, winter ripening Orange is largely responsible for California's world- fruit, bearing two or three times as wide citrus fame. The fruit is large, with the characteristic navel at the blos- much as trees of the Washington som end, and in flavor, juiciness and Navel of the same age, and it con- general high quality, it is not excelled by any other Orange. The skin peels off tinues to far outbear that variety after readily, while the sections are easily separated the trees are mature. You will not without breaking. While eas- ily grown anywhere in Southern Califor- have to wait for fruit on the Robert- nia, it is at its best in the foothills and the valleys a few miles removed from the it starts son because producing almost coast. December to April. as soon as you plant the trees. Valencia. FC27. The best summer orange the world over is the Valencia. Valen- Both of Them Three Years Old Robertson Navel is the best winter cias begin to ripen in The May and are Both Paulette and the Robertson Navel Orange tree will find available throughout the orange and the one you most summer and shown above are three years old. profitable because fall months. The medium-sized fruit is juicy and sweet, with few seeds, and 1. In appearance, color, tenderness, fla- the tree is the largest of all citrus vari- vor and juiciness the Robertson is equal eties. Most of the summer orange juice to the finest Washington Navel, making consumed in the United States comes it the best eating orange in the world. from the Valencia. If you want your orange juice absolutely seedless, you 2. The Robertson is by far the heaviest will want the new Armstrong Seedless bearing Navel Orange, far more produc- Valencia on opposite page. April to Oc- tive than the Washington Navel. It con- tober. Also extra size specimens, $4.50 ea. sistently boxes tree and bears more per St. Michael. FC25. Sometimes called acre, though the tree is slight- per even "Paper-Rind" because of the thinness of ly smaller than Washington. the skin on the medium sized, richly fla- vored fruits which are exceedingly sweet 3. The Robertson tree usually starts to and juicy. Ripens between the Navel bear as scon as it is planted. and the Valencia, and is a fine home 4. The fruit is smooth, uniform, and fruit. February to April. 1-year trees only. nearly all of it in the desirable medium sizes. The Best

5. You can pick the fruit two to three Ruby Blood. FC24. This is the best Blood weeks ahead of the Washington Navel, Orange. Of medium size, very sweet and well before Christmas, before the heavy juicy. The flesh is streaked with red and winter frosts. This is an exceedingly im- when fully ripe is blood-red, the color portant characteristic in the early ripen- extending through the to show a ing citrus areas such as the San Joaquin red blush on the outside. The bright red Valley. In that section Robertsons are juice is delicious, and the fruit meets sweet, colored and ready to pick early any home use. February to May. in November. Why the Robertson Navel Sets Heavy Crops Rico. FC22. A new spring-ripening or- The photograph above shows why the Robertson Navel Each Per 10 ange from Puerto Rico, still under trial. always sets a heavy crop. The larger cluster of fruits 1-year trees $2.75 $25.00 The fruit is medium sized, thin-skinned, on the right are Robertson Navels, while the smaller 2-year trees 3.00 27.50 practically seedless, and is almost solid fruits aTe ordinary Washington Navels. Both are aver- juice with very little "rag" in the fruit. age specimens of each variety picked in the same Ten assorted citrus at the 10-rate. Write It bears well, and is sweet, but lacks orchard on July 10th. The fruit of the Robertson is so for special low prices on 25 or more acid. May have possibilities as a winter large in June and July that hot weather affects it but trees. See also "All-Year Trio" Offer on commercial orange in Coachella and Im- little, while it causes the smaller fruits of the Wash- page 3. perial Valleys. 2-year trees only. ington Navel to drop.

Juicy Summernavel Orange Slices and Sodus Purple Raspberries New Summer-navel Orange Only by planting the Summernavel can you have a salad like this in the summertime. Summernavel Orange. FC26. No orange is so good to eat as a Navel. Their quality, fine full flavor and firm juiciness has made California famous, but until last year Navel oranges have been available only in the winter and spring. Now Armstrong offers the new Summernavel, a beautiful, large, juicy, full- flavored Navel orange, as good as any you ever tasted, but ripening in the summer months. The fruit of the Summernavel is not ready to pick until March—it is at its best in June and July, and hangs on if you wish until October. The reason people like Navel oranges best to eat is because they peel so easily and the sections separate readily. It is a pleasure to eat them out of hand. There is nothing so enjoyable as a salad made from the firm yet juicy luscious segments of the Navel Orange, but heretofore housewives have never been able to make such salads except in the winter and spring because there were no Navels available. Now they can be had all through the warm summer when such salads are most enjoyed. The Summernavel bears large size fruit. We don't see how it could be finer in quality. The tree is large-leaved and vigorous, bearing excellent crops. It's the newest thing in California citrus fruit. Plant Pat. No. 347. Each Per 10 1-year trees $3.00 $27.50 2-year trees 3.50 30.00 Extra size specimens 5.00 Ten assorted citrus at the 10-rate. Write for special low prices on 25 or more trees.

— 2 — Armstrong Limes, , The Piquant Limes

Everybody knows that is one of the most delicious and refreshing of all . trees grow rapidly and bear fruit almost at once and continue tc produce heavy crops. They are more susceptible to frost than other citrus fruits, and in colder sections the Eustis (see page 5) or the Calamondin (pic- tured at left) should be planted since their fruits will serve the same purposes as those of the lime. The Best Lime A Dwarf Lime Bearss Seedless Lime. FC11. This is Mexican Lime. FC12. This old favorite the largest and finest of all, predomi- Lime is still the best known variety in nating at the present time in both com- California. Its small, light green, oval mercial and home plantings. It has fruit, strongly acid and richly flavored, all of the good qualities one could ask is just the right size for one oi for in a Lime, producing heavy crops ade. The semi-dwarf trees (about two- of beautiful, seedless, highly acid fruits thirds the size of the others) bear ex- with rich Lime flavor, ripening most of tremely heavy crops, ripening all its fruit in the summer when Limes are through the year. This variety and most in demand. The tree is large and Bearss are the two commercial Limes. vigorous, almost thornless, and slightly 1-year trees, $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10; hardier than the Mexican. Limes have 2-year trees, $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; been one of the best paying citrus extra size specimens, S5.00 each. Write fruits in recent years. 2-year trees, for special low prices on 25 or more $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; extra size trees. specimens, $5.00 each. Write for spe- cial low prices on 25 or more trees. All- Year Citrus Trio Lime. FC12A. The beautiful Every family needs oranges and lemons deep reddish orange fruits, shaped like during the entire year. Therefore, we a , are as handsome as any have arranged an offer consisting of citrus fruits you ever saw, and they three trees which will carry oranges are just as good inside as they look and lemons throughout the entire cal- outside. This is the most resistant to endar year (provided you don't eat cold of all the limes we grow, and it them up too fast). Each variety is the has some of the most beautiful big best of its kind, and the three trees white fragrant blossoms that you have are here offered at a special low price. Fruits of Calamondin ever sniffed at too. We recommend it Robertson Navel Orange. For winter Oriental travelers will tell you that as a combination fruit and ornamental. fruit there is nothing finer than these because oi its rich flavor and Bush form, gal. tins, SI .00 each, $9.00 delicious seedless Navel oranges, borne abundance of juice it is one of per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each, $22.50 on a heavy producing, early bearing the finest fruits in the world for per 10. tree. California's finest winter and beverage purposes. spring orange. Armstrong Seedless Valencia. Delicious Sweet Lime juice oranges throughout summer and fall. The only summer orange without Sweet Lime. FC13. The fruit of this Beautiful Tree, Delicious Fruit seeds. variety has the characteristic Lime fla- Calamondin. FC1. Beautiful, densely-foliaged, tall, slendei vor, but the juice is so sweet that it Armstrong Seedless Lemon. A lemon citrus tree from the Philippines, probably the most resistant may be taken without sugar. Large, as fine in quality as any that can be :o cold of all edible citrus fruits. It bears great quantities yellow, very juicy fruits on a large, grown, with the additional feature oi of little highly-colored fruits, reddish-orange inside and out, handsome tree which bears enormous no seeds to fish out of the juice. The with an excellent unique flavor and with more juice to the crops of fruit, and is considerably tree will ripen fruit every month in square inch than any other citrus fruit. The fruit keeps hardier than either Bearss or Mexican. the year. ripening for some months, not all at once. Delightful for You will find this fruit excellent to eat One tree of each of the above varieties beverage purposes and a splendid ornamental. It makes any time out of hand and that the (regular single rate value S8.75) in the delightfully delicious marmalade unique and different in juice makes a most refreshing and un- 2-year size on the Lemon and Valencia flavor. Bush form, gal. tins, $1.00 each, S9.00 per 10; 5-gal. usual drink. 1-year trees, S2.50 each, and 1-year size on the Navel, for tins, $2.50 each, S22.50 per 10; tree-shaped, 2-year, S3. 00 $22.50 per 10; 2-year trees, $2.75 each, S7.50. Ask for "All-Year Citrus Trio" each; extra size specimens, 3-year, S4.50 each. S25.00 per 10. (Offer No. 11).

This Is the Way Your Armstrong Grapefruit Trees Will Produce Grapefruit () A cluster of 47 Marsh Seedless Grapefruit on a young Armstrong tree. Mr. Every family is using more and more grapefruit each year J. C. Watt, in charge of our Citrus Department views results of his efforts. and every home grounds should have a tree or two, for they are easily grown with little care in most of California. There is considerable difference in the strains of Grapefruit. We are confident that the buds from which Armstrong Grapefruit trees are grown come from the finest type and heaviest producers now available. 1-year trees, SI. 90 each, S16.50 per 10; 2-year trees, S2.35 each, S21.00 per 10. Write for prices on 25 or more. 10 assorted citrus sold at the 10-rate. Marsh Seedless. FC2. Most commercial plantings of grape- fruit in California and Arizona are of this variety. The fruit is large, practically seedless, with a thin rind, abundant juice, and exceptionally fine flavor. The tree is a vigorous and compact grower and bears very heavily. Grapefruit in the Southwest are thinner-skinned and sweeter in the inland desert sections, but in all locations the Marsh Seedless is the best variety. Ripens December to May in desert, May to August near coast. Thompson Grapefruit. FC4. (Pink Marsh Seedless.) A spor: of the Marsh Seedless Grapefruit which bears fruit with decidedly pink flesh. In the desert regions of California the Thompson has richly colored deep pink flesh, almost red, while in districts nearer the coast the flesh has a pale, delicate pink color, varying in intensity throughout the ripening season. Aside from the novelty of colored flesh the Thompson is a splendid seedless Grapefruit just as good in quality as the Marsh, wherever grown.

For Beauty and Marmalade Brazilian Sour Orange. FC25A. Provides lots of luxuriant big citrus foliage and big orange-red fruits. A beautiful ornamental tree from coast to desert and easy to grow. All the best English and Scotch marmalade is made from the Sour Orange. Unexcelled for espalier against a wall. Gal. tins, $1.00 each, S9.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, trained as espalier on trellis, $3.50 each; large specimen 3-yr. old heads on 5-ft. trunks, $6.00 each. Armstrong Citrus will give you the same fine results others have been getting for 53 years Lemons There are so many uses for Lemons that no home garden should be without a tree. Most Lemon varieties are not quite as hardy as orange trees, but for home use may safely be planted anywhere except in the very cold interior cr northern districts. For these colder sections we recommend the (illustrated cn page 5). For milder locations we think there is no finer Lemon than the Armstrong Seedless. Prices on Lisbon and Eureka The New 1 year trees $1.90 $16.50 2 year tiees 2.35 21.00 Armstrong Seedless Extra size specimens 4.50 Armstrong Seedless Lemon. FC6. Now Ten assorted citrus at the 10-rate. we are able to offer to California plant- ers for Eureka. FC7. In recent years the lead- what we have been wanting a long time a Lemon of the finest ing lemon for both commercial and — quality with no seeds. Gone is the in- home planting; fruit uniform, of med- convenience of fishing seeds out of ium size, of the highest quality. The your lemonade. The variety dis- seeds are few and the juice is abun- covered in Riverside a few years age dant. The tree is almost thornless. It and has been tested in a number of bears continuously all through the year locations with the same uniform re- and ripens most of its fruit in the sum- sults, a total absence of seeds. Where mer. The California lemon industry is planted with other Lemon varieties, an largely founded upon the Eureka. If occasional seed be found due to you want a Lemon like the Eureka may cross-pollination, but even then the but entirely seedless, plant the New Armstrong Seedless Lemon. seeds will be so rare they will be found only once in hundreds of fruits. Lisbon Lemon. FC8. Although not Seedlessness would not be worthwhile planted as widely as Eureka, the Lis- unless quality was present. In this Bearss Seedless Lime bon is highly favored in certain sec- new Armstrong Seedless Lemon, how- First Choice for Home or Commercial Planting tions because the tree is exceedingly ever, the quality is just as good as in strong and vigorous, much more so the famous Eureka Lemon to which this than Eureka, and it is also much variety is almost identical in every re longer-lived. The buds for our trees spect except the presence of seeds. The Famous Meyer Lemon were taken from an orchard tree which The fruit is large, smooth-skinned, juicy, Illustrated in Color on Next Page had a production record of 2749 pounds and the tree bears heavy crops. Just the Seedless Valencia Meyer Lemon. FC9. A Lemon tree that does not freeze even of fruit in one year and has been con- as Armstrong sistently that Orange does away with seeds in sum- in the most severe California frosts, which ripens fruit near figure. The parent juice, so this almost throughout the year, fruits that are orange-colored, tree was grown from buds selected by mer orange does new dispense with seeds in lemon- bigger and juicier than the average Lemon and make the Mr. A. D. Shamel of the U. S. D. A. Lemon for type, ade. Plant Pat. No. 342. finest lemon pie you ever tasted. A tree that is beautiful in production and vigor. appearance, has the biggest and most fragrant citrus blooms One-year trees, $2.75 each, $25.00 per (not white but pink), which grows easily anywhere in Cali- Real Pink Lemonade 10. Two-year trees, $3.00 each, $27.50 fornia (or anywhere in the South and Southwest) from coast per 10; large specimens, $4.50 each. to the hottest desert valleys, and bears heavy crops always. Pink Fleshed Lemon. FC10. Nature This is the Meyer or Chinese Dwarf Lemon, the ideal home was in a gay mood when this unusual Lemon tree. As a single tree, for a hedge or as a pot plant Lemon was created. The foliage is Extra Size Specimens the Meyer will give satisfaction. The tree-shaped striped and variegated in many shades listed below will make a large tree more quickly but are of green, pink, and white, but is nor- We have found that many of our cus- not so ornamental to start with as the bushy type. Bush mal and vigorous otherwise. The fruit tomers wish to get citrus trees larger form, gal. tins, 85c each, $7.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.25 each, is of medium size, juicy, and of good than the regular 1 and 2-year grades $20.00 per 10; trained in espalier form, 5-gal. tins, $3.50 quality (it is a sport of Eureka), but for home planting, in order to get a each; tree shape, 1-year, $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10; 2-year, astonishingly enough it is also striped large tree more quickly. To meet this $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10; balled, extra size specimens, in green and white, while the flesh demand, you will find listed under $4.50 each. and juice are a rich pink color. With most citrus varieties extra size speci its pink flower-buds added, it is a mens on which we leave most of the Lemon. FC10A. If you want lemons that are Ponderosa most unusual and unique tree—exceed- top when they are dug. We take them big inches in circumference), really big, and we mean (12 ingly ornamental as well as useful. up with an extra size ball of earth on for you won't have to wait long this is the one you. And Bush form, gal. tins, $1.00 each, $9.00 the roots (about 125 lbs.) so that they it's tree starts producing right either because a dwarf and per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.25 each, $20.00 are not checked in growth. now. We grow them in the containers and you can keep per 10; tree shape, 1-year, $2.50 each, time if wish, or plant it out in them there for a long you $22.50 per 10; 2-year, $2.75 each, that the ground. The tree is hardier than any other Lemon $25.00 per 10; extra size specimens, we list except Meyer. Bush form, gal. tins, $1.00 each, $4.50 each. S9.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10.

Pearl Tangelos Tangelos, Delightful Juice Fruits All the time we were fixing up this The Tangelos are citrus hybrids obtained by crossing the picture to show you our mouths were Tangerine and the Grapefruit. They are easily grown, bear watering because there is nothing more very heavy crops at an early age and are just as hardy delicious than juice. as Oranges. Better than Grapefruit for areas immediately adjacent to the coast because they get sweet there while Srapefruit does not.

Sampson Tangelo. FC30. This is the best known of the Tan- gelos, and its golden-yellow, glossy skinned fruits are filled with a delicious orange-red juice which combines in a de- lightful way the zestful tang of the grapefruit and the sprightliness of the Tangerine. Next to the Kara Mandarin we consider this to have the most delicious juice of all citrus fruits. Colors up early in the winter but should be allowed to stay on the tree until late winter or spring to get its full swetness. February to May. 1-year trees, $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; 2-year trees, $3.00 each, $27.50 per 10.

Pearl, Queen of the Tangelos Pearl Tangelo. FC29. Not only is this new Tangelo exceed- ingly delicious but it has the most ornamental tree of all the Tangelos, with the long, dark green, willow-like leaves packed thickly on the pendulous branchlets to make a very beautiful specimen. The fruit is medium size, rounded, glossy like an orange, with a most pleasant flavor quite different from that of the Sampson. It ripens earlier than Sampson, and one tree of each will give you delicious Tangelo juice over half the year. January to March. 1-year trees, $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; 2-year trees, $3.00 each, $27.50 per 10. — A — Citrus

For Potted Plants For the patio, outdoor stairway, garden walks and terraces in many California gardens, there is no more delightful potted plant than one of the citrus trees, with its glossy foli- age, fragrant blooms and orange or yellow fruits. We have grown certain varieties in bush form as potted plants, kinds which will keep in good condition in a container for a reasonable length of time. Full descriptions of these varieties, with sizes and prices, are given under each variety in this section of the catalog, but for easy refer- ence we mention them here. All are very hardy (15°) except Pink- Fleshed Lemon (22°).

Meyer Lemon. See page 4. Calamondin. See page 3. Rangpur Lime. See page 3. Mandarin The New Kara Otaheite Orange. See below. Amazingly juicy, with a new and diiferent flavor. Pink-Fleshed Lemon. See page 4. Myrtle-Leaved Orange. Below. Mandarin Oranges () Kumquat. FC5. This little semi-dwarf tree from the Orient they are popularly called, The Mandarin Oranges, or Tangerines, as more has a great abundance of its small, golden orange, olive- are splendid fruits for home planting because of the heavy crops of sweet, shaped fruits scattered over its rounded head of deep green foilage during most of the year. The tree seldom becomes juicy, uniquely-flavored fruit which everyone likes. more than 8 feet high, bears almost immediately after plant- ing and is perfectly hardy almost anywhere in California. Price On All Mandarins It does not bear well within ten miles of the seacoast but ripens crops else. Most of the trees Each Per 10 Satsuma enormous everywhere you get from us in the winter season will have a crop of 2-year trees ..$3.00 $27.50 Satsuma (Owari). FC19. The hardiest fruit on when you plant them. Until you have tasted Kum- Kara and Kinnow, the two that we grow, and for this rea- quat marmalade, you have not eaten the best there is. trees, $32.50 10. Oranges listed below, originated by Dr. son can be planted where other citrus 3-year $3.50 each, per Frost of the University of California fruits will not succeed, but it is one of ^ Citrus Experiment' Station, are, in our the best for any district because its Eustis Limequat opinion, just about the finest eating of big, flat, loose-skinned, deep orange Eustis Limequat. FC14. A cross between the Lime and the all the citrus fruits. Maybe we should fruits are sweet, tender and juicy, and Kumquat. The fruit resembles a light yellow Lime and i^ say drinking, because these beautiful best of all, they ripen early, long be- thin-skinned, firm, very juicy, almost seedless, and is deli- golden thin-skinned Mandarins are fore Christmas, when almost no other cious when used like the Lime for beverage purposes. The bursting with unbelievable quantities citrus fruits are yet ripe. The tree is a tree is small, of rapid upright growth producing fruit almost of the most delicious, sweetest and dwarf, seldom more than 10 feet, bear- immediately after planting, and bearing exceedingly heavy richest flavored juice that ever trickled ing while very young. November to crops, the arching branching often being so lined with the over the palate. How full of vitamins March. beautiful yellow fruits that they arch over with the weight. they must be, and what a pleasant January to June the tree will give Mandarin. FC15. (Algerian.) From you and your way to take them! The trees are vig- family hundreds of delicious drinks of vitamin-rich, refresh- This excellent Tangerine has four dis- orous and heavy bearing. ing limequat-ade. Several degrees hardier than Limes. 2- tinctive characteristics. (1) The deli- year trees, $3.00 each; 3-year trees, $3.50 each; extra size Kara Mandarin. FC17. This be- cious medium-sized fruit is just about specimens, $5.00 each. tween Satsuma and the King Mandarin the sweetest of all the Tangerines; is the largest of these two new vari- (2) the fruit has a rich red color; (3) eties. Its beautiful rich orange flesh, next to Satsuma it is the earliest to Meyer Lemon while firm, is exceptionally tender and ripen; and (4) its dark green, glossy, The Meyer Lemon is hardy almost anywhere in juicy, and so sweet and rich in flavor compact foliage makes it one of the California. See description on preceding page. that it can be diluted fifty per cent most beautiful of citrus trees. It has with water and still taste better than been very profitable commercially in most citrus juices do taken straight. Coachella and Imperial Valleys. De- You can get more juice out of these cember to March. beautiful golden orange fruits than you would believe possible, and they have an entirely new flavor in citrus fruits. February to April. Otaheite Orange Kinnow Mandarin. FC18. These smooth- Oranges. FC21A. Splendid skinned, glossy, yellowish-orange fruits Otaheite for a small pot or tub plant either for are a little smaller than the Kara, but outdoor or conservatory use is this both in tree and fruit this variety is It a spreading the most beautiful in appearance. The dwarf Orange. makes little plant with broad handsome deep tree is a heavy bearer, producing foliage, bearing, even great quantities of the handsome de- green citrus and small, guantities of small licious fruits, exceedingly juicy and full while very 2-inch orange-yellow fruits, of no value of flavor. We have listened to many ornamental. arguments among the experts as to to eat, but exceedingly Quite hardy and will thrive in a com- which is the better, Kara or Kinnow, paratively small container for a long and if Mr. Gallup took a poll, he would probably find that 50 per cent period of time. 5-gal. tins, bushy, like Kinnow best and the other 50 per $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10. cent like Kara. They are quite differ- ent, so we'll let you decide. If it's just looks you want, then you had Myrtle-Leaved Orange better plant Kinnow. January to April. Myrtle-Leaved Orange (Chinotto.) FC21. Favorite A beautiful small ornamental fruiting An Old shrub about 8 feet high, rounded and Dancy Mandarin. FC16. Most of the spreading, densely foliaged with hand- tangerines you buy in the market are some, little pointed myrtle-like leaves. of this kind because it's an old variety Loaded every winter and spring with planted commercially for many years. beautiful little golden yellow fruits, of Large, handsome, thin-skinned, orange- no value to eat, but making splendid red fruits, borne on a big, vigorous, marmalade. Quite hardy (15°), it grows heavy producing tree. It is a very easily almost anywhere. Bush form, satisfactory Tangerine everywhere in gal. tins, $1.00 each, $9.00 per 10; 5- the citrus district but we would pre- gal. tins, $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10; tree fer to sell you a Kara or Kinnow be- shape, 2-year, $2.50 each, $22.50 per cause we think the quality is better. 10; extra size specimens, $4.00 each.

— 5 — Sub -Tropical Fruiting N Trees and Plants

One of the most delightful things about owning a home place in California is that you can grow and enjoy so many interesting and unusual tropical and semi-tropical fruits. Some grow on bushes, some grow on trees, and the Armstrong Nurseries for years have specialized in seeking out and growing the best of these unusual fruit- ing trees and plants which are also most ornamental. Armstrong Loquars The Loquat is much hardier than most other sub-tropical fruit trees and thrives almost anywhere in California except in the mountain and desert regions. Loquats ripen in April and May when other fruits are scarce, and have a sprightly aromatic flavor which everyone enjoys, while Loquat jelly is just about the most delicious thing of its kind. The Loquat is a splendid small spreading evergreen tree for ornamental purposes alone. Hardy down to 15°. Prices on Advance and Champagne: Balled, V/z ft., $2.25 each, $20.00 per 10; 2-3 ft., $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10; 3-4 ft., $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; 4-5 ft., $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. Write for prices on 25 or more trees. See below for prices on Gold Nugget and Thales. Gold Nugget Loquat Advance. FS21. Large, pear-shaped, deep yellow fruits with This variety and Thales are the largest delicious juicy white flesh. Possibly the most beautiful tree and sweetest, while Advance and Cham- and one of the heaviest bearers. The fruit makes the finest pagne have the zippiest flavor and make loquat jelly you ever tasted. March to June. the best jelly. Champagne. FS22. The big yellow-skinned, white-fleshed fruits are exceedingly juicy and richly flavored. Fine for both coast and interior areas. Its zippy, zestful flavor will please you, and it's, just right for jelly. March to May. The Peruvian Pepino Rose-Scented Fruit Thales. FS25. The very large fruits of the Thales are deep The Pepino (Solanum muricatum). FS35. Rose-Apple. FS39. (Syzigium jambos.) orange in color and have rich orange flesh, much sweeter 28°. Is a handsome evergreen fruiting 25°. A mass of broad, thick, shining than the white kinds. Ripens late and is best suited to shrub from Peru, becoming 3 feet in green and foliage, 8 or 10 feet the coastal counties, but does well inland also. The tree height, producing from September all high, luxuriant and handsome. It beart starts to bear at an early age, and the great big fruit in through the winter into the late spring beautiful small, round, creamy white great big clusters has been very profitable on the market quantities of large, oval, bright yellow rose-flushed fruit, IV2 to 2 inches in lately. May to June. Balled, Wz ft-, $2.50 each, $22.50 per fruits splashed with violet, 4 to 6 diameter, deliciously rose - scented, 10; 2-3 ft., $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10; 3-4 ft., $3.00 each. inches in length. The fruits are excel- which may be eaten fresh or used to lent in salads. Gold Nugget. FS24. The glossy, deep orange fruits of this Full sun. Gal. tins, 75c make fragrant jelly or . A each, $6.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.00 pink mound of this delicious rose- fine new Loquat rate right at the top in appearance and each, $17.50 per 10. scented jelly will really cause a sen- flavor. It will make you smack your lips and reach for sation you get it on the table. more. Fruit of this variety has been bringing high prices when (The clusters of pink and white fruits on the market, but if you have a family, you'll find they'll make beautiful table decorations too.) eat it all up and there won't be any to sell. Best in coastal Surinam Cherry The fruits, which are borne in clusters, counties. May to June. Balled, 1-year trees, $2.75 each. Surinam Cheny. FS13. (Eugenia uni- are preceded by large, showy white 20°. flora.) Here is one of the most flowers. Does best in coastal regions beautiful The Natal Plum (Carissa) of the ornamental fruiting or foothill areas protected from the shrubs. Natal Plum (Carissa grandiflora). FS1. 5-8 ft. 22° A lovely A beautiful, glossy leaved, wind, in full sun or part shade. Likes large shrub from South Africa, uniquely beautiful in flower, compact plant, branching close to the plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, 85c each, ground, fruit and foliage. The rich glossy green foliage makes a it is good looking at all times $7.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.25 each, during splendid background for the star-like, intensely fragrant, the year. In the spring it bears $20.00 per 10. white blossoms and the brilliant scarlet fruits which are big crops of handsome, deep crimson about the size of a date or larger. Fruits and flowers appear fruits, 3/4 to 1 inch across, like little at all times during the year. Naturally grows to a height 8-ribbed tomatoes. The fruits have a delicate of 6 or 8 feet with the same spread, but may be trimmed aromatic flavor when eaten fresh, lower if desired. The fruits are edible, and when cooked make a jelly that rivals that of they make a delicious jam suggestive of cranberry jelly and the guava, and a delicious salmon- plum jam. The plant thrives in the extreme heat of the pink sherbet. Gal. tins, $1.00 each 5- desert or in the cool moist weather of the coast, and is gal. tins, $2.50 each. hardy almost anywhere in California. Plants in gal. tins, 75c each, $6.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10. Armstrong Large-Fruited Natal Plum. FS2. This is a fine The Natal Plum selected strain of the Carissa described above which has Its brilliant scarlet fruits, fruit half again as large, beautiful big scarlet fruits that handsome foliage, and make a magnificent show on the plant and in a bowl. The fragrant flowers make it leaves and the entire plant are a little larger too. The fruit one of California's most ripens continuously, especially near the coast. Gal. tins, popular fruiting ornamen- $1.25 each, $11.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.75 each, $25 per 10. tal plants. Prostrate Natal Plum. FS3. A lower growing form of Caris- sa, easily kept down with light pruning to 3 or 4 feet in height but becoming 8 or 10 feet across. Gal. tins, 85c each. $7.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10. Melons on Trees Papaya. FS33. One of the most delicious table fruits of the tropics and while too tender for most of California, it will grow and bear fruit in sheltered frostless locations. The luxuriant, large leaved, tropical appearing plants grow with great rapidity and should bear their large, luscious, melon- like fruits within two years. Papayas require a warm, sunny, well drained location with plenty of water and fer- tilizer and must be kept growing rapidly in order to be a success. We cannot guarantee the plants that we send out to be successful because there are comparatively few loca- tions in which they will thrive in California. Since the male and female flowers of the Papaya are borne on separate plants at least three plants should be planted together in order that at least one of each sex will be present. The plants that we offer are the famous Solo strain from Ha- waii. Gal. tins, $1.10 each, $10.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Average shipping weight of sub-tropicals: 5-gal. tins, 50 lbs. each; balled trees, 50 lbs. each; gal. tins, 10 lbs. each. See page 41 for shipping costs. Armstrong Sub -Tropical

Delicious California Cherimoyas

The Cherimoya is considered by many (including ourselves) to be the most delicious of the sub-tropical fruits. Originally from the highlands of Ecuador and Peru, it is now grown throughout the tropical and semi-tropical climates of the world, and everywhere is highly prized for the delicious flavor and quality of the large, green, heart-shaped fruits, which vary from a few ounces to more than three pounds in weight, with smooth, white flesh cf the consistency of ice cream. They ripen in winter when fruits are scarce.

Cherimoya trees are fast growing, hardy down Deliciosa. FS8. The most resistant variety to to 25", and require about the same treatment cold and wind, therefore, planted over a as a citrus tree. They grow rather quickly to wider range. The fruit, though often small, a height of from 12 to 20 feet, come into bear- is produced freely and regularly even with- ing in about three yeaTS, and should be out hand-pollination. The fruits have curious planted about 20 to 25 feet apart. Next to the protuberances which make it difficult to Avocado, we consider the Cherimoya to be handle for market but do not affect its value the most important commercial sub-tropical as a splendid home fruit. A beautiful look- fruit because of the exceptionally fine quality ing tree. of those big, delicious, creamy fruits which McPherson. FS10. The biggest tree of those everyone iikes. They are easy to pick and we list, bearing splendid high quality smooth, handle either for home or market use. Newly uniform fruits. discovered methods of hand-pollination insure Ryerson. FS11. Big, smooth, uniform fruits of big crops every year (our salesmen will tell exceptionally good flavor. Most of its fruit you how to do it). ripens late in the winter and early spring All Cherimoyas except Dr. White: 1-year trees, when other kinds are gone. The trees bear S3. 50 each, S32.50 per 10. Dr. White, 50c per young and heavily. tree more. Dr. White. FS9. The newest of the Cherimoya Booth. FS7. A big, fine flavored fruit which varieties and we think it may be the best. has proved itself for 12 years in California Beautiful fruit with three outstanding quali- and has been the most popular of all. From ties. (1) Fewer seeds; (2) an unsurpassed, un- a tree in our growing grounds (now 12 years forgettable flavor; (3) lots of fruit. We are old) we regularly pick 500 to 600 fruits each very enthusiastic about it. 50c per tree high- year. Next to Deliciosa it is the hardiest. er than other kinds.

The White Sapote

Strawberry Guavas Are Fine to Eat White Sapote i« a strong growing evergreen tree, considerably hardier than most of the Fresh and Famous for Jelly. subtropical fruits, and thriving anywhere in California where the Orange tree grows. Trees bear enormous crops of fruit which look like green apples, ripening all through summer.

Passion Fruit The fruit of the Sapote is very easily digested heavy crop in the fall. The medium to small and contains much pepsin. The soft flesh has fruit is borne in clusters, deliciously flavored. Passion Fruit. FS34. 28°. It is a .splendid a rich peach-like flavor, and is delicious to ornamental fruiting vine for the home, grow- eat any time. The tree of the White Sapote Suebelle. FS37. Many Sapote connoisseurs ing rapidly on fence or pergola. The seed makes a beautiful evergreen shade tree for conside'r this to have the finest quality and taken from which our plants are grown are the home place. Its big, five-fingered leaves flavor of all the Sapotes, and it begins to bear from the largest fruiting type and heaviest are always handsome, and you never have to at a slightly earlier age than the others. The State. This is bearing vines to be found in this worry about the tree bearing because it never fruit pear-shaped. A large spreading tree. is important because inferior strains are some- misses a crop, usually starting to bear three Wilson. FS38. A tall, slender tree with big, times sold. The glistening purple fruits, about or four years after planting. Hardy down fra- luxuriant foliage. It bears heavy crops of the size of a hen's egg, are exceedingly to 20°. fruit of big green grant and may be eaten fresh or used in large about the size a Large, 1-yr. trees, balled, 3-5 ft., S4.50 each, its enormous many table delicacies. Grow your own big, apple, ripening continuously S42.50 per 10. purple, fragrant "Easter eggs" and provide a crops from August through to late January. tree will often as beautiful mantle of glossy, handsome foliage Pike. FS3S. A large spreading tree, growing A Wilson bear as many lbs. fruit in season and delicious for pergola, wall, fence or building at the with great vigor and rapidity, producing usu- 1,000 of one — same time. Gal. tins, 75c each, $6.50 per 10. ally a light crop of fruit in the spring and a fruit too.

Dr. White Cherimoya, California's Most Delicious Sub-Tropical California Olives Fruit. This Armstrong Specimen Won a Blue Ribbon at One of Fruit Shows. It is pictured here two-thirds California's Biggest Olives will do well almost anywhere in California, thriving with a natural size. New pollination methods make it easy to get 10°. northern large crops on Cherimoya trees every year. minimum of care and water. Hardy down to From Sacramento Valley down into Old Mexico, Armstrong Olive Trees are making money for their owners.

Right now Olives are California's Also large boxed specimens avail- best paying orchard crop, and the able. owner of an Olive orchard is in an Shipping Weights for Olives: V2-5/8 5/ extremely fortunate position. Few and 8- 3/4 inch sizes, bare root, 2 commercial plantings have been lbs. for the first tree, 1 lb. for each made in recent years and the out- added tree; 3/4-inch size, bare root, look seems to be good for a long first tree 4 lbs., 2 lbs. for each add- time to come. Pickled olives, both ed tree. See page 41 for shipping ripe and green, and olive oil made costs. from California olives, are worth almost their weight in gold. And Olive Varieties best of all for California, our cli- Ascalano. FS28. Larger than any mate gives this State almost a mo- other variety grown in California. nopoly on olive production. Big, oval, wine-colored fruit of ex- ceptionally fine quality. Prices Olive for Bare Root Trees Manzanillo. FS30. The leading (With tops pruned for planting) commercial variety for pickled ripe too Each Per 10 olives and a good kind for oil Bears very heavy crops and the 1/2-5/b in. cal. (3 to 4 ft.)..$1.60 $13.50 rich dark purple fruit is a little - 3 in. cal. (4 to 5 ft.).. 1.85 16.00 y8 /4 larger than Mission. 3/4- 1 in. caL (5 to 6 ft.).. 2.25 20.00 Mission. FS31. Old trees of this va- Write for prices on 25 or more trees. riety are still bearing well at some Best time to plant, February to June, of the Missions where they were inclusive. planted by the original Spanish Padres. Probably the best oil olive Prices for Balled Olives, Unpruned and good for pickles too. Olive oil For ornamental planting we recom- is selling now for about $5.00 per mend trees with a ball of earth on gallon, and it only takes 53 pounds the roots, the tops unpruned. 5 to of Mission olives to make a gallon 5 ft. trees, $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10 of oil. Fruiting Trees and Plants

Feijoa ( Pineapple Cuava)

Giant-fruited, grafted varieties of the popular fruiting ornamental shrub, the Feijoa, have long been an Armstrong specialty. A bowl of big, green Arm-

strong Feijoas will fill your living room with a delightful aroma which lasts for days and is like the fragrance of pineapple, strawberries, bananas and guince all thrown together. The fruit is good to eat, too, fine for salads and sherbets.

The plant of the Feijoa is handsome, the Armstrong Graited Feijoa Varieties leaves glossy green on top, silvery gray underneath, with showy red flowers in Choiceana. FS15. The fruit is the size of large hen's inches spring. Becomes 15 feet high but easily a egg, 3 by 2V4 inches. This variety is the finest kept lower by pruning. Makes fine big very Feijoa, but Coolidge or Superba must be hedge. Fruit ripens in the fall. Hardy planted with it to insure cross-pollination. down to 5". Do not confuse ordinary Feijoa seedlings with the large-fruited Coolidge. FS16. A long oval fruit, not grafted varieties which we offer. The quite as large as Choiceana cr Superba, seedlings usually bear small fruit or but which never fails to bear a crop may not bear at all. even when planted by itself because the All varieties listed: Gal. tins. Si. 35 each, flowers do not need cross-pollination. $12.50 per 10; balled, bushy, Wz-1 it., $2.25 each, S20.00 per 10; 2-3 ft., S2.50 Superba. FS17. Beautiful, big, round each, $22.50 per 10; 3-4 it., $3.50 each, fruits, almost as large as a billiard ball. $32.50 per 10. Also plants of Superba, Must have another variety with it to in- 4-5 it., at S4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. sure cross-pollination. Coolidge Feijoas M-M-M-M, What a Heavenly Aroma They Have! Cuavas For eating fresh and for jelly the Strawberry and Yellow Strawberry Guavas are the finest The Tropical Mango small fruits that can be grown in California. Haden Mango. FS27. 30°. That delicious, fra- They all make very handsome ornamental grant and most famous of all tropical fruits, the shrubs with their beautiful evergreen foliage, Mango, grows and bears well in the frostless and are splendid for a medium-sized hedge. coastal and foothill regions of Southern Cali- Ripen September to November. fornia. Trees must be kept well mulched and Strawberry Guava. FS19. 5 ft. 20°. Handsome, given plenty of water. The Haden is the best glossy-leaved medium-sized shrub producing an variety for planting in this State, and we pick abundance of luscious deep red fruits about delicious fruits of this variety every year grown the size of a large strawberry, highly prized for within 10 miles of Ontario. Plants in 5-gal. eating when fresh and unequalled for jelly. tins, 1-2 ft., single stem, $6.00 each. Hardy and easily grown anywhere in Califor- nia. For a real treat for all the family, a clump of two or three, planted as ornamental The Longan shrubs, will be one of the finest improvements Longan. FS14. (Euphoria longan.) The famous that can be made in any home garden. Gal. Litchi nut is a little too tender for our climate, tins, 75c each, $6.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.00 but the Longan, a very close relative, makes a each, $17.50 per 10. beautiful tree here and will bear very well. Yellow Strawberry Guava. FS20. 17°. Similar Medium sized, evergreen, its glossy foliage is to the above but the yellow fruit is slightly particularly handsome in the winter and spring larger and has the finest flavor of all the when it is covered with reddish-mahogany Guavas. Gal. tins, 75c each, $6.50 per 10; 5- young growth. The fruit looks like a big, round, gal. tins, $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10. yellow-brown cherry, and the juicy, white, deli- Lemon Guava. FS18. 26°. Very large fruits, cately flavored flesh is delicious. The tree likes as big as a pear, but the flavor is a bit a good deal of water and is happy in all of strong. Grows rapidly to 6 or 8 feet, has larger, the coastal and milder foothill regions of Cali- lighter colored leaves and is more tender than fornia. Gal. tins, $1.75 each. the above two varieties. Did you know that Avocados are an Armstrong sub-tropical fruit Lemon Guavas were the most potent source of specialty. See them on pages 21 and 22. Vitamin C among all fruits?. Much better than Always include both and code num- buying pills at a drug store. Gal. tins, 75c each, name $6.50 per 10. ber of the item on your order sheet.

Macadamia Nuts Wilson Sapote One-Half Natural Size Shown here is a young tree, but it's already bearing very Macadamia (Queensland Nut) heavily. It makes a fine medium - sized The Macadamia (FS26) is an evergreen sub-tropical nut tree shade tree for any from the Eastern coast of Australia, with a dense rounded Southern California head of long narrow dark green leaves, and attains a garden. The iruit height of 20 to 35 feet. The nuts are about IVi inches in shown below is from diameter, round and hard shelled, with a tender white 2 to 4 inches across kernel very rich in flavor, and are usually borne in consid- and ripens continu- erable quantity, hanging on the trees like big bunches of ously over many grapes. The trees usually begin to bear in 3 to 5 years months. from time of planting. They are healthy, vigorous and easily grown almost anywhere in Southern California except in the very cold sections. Hardy down to 26°. The Macadamia is a beautiful ornamental tree for shade alone, and when you consider its crop of delicious nuts, it becomes doubly valuable. Gal. tins, $1.25 each, $11.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins. $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10.

Plant- Sub-Tropicals Anytime The black squares under every month in the planting cal- endar below indicate that you can plant sub-tropical trees either balled, bare root or from gallon tins during any month in the year (spring months are slightly preferable).

Month JFMAM J JASOND —

Armstrong Prolific

You Need This Information All of the deciduous fruit and nut trees listed on pages

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 can be planted only during the months indicated below by a black square.

Month JFMAMJ JASOND Bare Root

When to Plant. Deciduous trees (those listed on pages 9 to 14) should be transplanted during their dormant season, lanuary, Feb- ruary and March. They are safely transplanted without dirt around the roots (the best method) only during this dormant season. Planting Instructions. Our planting instructions are sent with each order and should be read before unpacking the trees. They have been carefully prepared on the basis of our many years of ex- perience and contain helpful hints. Use tree protectors or tree white to avoid danger of sunburn. (See page 38.) Pruning. All trees should be pruned back severely before plant- ing. On small orders we do this for you unless you request other- wise. The sizes we list in our Catalog are the sizes the trees were before we pruned them. You can tell by the caliper (circumfer- ence) of the trunks. The reason for buying the larger trees is to get a bigger root system. Quantity Prices. Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10-rate. We can supply large quantity orders for certain varieties. Please write for a quotation. The New Valmore Distance Apart to Plant. See the table on page 38. Apple Shipping Weights. See shipping costs on page 41. Allow for Apples, Peaches, Apricots 6-8 ft. grade first tree 5 lbs., each addi- tional tree 3 lbs.; 4-6 ft. grade first tree 3 lbs., additional trees IV2 lbs. each.

Crisp, Juicy Apples—Fine for Shade Too

It is very important that you pick the right Southern California's Finest Apple variety for your locality. Yellow De- For Late Apples Red Apple licious Winter Banana, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow Bellflower. FD16. A standard market White Pearmain, Rhode Island Greening, Red variety of California, best in the coast val- Valmore. FD12. This beautiful, new summer Astrachan and the new Valmore all do ex- leys. Oblong fruits with a pale yellow waxen ripening apple is a splendid addition to those cellently in the lower altitudes of Southern skin, beautifully blushed on one cheek. Oct. varieties thrive California. late red Apples should be which under Southern Cali- The Delicious. FD7. Everyone knows Delicious, a fornia conditions, ranks right along planted in the foothills and mountains, where with Win- magnificent variety of fine appearance and ter Banana and it gets cold during the winter, to get satis- White Pearmain in its con- delightful flavor; large, conical, brilliant red. sistent bearing qualities in It factory results. this area. slightly splashed with yellow; flesh fine bears heavy crops in San Joaquin .Valley too. grained, crisp, and juicy. The standard of The big, round fruits of Prices On Apples Valmore are magni- excellence in the apple. November. ficently colored, in fact, we have never seen (Except Valmore, Yellow Delicious and White Pearmain. FD15. An oblong greenish- a finer looking apple than these bright red Transcendent Crab) yellow apple, medium to large, juicy and fruits, with their underlying golden yellow Caliper Height Each Per 10 color, often striped and blotched scarlet mildly flavored. It bears well and has long with 1/2-1 in., to 6 ft .80 $7.00 1/16 4 $ particularly for cook- and yellow on one cheek. is deli- been a standard variety, Valmore 11/16 in. up, 6 to 8 ft 85 7.50 ciously flavored, ing. A good keeper. November. sweet and juicy, making de- Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold licious apple apple, sauce and apple pie. Since at the 10-rate. Write for prices on 50 or more Winesap. FD13. A standard late red there are few red-cheeked apples that we trees. round, beautifully colored, and of splendid can definitely recommend for the lower alti- quality, but in Southern California suitable Listed in Approximate Order of Ripening tudes of Southern California, we suggest in- only for the higher altitudes. December. Red Astrachan. FD9. Nearly covered with cluding it with every home planting. Plant large crimson stripes; juicy, crisp, and rich °at. No. 238. 4-6 ft. trees, $1.00 each, $9.00 \ in flavor. heavy bearer, it has been South- per 10; 6-8 ft., $1.10 each, $10.00 per 10. A California's dependable early sum- Flowers and Crab Apples Write for prices on 25 or more trees. ern most mer Apple and a popular Apple everywhere Transcendent Crab Apple. FD11. We are not for many years. July. sure but that for most of Southern California It is the Famous Yellow Red Gravenstein. FD9A. The new Red Grav- this is the finest Apple tree that you can enstein is all red and far more colorful than plant on the home grounds. First of all, of Delicious the old favorite. The large round fruits are of course, it produces enormous crops of beau- the same high quality. The earliest com- tiful medium-sized yellow fruits, handsomely Yellow Delicious. FD16A. For eating out of mercial apple and a seacoast favorite. - Aug. striped with red, which make the finest kind hand we cannot recommend a finer apple. of jelly, preserves spiced pickles. It When you bite through the golden yellow Valmore. FD12. The new, red, summer ripen- and bears so heavily because it is the most re- skin deep into the crisp sweet flesh you ing apple. See illustration and description at sistant to delayed foliation of all Apple trees quickly discover that in Southern California left. August. when in bloom in the spring, and you'll find apples can be grown which are tops in fla- the blossoms very fine for cut sprays. Third, vor. You squeeze out plenty of the richest, it very dense foliage and makes most refreshing apple cider you ever tasted A Delicious Aroma has handsome a very nice looking small summer shade tree. as you crunch each bite. Much juicier than Winter Banana. FD14. The large, clear wax August. 6-8 ft. trees, 95c each, $8.50 per 10; the average Red Delicious apple, you will be yellow apples with their delicate pink blush 8-10 ft. trees, $1.00 each, $9.00 per 10. impressed with the character of the flavor are beautiful in a bowl of mixed fruit. sweet but full of apple tang. Carefully stored Whether you reach for one to eat fresh, to put fruit lasts until Christmas. Valmore, Winter in a pie or bake, you will immediately or Display Yards Banana, and Yellow Delicious are the three eventually after cooking be impressed by the Now Two apples we particularly advise each home unusual flavor. The taste is what the entic- All genuine products can now planter to find Armstrong room for if possible. It is ing aroma promises it will be. Dependable in be obtained Dis- often easier to do so when you remember all districts, including the coast, you will get not only at out Ontario that apple trees are excellent ornamental a crop every year. play Yard but at our Branch in North Hol- shade trees too. Yellow Delicious starts to Yellow Delicious. FD16A. A famous richly lywood, corner of Magnolia Boulevard and bear young and can be relied upon to pro- flavored variety. See description at left. Sept. duce heavy crops in areas not considered Coldwater Canyon Avenue. apple country. September. 6 to 8 foot trees, Rhode Island Greening. FD10. The favorite If you find it difficult to visit our yards $1.35 each, $12.50 per 10. green apple of the entire country. Large, ro- tund, yellowish-green, with juicy mellow flesh. send your order in by mail. We will get To avoid errors in filling your order, please For cooking purposes it is unexcelled. Oct. the plants safely to you by the best avail- include on your order sheet both the name Jonathan. FD8. One of the best apples grown. able means of transportation, whether it Brilliant red striped with carmine, almost of the item and the code number follow- be by mail, express, freight, or our own round, with crisp white flesh. Only to be ing the name. grown in good apple sections. October. trucks.

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Deciduous Fruit Trees Armstrong Peach Calendar every year over In Southern California it is now possible to enjoy peaches a long season regardless of the weather. The new varieties are well adapted to our mild-wintered sections, and unlike the older kinds, bear each year so heavily that thinning or propping usually is needed.

Caliper Height Each Per 10 New Early Elberta 3/8-l/2 in., 3-4 ft $ .70 $6.00 V2-II/I6 in., 4-6 ft 80 7.00 Early Elberta. FD51. This new early more Rio Oso Gem 10c per tree higher than ripening Peach is becoming much California above prices. Golden Blush 25c per important commercially in tree more. Write for prices on 50 or than its later ripening namesame, El- both for and market more trees. berta, and home we can recommend it highly. The med- All Peaches are listed below in order ium size fruit is almost round, yellow- of ripening, and all are freestone un- ish, with a rich red cheek and a beau- less otherwise stated. tiful orange-pink cast to the skin. The flesh is of excellent quality, almost Favorite clear yellow, very firm so that it makes An Old an excellent shipping peach for mar- Early Imperial. FD53. This old favorite keting. For Southern California one of is still one of our most popular vari- its most valuable characteristics is the eties. Perhaps it always will be be- high resistance to delayed foliation so cause of its ability to bear tremendous that it should produce a crop every crops early each spring. The medium year. If you want an early yellow size yellow fruits are crimson marked. freestone peach for any home use in The freestone pit separates easily from Southern California, this is certainly the the iuicy yellow flesh. A commercially one you should plant. Middle July. proven variety. Crop ripens over sev- eral weeks in July. C. O. Smith Golden Blush, Best Mid-August Freestone C. O. Smith. FD50. Even more resist- Showiest Blooms So. Calif.'s Favorite ant than Babcock to delayed foliation and will never fail to provide a large Lukens Honey. FD59. One of the finest and sweetest of all Babcock. FD49. Unquestionably Bab- crop of beautiful peaches every year Peaches for home use, the little greenish-white Peaches cock is now Southern California's most in the mild wintered sections of the with their white flesh and abundant juice possessing a popular peach for both home plantings southwest. Too soft to be a commer- sweetness and flavor unexcelled. Lukens rank along with and market orchards. Juicy, richly fla- cial variety, it is larger than Babcock Babcock, Smith and Saucer for dependable bearing quality, vored Babcock particularly peaches ap- and is a wonderful Peach for home and even in the hottest interior sections always comes to peal a great many people who de- use. Its richly flavored, juicy white through with a big crop. It has the largest and most beau- in all other mand them preference to flesh is delicious indeed. This is the tiful blooms in the spring of any of the fruiting peaches. kinds ripening during the same inter- best white-fleshed peach for early sum- Early August. val. For six years now market reports mer home use in Southern California. Elberta. FD54. This variety has been for many years, and that show Babcocks have sold for al- Late July. still is, one of the finest Peaches. The name Elberta is most double the price per pound almost as well known as the Peach itself. Good sized, oval, Early Crawford. FDS1. Known for brought by other commercial varieties yellow fruits with red cheeks, juicy and well flavored. many years as one of the finest early ready at the same time. Early August. yellow Peaches. Very large, round Picked, the fruit stays firm and attrac- fruits, colored rich red and golden yel- tive for many days, and on the tree low; marbled yellow flesh rayed with The Outstanding Yellow Peach ripens over a considerable period, pit. It has rich flavor, red at the a Golden Blush. FD56. Each year that we have observed this which makes picking and handling pleasant aroma and abundant juice. easy and economical. Trees often bear fine new yellow-fleshed Peach, with the yellow skin and red Late July. more enthusiastic its excep- the first season after planting and grow cheek, we have become about Hale. FD57. This long-famous and habit. large with amazing speed. The beau- J. H. tionally fine quality, appearance and free bearing popular variety has stayed at the top big fruits, slightly elongated than round, tiful red-cheeked fruit is fuzzless. The The beautiful more because of its exceptional appearance. beautifully blushed with red, and in flavor and juici- small, freestone pit is surrounded by are their juicy, sweet, white flesh. To insure The big, round fruits, with beau- ness Golden Blush far exceeds the better known J. H. Hale tiful yellow skin, richly marked with or Elberta. Time after time when mild winters cause the good sized fruit, it is advisable to thin carmine, always to set of fruit, Golden well and water frequently. Early July. deep red and have older better known kinds a poor crop sold well and except in mild winters Blush is heavily loaded; in fact, we have not seen a poor the variety bears excellent crops in crop on it yet. We have now observed it long enough so Note shipping weights for fruit trees top Southern California and elsewhere that we can not only recommend it as a splendid home of opposite page. Use these in con- bears them every year. The new Gold- Peach but a fine commercial Peach as well, to ripen be-

junction with shipping tables on page en Blush is much better eating in most tween J. H. Hale and Rio Oso Gem. Middle August. Plant 41 to estimate shipping costs. of Southern California. Early August. Pat. No. 473. 25c per tree more than other varieties.

Delicious Babcock Peaches, now the leading home and market peach of Southern California, brings highest prices.

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— 10— These Two Contrasting Peach Trees Illustrate the Peach and Apricot Trees Reason Why Varieties Such as Babcock, C. O. Smith and Golden Blush Are Being Planted in Profitable for Home or Orchard Southern California. Read Rio Oso Gem. FD62. This splendid new Peach is just as fine in ap- the Caption Below This pearance as the famous J. H. Hale, but ripens two weeks later and is Picture Carefully. much superior in quality to that variety. The fruit is very large, round, and brilliant dark crimson in color shading out to orange-red. The flesh is yellow, firm, and richly flavored. The first choice for profit- able planting now in the Yucaipa-Beaumont district. Late August. Plant Pat. No. 84. 10c per tree higher than regular rates. Krummel. FD58. One of the latest freestone Peaches and a good mar- ket variety. Fruit large, lemon yellow, lightly blushed with carmine; flesh yellow, red at the pit. Now the best of the late summer free- stones for any purpose. Late September. *** Millers Late. FD60. This late variety has absolutely no competition in its season. A fine large, yellow freestone of excellent quality, and a heavy bearer. With this variety you'll have fine Peaches almost up to Thanksgiving. October-November. Canning Peaches Peaks Cling. FD61. As an early canning Peach, Peaks has no superior. Fruit is large, uniform and round; skin clear golden yellow; flesh firm, sweet and deep yellow right to the small pit. A very heavy bearer. Middle August. Sims Cling. FD63. Sims Cling is undoubtedly the leading commercial canning cling of Southern California because it bears more consistently there than any other cling and is of very fine quality. Fruit larger than average, golden yellow outside and in; flesh clear yellow to the pit. For home or commercial planting, there is no finer Cling than Sims. Late August. White Heath Cling. FD64. Creamy white, blush on sunny side; flesh Trees Were Planted at the Time Both of These Same white, tender, juicy and delicious. A fine late white Cling for home use, and there is nothing more beautiful nor more delicious than home canned white peaches. September. The tree on the right is a Babcock; that on the left is a J. H. Hale. They were both planted in the same orchard in February, following a mild winter, and the photograph was taken in July of the same year. For Orchard Planting The Babcock tree was not injured by the mild winter and has made Babcock, Golden Blush and Rio Oso Gem are varieties which we an enormous growth. J. H. Hale, being susceptible to delayed folia- recommend for commercial plantings. This year, in a limited area tion following a mild winter, did not leaf out normally and almost a (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties), we offer also a new cling year's growth was lost. The same thing happens to mature trees, Peach which looks especially promising. causing loss of the crop on H. Hale and similar varieties but not a J. Fontana. FD55. Mr. George P. Weldon of Chaffey Junior College, who affecting Babcock, Early Elberta, C. O. Smith, Golden Blush, Lukens introduced Babcock to Southern California, is now able, after much Honey, and to lesser degree. Early Imperial. a work done over a period of years, to present to Southern California an outstanding cling peach. He says of Fontana: "The Fontana, I Delicious Apricots believe, is outstanding. We are sending a few to the market now; the canners like them, and while they may not make quite the size of Sims, they are better shape, uniform size, deeper yellow Apricots ripen early in the summer before most other fruits a more in inside color, heavier and bear better." Prices same as other varieties. are ready, and to enjoy their mellow golden goodness to Write for quantity quotations. the full, you almost have to pick them right from your own tree, fully ripened in the sun. Boy! they're really good Royal—the Finest of All Apricots then to eat fresh, and there is nothing finer for home jams and preserves either alone or mixed with other fruits. Apri- cots make perfect small backyard shade trees. For this purpose prune the lower branches off as the tree grows. Caliper Height Each Per 10 z/e-Vz in., 3 to 4 feet $ .70 S6.00 1/2-II/I6 in., 4 to 6 feet 80 7.00 Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10-rate. Write for special price on 50 or more trees. See quantity price paragraph top of page 9. Newcastle. FD17. The earliest Apricot on our list to ripen, al- though the quality is not as high as in the later varieties. Medium size, round, pale orange in color. A good commercial fruit in early-ripening sections, and because it ripens early it is the one Apricot that does well in the desert. May. The Favorite Apricot Royal. FD19. The leading Apricot for commercial planting and for the home. Medium size; skin orange yellow, often with a red cheek; flesh deep orange, rich and sweet. A very heavy bearer. If planting but one Apricot tree, we recommend Royal as being the variety to choose, for it will prove most satisfac- tory in all sections, from coast to inland valleys, and it is the variety most certain to produce a good crop for you every year. Early June.

Moorpark. FD18. If you want the finest flavored and best qual- ity apricot to eat, this is it. The large, round, deep apricot fruits, blushed on the sunny side, are unbelievably delicious. A shy bearer in the interior districts but exceptionally fine on the coast. Early July. Tilton. FD20. One of the largest and most beautiful of all Apricots, heart-shaped, with a beautiful, deep rich apricot color. The fruit is very richly flavored, sweet and juicy. A shy bear- er in coastal regions but particularly fine in the interior valleys, and the very latest apricot to ripen. Early July. Unique Espalier Fruit Trees Espalier Fruit Trees, those unique and interesting trees which are trained to have two flat sides, lend an unusual and beau- tiful note to any home planting when placed against walls, fences or in patios. They produce quantities of excellent fruit, often larger and more highly colored than that grown on ordi- nary trees. We have available Apples, Figs, Dwarf Pears, and Grapes grown in this manner. These are supplied as large balled specimens: 3-year specimens, $6.00; 4-year specimens, $7.50; 5-year specimens, $10.00.

— 11 — Armstrong Nut Trees Walnuts Almonds Walnuts grow vigorously and bear heavily Almonds are one of spring's most beautiful everywhere in California except in the high flowering fruit trees. To get plenty of nuts, mountains and the desert areas. They make a you have only to plant the right combinations wonderful shade tree for the home, but give to successful pollination to take place. them plenty of room. One Almond tree will rarely beaT alone. Height Each Per 10 Good combinations are Nonpareil and Drake 4 to 6 feet $1.75 $15.00 or Texas, Nonpareil and I.X.L., Jordanolo and 6 to 8 feet 2.00 17.50 Ne Plus Ultra or I.X.L. 8 to 10 feet 2.25 20.00 Caliper Height Each Per 10 10 to 12 feet 2.50 22.50 3/8-1/2 in., 3 to 4 ft $ .70 $6.00 Placentia. FD104. The Placentia is the most 1/2-11/16 in., 4 to 6 ft 80 7.00 popular and profitable Walnut in Southern California. The nuts are roundish oval, smooth, Jordanolo 10c per tree higher than above with a thin strong shell, of the most desirable prices. medium size. Exceptionally large crops. Jordanolo. FD3. A new Almond which we Eureka. FD101. Ranks second to Placentia as highly recommend for Southern California be- a commercial nut. Very large, elongated nuts, cause of its resistance to delayed foliation heavy and well sealed; cream colored, plump, and its extremely heavy bearing habit which waxy kernels. A better quality nut than Pla- Pistachio Nuts as They Look on the Tree is in evidence wherever it is planted in Cali- centia but does not bear as young nor so fornia. A very large, vigorous tree, with heavily. Hardier than Placentia. heavy, dense foliage, bearing abundant crops FD103. very popular commercial Pistachio Nuts Payne. A of large, long, soft-shelled nuts of a superior in the central valleys of California be- Walnut quality, shelling out easily. Pollinizer, Ne The knowledge of most people concerning the the early and heavy crops cause of extremely Plus Ultra. Price 10c per tree higher than Pistachio is that it has a nice green color and because of its borne by the young trees and prices named above. imparts a very pleasant flavor to ice cream. hardiness. Exceptionally high quality. It is less generally known that Pistachio Nut Franquette. FD102. Owing to its lateness in Drake. FD1. Bears well and adapts itself to trees will thrive in California wherever the blooming, its hardiness and dense foliage, this all almond districts. Medium size, almost fig and olive do well. They are hardy de- variety is favored in colder sections. The nut round, with a medium soft shell, plump and ciduous trees of small size, the nuts appear- is large, elongated, smooth, tightly sealed. well filled. A good pollinizer for Nonpareil. ing in large clusters like a loose bunch of grapes. California and Arizona are the only Nonpareil. FD5. Probably the most valuable two states where they have been successfully commercial Almond for California because it grown. Those fortunate few planters who bears uniform heavy crops, does well almost have Pistachio trees in bearing now are really everywhere, because of its large, smooth, and cashing in as the nuts sell for a very high shell. plump kernel and its paper-thin Pollin- figure. izer, Drake or Texas. Nuts are borne only on the female trees and Ne Plus Ultra. FD4. Chiefly valuable because at least one male to each 10 trees or less is of its attractive outside appearance and gen- necessary for pollination. We have two ex- erally large size. The nuts are large and long cellent nut bearing varieties, Aleppo FD95 with a soft corky shell. Plant with Jordanolo. and Bronte FD97, and the pollinizer, Kaz FD98. I.X.L. This variety brings the highest FD2. 4 to 5 foot trees $2.75 each, $25.00 per 10 price for nuts in the shell because marketed 5 to 6 foot trees 3.00 each, 27.50 per 10 attractive sized, of its appearance. Medium 6 to 7 foot trees 3.25 each, 30.00 per 10 soft shelled nuts. Pollinizer, Nonpareil. Also we have 8-10 ft. trees of the Kaz variety Texas. FP6. Produces extremely heavy, con- at $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. sistent crops of small, soft-shelled plump nuts, excellent for shelled kernels. A good pollinizer in for Nonpareil and Drake. Something New Nuts Thomas Black Walnut (Note Thin Shell) McAllister Hiccan. FD42. An interesting hy- brid of the Pecan and the Hickory. The nuts on this tree are so big that you have to back Eastern Black Walnuts Filberts away a couple of feet to get a good look at They are fairly thin-shelled and good Thomas. FD106. No nut has ever surpassed them. Filberts (Hazelnuts) make large bushes and quality. Young trees are growing in Califor- the old Eastern Black Walnut for flavor, but thrive in cool moist areas. In regions of hot nia, but so far none of them are old enough the kernels were very difficult to pick out ot summers they do not bear well. Two (or bet- to bear nuts. You'll be surprised at the beauty those hard shells. This new selected strain ter yet three) varieties must be planted to- of the big glossy leaves and the enormous of the Black Walnut grows easily into a gether to insure cross-pollination. We have vigor of the tree, which make it well worth beautiful big tree in California. The nuts Barcelona FD39 (the best variety), also Du while as an ornamental shade tree alone. have all the old delicious rich flavor but are Chilly FD40 end White Aveline FD41. $1.35 12-14 ft., $4.00; 10-12 ft., $3.50; 8-10 ft., $3.00; comparatively thin-shelled and crack easily. each, $12.50 per 10. 6-8 ft., $2.50. We picked a big crop last summer in our orchards from young trees. 4-6 ft., $3.00 own Shipping Weights each, $27.50 per 10; 6-8 ft., $3.25 each, $30.00 per 10; 8-10 ft., $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. Walnuts, 4-6 ft. weigh Big Brown Marron Combale Chestnuts Stabler. FD105. This variety has the largest 4 lbs. for 1st tree, 2 nut of all the selected strains of Eastern Black lbs. for each added; Walnut. A medium sized tree with thin-shelled 8-10 ft., 6 lbs. for 1st nuts from which the meats are easily removed tree, 3 lbs. for each when cracked. Often starts to bear the second added. For weights year after planting. 4-6 ft., $3.00 each, $27.50 of other fruit trees per 10; 6-8 ft., $3.25 each, $30.00 per 10; 8-10 see page 9. Shipping ft., $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. rates on page 41. Big Plump Brown Chestnuts The Chestnut does particularly well in California, producing very heavy crops of nuts even while young and making beautiful orna- mental shade trees with dense, dark green foliage and symmetrical tops. Heavier crops will be secured by planting two varieties. Marron Combale. FD29. If you want the largest and finest of all Chestnuts and lots of them, this French variety will be your choice. Great handsome mahogany-brown nuts of the highest quality produced in enormous quantities on a very large and magnificent tree. The nuts are excellent for roasting. 3-4 ft., $2.00, $17.50 per 10; 4-6 ft., $2.25 each, $20.00 per 10. Marron Quercy. FD30. A splendid Chestnut with fine big dark col- ored nuts, borne in enormous quantities even while the tree is very young. It is a smaller tree than Marron Combale and more adapted to locations where the space is limited. We picked 50 nuts from a one-year-old tree. 3-4 ft., $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10; 4-6 ft., $2.25 each, $20.00 per 10; 6-8 ft., $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10. Chinese Chestnut. FD28. The above two kinds are budded varieties. These Chinese Chestnuts (seedlings) make beautiful big round-headed spreading trees, and while the nuts vary slightly in size and quality, they are characteristically much sweeter than European Chestnuts. The nuts shell out with the greatest of ease. 4-6 ft., $1.75 each, $15.00 per 10; 6-8 ft., $2.00 each, $17.50 per 10.

— 12 — Armstrong Pecans

You should investigate Pecans whether you are a prospect for. a commercial planting or have just a small home yard. Commercial groves of superior varieties like Mahan are real money-makers. All of the Pecans make excellent shade trees, and you harvest a de- licious, profitable crop each year—profitable whether you con- sume the crop or sell it to someone else. Most Pecan varieties bear best only in those areas where high summer heat and a long growing season are experienced, however, Nellis, the excep- tion, bears heavily quite near the coast. Pecans must be well irrigated throughout the dry season.

All of our Pecan trees are pruned back severely (to about 18 inches) ready for planting. This is necessary in order to get good results.

Prices on all varieties except Mahan The World's Finest Caliper Height Each Per 10 Vz-% in., 4-6 ft $2.25 S20.00 Pecan—Mahan %-l in., 6-10 ft 2.75 25.00 Prices on Mahan Trees 1 in. up, 10-12 ft 3.25 30.00 Caliper Height Each Per 10 Ten assorted deciduous fruit nut - and i/2 5/s in., 4-6 ft $3.50 $32.50 trees sold at the 10-rate. for Write %-l in., 6-10 ft 4.50 42.50 prices on 50 or more trees. 1 in. up, 10-12 ft 5.00 47.50 Burkett. FD73. valuable Pecan A for Mahan. FD75. The sensation of the California and Arizona, producing ex- Pecan world is the gigantic new Ma- ceptionally heavy crops. The nut is han. The nuts of the Mahan are enor- large, round, very thin-shelled, Pecan, natural size. the mous, averaging 2Vz inches in length, Mahan whole meat coming out very readily. and the paper thin shells cracking al- For the hot inland valleys this is the most as easily as a peanut, are com- heaviest When to Plant. All of the nut and deciduous fruit trees producer, next to Mahan. pletely filled with richly flavored ker- listed on pages 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, as shown Caloro. FD74. The nut is very large, nels. They average 31 nuts to the below, can be planted only during the months of January, long and tapering and cracks and sep- pound—an amazing figure. February and March. arates from the shell easily and per- The Mahan is a strong growing tree, fectly. Next to Mahan, this is the bearing at a younger age than most beautiful Month JASOND most of the pecan trees that JFMAMJ Pecans, and producing heavy crops. we offer, growing tall and slender Hoot In the Yuma Pecan District it has b« with beautiful large, luxuriant, shade- IHDDDDDDDDD largely superseded other varieties, and giving foliage. It bears well only in while trees in other sections of Cali- the hot interior valleys where the fornia are still young and compara- growing season long. Superb Persimmons is tively untried, we have had excellent in California more people are enjoying in reports from these young trees from all Every year December ripe Hachiya Persimmons with over the State. Mahan is a magnifi- November and and lemon juice, a dish fit for a king. If you like Best for Coast cent, luxuriantly foliaged, fast growing sugar soft to eaten as a salad fruit, you shade tree for the home, in addition your Persimmons be Nellis. FD76. If you live in the to plant the popular Hachiya. If you coastal to its amazingly large nuts. will probably want counties of California, you'll be safest prefer to eat your Persimmon out of hand, you will want is copyrighted Peean is in planting this variety because from Mahan a and the popular non-astringent Fuyu or the new large fruited grown for planting in California ex- actual experience it produces excellent Jumbu. Persimmons are quite ornamental trees because the clusively by Armstrong Nurseries. Every crops in coastal areas where other va- leaves turn bright colors in the fall, and the richly colored genuine Mahan tree sold in California rieties are not entirely successful be- orange-red fruits are beautiful either on the tree or as table Armstrong tag. cause of the lack of summer heat. carries an decorations. The long, thin-shelled nuts shell out Success. FD77. This has been the most Price Persimmons except lumbu easily and are of excellent quality. widely planted of all Pecans in South- on For 12 straight years Nellis pecans ern California and the finest and old- Height Each Per 10 have won First Prize for Pecans at the est bearing trees are of this variety. 3 to 4 feet $1.15 $10.50 big L. A. County Fair (not held this You'll be almost certain of a good 4 to 5 feet .- 1.30 12.00 year). On both Nellis and Mahan there crop no matter where you plant this 5 to 6 feet 1.40 13.00 is never a trace of the bitter corky kind, for it is a remarkably sure all- 6 to 7 feet - 1.50 14.00 placenta which sometimes sticks to the climate pecan. A beautiful big tree Jumbu trees are 15c each higher than above prices. nut portion of other pecans. Nellis too. Nuts large, oblong, with medium Hachiya. FD79. This has long been the most commonly does well inland too. thick shell and a fine-flavored kernel. planted and best known of the Persimmons. Very large, conical fruit of bright orange-red, with sweet, rich, mellow Jumbu Persimmon, the "giant" non-puckery kind flesh. Astringent until fully ripe and then very fine indeed. A large, well grown Hachiya is one of the most beautiful fruits grown. Fuyu. FD78. This Persimmon is quite different from all other commonly grown varieties in that it is never astringent or puckery. It is quite firm even when fully ripe and may be eaten hard like an apple whenever it is sweet enough. The fruits are large, flattened and are borne in great quanti- ties. The trees bear much younger than most Persimmons and produce great clusters of fruit from the second year on. The New Jumbu Persimmon Jumbu. FD80. This new, non-puckery, large fruited Per- simmon is somewhat similar to Fuyu in general character- istics, and is absolutely non-astringent, but is much larger, slightly more conical in shape, and ripens a few days later. It is the finest and largest non-astringent Persimmon that we have seen. The fruit is good to eat at all stages after it has begun to color, and it is delicious eaten while hard or after it has become soft. The trees of the Jumbu Per- simmon are priced at 15c per tree higher than the prices given above. Pomegranate Wonderful Pomegranate. FD95. One of the most ornamen- tal of all fruit trees with its bright scarlet hibiscus-like flow- ers and big crimson fall-ripening fruits. Pomegranates grow quickly into a large 8-foot bush and thrive anywhere from the seacoast to the hottest desert valleys, doing best where there is considerable heat. There is no finer center piece for the Thanksgiving or Christmas table than a bowl of big red Pomegranates, and it's fun to eat them too. Wonderful is the largest and most highly colored of all Pomegranate varieties. Very large fruit, rich bright crimson in color, and the highly colored garnet flesh is very juicy and of ex- cellent flavor. 3-4 ft. ,70c each, $6.00 per 10; 4-5 ft., 80c each, $7.00 per 10.

— 13 — Armstrong Plums

Most varieties cf Plums will bear heavier crops if cer- tain other varieties are planted nearby as pollinizers. Santa Rosa, Beauty and Wickson all successfully polli- nate the blossoms of most varieties, as well as each other, and we advise including some of these in all Plum plantings. Beauty and Santa Rosa bear the heaviest crops everywhere. Mariposa is the best eating. Prices (except Mariposa and Late Satsuma) Caliper Height Each Per 10 3/a-V2 in., 3-4 ft $ .70 $6.00 1/2-11/16 in., 4-6 ft 80 7.00 11/16 in. up, 6-8 ft 85 7.50 Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10- rarte. Write for special prices on 50 or more trees. Listed in approximate order of ripening. Beauty. FD81. Fruit large and beautiful, deep crimson with amber-crimson flesh. A never-failing bearer every place al- ways, quite resistant to delayed foliation. June. Climax. FD83. One of Luther Burbank's finest introductions. Very large, heart-shaped, with a beautiful deep red and yel- low color. Flesh is golden yellow, richly flavored. Late June. The Famous Santa Rosa Santa Rosa. FD91. Possibly the most widely planted Plum in California, and certainly one of the handsomest. Large oval, purplish-crimson fruit, covered with light blue bloom. Flesh amber, veined with crimson. Splendid for market and Mariposa Plum. No plum makes better eating than this big, blood-red beauty. home use. Not only is it a good pollinizer to increase the Preserves hold their color and are a rich blood-plum red. crop on other varieties of Plums, but it is resistant to de- layed foliation and will bear a crop every year, no matter where it is planted. Late June.

Satsuma. FD92. The well-known Japanese blood Plum, so . Here's A New One Mariposa prized for preserves. Large, almost round, deep red outside and in, firm, juicy, and of fine flavor. Must be planted Late Satsuma. FD88. Everybody likes The New Blood Plum with other varieties to secure good crops. July. those delicious, sweet, juicy Satsumas with the blood-red flesh, but they are Wickson. FD93. A popular plum for many years. Very Mariposa. FD89. In our opinion, there all gone long before September and so large, heart-shaped fruits, straw-yellow in color, blushed is no finer Plum for eating than the is Mariposa, the finest of all blood with cherry-red; flesh amber, crisp, juicy and luscious. July. big maroon-red fruits of the Mariposa, plums. discovered However, we have a new Plum variety which we intro- varieties carefully and you can have Plums Pick your a late ripening variety of Satsuma duced several seasons ago. The gigan- which isn't ready to use until Septem- from June through late September—enjoy plenty of tic purple-red fruits are overlaid with a ber. It makes delicious eating when Plum jam, jelly and preserves. glowing lilac bloom, and the blood-red other plums are scarce, and it's an ex- flesh has a honey-like sweetness, abun- FD90. which is very similar to the Red Rosa. A new Plum clusive Armstrong introduction. dant juice and a surpassing flavor Santa Rosa in appearance, having the same bright colored which is impossible to describe in purplish-red fruit and amber colored flesh, but which ripens Prices on Late Satsuma and Mariposa words. The skin, while tender in the fully one month later, long after Santa Rosa is gone. The Height Each Per 10 eating, is quite thick and the flesh is fruit is firm and crisp, keeping a long time. A splendid firm so that the Plum keeps remarkably home and market Plum. Late July. 3 to 4 feet $ .90 S 8.00 4 to 6 feet 1.00 9.00 well. There is no bitterness to the Green Gage. FD85. An old favorite, with medium sized, 6 to 8 feet 1.10 10.00 skin or pit, for this magnificent Plum is oval, greenish-yellow fruits; rich, sweet, and juicy. Suitable sweet and full of flavor all the way only for northern districts or the higher altitudes. Late Aug. through. Mariposa should have a tree Becky Smith. FD82. Not only one of of Satsuma, Beauty or Santa Rosa Kelsey. FD87. Big, greenish yellow, heart-shaped Plum the most beautiful Plums grown, but red. yellow, planted nearby for pollination purposes, blushed with Flesh firm and of fine quality. the very latest to ripen, appearing after finest of late for it usually does not bear a large One of the eating and market Plums. Late Aug. all the others are gone. Big, round, crop if planted alone. Plant Pat. NoJ Damson. FD84. Famous old Plum for jam and preserves, bright red fruits, with crisp sweet am- 111. Late July. producing enormous crops of little oval, purplish-blue fruits ber flesh, of splendid quality for eating with tart, juicy, yellow flesh. September. and shipping. Late September. Prices same as Late Satsuma.

Healthful California Prunes Standard Prunes are am- Prunes are merely Plums with a higher percentage of sugar which will -fleshed, sweet and dry without removal of the pit. They are handsome in appearance, and full of health most people do not realize how delicious they are when eaten fresh from and flavor. the tree or canned for the table. Why depend on dried prunes in the summer when you can enjoy fresh ones which are so much more delicious

and palatable. All Prunes will bear better if several kinds are inter- planted for cross-pollination. Sizes and Prices Same as for Plums Sugar. FD93C. Very large, dark purple fruit, the sweetest of all; particularly fine for home plant- ing in Southern California, where the tree is ex- ceedingly productive in all sections. July. Standard. FD93B. The handsomest and largest of all Prunes for home use or as fresh fruit for the market. The big oval fruits are deep purple with a rich blue bloom, and the flesh is amber col- ored, sweet and juicy. Bears well everywhere but particularly fine in the valley situations of Southern California where other Prunes do not do quite so well. August. French Improved. FD93A. The standard drying variety which has made California Dried Prunes famous. Large oval fruits of deep purple, with sweet sugary flesh, produced in great quantities. September.

We can mail your trees to you. 6-8 ft. Plums, Peaches, Apples, Apricots and Prunes weigh 5 lbs. each for the first tree and 3 lbs. each for addi- tional trees. 4-6 ft. trees weigh 3 lbs. each; IV2 lbs. each for additional trees. See page 41 for shipping costs. — 14 — Armstrong Cherries

The black squares below indicate in what months you can plant deciduous iruit trees. Trees are not available in the other months.

Month JFMAMJ JASOND Bare Root

In the coast and valley regions of Southern California the Sweet Cherries do not bear, but they are entirely satisfactory in the rest of the state. The "pie" Cherries, Morello and Richmond, will bear large crops any place, and while a little tart to eat fresh, they are splendid for pies and preserves.

Several varieties of sweet Cher- Caliper Height Each Per 10 ries should be planted together 3/s-V2 in., 3-4 ft $ .70 $6.00 for cross-pollination. However, 1/2-11/16 in., 4-6 ft. .80 7.00 the "pie" Cherries Morello and 11/16 in. up, 6-8 ft... .85 7.50 Richmond will bear alone and give you big crops anywhere. Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10-rate. Write for prices on 50 or more.

Tartarian. FD22. The very finest cherry to Sure English Morello. The "Pie" Cherry eat fresh. Sweet, rich, and juicy, with a rich, to Bear Kinds That Always Bears. tempting, purplish-black color. The robust Morello. FD24. Fruits very large, handsome, erect trees are heavy bearers. A good polli- dark wine-red, with a sprightly aromatic fla- nizer for Bing and other sweet cherries. Early vor; flesh tender and melting. A small round- June. headed tree, bearing heavy crops no matter Chinese Jujubes where planted. We highly recommend Mo- Bing. FD21. A very large, dark red sweet rello as the very finest cherry for planting The in Jujube is a small deciduous tree which cherry of extremely handsome appearance, those coastal and valley sections of Southern bears, it often the first year after planting, great and since has the firmest flesh of all cher- California where sweet cherries do not bear. quantities of small dark brown fruits which ries, it is splendid for canning and shipping. June. are sweet and crisp when eaten fresh, which Plant Tartarian with it as a pollinizer. June. Richmond. FD25. Excellent early "pie" cher- makes an excellent jam when cooked, but are Royal Ann. FD2S. of A magnificent cherry ry, similar to Morello, but ripening two most often used as delicious candied fruits. largest, size; pale yellow the with bright red weeks earlier. Richmond and Morello are the The tree grows anywhere with ease but bears cheek; flesh firm and sweet; tree enor- an cherries that we recommend planting in the best in the warmer interior valleys. Hardy bearer. leading can- mous The commercial Southern California coastal and valley dis- and will stand zero temperatures without in- ning cherry. Late June. jury. Fruit ripens September and October. tricts. They both make beautiful little trees Lambert. FD23. largest Seedling Jujubes bear very small worthless The sweet Cherry and which do not take very much room on the one of the latest to ripen. Very large, heart- place, and they beautiful fruit, but these are giant-fruited, selected types home are when rich red in color; firm fleshed, fruits grafted from parent trees selected from thou- shaped; very they are loaded with their red in spring. and most beautiful in appearance. Late June. Early June. sands by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As far as we know, we are the only ones in the country growing them. Armstrong Nectarines—"Fruit of the Cods" And if you want a small shade tree, which will stay small, a tree which is leafless in The tree of the Nectarine looks like a Peach tree, but the fruits are smooth-skinned and winter, the Jujube may fill the bill. It looks rich, something like a small handsome willow tree. the aromatic flesh has a flavor and character all its own. The name means "the fruits of the Lang. FD43. Large, pear-shaped fruit, lVz to Gods," and the Gods surely did know their fruits. 2 inches long, shown in photograph below. Prices (Except Dixie) Gold Mine. FD47. These great red and yel- Produces a great abundance of fruit and Caliper Height Each Per 10 low fruits, with juicy white flesh, exceptional often bears the first year after planting. 4-5 3/8-V2 in., 3-4 ft $ .70 $6.00 in flavor and quality, are among the most ft., $1.25 each, SI 1.50 per 10; 5-6 ft., S1.50 1/2-1 1/1 6 in., 4-6 ft 80 7.00 beautiful of all Nectarines. Also this variety each, $14.00 per 10. Write for prices on 25 is more resistant to delayed foliation than or more. Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10-rate. Write for prices on 50 or more. any other kind except Dixie, and it is much Li. FD44. This variety has the largest fruit larger than that variety. These two are the of all, often 2 inches in diameter, round in best bearers in Southern California. Early Aug. shape. Has a very small pit and is deli- Hooray for Dixie Stanwick. FD48. For many years has been riously sweet and crisp. 3-4 ft., $1.25 each, Dixie. FD46. Plant this variety if you want to California's leading Nectarine. Extremely SI 1.50 per 10; 4-5 ft., $1.50 each, $14.00 per be sure of getting lots of fruit on your nectar- large fruit, the skin pale green, shaded pur- 10. Write for prices on 25 or more. ine tree every year no matter where you plant plish red; the flesh white and juicy, with a it. That's because it's the most resistant to most delicious aromatic flavor. Early August. delayed foliation of any nectarine that we Boston. FD45. Immense bright yellow fruit, Shipping Weights grow. It's the first one to ripen too, and the first ones always taste the best. Medium sized, with a red cheek and rich yellow flesh. The Average shipping weight for most deciduous light greenish yellow fruits, mottled with red, yellow fleshed Nectarines while not quite so iruit trees: 4-6 ft. trees, 3 lbs. for first tree, white-fleshed, firm, sweet, just that delicious spicy and piquant as the white fleshed vari- 1 3-4 ft. 2 1/2 lbs. for each added tree; trees, aromatic flavor you expect to find in a good eties have a sweeter and richer flavor which ibs. for first tree, IV2 lbs. for each added; nectarine. July. Price 25c per tree higher in many people prefer. Late August. 6-8 ft. trees, 5 lbs. each, 3 lbs. for each added all sizes. tree. See shipping costs on page 41. Gold Mine Nectarine Quince Trees Fruit of Lang Jujube, Reduced One-fourth. The Quince is a splendid fruit for preserves, the flesh becoming a beautiful dark red when cooked. The trees thrive, and .bear well al- most anywhere. No fruit has a more delightful fragrance when picked from the tree. Caliper Height Each Per 10 1/2-11/16 in., 4-6 ft $ .80 $7.00 11/16 in. up, 6-8 ft 85 7.50 Pineapple. FD99. One of Luther Burbank's originations, with a round, short-necked, golden-yellow fruit. The flavor and aroma are suggestive of the pineapple. Oct. Smyrna. FD100. Extremely large fruits, delightfully fragrant when fresh and delicious when cooked. Bears enormous crops. October.

Always include both name and code number of the variety on your order sheet. \ — 15 — Armstrong Figs

California is one of the few parts of the world in which Figs attain the utmost perfection, and in the late summer and fall there is no fruit which is more enjoyed fresh, whether eaten out of hand, sliced with cream and sugar, or in jam. Figs should be thoroughly irrigated at least once each month during the summer and even oftener during hot weather. See pruning suggestions under each variety.

Height Each Per 10 2 to 3 feet $ .65 $5.50

3 to 4 feet 1 70 6.00 4 to 5 feet 85 7.50 5 to 6 feet 90 8.00 Trojano 2 to 4 ft. only, SI. 25 each.

Write for prices on 50 or more. Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut trees sold at the 10-rate. Brown Turkey. FD32. We consider Brown Turkey to be just about the finest Fig for general use in California. The fruits are very large and long, a rich purplish-brown in color, becoming deeper purple as they mature, with rich strawberry-red flesh, fine grained, sweet and juicy. It seems to bear equally well, whether it be directly on the coast or in the interior or desert valleys. Larger and finer Figs will be produced if the trees are heavily pruned back in the winter. Brunswick. FD33. This medium sized, light brown, short-necked Fig is known as Magnolia in Texas. The fine-grained, sweet, brownish-amber flesh is delicious. The tree is smaller than many other varieties and will stand more cold than any other Fig that we grow. Given a sheltered location, it will grow and bear in Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, Long Island and similar areas. Leave unpruned in California. Luscious Big Brown Turkey Figs (Natural Size)

Sweet as Honey Armstrong Pear Trees—Standard and Dwarf Trojano. FD36. Our mouths still water when we think of the rich nutty full Winter Bartlett and the new Large Fruited Winter Nelis are the surest bearers among the flavor of these delicious figs which we standard kinds for Southern California. All Pears bear well in the higher altitudes. ate last summer. It's a medium sized, coppery black fig, very rare in Cali- Caliper fornia. It's the nearest thing to a black Height Each Per 10 3 Dwarf Pears Take Little Room Kadota, with sweet, amber flesh, al- /8-'/2 in., 3-4 ft $ .70 $6.00 most no seeds to get under your plates, V2-II/I6 in., 4-6 ft 80 7.00 If you have a limited amount of space and still would like and the fruits are self-sealed with a 11/16 in. up, 6-8 ft 85 7.50 to have a lot of fine pears for your family to eat, you'll drop of honey to keep out insects. plant these dwarf trees that we have grown espe- Large Fruited Winter Nelis 25c per tree want to Bears enormous crops, that more and rich, higher. cially for such situations. The trees seldom become tender, sweet flesh is something to en- than about 8 feet high, begin to bear almost immediately thuse about. Trojano and Kadota are Ten assorted deciduous fruit and nut after you plant them, and bear immense crops. so sweet that you need little sugar trees sold at the 10-rate. Dwarf Pears will bear well almost anywhere in Southern in making jams, which is something there Bartlett. FD65. The most widely culti- California or elsewhere. They require little care, and these days of sugar rationing. 2 to m vated Pear in California, large, buttery is never any waste with pears because you can pick them 4 ft. trees only, $1.25 each. and melting, with rich flavor; tree a as soon as they have attained size, set them away in a Kadota. FD34. This is the finest white vigorous grower, bears abundantly. cool place and let them ripen, eating them as they get Fig for most of California and one of splendid to can. Bartlett has every quality needed for a ready, and, of course, they are the finest Figs for all purposes, since it perfect home and market Pear. Bears Height Each Per 10 will can, dry, pickle or ship fresh and better if Beurre d'Anjou or Winter Nelis 2 to 3 feet $1.10 $10.00 give excellent results in every case. is planted with it. August. 3 to 4 feet 1.25 11.50 Many people prefer it to any other fig 4 to 6 feet 1.50 14.00 for eating fresh. Of medium size, with Seckel. FD68. Fruit small, but well col- waxy, smooth, yellow-white skin and ored, and there is no other variety Dwcnrf Large Fruited Winter Nelis 25c per tree higher. pale amber flesh. Extremely sweet and which possesses such exquisitely fla- Dwarf Bartlett. CD70. It's the world's finest pear. vored fragrant juicy flesh, even the rich, making just about the best fig Dwarf Beurre d'Anjou. FD71. Better plant one of these with skin being spicy. The little russeted jam ever tasted. Bears extremely heavy your Bartlett in order to make sure of increasing the crop. crops all through the summer and fall. beauties are just about the most de- Dwarf Large Fruited Winter Nelis. CD72. The new giant It does best in the interior valley where licious pears that we have ever tasted. fruited strain of this fine late-ripening fall pear. the summers are warmer. It is not ne- September. cessary to prune Kadota trees back Beurre D'Anjou. FD66. Large, yellow, The New Large Fruited Winter Nelis Pear heavily in the winter unless you wish marked with russet and crimson. Ten- to keep the tree low for convenience der, sweet and juicy. An excellent pol- in picking, for heavy pruning decreases linizer for Bartlett. October. quantity without increasing the size. -^_Large Fruited Winter Nelis. FD67. The Mission Fig old Winter Nelis was one of the finest late fall ripening pears for Mission. FD35. The well-known Cali- Southern California (or anywhere else). fornia Black Fig brought to California This new one was discovered not long by the Mission Fathers. The fruit is ago in Washington. We have tested medium to large, with a long neck, it in Southern California and have mahogany-violet in color, with brown- found that it bears heavy crops of ish-red flesh. Thrives in all sections, very fine, beautiful big pears, russet- coast to desert, and the tree is enor- pink mously productive even under adverse ed, with a ruddy cheek and a most delectable, rich, aromatic flavor. conditions where little water is avail- The fruit keeps for a long time after able. Leave tree unpruned. picking, and you'll find that the tree White Adriatic. FD37. Very large, elon- will beaT heavy crops almost anywhere gated, yellowish-green fruit with a in California. Trees 25c per tree high- short neck; flesh a bright strawberry- er in all sizes. red, somewhat coarse but of excellent quality. One of the very finest of Winter Bartlett. FD69. This late fall white Figs. Heavy pruning will increase ripening pear is similar to Bartlett in size of fruit but decrease quantity. shape, color and flavor, but a little White Genoa. FD38. If you live near smaller and ripening much later. The the seacoast and want a big fine white tree is remarkably productive and the fig, this is the one for you to plant fruit keeps very well, indeed. You can because it is one of the few white figs keep it down cellar for weeks after that bear well under such conditions. picking, and in Southern California it Large, pear-shaped, with a waxy yel- will probably bear the heaviest and low skin and sweet amber pulp, similar most regular crops of any pear, even to Kadota but much larger. Prune like in the desert regions where other Adriatic. pears do not bear at all. Nov. -Dec.

— 16 — Sodus Purple Raspberry (First berry at right) In the illustration at the right the first berry is Sodus Purple. To its right is an ordinary red rasp- berry. Both are sitting on a silver quarter dol- lar. Place a quarter on the illustration and you will notice it is actual size.

N4 Armstrong Berry Plants

All berries are easy to grow, particularly these Armstrong tested newest varieties which quickly produce heavy crops of bigger, juicier, finer flavored berries. Plant now and prevent a fresh berry shortage at your house. A New Purple Raspberry The Finest "Blackcap" Sodus Purple Raspberry. FB12. Here is Evans Black Raspberry. FB10. The red, something new! A berry that was first of- the purple and the black fered by us in California and which we Raspberries are each quite distinctive. You have found to be exceedingly well adapted will want the best of each if space permits. The finest to our conditions. Great, large, rich purple Blackcap Raspberry is Evans best berries, four times as large as the ordinary — because it does so extremely well in our climate black Raspberry, borne in enormous sprays, and pro- duces quantities of jet-black luicy, sweet, rich flavored, with the good berries of finest quality. The berries are always old raspberry aroma and flavor. The berries juicy and full-flavored never dry and crumbly. are most delicious to eat with sugar and — They are sweet enough so that most cream and are unexcelled for jams. Young people eat Boysenberries (Natural Size) them without sugar, but plants put out in the spring grow amazingly this doesn't give you a true picture of the rich aromatic fast and will produce berries the same sea- fla- vor you will look forward to enjoying son if well cared for, this readiness to bear each The Gigantic Boysenberry year. Commercial growers have found being one of its finest characteristics. A that Boysenberry. FB4. Ever since the Boysenberry it bears 15 per cent to 20 per cent cross between the black Raspberry and the more was introduced we have claimed that it was the fruit than others. Plant 6 feet red Raspberry, one of the most satisfying by 6 feei. very finest berry that could be grown in Cali- Should be trellised. 35c each, and delicious berries that you have ever $2.50 per 10 fornia. Not only has this proved to be true for $15.00 per 100. tasted. 30c each, $2.25 per 10, $15.00 per 100. California, but it seems to do just as well in almost all sections of the United States. Red Raspberries The Boysenberry is the largest of all berries, Improved Loganberries Cuthbert. FB9. The deep red fruit is large, averaging IV2 to 2 inches in length and 1 inch in firm, sweet and fine flavored, Loganberries. FB7. Long a favorite on the diameter. The berries are jet-black, highly fla- borne on tall, heavily foliaged plants. entire Pacific Coast, these vigorous, hardy, vored, and they pick, keep and ship in a way The fruit is sold on the Los Angeles trailing vines produce enormous crops oi that brings delight to the heart of a berry grow- market as Casberry. It is by far the finest red very large, long, dark red berries with er. Housewives know that they make the very Raspberry for this sec- a tion rich sub-acid flavor, which have long finest pies, jams and preserves. and most other sections. Plant 2 feet been apart famous for their excellent jams, jellies Boysenberries produce exceptionally heavy crops. in rows 6 feet apart. 15c each, $1.25 and per 10, preserves. This is a selected strain of The big, vigorous vines are simply loaded with $6.00 per 100. the old type, just like the new Thornless Logan the big fruit clusters which start to ripen early, Sunrise. FB13. Our finest red Raspberry. described below, but somewhat thorny. 20c just when berries are most in demand. Boysen A U. S. Department of Agriculture introduc- each, $1.50 per 10, $8.00 per 100. has been remarkably hardy and adaptable in a tion. In May we picked the first bright wide range of climatic conditions, having safely red berries. They are sweet and full-flavored. stood temperatures as low as 14 degrees below. The plants are always well clothed with Thornless Loganberries For home planting, 6 by 6 feet is a good dis- large, dark green leaves, unmistakable tance. Arrange for irrigation. Trellis the second signs of health and vigor. The proof is a Thornless Loganberry. FB8. Just like the season, and when the fruit is all picked, cut out longer than usual bearing and many clus- other Logans above but the canes are abso- all of the canes which bore fruit. ters of delicious berries. It is fun to pick lutely thornless, making picking a pleasure. Each Per 10 Per 100 raspberries. They come off the clusters so Bears and grows even more vigorously, One-year transplants $ .30 $2.25 $15.00 easily, leaving in your hand nothing but making it the finest berry for home jam Strong rooted tips 20 1.50 8.00 full-flavored berries—not even a core. 30c making. 35c each, $2.50 per 10, $15.00 per (Tips, $60.00 per 1000, 500 at 1000-rate) each, $2.25 per 10, $15.00 per 100. 100. Juicy Blackberries Blakemore, California's Finest Strawberry Crandall's Early Blackberry. FBI. (Macatawa.) One of the earliest berries to ripen, producing great quantities of med- ium size, firm, sweet blackberries, with few seeds and almost no core. It never fails to bear and will grow under more adverse conditions than any other berry, being hardy everywhere. It ripens in June and July, with a lighter crop in the fall. The big upright bushes need no support. Plant them 5 feet apart in rows 8 feet apart. 20c each, $1.50 per 10, $8.00 per 100. Himalaya Blackberry. FB2. The canes often reach 40 feet in one season, and bear enormous crops of excellent, med- ium sized, juicy black berries. Ripens over a long season from June to late fall and provides plenty of berries after Youngberries and Boysenberries are gone. Plant on a trellis 10 feet apart in rows 8 feet apart. 20c each, $1.50 per 10, $8.00 per 100. The Texas Wonder Blackberry Texas Wonder Blackberry. FB3. We are indebted to the great State of Texas for this splendid Blackberry which thrives all over the southern half of the United States. The berries on the vigorous vine are large and coal black. They keep and handle exceptionally well and are very attractive to look at, and the plants bear so heavily that in the ripen- ing season they are literally black with berries. We picked 2 quarts (at one picking) off three bushes, every berry full of good old-fashioned blackberry flavor. Plant 4 feet apart in rows 8 feet apart. 25c each, $2.00 per 10, $12.00 per 100. Berry Shipping Calendar (We ship all over the U. S. A.) Month JFMAMJ JASOND Bare Root — 17 January, February, March and April—Plant then and your family will have berries New Evans Black Rasp- berry. The flavor is de- lightfully different from Luscious Strawberries Youngberry anything you have ever tasted, but similar to the This is our selection for California con- Youngberry. FB20. The Youngberry refreshing flavor you asso- ditions made from the many hundred and the Thornless Loganberry are ripe ciate with the average strawberry varieties available. in May, two weeks ahead of the Boy- black raspberry. Give senberry. Prices on Blakemore, Dorsett and Caro- Youngberries are remarkable yourself a taste treat. See keepers and shippers, the berries are illustration lina: 25 for 75c, 100 for S2.50, 1000 for color on back S15.00. For prices on other varieties deep wine color, changing to jet black, cover. with exquisite piquant flavor. see end of descriptions below. Fifty an The seeds at the 100-rate; 500 at the 1000-rate. are so few and soft that they be considered practically seed- Write for prices on 3000 or more. may as less, and make splendid jams and jel- lies. Extremely vigorous and heavy producers. Plant on wire trellises 6 to Armstrong's The Reddest 7 feet apart. Rooted tips, 15c each, 31.25 per 10, $7.00 per 100. Blakemore. FB15. In color, earliness, Victory Berry Collection quality of berry, and size of crop, it is great a advance in Strawberries. Pos- Gooseberries Treat all the family to a wide assortment of fresh picked sibly its biggest advantage is the beau- berries from early Spring to late Summer and then enjoy tiful Oregon Champion. FB6. Large round bright red color which does not berry pies, jellies, jams and preserves the rest of the year. change after the berries are picked transparent, pale green fruit of excel- or It doesn't take farm either. Look this lent quality. Gooseberries are a de- a what Collection in- after they are preserved. Because of cludes: Strawberries; huge boysenberries; rasp- light where they can be successfully improved the firmness of the berries, they keep berries, red, purple, and black; richly flavored loganberries grown, but they do not bear well in and ship extremely well and are easy on thornless vines; and sensational blackberries. Armstrong to pick. foliage the lowlands of Southern California. The is very large, kinds often have fruit the first year and start bearing heavy 25c each, $2.00 per 10, $12.00 per 100. shielding the berries from the birds and crops the next. Order "Victory Berry Collection No. 12," giving sun and them a lovely color. $6.55 plus 20c sales tax in California, prepaid for 20c in Dorsett. FB16. big, firm, The bright Currants the United States. Plants shipped Dec. 1st to April 15th. berries red are extremely handsome in 3 Texas Wonder Blackberry. Customers get over two quarts Perfection. FB5. A good quality bright appearance, and the quality is excep- of berries per picking from three vines. tionally fine, sweet and juicy, with red Currant, with a rich mild sub-acid Boysenberry. after of gigantic, richly plenty of real Strawberry flavor. The flavor. The plants bear heavy crops 3 Quart quart flavored plants produce even larger crops than wherever conditions are suitable. 25c berries to eat fresh, in pies or as jam. the heaviest bearers among the other each, $2.00 per 10, $12.00 per 100. 3 Thornless Loganberry. Thornless vines, juicy fruit, with varieties, producing two big crops per almost no seeds. The finest flavored of all jams. season, one in the spring and another Perennial 2 Evans Black Raspberry. Heaviest bearing and best fla- in the early summer, with a few scat- vored of all black raspberries (pictured above). tered berries almost any time during Raspberry. the year. Only Blakemore can com- Vegetables 2 Sodus Purple A new purple raspberry, with juicy, full-flavored fruit the size of a quarter. pete with its as a commercial berry. These delicious vegetables do not have Sunrise Raspberry. The new red kind is the earliest and to be planted again each year. A few longest bearing. plants of each will supply you with Longest much tasty garden-fresh produce. 25 Rockhill Strawberry. Starts bearing first and has the Season longest season. No runners to worry about and the ber- Gem Everbearing. FB17. One of the French Artichokes ries are very sweet. ever-bearing varieties with big, fine 25 Blakemore Strawberry. Enormous crops of berries which looking berries, not as high in quality French Green Globe. FM1. The finest make the best bright red jam. as Rockhill, but the plants are less ex- Artichoke for market or home use. 25 Banner Strawberry. Tops in guality and flavor. Excel- pensive because they produce more Large, fine flavored buds. It is easy to lent with sugar and cream shortcakes. runners. It — bears well in the fall after grow artichokes, and they thrive al- all the spring kinds are finished and is most anywhere in California. Just plant Shipping Weights: 10 plants of Raspberry, Blackberry, particularly good as a commercial them 6 feet apart, irrigate them occa- Loganberry, etc., weigh 3 lbs. packed for shipment. Other berry. 25 for $1.00, 100 for S3.00, 1000 sionally in the summer-time. Cut back quantities in proportion. 25 Strawberry plants weigh 1 lb. for S17.50. to the ground in September and water See table of shipping costs page 41. Most berry orders, un- and fertilize them for winter and early accompanied by heavier material, go forward by mail. No spring crops. You will be surprised at mail orders totaling less than SI. 50 are filled. the fine crops you will get. 25c each, No Runners $2.00 per 10, $17.50 per 100. Wt., IV2 lb. each. Rockhill. FB19. The best of the so- Big, Dark Red, Thornless Loganberries. Not a Scratch in called Everbearing type. The berries Acre-Full. are astonishingly large and beautiful, Aspaitragus extremely fine in flavor, and the plants bear much earlier and later in the Paradise. FM3. Heavy production, early season than other types. Rockhill maturity and exceptionally fine quality- makes no runners, and if you have characterize this new Asparagus, with ever grown Strawberries, you know the big, stalky green stems (as thick that after several years the bed gets as your thumb). Plants look beautiful in the garden. 15 for 75c, 25 for $1.00, so full of runners that little fruit " is produced. 100 for $2.50. 10 Asparagus plants weigh 2 lbs. This is not true of Rockhill, and you will not wear yourself out chopping Mary Washington. FM2. Has been the off runners to make the plants bear. most popular kind, ripening early with The lack of runners makes the plants many tender, crisp green tips. Plant more expensive, but certainly it is Asparagus 1 foot apart in rows 4 feet worth it to get more and better berries apart. 15 for 60c, 25 for 75c, 1U0 for with less work. 10 for $1.00, 25 for $2.00. S2.00, 100 for $6.00. Carolina (Missionary). FB18. One of Crisp Rhubarb the best berries for hot interior sections, Cherry. particularly in sandy, poorer soils. A FM4. The large stalks of this heavy producer of good quality fruit. brightest colored kind are crisp and Fine not only for the market but for juicy when picked fresh from your own the home as well. garden. You will be enthusiastic about the improved flavor and quality wheth- er you use it in sauce or in rhubarb pies. The large-leaved plants are at- Finest Quality tractive garden subjects. 35c each, $2.50 per 10, $17.50 per 100. Wt. 1 lb. each. New Oregon. FB14. (Banner.) If you want exceptional flavor and quality in your strawberries and want to get ber- Climbing Potato ries that just melt away in your mouth and are sweet enough to eat without Chayote. FM3A. Big, pear-shaped, sugar, this is the one you'll want. It greenish fruits, crisp like a potato but does its best in cooler sections, where not starchy. More delicately flavored it is almost everbearing. For home than squash. A fruit of many uses and for market, from the standpoint of borne on a perennial, climbing, orna- quality, there is no better berry grown. mental vine which will grow as much 25 for $1.00, 100 for $3.00 1000 for as 50 feet in one season. Full sun. S17.50. Fruits for planting, 35c each.

— 18 — Armstrong

Grapes do wonderfully well in California, and

every home place has room for a few vines. It takes only two years after planting to get good

crops on Grape vines, so it is not necessary to wait for results. Plant home grapes 6 feet apar- each way.

The Grapes which are typical of California are those that have been gathered from Persia, Turkey, Ar- menia, Arabia and from the Old World vineyards of France and Hungary, but we are also fortunate in being able to grow the American Grapes of the Eastern States, such as Concord and Niagara. Note: Those varieties marked with a * can be shipped anywhere in the United States. All other varieties not so marked, can be shipped only into the Cali- fornia Counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Or- ange, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Madera, southern San Luis Obispo County (including San Luis Obispo) and west- ern Riverside County (including Beaumont and Ban- ning and Hemet).

Price on Varieties Starred (*), (Except Concord) Each Per 10 Per 100 1-year Rooted Vines $0.25 $2.00 $10.00

Ten assorted Grape vines sold at the 10-rate. Twenty- five of one variety sold at the 100-rate. Write for prices on 250 or more. Varieties listed in approximate order of ripening. At end of each description we indicate whether variety Armstrong grapes give big returns in a small space. should be grown as bush or on fence or trellis.

The Earliest Crape to Ripen California's Famous Western Crapes

Pearl of Csaba. FG23. Since we first introduced this de- You'll find your favorite type and color in California Grapes in this list. licious little amber colored Hungarian Grape several years Black Monukka, Thompson and Sultanina rosea are seedless. ago, it has become amazingly popular. It ripens many weeks before any other variety that we now have, and Black Monukka. FG2. A seedless black 'Thompson Seedless (Sultanina). FG28. Persian Grape much resembling Thomp- The well-known little gTeenish-amber unlike many early fruit varieties it is a high quality Grape, son Seedless, except that the berries seedless Grape so popular the country almost seedless, with a pronounced Muscat flavor, delicate average one-third larger and are pur- over. It is widely planted commercially and refreshing. If you want to enjoy the first Grapes of the plish black when mature. Very large, for raisins and the fresh fruit as well. season, include Pearl in your planting. Bush type. June. loose bunches borne in great profu- Bears enormously, producing very large sion. A splendid early eating Grape bunches of the delicious sweet, mild 40c each, $3.50 per 10. ripening 10 days before Thompson. If berries. Bush or trellis. August. we had to pick out three or four vari- This is an Armstrong-grown Pearl of Csaba Grape-Vine Exactly like eties only for our own enjoyment, this Sultanina Rosea. FG27. planted by Mr. F. Cid at Guadalajara, Mexico, in January, the Seedless, but colored a one would have to be included. Trellis. Thompson 1936. This photograph was taken in May, 16 months later. to red Early August. 25c each, $2.00 per 10. beautiful blush pink, deepening Armstrong Vines get results. in the sun, ripening several weeks later than Thompson. Trellis. 35c each, $3.00 Giant Everbearing per 10. Giant Everbearing. FG12. An extra- ordinary hybrid, which is the most vigorous grower that we have ever Delicious Muscats seen in grape vine, young vines a Black Muscat. FG4. These large black sending out 10 or 15-foot canes almost berries have decidedly the richest fla- immediately after planting, and for cov- vor of any Grape that we grow, ex- ering an arbor or similar structure, ceeding even the Muscat of Alexandric there is nothing finer. It ripens its described below. It is a great favorite fruit not in one crop but continuously with everyone. Bush type. August. 25c over a period of three months, and the each, $2.00 per 10. little bunches of reddish-black berries, while not exceptional in earing quality, Muscat. FG20. The famous Muscat oi make the most beautiful and delicately Alexandria. The favorite white, highly flavored grape jelly and juice that we flavored table and raisin Grape ot have ever tasted. Trellis. 50 each. California. The big, oval, gTeen ber- $4.50 per 10. ries have a rich, sweet flavor which any connoisseur of fresh Grapes will Malaga tell you is the very finest there is. Bears just as well under coastal con- Malaga. FG17. A leading shipping ditions as it does in the warm inland variety and one of the finest table sections. Bush type. September. Grapes. Bunches very large and loose; Exactly like Mus- berries large, oval, yellowish green, Flame Muscat. FG10. flavor and with a thick skin and firm, sweet, rich cat, with the same rich of that famous variety flesh. Does best in hot climates, but large berries but bright red in color. Ripens three is one of the most dependable beaTers Bush anywhere. Bush type. August. to four weeks later than Muscat. type. 35c each. Ribier. FG25. This is the great big blue-black Grape that you see in the markets, one of the largest and most Sultan's Favorite handsome Grapes grown in California. The (Sometimes sold as Serbian Beauty.) Dottier. FG8. A big bunch of long, Extremely large, round, almost black amber, exquisitely flavored Dattiers berries in medium size bunches, very will give more sheer enjoyment in the sweet and rich. Bush type. August. eating of them than any other Grape Rose of Peru (Black Prince). FG26. Has that we grow. Both bunches and ber- large loose bunches of big round black ries are very large, with a sweet mild berries, crisp, sweet, and richly fla- flavor and melting flesh. We will wager vored. A grape that you can plant any- that the kings and caliphs of Persia where, coast, valley or desert, and al- had this variety served to them when ways get exceedingly heavy crops. they wanted the best from the royal 25c Bush or trellis. September. 25c each, vineyards. Bush type. September. $2.00 per 10. each, $2.00 per 10. Grape Vines

When to Plant Crape Vines A black square under any month means that grape vines are avail- able for planting only during those months.

Month JFMAM J JASOND Bare Root The New Golden Muscat Golden Muscat. FG13. Here is a new Grape which we can enthusi- astically recommend.aSome people prefer the Eastern "slipskin" Grapes, while others prefer the California type Grapes, but everyone likes this new kind, which is a hybrid between the richly flavored Black Muscat and the green Eastern slipskin Grape, Diamond. This new variety has retained the golden green color of the Eastern Grape but has gained the exquisite Muscat flavor, delightfully combining the characteristics of the two different types. It is a vigorous grower and heavy bearer everywhere from the hot inland valleys to the coastal regions. Bush or trellis. August. 40c each, $3.50 per 10, $20.00 per 100. The Best Red Crape Maraville de Malaga. FG18. A wonderful red market and shipping Grape, and unexcelled for home use as well. The berries are ex- tremely large, round, and bright red, sweet and richly flavored, and so firm that the skin can be peeled off like an orange. The best red Grape for most purposes. Bush type. September. Mission. FG19. Medium size, round, sweet, black berries produced in enormous loose bunches. One of the old wine Grapes, brought from Spain by the Mission Fathers centuries ago. Because of its sweetness, juiciness and the enormously heavy crops that it bears everywhere, it remains a favorite. Bush or trellis. September. Lady Finger (Rish Baba). FG16. Got its name because the berries are very long, slender and white-skinned. Large long bunches; flesh crisp, tender and sweet. Bush type. Late September. Zinfandel. FG29. Probably the most famous Wine Grape of Califor- nia, bearing an enormous quantity of compact bunches of very juicy, sweet, black Grapes. Bush type. September. The Famous Black Hamburg Black Hamburg. FG1. One of the famous table Grapes of the world, with large bunches of coal-black, round berries, very firm, juicy, sweet and rich. Bush or trellis. Late Sept. 30c each, $2.50 per 10. Golden Muscat. hybrid Gros Colman. FG14. Berries are as large as small plums, borne in The new between the Eastern immense clusters. A rich blue color, firm and crisp. Extremely hand- American Grape the California vini- some. Bush or trellis. October. 35c each, $3.00 per 10. and fera Grape, with an exquisite Tokay. FG11. of the leading shipping and table Grapes *Flame One Muscat flavor. A Grape for all of California. Berries rich red with lilac bloom; flesh firm, crisp and climates. Shown here two-thirds after of sweet, and the bunches keep for a long time packing. One natural size. a fence liked the late fall the finest and best of Grapes. October. hanging full of these bunches. Black Morocco. FG3. These great round, purplish black Grapes are so large that they resemble small plums. The berries are sweet and crisp and borne in large compact bunches. Probably the largest of Espalier Crapes all Grapes and so late that they may be picked right up to Thanks- giving. Bush type. October. 35c each. For planters who wish older and larger vines which will give immediate results in covering wall, fence or arbor, we have grown and Hardy American Crapes trained into 6 to 7 foot heavy columns, some large 2-year plants taken up with a laTge ball This type of Grape, of which the Concord is a typical example, is quite hardy and is of earth on the roots. They will start to bear extensively grown in the eastern and middle western states. They are sometimes known immediately, in fact, have already borne fruit. as "slipskins," are usually strong growing vines, are all suitable for arbor and trellis, Varieties available: Pierce, Concord, Niagara. Christmas, Giant Everbearing, Maraville, Gold- and do well anywhere on the Pacific Coast, with the exception of desert sections. They en Muscat, Black Monukka, Thompson Seed- require more frequent irrigation in summer. less and Ribier. Price, $2.50 each. We also have in the same varieties above, Each Per 10 Per 100 Cood Old Concord large heavy specimens, trained in various Price $0.35 $3.00 $17.50 espalier shapes. 3-year specimens, $6.00 •Concord. FG7. The most widely known and each; 4-year specimens, $7.50 each. Ontario. FG22. Not only the earliest Eastern popular of all American Grapes. Produces type grape but one of the very finest green- profusely its medium size bunches of blue- skinned ones, with big berries in medium black Grapes, which everybody says have the Husky Crafted Crapes finest flavor of any Eastern variety. For grape sized bunches which ripen early and hang There are several reasons for planting grapes juice and jelly, nothing excels it, and it ripens on the vines for a long time if you want to grafted on vigorous disease-resistant roots. large crops in California. August. leave them. Deliciously sweet and rich fla- First, they are much more vigorous and make Catawba. FG5. This has long been the stan- vored and the vines are exceedingly vigorous. larger and, therefore, more heavy bearing dard red Eastern Grape, with a vigorous pro- 50c each. vines; second, they are entirely resistant to ductive vine and splendid high quality fruit. Phylloxera and partially resistant to Nema- Deep maroon-red in color and rich in flavor. todes, small soil parasties which sometimes Delaware. FG9. The little red berries of this Late August. variety, sweet juicy, just about bother grapes. They bear sooner too, usually and have the Isabella. FG15. A fine large, glossy black quality of Eastern Grape, it the first year after planting. finest any and Grape, with a thick skin and a musk flavor, bears heavily every place. Early August. which many people prefer to Concord. It is a Vines grafted on resistant roots available ir. much more vigorous vine than Concord, with the varieties named below: Pierce (California Concord, Isabella Regia). big leaves and bigger bunches. September. Price on Grafted Grapes: 60c ea., S5.00 per 10. FG24. Similar to Concord, but the berries and Black Hamburg Maraville de Malaga bunches are larger and the vine is a strong A Fine Arbor Crape Black Monukka Muscat grower. It is one of the finest of the American Christmas. FG6. If you want to cover an Black Muscat Ribier Grapes for California, and if you are just arbor or fence quickly and get many fine Dottier Pearl of Csaba going to plant one black Eastern Grape, we Grapes every year, there is no finer variety Malaga Thompson Seedless suggest this one. August. that you can plant than this origination of Luther Burbank. An enormous grower, cov- Shipping Niagara. FG21. The standard American green ering great spaces, with fruit similar to Con- Weights Grape, holding the same rank among green cord in color and flavor but ripening two Packed for shipment, the first grape vine kinds that Concord holds in the blacks. Ber- months later. One vine will produce five times weighs 1 lb., and each added vine Vz lb. ries large, pale-yellow, tender, sweet and as much as a Concord vine. 50c each, $4.50 each. To estimate shipping costs, use table juicy. August. per 10. on page 41. -^20 — Armstrong Avocados

Fuerte is Still at the Top

Fuerte. Still the finest Avocado for commercial or home planting in California, as it has been for many years, staying at the top be- cause of the uniformly high quality of the fruit, its heavy production, splendid marketability, winter ripening season and frost resistance! While planted in all Avocado districts, it is at its best in the transi- tional area. In that area there is no better Avocado for commercial production, and, of course, it is a splendid home fruit. The fruit is elongated, pear-shaped, of medium size, with a smooth, green, leathery skin and creamy yellow, buttery flesh of exceptionally fine flavor, being excelled in this respect by no other Avocado. The tree is large and spreading, and ripens its fruit in winter, from late fall until early spring, the fruit hanging on for a long time after maturing. Fuerte is considerably hardier than most Avocados but not as hardy as the thin-skinned Mexican varieties. 24°. December to May. Two Superior Strains of Fuerte. Ordinary Fuerte trees often display a tendency to bear well only in alternate years, but the two Armstrong strains which we offer were carefully selected from trees which seem to have the habit of bearing heavily every year. We consider these trees to be the very finest type of Fuerte, which will give you the most fruit and the best. One strain is the Newman Fuerte FA18, which is probably best for the Transitional and Interior Belts, while the other is the Cole Fuerte FA3, which has been a regular and Mr. L. E. Nigh, who has supervised the propagation of every Armstrong heavier bearer in Ventura County and may be best in the Coastal Avocado tree for the past 28 years, is the most successful Avocado Belt. Since there is little difference between them as far as fruit and propagator in the State. Here he is admiring a cluster of Ryan on one tree are concerned, we will fill your order for Fuerte with the one of the trees that he has grown. He likes this kind. which we think is best for your locality unless you express preference.

Armstrong Avocado Trees Are Best The Hardy Blackbird Blackbird. FA2. A beautiful, glossy, medium Avocados are now a much enjoyed every day food in almost every home in California. sized, black, thin-skinned fruit, very hand- some in appearance, pear-shaped, Not only do you get a large quantity of healthful, useful fruits from an avocado tree on which we are offering again because of the high qual- the home place, but you get a beautiful ornamental tree well. shade as Avocados can ity of the fruit and the very regular and con- be grown in almost any part of California except the high mountains and desert, and sistently large crops which it bears. It ranks with Mexicola in being the you can pick out kinds that will give you fruit during the entire year if you wish. most resistant to ccld of any variety that we grow, and the See bottom of page. tree is exceedingly vigorous and wind-resist- ant. It will grow and bear almost anywhere. 19°. September to November. Armstrong Avocado Trees are all grown upon Avocado varieties vary greatly in characteris- selected seedlings, tics of fruit tree. varieties Anaheim. FA1. One of the heaviest producers and we use the utmost and The 2.75 Anaheim, all, particularly care in the selection of the buds. Our annual Edranol, Hazzard, Hellen, Mary3.00Martin, Nabal of in the coastal districts, and block of Avocado trees, grown by Mr. L. E. and Queen have thick shell-like skins and the especially valuable for inter-planting because Nigh, is always a beautiful sight. trees are comparatively tender.3.25The varieties of its tall, slender habit of growth. The large oval, glossy green fruit, weighing 18 to 24 Fuerte and Ryan have thinner3.50leathery skins The ripening date given for each variety is and are slightly hardier. These two groups ounces, is not of exceptional quality but it only approximate, since the exact time of include the finest kinds for marketing and long remains profitable because of its extremely ripening varies with the location. The mini- distance shipping. The varieties Blackbird, heavy crops. Coastal and transitional areas. mum temperatures given after each variety Duke, Jalna, Mexicola and Zutano have thin 28°. May to August. aTe approximate only, since damage from skins, small or medium sized fruit, and are frost varies greatly according to the condition much more resistant to cold. They are best We Like Duke of tree, of time year, and location. for planting in the colder sections and may Duke. FA4. One of the finest of all Avocados safely be grown wherever oranges succeed. for home planting in the colder interior dis- Shipping tricts. It is an oval, green fruit which looks Weights Prices on Avocados like a small Fuerte and is much larger than the average thin-skinned variety. It will be Most avocado trees are delivered with balls Each Per 10 enjoyed in the home as much an any Avocado of earth on the roots. 3-4 ft. that grow. Any surplus sells well in the trees weigh 40 2 to 3 feet $2.50 $22.50 we lbs., 4-5 ft. trees 50 lbs., 5-6 ft. trees, 70 lbs., local markets, for it is a fine appearing 3 to 4 feet 25.00 6-7 ft. trees, 75 lbs. For long distance ship- fruit. Duke will grow almost anywhere in the 4 to 5 feet 27.50 ment we often dig the trees with roots valleys of California from the northern end of bare 5 to 6 feet 30.00 and ship them packed in with tops the Sacramento Valley to the Mexican border, moss 6 to 7 feet 32.50 pruned back. The average weight of such and the tree is large, vigorous and beautifully bare root trees packed for shipment is 3 lbs. Hazzard, Hellen, Mary Martin, Queen and Zu- foliaged. We have had as many as 3,000 Use these weights and the tables on page 41 tano 25c per tree higher. Ten assorted avo- fruits from one 10-year-old tree. Best in the to estimate your shipping costs if material is cados at the 10-rate. Write for prices on 25 Interior and Transitional areas. 20°. Septem- to reach you by rail. or more trees. ber-October.

How to Enjoy Avocados Every Month in the Year Avocado varieties vary considerably in their adaptation to different climatic conditions in Southern California and they vary greatly in their time of ripening. To make it easy for you to pick out the kinds which are best for your location and to enable you to have fruit throughout the year, we have made up the table below. Under each month are listed the varieties which usually ripen their fruit during that month in the zone described. For the Southern Coastal Belt, from Santa Barbara to San Diego

January February March April May June July August September October November December Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Edranol Edranol Edranol Mexicola Mexicola Mexicola Leucadia Fuerte Jalna Hazzard Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Leucadia Jalna Jalna Queen Nabal Nabal Nabal Nabal Hazzard Queen Queen Queen Queen Anaheim Hazzard Hellen Hellen Hellen Anaheim Anaheim Anaheim

The Transitional Belt, including Monrovia, La Habra Heights, Whittier, Tustin, Fullerton, La Mesa, Escondido. Fallbrook, Vista, and foothills of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Edranol Edranol Edranol Ryan Queen Leucadia Leucadia Fuerte Zutano Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Queen Nabal Duke Zutano Zutano Jalna Queen Queen Queen Nabal Duke Mexicola Jalna Jalna Nabal Nabal Mexicola Mexicola

The Interior Belt, from Pomona, east and from Corona, north; also Northern California (Note Minimum Temperatures) Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Fuerte Edranol Edranol Edranol Ryan Mexicola Duke Zutano Fuerte Zutano Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Mexicola Duke Mexicola Jalna Zutano Jalna Edranol Blackbird Blackbird Blackbird Jalna

— 21 — Edranol Forges Ahead Edranol. FA5. Although comparatively new, favorable reports on this variety continue to pile up so rapidly that it can now be regarded as having a permanent place among the top Avo- cados. The exceptionally delicious, pleasant fla- vor of the medium sized, dark green, pear-shaped fruits prompts everyone who eats it to enthuse over it. It has a very small seed so that you get more fruit for your money. The flesh has a beau- tiful, smooth, buttery appearance, with no fiber and no discoloration when fully ripe. It ripens in late spring and summer and resembles Fuerte in appearance, which is a great marketing ad- vantage. The tree is a slender, vigorous, upright grower which fits into the small home planting well. It starts to bear when young and continues to bear enormously every season. Hardier than most other "thick-skins." Coastal, Transitional, and milder Interior areas. 26°. May to August. Quality and Flavor Hazzard. FA6. Quality and flavor are the middle names of this new green pear-shaped Avocado, the fruit of which weighs from 12 to 16 ounces. Has not been tried enough to tell whether it has commercial possibilities, but we can definitely recommend it as a good home fruit because of its beautiful, large, glossy foliage which makes it an excellent ornamental tree, and the very fine flavor and quality of the fruit. 27°. April to July. 25c per tree more than others. We have the 2-3 ft. and 3-4 ft. sizes only available . "1" He i Jen. FA7. The extra in this name stands for "lots of fruit" because this new variety cer- tainly does produce, and without delay. You're likely to have some fruit the first year after you plant. It is a pear-shaped fruit of convenient, Edranol is almost a perfect summer-ripening avocado, being medium size, dark green, with pebbled, leath- a just the right size, of exceptionally fine quality, with smooth ery skin which peels off perfectly. It is of very buttery flesh. fine flavor and quality, and has brought much higher than average prices on the markets. The tree is one of the fastest growing and largest of One of Biggest and Best Ryan Bears Heavily all Avocados. This combination of enormous vigor Ryan. FA1S. Commercial growers have been Queen. FA14. This is not only the largest and heavy bearing habit should make this new looking for a medium sized pear-shaped fruited avocado on our list, but for eating variety a great success. Originated in the coastal green fruit to ripen after the Fuerte season we think it is one of the best. The big, area where it does very well indeed. Not tested is over, and this variety answers this de- purplish maroon, pear-shaped fruits weigh fully in other areas. 25°. July to October. 25c per scription so well that the fruit often brings to 2 lbs., and not only are they of ex- tree more than other kinds. lVz tremely high quality but they ship exceed- almost twice as much per acre as have, other summer Avocados. It is one of the ingly well. It is a splendid home fruit, and heaviest most consistent bearers A Beautiful Tree there should be a few trees in every com- and yet discovered in Avocados. The trees big. Jalna. FA8. A new Mexican variety with green mercial planting, particularly in the Coastal are spreading, vigorous' growers and have borne pear-shaped fruits of splendid quality. Wherever and Coastal foothill districts. A spreading crops planted. The qual- observed the trees have borne very heavy crops, large-leaved tree of beautiful appearance. enormous wherever ity of the fruit is good. Its period of sum- and in addition it is one of the most beautiful 28°. May to October. 25c per tree more Avocado trees in appearance—spreading, sym- than other kinds. mer ripening, its heavy bearing habit and metrical, with handsome luxuriant foliage. We've its unusual resistance to frost, are other ad- seen many 2 and 3-year-old trees literally hang- vantages. Coastal and Transitional areas best. 25°. to October. ing full of big clusters of beautiful fruit. It has May little competition in the early winter-ripening sea- Nabal Means Abundance son. 22°. November-December. Nabal. FA12. A leading summer-ripening A Promising Fruit Mary Martin. FA10. A promising new variety Avocado, second only to Fuerte as a com- \i Zutano. FA16. There are few good green now under trial. The fruit is dark green, glossy, mercial kind. Fruit round, large; 16 to 20 Avocados ripening in the late fall which short pear-shaped, medium size, averaging 9 to ounces, with a smooth leathery green skin look like Fuerte. Zutano does, and this is c 12 ounces. Just the right size for a good home and a very small seed, of exceptionally fine distinct advantage in marketing the fruit. and market fruit. We have been greatly im- quality. The name is a Guatemalan Indian The light green, 8-ounce, pear-shaped fruit pressed by its very high quality, smooth, fiber- word meaning "abundance," and one look has a comparatively thin skin, is much less flesh, heavy bearing habits and very small at a Nabal tree hanging full of its great hardier than Fuerte and has an excellent seed. Something like a small Nabal fruit, with clusters of beautiful fruits is enough to flavor. Bears excellently in the Transitional the same ripening season, but hardier. Probably justify the name, even though it tends to area, not tested elsewhere. Probably good Coastal and Transitional areas. 26°. May to ripen its big crops in alternate years. 28°. in all areas. 26°. November-January. 25c October. Plant Pat. Applied For. 25c per tree extra. Coastal and Transitional areas. June to Sept. per tree extra.

How would you like to have a Duke Avocado tree full of fruit like this? A Purplish Black Beauty Leucadia. FA9. This new thin-skinned Avocado promises to be one of the best of the hardier varieties. It is a beautiful ap- pearing fruit, with a thin, smooth, purplish-black skin. It has displaced the old Puebla since it resembles that kind but has much better eating qualities, larger crops and larger fruit. The tree is exceptionally strong, vigorous and fast growing. We recommend it very highly for home planting in the Coastal and Transitional areas. Not fully tested in Interior yet. 23°. October-December. The Old Dependable

Mexicola. FAIL The hardiest Avocado on our list and one which can be counted upon to bear consistently, nearly always fruiting the second year after planting. The fruit is small, dark purple, of excellent quality and fine for home use. A large, vigorous tree which will stand plenty of heat, cold and wind. Bears enormously in all areas. 19°. August-September.

When to Plant Avocados The black squares below indicate in what months you can safely plant avocado trees. The spring months are slightly preferable.

Month J F M A M J J A S O N D Balled

— 22 Colorful Armstrong Perennials

Everblooming Daisy Blue Delphiniums Arctotis acaulis. P4. 10°. The mosi Delphinium Pacific Hybrids. P20A. A popular perennial we have ever of- glorious new strain of Delphinium, fered is this bushy South African plant, with huge, double flowers, 2Vz to 3V2 1 to 2 feet high and as much across, inches across, in long, well propor- which frequently carries 40 or 50 mag- tioned spikes. The colors range from nificent 3-inch flowers at one time in pale blue through the various shades brilliant shades of orange, yellow, lav- of deep blue, lilac, and ender, pink, white or purple. Each azure. The plants grow 3 to 6 feet in plant is different in color, and we can't height. We have them divided into guarantee to furnish any exact shade. Dark Blue Shades and Light Blue They are at their best in late fall, Shades if you want them separated early winter and early spring, and Flats of 100 small plants, S2.50. usually produce some blooms the en- tire year. Full sun. 55c. Blue Dianella Dianella tasmanica. P22. 10°. We en Wonder of Staefa thusiastically recommend this perma- or Aster frikarti. P6. 20°. Many consider nent little perennial for a shady semi-shady spot. The 2-foot clump of it to be the country's finest perennial foliage is beautiful the year plant. It will provide a mass of lav- grassy around, in spring appear spikes of ender-blue flowers, 2 to 21/2 inches and the most brilliant sky-blue flowers across, from June 1 to December 1 without a break. Not only a splendid which turn later in the summer into oval berries, a lovely and No perennial gives more color and flowers with less trouble show in the garden, but excellent for big, IVi-inch, fascinating shade of turquoise-blue. than the Daylilies (Hemerocallis). Flowers 6 to 8 inches cutting. Grows easily anywhere. Full are unable to decide whether the long, 4 to 6 inches across. sun or part shade. See color illustra- We berries are the loveliest, tion on back cover. 75c. flowers or the beautiful for bowl Bergenia cordiiolia. P7. 15°. Big broad but the berries are Perennials are Permanent thick leaves, making a dense clump arrangements. 75c. about 15 inches high, with quantities bloom year after year in the garden. They are Perennials of 12-inch spikes of pink flowers all Fairy Wands easier to grow than annuals, which have to be re- much through the winter. Shade. Plenty of Dierama pendula. P23. 15°. A de- year. Some perennials have evergreen planted every moisture. 60c. lightful clump of grass-like foliage, 2 to the ground every winter and tops while some die down feet high, which carries in the spring spring. At both of our Salesyards come up again in the 3-foot stems, slender, wiry, swaying in listed here, as well as a com- Serbian Belif lower you'll find others than those the breeze, from which hang the - flowering plants. (See color illustration on page 35) plete supply of annual ly pink, bell-shaped flowers. Excellent specifically mentioned, the prices in- Camapanula poscharskyana. Pll. 10°. Unless another size is for cut material and beautiful in the are for plants in gallon For bordering a lawn or to place in dicated for the plants listed below or semi-shade. 65c. the foreground of of shrubs, garden. Sun containers. a group we know of no finer small plant than Pride of Madeira 5 of one variety or 15 or more of this lovely little Bellflower which makes C->.,o 1 no/ Purchase 15°. Save IU/0. 23 to 62, inc. a beautiful little clump of evergreen Echium fastuosum. P25. From (he assorted p i an t s on pages the following violet-like foliage about 4 to 6 inches the Island of Madeira in the South (no flats, divisions or 21/4-inch pots), and get to Atlantic. Each plant makes a large to 65c, inc., deduct 5c per plant; 70c high and 12 to 18 inches across. For reductions: 25c feet across deduct ^bc many weeks in early it is clump 4 to 6 feet high and 4 $1.75, inc., deduct 10c per plant; S1.80 or more, summer covered with of little made up of enormous blue flower per plant. hundreds starry, bell-shaped, lavender-blue flowers spikes, blooming in June. Likes open where drainage Fragrance about IVi inches across, borne on 6 warm sunny location Apple to 8 inch stems. Grows easily in shade is good. 65c. summer Angelonia grandiflora. P4A. 2 ft. 30°. During the or semi-shade in any soil. The cheeri- of spikes of unique in Blue and Cold months it is a showy clump full many est little plant imaginable with all of Beauty which 15°. violet-blue flowers like medium-sized snapdragons those little blue faces looking up at Felicia aethiopica Compact. P25A. have a delightful apple fragrance. 50c. you. It comes from the Dalmatian You will be amazed at the brilliant of the Nile. 15 Agapanthus " africans Blue. PI. 'Xily Mountains in Jugo-Slavia, where all of display of blue and gold this 12-inch, stems, rising 3-inch heads of sparkling blue flowers on 2-ft. those Serbian patriots aTe resisting the compact gem of a plant will provide /5c. from a clump of deep green strap-like leaves Nazis so fiercely. 60c. all through the spring, summer and 2-mch, Anemone japonica. "Windflower." 0°. Delicate, fall. The dainty, 1-inch daisy-like handsome Carinas waxy blooms on tall 2-foot stems over large, Showy blooms amost hide the plant, they are have two vari- Carinas. . foliage. Plant in shade or half-shade. We 15 Handsome, big foliage so numerous. This is a cutting grown (P3), both of which eties Crested Pink (P2) and Whirlwind and large showy flowers, blooming strain that we have selected ourselves semi-double. 65c. from early summer until frost. Full 75c. are blooming,„;„_ Aquilegia Crimson Star. P4B. 15 inches. A free sun. Root divisions, 25c each, S2.00 per spectacular crimson Daisies sturdy, compact Columbine with large, 10 of one kind. Transvaal 45c. Candelabra. P12. 31/2 ft. Ruffled pink Gerbera Jamesoni Hybrids. P26. All and white flowers. . , nothing finer Aquilegia (Columbine). P4C. 3-4 ft. There is with tones of orange and salmon. Gerberas are lovely cut flowers and bloom Many de- have for the semi-shaded, moist spot for spring City of Portland. P13. 3V2 ft. Deep those who attend flower shows S2.5U. lightful colors. 45c: flats of 100 small plants, pink with peach throat markings. enthusiastically acclaimed our select- Eureka. P14. 3 ft. White, yellow center. ed, large-flowered, long-stemmed strain. Arctotis acaulis. Mrs. Pierre S. duPont- P16. Clear pink. The colors range from strow through- President. P17. 5 ft. Orange-scarlet. orange to brilliant scar- Blooms all the year. pink, yellow, Razzle Dazzle. P18. 31/2 ft. Orange, let and crimson. We sell mixed colors yellow spots. only. Full sun. 50c. Bare root divi- Wyoming. P19. 5 ft. Orange blooms, sions, $1.70 per 12. bronze leaves. Geum Prince of Orange. P27. 0°. A beautiful clump of big, strawberry-like Dainty Dwarf Blue foliage surmounted in the spring with Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. P19A. 2-foot flower spikes carrying magnifi- (Plumbago lorrpentae.) "Dwarf Blue cent double 2-inch blooms of brilliant Ceratostigma." 15°. The deep rich orange. Sun. Plenty of moisture. 50c. blue flowers of this dwarf spreading plant (6 to 8 inches) are welcome all Perennial Sunfower over the garden. Such cooling color Helianthus angustifolia. P27A. 0°. is especially appreciated during this Hundreds of brilliant dark-centered plant's summer and fall blooming sea- golden yellow flowers, 3 inches across son. Semi-shade or sun. 50c. on a 6-foot plant. Do not confuse these Yellow Cypella with the coarse sunflowers. Of the Black-eyed Susan type of bloom, these Cypella herberti. P20. 15°. A beau are the best there are, and they make tiful little bulbous herb, 2 to 3 feet September a glorious month in the high, carrying on long stems in May garden. Full sun. 60c. and June lovely orchid-like flowers with three broad petals, richly colored in cream, gold, purple and brown. "Red Hot Poker" 0°. Each spike carries 10 to 12 buds, which Kniphofia. "Red Hot Poker." Long a open up one at a time every day so upright stems at their ends have they last for a long time. Shade or fiery 5 or 6-inch long cone made up semi-shade. 65c. of brilliant firecracker, shaped blooms Dimorphotheca ecklonis. P24. "Stctr of tightly packed together. We have the Veldt." Large, spreading plant be- Towers of Gold (P40) (brilliant golden coming 4 feet high and more across, yellow tipped with scarlet, 4-5 ft.) and with large, 3-inch, pale blue flowers Royal Standard (P39) (brilliant orange in late winter and spring. 45c. scarlet, 3-4 ft.). 45c. — 23 — Everblooming Day Lilies Colorful Penstemons

Hemerocallis. "Day Lilies." 2-4 ft. 10° The Penstemon heterophyllus. P5S. "Blue Gem." 0°. Dwaii. large, lily-like flowers keep on coming from 12 inches. Bright blue. Exceedingly effective for sunny spring to fall above a handsome clump of blue border. A native. 45c. leaves. are very fragrant and narrow Many Penstemon Sensation. P57. 2-3 ft. Giant flower spikes they'll provide color as freely all through many colors, white to deep crimson, mostly rose-pink. the summer and fall as anything you can Blooms almost entire year. Sun. 45c; flats of 100, $2.25. plant. Easily grown in any soil. Sun or Reinwardtia indica. P66. 15°. 2-4 ft. brilliant, flashy half shade. 50c. Also bare root 35c each, A spot of sunshiny yellow in the middle of winter, 2-inch, $3.00 per 10. bell-shaped flowers in great quantities. Sun or shade. Calypso. P31. Fragrant, 5 to 6-inch yellow flowers. 50c; 5-gal. tins, $1.50. Flava. P33. Sweet-scented, clear yellow. Scilla peruviana. P69. "Peruvian Quill. 20°. Low grassy Gypsy. P34. Rich deep gold-orange color, plant with big, showy, 12-inch flower spikes of bright with deeper golden brown basal markings. sky-blue, borne in June. Part shade. 50c. J. A. Crawford. P32. Apricot-yellow on 4- foot stems. Kwanso. P35. Double golden bronze. New Shasta Daisies Mrs. H. W. Wyman. P36. A luminous light pale yellow with 4-foot stems. The improved kinds listed below are becoming tremend- ously popular. just as easily as old Marguerite. Popular, free blooming, fast They grow kinds, 15°. growing, winter and spring blooming plant. bloom as much and make wonderful cut flowers. Esther P71. ft. symmetrical, We have Single Yellow (P44) and Single Reed. 2 A pure white, medium-sized double Shasta Daisy with a full, white, White (P43). 3-4 ft. high. Full sun. 45c. 45c. double center, 2'/2 to 3 inches across. Cut blooms of this variety brought a tremendous price on the cut flower Morea iridioides. P46. Iris-like plant, white fine they are for flowers marked with yellow and blue. market last year, so you know how cutting. 60c. Blooms from spring to late fall. Full sun. Morea bicolor (P45A) has creamy yellow Pasadena. P72A. 3 ft. Large, 4-5 inch flowers on long stems. 45c. flowers with brown markings. 50c. Chiifon. P70. 12 inches. Small flowers with daintily Blue Cup-Flowers frilled petals. 45c. Nierembergia frutescens. P47. "Blue Cup- Flower." 2-3 ft. 15°. A low, fast-growing Lasting Lavender Sprays sub-shrub, bushy and much branched, which Stance perezi. P73. (Limonium.) "Sea Lavender." Tufts starts blooming in late spring and keeps it of broad, shiny leaves and immense candelabra-like up until late summer, being covered all that heads of purplish blue flowers which can be cut and time with shallow, cup-shaped light violet- dried to keep indefinitely. Fine near coast. 45c. blue flowers, one inch across. Full sun. Not too much water. 45c. Nierembergia hippomanica. P48. 15°. The Make September colorful with plant is similar to the above variety, Frilled Blue Moon but Perennial Sunflower (6 ft.). gets only 12 inches high and about 18 Stokesia Blue Moon. P73A. A flower of inches across, becoming a solid, rounded startling size and beauty with immense mass of deep violet-blue flowers throughout light blue disc-like flowers, 4 to 6 inches the entire It Fragrant Violets summer. has so many flowers across, borne on stiff 12 to 18 inch stems, and blooms for so long it will amaze you. the entire plant becoming 2 to 3 feet high. Violets. What plant can equal the fresh, sweet Likes plenty sun and not too water. much It grows quickly, blooms with great freedom. fragrance of the Violet and the delightful love- 45c. Also flats of 100 small plants, S2.50. The individual flowers last for 10 days on liness of its coloring? The answer is, "none." the plant or cut and no insects bother it. We offer Princess of Wales (P87), the longest Geraniums Full sun. 60c. stems and finest fragrance. Also President Her- rick (P86), the biggest flowers and finest foliage. Geraniums bloom almost the year around Flats of 100 plants, $4.50. in California, and often are at their best in the middle of winter. Fine for the open Fragrant Herbs garden or for pot plants for wall, patio or Thyme (P76) and Thyme Variegated (P76B). Calla Lilies terrace. Botanically, Geraniums are all Pe- 8 inches. 10°. It's nice to have one of these largoniums, so don't be confused if you see fragrant foliaged, dwarf clumps tucked in Zantedeschia aethiopica Godfrey's White. P90. the name Pelargonium on the label. 23°. some corner. Both have lavender-blue flow- The best and most free-blooming form of this All Geraniums listed below: 65c. ers. 45c. favorite white flower. Splendid for a shady spot E. G. Hill. P49A. Clear live pink. Salvia officinalis. P67. "Garden Sage." 50c. Marguerite de Layre. P51. Dbl. pure white. 10°. favorite. The kitchen 45c. Zantedeschia elliottiana. P91. "Golden Calla Lily." Maxine Kovalesky. P52. Copper-scarlet. Trachelium caeruleum. P76A. 2 ft. Great The flowers are a rich golden yellow and the Radio Red. P53. Brilliant single scarlet. spreading panicles of bright blue flowers. 45c. large green leaves are marked with silver. 60c. Ivy Geraniums. Your choice of Red (G19), Zantedeschia aethiopica Baby White. P89. Dainty, lavender, and Pink (G20). 4-inch pots, 40c. miniature white blooms, only 12 inches high Lavender Surprise 4-inch pots, 50c. Pelargoniums Tulbaghia cepacea. P78. 10°. You'll have Shipping weight of gal. tins is 10 lbs. each; pleasant surprise in July you see For costal regions there is nothing a when finer than 4-inch pots. 3 lbs. the brilliant-hued Pelargoniums (Martha the lovely lavender-mauve flower heads of this little bulbous plant, borne on the end Washington Geraniums). 3-4 ft. Both sun and half-shade. All following of 18-inch stems. You'll be more surprised varieties, 65c. Nierembergia (18 inches). Hundreds of these blue Easter Greeting. when it keeps right on flowering up until P48A. Red, black blotches. cup flowers all summer long. Edith North. P49. Rose-pink, darker pink November. Makes an evergreen clump a center. foot across and a foot high. Sun near Lavender Queen. P50. Clear lavender. coast. Part shade inland. 50c. Springtime. P54. Ruffled pink petals, bor- dered white. Trollius Golden Wave Sue JaTrett. P55. Salmon-pink, shaded rose. Trollius Golden Wave. P77. 0°. A beauti- Perennial ful 18-inch yellow for the Phlox shade. The golden flowers shining out in Phlox decussata. For great masses of bloom spring and early summer. See colored il- in summer and fall in the richest and love- lustration on back cover. 85c. liest of colors, for cut flowers, too, there is nothing better than these easily grown, gloriously hued Phlox, which are never-fail- Verbenas ing in their profusion of big, bright colored Verbenas. Our Verbenas are large, giant flower heads. 0°. Root divisions, 30c each, flowered ones grown from cuttings. They 3 for 70c; 12 for $2.40. (Weight: 12 plants. are immensely superior to the small flow- 2 lbs.) ered, weakly colored seedlings usually sold. Beacon. P58. Brilliant cherry-red. Verbenas are extremely showy for a sunny Daily Sketch. P60. Pink with rose eye. spot and are particularly good near the Dixie. P60A. Orange-pink. coast. We have Beauty of Oxford (P79) Leo Schlagater. P61. Orange-scarlet. (rose-pink), Crimson King (P80), Lavender Lillian. P61A. Rose-red. Queen (P81), Pink Beauty (P82), Purple Prince Morgenrood. P61B. Rose-pink, scarlet eye. (P83), Radio Red 84), and Snow White (P85). Mrs. Chas. Door. P62. Pastel lavender. Flats of 100, $3.50. Mrs. Jenkins. P63. Pure white. Rijnstroom. P64. Rose-pink. Please include on your order sheet both Salmon Glow. P65. Flame pink and salmon. the name and code number of each vari- Von Hockberg. P65A. Brilliant red. to avoid Mixed Collection: 10 separate named kinds, ety ordered. This will help us one of each, 10 plants for $2.20. errors in filling your order. Armstrong Deciduous They Crow Anywhere Flowering Quince Smoke Tree You can enjoy the hardy spring Cotinus coggygria. flowering shrubs listed on these Place one or two branches of DS2. "Smoke two pages no matter where you Flowering Quince informally in Tree." 8-10 ft. Below 0°. A live because they are not par- a vase and you will have a handsome large shrub with good looking foliage, sur- ticular as to climate. They pro- long-lasting natural flower ar- summer mounted duce almost immediately after rangement which everybody from July to October with many loose, feathery pani- planting thousands of gay thinks is perfect. The plants spring and summer flowers have a handsome glossy foli- cles of minute, purplish-grey flowers which give effect of which make colorful cut sprays. age throughout the summer and the like a location with plenty of a dense cloud of richly col- Quantify Prices sunshine. 0°. ored smoke. The leaves turn You save order vivid golds and yellows in fall- 10Tf when you Chaenomeles lagenaria Apple 15 or more assorted shrubs, trees Grows easily anywhere. Full Blossom. DF1. 6 ft. Bring "Apple or vines. See page 27. sun. 4-5 ft, S1.75; 5-6 ft., S2.00. Blossom Time" into your garden Shipping Weights and your home with the 13/4- Blue Stars inch rose-pink The packing weight of decidu- and white blos- Hydrangea villosa. DS4A. "Blue ous shrubs 3 lbs. for soms of our favorite Cydonia. averages Star Hydrangea." 4-6 ft. 10°. the Each winter the sturdy twigs first plant and 2 lbs. for You really have a thrill com- are full of lemon-white buds each additional plant. Gal. tins ing when you glimpse the first weigh 10 lbs., 5-gal. tins weigh which suddenly burst open magnificently colored flower aglow with rose-pink shadings. 50 lbs. See page 41 for shipping head of this new Hydrangea, 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., S1.50. costs. which was only discovered in Redbud C. lag. rosea. DF3. (Cydonia.) remote China a few years ago. 6 ft. The earliest deciduous Six-inch flat heads of big, IV2- Cercis occidentalis. DT6. "West- shrub to flower, its leafless inch blooms in the most de- ern Redbud." 8-12 ft. 5°. The branches displaying the brilliant lightful and dainty shade of rich crimson buds and rosy pur- rosy-red flowers in January, porcelain-blue that you have ple pea-shaped flowers appear and if cut before that time and ever seen. Much daintier than just before the leaves in the placed in water in the house the ordinary Hydrangea and spring, lining every twig. The they will often open up even in with handsome big summer bronze colored leaves then ap- December. lVz-2 ft., $1.00; 2-3 foliage, too. It blooms in the pear, develop into big, 3-inch, ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., $1.50. middle of summer, later than glossy, blue-green foliage for the other Hydrangeas. Give the summer. Grows easily any- protection from hot sun. Likes where. A fine cut flower. Full Blood Red Quince plenty of moisture. Gal. tins. sun or part shade. 3-4 ft., 85c; SI. 25; 5-gal. tins, S2.75. 4-5 ft., SI.25. C. lag. rubra grandiflora. DF4. 6 ft. Immense great blood-red Wistaria Bush Desert Willow blooms, borne in great profu- Indigofera Gerardiana. DS4C. Chilopsis linearis. DS1. "Desert sion over the entire plant. Also "Wistaria Bush." 6 ft. 15°. A Willow." 10-15 ft. 5°. A sur- blooms with the very earliest handsomely foliaged spreading prising native California plant in January and February. Cut shrub with rich dark green from the hottest, sandiest parts in the bud stage, they will open acacia-like foliage, carrying in of the Southern California des- in beautiful shades of pink in the middle of summer many 6- ert. Looks like a small Willow the house. 1 1/2-2 ft., 85c; 2-3 inch clusters of rose-colored but breaks out in the summer- ft., $1.00; 3-4 ft., $1.25. flowers which look like Wis- Every twig of the Snowdrop Tree is time with the most lovely, or- taria blossoms. The combina- C. lag. Candida. DF2. 6 ft. Its lined with blossoms like this in May chid-like, trumpet-shaped flow- tion of lacy foliage and bright sprays of large snowy-white (natural size). ers, 2 inches long, in delicate colored blooms makes a picture flowers axe very lovely and but brilliant shades of lilac, lav- hard to beat. Easy to grow. when cut for the house, make ender and yellow. Easily grown Full sun or part shade. Gal. exquisite table decorations, keep- Flowering Almond anywhere. Full sun. Dry soil. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. ing for many days. Often sets Amygdalus alba nana. DSA. "Dwarf Gal. tins, 85c. two crops of blooms, one in White Flowering Almond." 6 ft. Below Beautybush early winter and the other in 0°. This beautiful shrub bears a mass Wintersweet Kolkwitzia amabilis. DS5. "Beau- the late spring. lVz-2 ft., $1.00; of little double, white flowers in early Chimonanthus praecox. DF5. tybush." 6 ft. 0°. A fine C 3-4 ft., $1.50. spring, and is particularly effective "Wintersweet." 6 ft. . This hardy flowering shrub from when planted among evergreens so handsomely foliaged shrub cov- C. lag. Contorta. DF2A. "Crook- Central China, forming a beau- fountain- that its beauty is displayed against a ers itself before winter is over ed Quince." 4-6ft. A very pic- tifully foliaged bush, background of green. 3-4 ft., $1.25. with lovely, waxy, pale yellow turesque and odd variety, the like in habit, every branch in plume A. rosea nana. DSB. "Dwarf Pink blooms like miniature star-like branches turned and twisted the spring becoming a scent of lovely bell-shaped pink blos- Flowering Almond." 6 ft. Below 0°. magnolia blooms which every few inches, bearing quan- the air for yards around with a soms, mottled with orange. A A little plant of rare beauty with small tities of beautiful snow-white that will thrive almost buttonlike flowers of soft pink which most delicious fragrance like a blooms in the winter and spring. shrub mixture of Jonquils and Violets. everywhere in sun or shade. completelv cover the branches. 3-4 ft., Every time you cut a branch of heat, cold and wind 31.25. The lovely fragrant blooms, each of this beautiful Quince you'll Extremes it. Requires little 1 inch across, are produced in have a different and unique do not bother attention but provides much great profusion. Sun or part table decoration. 1 1/2-2 ft., $1.50; 2-3 ft., SI. 50. shade. Gal. tins, 90c. 3-4 ft., S2.00. beauty.

Flowers of Desert Willow (one- Crepe Myrtle half natural size). Lovely lav- Golden Bells Lagerstroemia indica. During ender and yellow orchids of the hot summer days of July. Forsythia fortunei. DF6A. "Golden Bells." the desert. August and September the 8 ft. Below 0°. Showy yellow flowers Crepe Myrtles are masses of borne in great profusion along the slen- brilliant color. They do not der branches in late winter and early bloom so well directly on the spring. One of the first spring flowering coast, but in the inland valleys shrubs to bloom. 3-4 ft., $1.25; 4-5 ft., $1.50. of California their crinkled crepe-like flowers are produced Snowdrop Tree in great profusion. The larger Halesia Carolina. DS4. "Snowdrop Tree" kinds become almost tree-like. 12°. or "Silver Bells." 8-20 ft. 5°. One of the Myrtles ex- most beautiful sights seen in any garden. Prices on all Crepe 5-gal. Every horizontal branch in the spring cept White. Gal. tins, 75c; tins, hangs full of little pendulous, white, bell- S2.00. Pink Crepe Myrtle. DF9. 10-20 shaped flowers, like little silver bells. You can almost imagine them tinkling as you ft. Lovely pastel pink. Myrtle. DF10. 10-15 gently shake a branch. Likes shelter from Red Crepe ft. watermelon-red. the hottest sun and plenty of moisture. Rich Myrtle. DF11. Big Splendid for the edge of the lawn. Noth- White Crepe white blossoms. Rarely ing finer for cut flower material. 4-5 ft., snowy because it is difficult tc $1.75; 5-6 ft., $2.00. seen propagate. Ours are grafted When to Plant. plants. Gal. tins, SI. 00; 5-qal. Most deciduous tins, $2.25. shrubs are shipped with bare roots from Dwarf Red Crepe Myrtle. DF8. Reaches 8 feet. January 1 to April 15 only. Those va- Watermelon-red. Dwarf Blue Crepe Myrtle. DF7. rieties listed in tins may be planted any lav- 8-10 ft. A beautiful dwarf —

Spring Flowering Shrubs

Chinese Magnolias Spiirea Magnolia liliflora. DS7. 8-10 ft. 10°. Spirea van Houttei. DS18. "Bri- In gardens the world over the decidu- dal Wreath." Below 0°. 6 ft. ous spring flowering Magnolias are much A charming shrub of moderate loved and admired for their great lily- size which almost everybody like blooms in the Spring. This particu- knows and wants to enjoy in lar kind does not get too large for the their garden. Fountaining branch- average garden, and it blooms with es are loaded with their white great profusion. The plants are covered flowers in spring. 11/2-2 ft., 85c; for almost three months in March, April 2-3 ft., $1.00; 3-4 ft., $1.25. and May with the beautiful flowers Spirea cantoniensis. DS17. "Dou- which become 51/2 inches across when ble Bridal Wreath." 5 ft. Below fully open, rich reddish purple on the 0°. Like the above, but slightly outside and creamy white inside. Sun. smaller and the flowers are Plenty of moisture. The larger plants double, borne in great profusion. listed will have flower buds in the win- 1 1/2-2 ft., 85c; 2-3 ft., $1.00. ter. Balled, iy2-2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 ft., $5.50; 3-4 ft., $7.50. Magnolia salicifolia. DS8A. "Anise Mag- Persian Lilac nolia." 15-20 ft. A much branched, up- Syringa persica laciniata. DS21. "Feath- right tree which each spring gracefully ered Persian Lilac." 6 ft. Below 0°. This displays a lavish show of pure white, is the finest Lilac for Southern California fragrant informal 6-petalled star flow- because it likes our dry summers and ers, 4 inches across. The big leaves warm winters and can always be count- don't come out on any of these Mag- ed upon to display innumerable panicles nolias until the month-long flower show of bright lavender flowers over the en- is over, and then they quickly clothe tire plant in the early spring. It has the bare twigs. When you rub the long arching branches, dainty fern-like twigs of this one you release the fra- foliage, and you can cut great quanti- grance of anise and lemon verbena. 3-4 ties of sweetly fragrant lavender blooms 4-5 5-6 ft., ft., $4.50; ft., $5.50; $7.50. from it in the flowering season. See illus- Magnolia stellata. DS12. "Star Magno- tration in color on page 34. Gal. tins, lia." 5-8 ft. 10°. The first of the Mag- 65c; bare root, 2-3 ft. or 5-gal. tins, $1.85. nolias to open its blooms in the spring and possibly the most charming. Star- shaped, snowy white blossoms, 3 inches Eastern Lilacs across, with about 15 narrow petals. Syringa. The old-fashioned Lilac with its They cover the entire bush and every sweet-scented, delicately colored flow- plant that we sell should have blooms ers does well in the colder winter cli- during the next flowering season. Sweet- mates of California, but does not -bloom ly fragrant, too. Balled, lV2-2 ft., $4.00; as freely in the lower coastal valleys. 2-3 ft., $5.00. 0°. All varieties, 2-year plants, $1.50. Armstrong Lilacs are cutting grown and ITie deep scarlet blooms of Flowering Quince appear in Sweet Fragrance do not sucker from the root. California in the middle of winter. Claude Bernard. DS18A. Double purple. Philadelphus lemoinei Belle Etoile. DS14. Mine. Lemoine. DS20. Double white. The Blue Chaste Tree "Purple Spot Mock Orange." 6 ft. 0°. Michael Buchner. DS19. Double blooms A new Philadelphus, quite rare in this Vitex agnus castus latifolia. DS27. "Blue Chaste Tree." a rare shade of rich violet-pink. country. Its big, white, saucer-shaped 8 ft. 0°. Good blue flowering plants are scarce. This Pascal. DR20A. Clear pastel lilac. Single. flowers, IV2 inches across, have purple hardy one is covered in June with 8-inch spikes of Single Purple. DS23. Old-fashioned kind. spots at the base of each snowy white bright lavender-blue flowers. Cut the faded blooms and Single White. DS22A. Like the old-fash- petal, lending a touch of bright color you get more in August. It will be one of the finest ioned purple, but pure white. to the snowy white. Also this variety flowering plants in your garden during that period Vauban. DS22. Double, purplish lilac. has a powerful and exceedingly enchant- never fail to bloom. Grows easily anywhere in any soil, ing fruity scent. Easy to grow anywhere but prefers a sunny position. 2-3 ft., $1.50; 3-4 ft., $1.75; and always a mass of flowers in the Pink Tamarix 5-gal. tins, $2.00. late spring. Sun or part shade. Phila- Tamarix parviflora. DS24. "Feathery delphus are often incorrectly called Sy- Free Flowering Weigelas Pink Tamarix." 15 ft. 5°. A large shrub ringes. IV2-2 ft., $1.00; 2-3 ft., $2.50. with reddish bark and slender, spread- Weigela florida. DS29. "Old-Fashioned Pink Weigela." 0°. 0°. Philadelphus virginalis. DS15. 6-8 ft. ing branches, covered in spring and 6 ft. The large clusters of trumpet-shaped, bright A greatly improved form of Philadelphus early summer with feathery, pink flow- pink flowers make a wonderful display in the spring foliage. (the old-fashioned flower often incor- ers. Thrives even in alkali, dry desert and early summer, nestled in the bright green rectly called Syringa) with enormous locations, or where hit by ocean spray. 11/2-2 ft., 85c; 2-3 ft., $1.00; 3-4 ft., $1.25. flowers, 3 inches across, so snowy white 3-4 ft., 85c; 4-6 ft., $1.10. Weigela Eva Rathke. DS28. "Red Weigela." 4 ft. 0°. surpassingly fragrant that they perfume Rich ruby-red flowers all summer and fall on a more the air for many feet around the plant. bushy plant. 1 1/2-2 ft., 85c; 2-3 ft., $1.00; 3-4 ft., $1.25. It is one of the most delightful spring Korean Spice Weigela Ideal. DS30. "Dark Pink Weigela." 0°. Simi- flowering shrubs and the cut sprays Viburnum carlesi. DS25. "Koreanspice lar to Weigela florida but with larger flowers in a make wonderful indoor decorations. Viburnum." 5 ft. 0°. Many of our cus- deeper, richer shade of pink. 1 1/2-2 ft., 85c; -3-4 ft., $1.25. Easily grown anywhere. Sun or part tomers rate Viburnum carlesi as one of shade. 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., $1.50. their ten favorite fragrant shrubs. The Flower heads of Korean Spice Viburnum (2 in. across). delicate coral-pink blooms, which be- Manchu Cherry come pearl-white as they open, possess (Illustrated in color on front cover of this a most intense yet delightfully refresh- Catalog.) ing perfume. Comes from a stern climated Prunus tomentosa. DF19. "Manchu Cher- portion of Korea and is hardy every- where. The dwarf bushy plants are with- ry." 5 ft. 5°. This shrub to us typifies only the virtues possessed by the ancient out their greyish-green foliage for a few fleeting weeks, the leaves turning country of its birth, China. Fruitful: The brilliant red before they fall. Gal. tins, delicious little red cherries crowd each $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. other all up and down the many branches. Beautiful: In the spring many white blooms lay tight against twigs Old-Time Snowball amply provided with large, interestingly Viburnum opulus sterile. DS26. "Old- foliage, in June the textured, green and Fashioned Snowball." 8 to 10 ft. Be- crimson fruit shines out like rubies. low 0°. The favorite old-fashioned shrub, heat, Stands adversities: Wind, cold, lack producing an abundance of white glo- of rich soil don't keep it from fruiting. bular flower clusters in May and June. You will enjoy the fruit fresh-picked from Grows anywhere, in any soil, under all the in cherry pies and preserves. bush, climatic conditions. ll/2-2 ft., $1.25; 2-3 selected from This Armstrong strain was ft., $1.50. three superior types which in turn were selected from thousands of seedlings by Lilac-Scented the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The only Bush Cherry which has been suc- Viburnum fragrans. DS25A. "Lilac- cessful in Southern California, even Scented Viburnum." 6-8 ft. 10°. In though other kinds have been much ad- California this attractive foliaged shrub vertised and sold. These plants are cut- is in bloom from November to March. ting grown so you are sure to get a The 2-inch clusters of little pink and sure-bearing, large fruited specimen. white flowers are deliciously lilac-scent- Bare root or 5-gal. tins, $2.75. ed. Gal. tins, 90c. Deciduous Shade Trees

These trees, which lose their leaves in winter, grow easily anywhere, including the desert regions. They give cool summer shade in the hot season and the soothing warmth of sunshine in winter. Most of them grow very rapidly. In addition to the sizes given on these pages, we have larger specimens of most of these trees. See them at our Display Yards. Sizes and prices given upon request.

Quantity Prices. se ^ ' ^^°variety Jor H°™15 or Sweet Cum more of the assorted plants on pages 23 Liquidambar styraciflua. DT11. 'Sweet to 62, inc. (no flats, divisions or 214-inch Gum." 30 ft. —10°. This is one tree pots), and get the following reductions which provides just as much color in the based on the catalogue each price: 25c fall in California as it does in the East, to 65c, each, inclusive, deduct 5c per and in November and December it is a plant; 70c to SI. 75 items, inclusive, de- solid pyramid of rich shades of gor- duct 10c per plant; SI. 80 or more, each, geous red. A splendid small parkway deduct 25c per plant. tree. Thrives anywhere from the ocean front to desert valleys. 5-gal. tins or - Ba e r°°» de balled, 4-5 ft., $2.25; balled 5-6 ft., Shippingo Weights. f rr o ciduous trees $2.75; 6-7 ft., $3.25. weigh, packed for shipment, as follows: 4-6 ft., 5 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 7 lbs.; 8-10 ft, 10 lbs.; 10-12 ft., 16 lbs. These weights Tulip Tree are for one tree. Each additional tree Liriodendron tulipifera. DT12. "Tulip will weigh about 20% less. See ship- Tree." 75 ft. —20°. A favorite because ping costs and information on page 41. the tall, well formed, pyramidal trees are deep rooted and well furnished with Maple Trees uniquely notched 5-inch leaves. Tulip- like flowers of yellowish-orange, in the Acer buergerianum. DTI. "Trident Ma- spring, shine out against the clear light ple." 15 ft. If you want a small Maple bluish-green foliage, which assumes its Weeping Willow for graceful shade. See next page. tree with brilliant fall color, this is it. autumn color, a vivid shimmering yellow It will fit into the average home garden in early fall. Insects and decay stay When to plant is indicated below by black sguares easily because of its small size, and it away. 6-8 ft., $2.50; 8-10 ft., $3.25. under each month. Most kinds are available only as has typical, beautifully shaped, 3-inch,\ dormant bare root stock during the winter. maple leaves in a rounded compact head. Magnificent red and bronze shades Umbrella Tree Month JFMAMJ JASOND in fall. Grows easily anywhere. Full Melia azedarach umbraculiformis. DT13. sun. Gal. tins, 75c. "Texas Umbrella." 30 ft. 0°. A splen- Acer franchetti. DT1A. "Franchet Ma- did fast growing tree for either coastal ple." 15 ft. —10°. Another beautiful regions or hot interior valleys. The small Maple tree, similar to the Trident branches radiate from the trunk to form Maple but with somewhat larger leaves a large, rounded umbrella, densely cov- not so deeply cut. It has exceptionally ered with fern-like leaves and in sum- Montebello Ash beautiful fall coloring, predominately red mer large panicles of lavender flowers. with some orange-yellow shades. Easily 4-6 ft., $1.25; 6-8 ft., $1.75; 8-10 ft., $2.25. Fraxinus velutina coriacea. DT8. "Montebello Ash." grown anywhere. Although a small coast, val- 25-30 ft. 5°. Our finest Ash for all sections, tree, it grows to full size rather quickly. Chinese Flame Tree ley, and desert, with bigger, darker green foliage, a Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Koelreuteria bipinnata. DT10. "Chinese head, not attacked by that enemy Acer macrophyllum. DT2. "Bigleaf Ma- more dense, compact Flame Tree." 20-30 ft. 0°. Here is the seedpods to ple." 0°. of the Ash, red spider. No bothersome 60 ft. Big deep green leaves, finest new deciduous shade tree intro- size for the average park- foot across, clean up either. Just right in a and amazingly rapid in duced recently. It forms a rounded, way or small garden. Holds its foliage late in the fall growth when young. It makes a beau- compact head, with great long, pinnate, and comes out early in the spring. We have discontinued tiful, big, spreading, densely-foliaged deep green leaves, exceedingly hand- the Modesto Ash, a similar type, in favor of this im- tree in a very short time. The best of some. The large, bladder-like seed-pods, 8-10 ft., $2.50. proved variety. 5-6 ft., S1.50; 6-8 ft., $2.00; the large growing Maples for the Pacific borne in late summer and early fall, Coast except that it has little autumn Fraxinus velutina. DT7. "Arizona Ash." 30 ft. 0°. One are brilliant orange-red. Gal. tins, 75c; color. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins,, $2.00; 4-5 ft., S2.00. of the finest trees for planting in the arid desert sec- bare root or 5-gal. tins, bare root, 5-6 ft., $2.00; 6-8 ft., $2.50. tions of the Southwest, although it makes a splendid Acer saccharinum. DT3. "Silver Maple." tree near the coast as well. It requires little water and Mulberries 60 ft. —10°. This Maple grows readily thrives in alkaline soil, growing with great rapidity. anywhere on the Pacific Coast and Morus nigra. DT16. "Persian Mulberry." 5-6 ft., S1.25; 6-7 ft., S1.50; 7-8 ft., $1.75. makes a beautiful, fast growing shade 10-15 ft. 0°. If you are planting a Mul- tree. Displays every fall leaves of the berry primarily for the fruit, then this is for it the Young California Sycamore glorious autumn shades. 6-8 ft., $1.50; the variety you want, has of all, two inches 8-10 ft., $2.00; 10-12 ft., $2.50. largest and finest fruit Acer palmatum atropurpureum. DT2A. long, juicy and aromatic, splendid for preserves. The tree is smaller "Red Leaved Japanese Maple." 6-10 ft. juice or —10°. A beautiful small tree or large than the other Mulberries. 3-4 ft., $1.50; shrub, with graceful, elegant, deeply 4-5 ft., $1.75; 5-6 ft., $2.00. Mulberry." cut maple leaves, rich red in color all Morus rubra. DT17. "Hicks 20°. upright, fast- through the season. A rich spot of color 40 ft. — A strong, wherever planted. Best in part shade growing tree with dense foliage, thriv- excellent with plenty of moisture. Grafted plants ing anywhere and furnishing black with the most handsome type of foliage. shade. Bears good sized delicious tree for the bird-lover, wheth- 2-3 ft., $4.00; 3-4 ft., $6.00. berries. A er it be robins or only White Leghorns. White Birch Splendid for chicken runs. 6-8 ft., $1.35; 8-10 ft., $1.60; 10-12 ft., $1.85. Betula alba. DT4. "European White Morus Kingan Fruitless. DT15. 30 ft. trees for Birch." 30 ft. —20°. Its picturesque —5°. One of the finest shade white bark, dancing, shimmering foliage any region, particularly the desert sec- and slender, graceful shape make the tions, for it gives dense shade in cm any White Birch a favorite everywhere. It is amazingly short time and stands particularly desirable near streams or amount of heat, drought, cold and al- loca- pools. 4-6 ft., $1.25; 6-8 ft., $1.75; 8-10 kali. For street and many garden undesirable, ft., $2.25. tions, fruit on a Mulberry is variety is absolutely fruitless. Betula pendula laciniata. DT4A. "Cut- and this Only the Chinese Elm can compete with leaf Weeping Birch." 20 ft. —20°. The vigor and all-around desirability beautiful weeping Birch with a straight, it for climates. 4-6 ft., $1.50; 6-8 snowy-white trunk from which the bark in the hot 8-10 ft., $2.00. peels, deeply cut leaves, and slender ft., $1.75; pendulous branches. 6-8 ft., $3.00. Weeping Mulberry Morus alba pendula. DT14. "Weeping Hackberry Mulberry." 8 ft. —5°. From a height beau- Celtis occidentalis. DT5. "Hackberry." of eight feet the branches of this tree curve gracefully 60-80 ft. 0°. A fine shade tree for the tiful little weeping dense hot, dry southwestern country, forming a right to the ground, forming a be large, widespreading head of light green umbrella-shaped head which may beautiful foliage. Is not affected by any insects left to grow naturally as a trained out or fungi, and grows in any soil and lawn specimen or may be frame-work to make under all conditions. We recommend it horizontally over a Grows any- highly for Imperial Valley and Arizona. a wide roof of living green. ft. $2.50. 6-8 ft., $1.50; 8-10 ft., $2.00 where 2-yr., 6

. — 27 — Sycamores

Platanus acerifolia. DTI 9. "European Syca- more," "London Plane." 60 ft. 20°. One of the finest deciduous shade and street trees in existence. Grows rapidly, has large maple- like, bright green leaves, is symmetrical and uniform in shape, and grows almost any- where. Makes a dense shade and may be heavily pruned if desired. An all-purpose tree for summer shade. 6-8 ft., $1.25; 8-10 ft., $1.75; 10-12 ft., $2.25. We have a few larger specimen trees, individually priced. Platanus racemosa. DT20. "California Syca- more." 60 ft. 0°. Throughout all of Cali- fornia this has been one of the most popular home shade trees, and is undoubtedly the most beautiful native California deciduous tree, with its picturesque green foliage and irregular mottled white trunk. Grows easily anywhere and is indifferent to soil or mois- ture, making a particularly fine tree for lawn specimen. 8-10 ft., $1.75; 10-12 ft., $2.50; 12-14 ft., $3.50. For those who want immedi- ate results, we have very large specimens which are priced individually. You will want to see and hand-pick the specimen which will best fit into your planting. Sycamore Clumps To provide planters with picturesque speci- mens of California Sycamore possessing sev- eral main branches growing irregularly from Flowering Cherry Daybreak—Thousands of levely pink blooms (twice as large as above). the base of the tree, we offer low-branched clump-like trees. 6-8 ft., 5K.00; 8-10 ft., $3.00.

Chinese Pistachio Spring Flowering Trees Pistacia chinensis. DT18. "Chinese Pistachio." 20-40 ft. 5°. A handsome round-headed tree with attractive pinnacle foliage. Before the Flowering Cherries Flowering Crab Apples leaves drop they turn brilliant glowing hues Flowering Cherries have an exquisite loveli- Even one Flowering Crab in a garden will of scarlet and crimson. Grows well anywhere ness all their own. Every California garden provide a delicate spot of color so delightful from seacoast to desert. See page 12 for should have at least one to welcome spring. and picturesque that its blooming period will Pistachio Nut tree. 4-6 ft., $1.75; 6-8 ft., $2.25. For many weeks they are a giant bouquet be one of the important events of the year. composed of thousands of dainty, delicately —20". colored blooms. Give them plenty of water Malus aldenhamensis. DF14. "Aldenham and a west or east exposure inland and you Crab." 8-15 ft. Its richly colored, semi-double Popl ars 0°. will have a magnificent show every year. blood-red flowers are the loveliest of all the Populus eugenei. DT20A. "Carolina Poplar." Campanulata. DF15. 20 ft. A very early Crabs and are borne against purplish bronze 40-60 ft. 20°. Exceedingly fast — growing bloomer, the brilliant rosy-red single flowers foliage, which in itself is very beautiful. The tree which attains large size quickly. Of tall, appearing almost two months before the other flowers are followed by purplish red, 1-inch broadly pyramidal form with dense foliage. kinds, and it never fails to bloom heavily. fruits. 4-6 ft, $1.25; 6-8 ft., $1.50. Easy to grow on the desert or near the coast. 4-6 ft, $1.25; 6-8 ft., $1.50. Malus arnoldiaria. DF12. "Arnold Crab." 6-8 ft., 85c; 8-10 ft., $1.00; 10-12 ft, $1.50; Daybreak. DF16. 10-15 ft. We guarantee that 8-10 ft. Dwarf and bushy with very large 12-14 ft., $2.25. it will provide a profusion of beautiful blooms rose colored flowers, turning white as they Populus nigra italica. DT21. Pop- "Lombardy every spring. Its very large, single, pink age. 4-6 ft, $1.25; 6-8 ft, $1.50. lar." 50-75 ft. —20°. The tall, slender, nar- flowers appear before the leaves in such pro- M. ioensis Bechteli. DF13. "Bechtel's Double Poplar for lining row so valuable driveways, fusion that the tree is a cloud of pink. If you Rose Flowering Crab." 8-12 ft. Covered in tall border planting, or for accentuating cer- plant but one Flowering Cherry, we recom- early spring, just after the foliage appears, tain types of architecture. Grows very rap- mend this one. 4-6 ft, $1.50; 6-8 ft, $1.75. with large, beautifully, fully double flowers idly. 6-8 ft., 85c; 8-10 ft., $1.00; 10-12 ft., Shirofugen. DF18. 10-15 ft. Deep pink in the like small roses in a soft, delicate pink color, $1.50; 12-14 ft., $2.25; 16-18 ft., $3.50. bud, pale pink in the open flower. Great deliciously violet-scented. Exceedingly free magnificent tresses of double carnation-like flowering. 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., $1.50. Cotton less Cottonwood blooms like the illustration below. 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., $1.50. Populus fremonti Thornber. DT22. "Thornber Flowering Peaches Cottonwood." 50-75 ft. 0°. A splendid fast A Flowering Apricot growing large shade tree for Arizona and the Flowering Apricot. DF17. "Dawn." 8-10 ft. spring color nothing excels the Flowering inland arid sections. Very large size, vigor- For 0°. This is one of the most beautiful spring ous growth, clean white bark and handsome Peaches, which grow with the greatest ease flowering deciduous trees that can be imag- greai foliage of the but with none of anywhere and never fail to produce a Cottonwood ined. The IY2 to 2 inch, fully double flowers the bothersome "cotton" so objectionable on profusion of bloom. The trees are not only are borne thickly along the reddish brown a source of great admiration in the garden many Cottonwoods. 6-8 ft., $1.10; 8-10 ft, branches before the leaves appear, the color they enjoy having their branches cut for $1.35; 10-12 ft, $1.75. but is deep rose-pink, and they are spicily fra- indoor use. 0°. The price on all varieties grant. is carried over an unusu- The bloom below 3-4 ft., 85c; 4-6 ft., $1.00. ally long period. A good looking little tree Early Rose Pink. DF14A. The earliest of all. Weeping Willow the rest of the year too. Sun or part shade. Early Red. DF14B. A magnificent ruby-red. 4-6 ft., $1.25. Salix babylonica. DT23. 40 ft. 0°. The well- Pure White. DF14C. Immense snow-white known picturesque "Weeping Willow." Ljrge, blooms. spreading top and long pendulous branches. Purple-Leaved Plum Thrives in dry or wet soils and grows rap- Prunus pissardi. DF17A. 5°. An excellent Flowering Cherry, Shirofugen. Blooms 2 inches idly. 8-10 ft, $1.50; 10-12 ft., $2.00. flowering Plum with deep purple foliage cov- ered with small, pale pink blooms in spring. across like big Carnations. It has long been one of the most popular of Chinese Elm the flowering fruit trees. 4-6 ft., $1.35. Ulmus pumila. DT23A. "Chinese Elm." 40-60 Bechtel's Double Rose Flowering Crab. Violet ft. 0°. No tree in our entire list will exceed Scented. (Reduced two-thirds.) this one for rapidity of growth, and it is being very widely planted all over the coun- try, particularly in dry interior sections, be- cause it adapts itself to any climate and is indifferent to extremes of heat, cold, drouth and alkali. It is one tree which can be planted anywhere and which will be certain to succeed. Often grows to 30 or 40 feet in three years. A good-looking tree, too, giving plenty of shade. 6-8 ft, $1.00; 8-10 ft., $1.25; 10-12 ft, $1.50; 12-14 ft, $2.25; 14-16 ft., $3.50. Please include both name and code num- ber of each variety ordered, on your order sheet. — 28 — Coniferous Evergreens

The Conifers or Cone-bearing Evergreens include many trees and shrubs, almost all of them with needle or scale-like evergreen foliage. Most are native to cold climates, and are admirably suited to mountain regions and other areas where the temperatures are low. However, most of them do egually well anywhere in the California valleys or coastal regions. The sizes given in the descriptions below are ultimate sizes and may not be attained for many, many years. Minimum temperatures are approximate only.

Purchase 5 of one variety SaVC 1 % ' * or 15 or more of the as- Prostrate Junipers sorted plants on pages 23 to 62, inc. (no Sizes Determined by Spread, Not Height. flats, divisions or 2V4-inch pots), and get Juniperus conferta. C15. "Shore Juniper." the following reductions: 25c to 65c each, —5°. Never more than 1 foot high and inc., deduct 5c per plant; 70c to $1.75 spreading to 7 or 8 feet, this Creeping each, inc., deduct 10c per plant; $1.80 or Juniper does well anywhere in California, more, each, deduct 25c per plant. except in the deserts. The dense dark green is Shipping Weights. foliage very attractive. Gal. tins, XSmSbTS 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. ball of earth on the roots. The average J. sabina Tamarix. C18. (tamaTiscilolia.) weights, packed for shipment, are: 2-3 "Spreading Savin Juniper." —30°. A ft., 25 lbs.; 3-4 ft., 35 lbs.; 4-5 ft., 45 lbs.; dense, compact mound of gray-green foli- 5-6 ft., 60 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 75 lbs. Plants in age, spreading to 5 or 6 feet but never gallon tins weigh 10 lbs. and in 5-gallon more than 18 inches high. The foliage tins 50 lbs. See page 41 for costs. never changes color, and there is nothing finer for a corner where a low, spreading Blue Spanish Fir plant is wanted. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85; balled, 11/2-2 ft., $1.85; 2-2l/ Abies pinsapo glauca. Cb. "Blue Span- 2 ft., $2.50; 21/2-3 ft., $3.00. ish Fir." 20-60 ft. —5°. A trim, sym- chinensis metrical, conical tree with many stiff J. San Jose. Cll. "San Jose 5°. branchlets, soft blue-green in color. It is Creeping Juniper." — Never more much more adapted to the drier parts of than about a foot high, it makes a spread- the Southwest than most other conifers ing 4 to 5 foot low mound of beautiful and stands dry heat better too. Easy to grey-green foliage, richer in color than the Spreading Savin Juniper grow. Balled, V/z-2 ft., $3.00. and somewhat lower in growth. It grows with the great- Blue Lawson Cypress est of ease in almost any climate, hot or cold. It's guite new and we think it is Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Scarab. C4. one of the very best low spreading Juni- (alumi.) "Blue Lawson Cypress." 6-12 ft. pers that we have ever grown. Gal. tins, 0°. Popular because of the beautiful me- 85c. tallic silvery-blue color and the sym- Hedge of quick growing Tecate Cypress photographed metrical pyramidal habit of growth. Thrives Semi-Prostrate Junipers at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, where its anywhere in the West except in desert sec- Juniperus chinensis Pfitzer. C12. (pfitze- merits were first demonstrated. These plants are 12 tions. Slow grower. Balled, 2-3 ft., $2.50; riana.) "Pfitzer Juniper." 6-8 ft. —10°. feet high and are about 2V6 years old. 3-4 ft., $3.00; 4-5 ft., $4.00. Has bushy, wide-spread, horizontal branch- es, and forms an immense flat, irregular Live Christmas Trees Fast Crowing Hedge head of bluish-green foliage, graceful in outline, 6-8 feet in height and the same Cedrus deodara. C2. "Deodar." 25-75 ft. 0°. This Cupressus forbesi. C6. "Tecate Cypress." across. Heat or cold, sun or shade, sea- famous Cedar from the Himalaya Mountains has sil- 15-20 ft. 10°. A little known native Cali- or desert, it does egually well under very blue-green foliage especially suited to our South- fornia Cypress "discovered" in demonstra- coast all conditions. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, western . A magnificent pyramidal tree tion plantings. It has almost entirely dis- balled, 2-2l/ ft., $2.00; 21/ -3 ft., up to 75 feet in height, reguiring plenty of room. placed the Monterey Cypress since that $1.75; 2 2 $2.25; 3-4 ft., $2.75; 4-5 ft., $3.50. Balled, 7-8 ft., $5.50; 8-10 ft., $7.50; boxed, 10-12 ft., variety is very short-lived due to attacks of $17.50; 12-14 ft., $20.00. fungus and borers. There are many strains J. chinensis Armstrong. C9. "Armstrong Cedrus deodara compacta. C3. "Armstrong Compact of Cupressus forbesi, but the Armstrong Spreading Juniper." —10°. One of the Deodar." Most planters can more easily find room strain is the fastest growing and best finest dwarf evergreens is this hybrid Juni- for this selected strain of the above, which is much shaped tree of all that we have observed. per, which makes a dense mass of soft more dense, compact, trim and symmetrical than the The plants grow with extreme rapidity, gray-green foliage about 2 feet high and usual type, growing slowly and staying small, sel- and we have observed trees planted 6 becoming about 5 feet across. Splendid dom exceeding 25 or 30 feet in height. These are feet apart when only 6 inches high which for the foreground of any planting, thriv- grafted trees and hence cost a little more to grow. in 30 months were from 11 to 13 feet high ing egually well in sun or shade and Gal. tins, $1.25; balled, 2-3 ft., $2.75; 3-4" ft., $3.50; and had completely filled in as a solid adapting itself to any climate. Gal. tins, 4-5 ft., $4.50; 5-6 ft., $6.00; 6-7 ft., $7.50. hedge. The beautiful silvery green foliage 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85; balled, 1V2-2 ft., Cedrus atlantica glauca. CI. "Blue Atlas Cedar." fills in thickly and does not die out in the $1.75; 2-21/2 ft., $2.25; 3-4 ft., $3.00. 20-40 ft. 0°. Beautiful, symmetrical with foliage of center. It makes a beautifl specimen tree intense silvery blue. It has a straight central trunk also, forming a tall, compact column of Upright Junipers with many rather stiff semi-upright side branches, silvery green foliage in a very short time. chinensis Blue Columnar. C10. and its beautiful blue color makes it stand out For windbreak plant 6 to 8 feet apart. Juniperus 10°. tall, narrow and its beautiful blue color makes it stand out. Gal. Flats of 100 small plants, $4.50 per 100; (columnaris.) 10 ft. — A bright blue-green dense foli- tins, $1; balled, 4-5 ft., $4; 5-6 ft., $5; 6-7 ft., $6.50. gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. column with age. Long-lived and handsome, thriving Cupressus arizonica. C5. "Arizona Cy- Italian Cypress in any climate. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.25. press." 20-40 ft. 10°. A beautiful bluish- Cupressus sempervirens. C7. "Italian Cypress." 20-60 (torulosa.) 6-8 green cypress of narrow pyramidal form J. chinensis Twisted. C13. ft. 5°. Tall, slender, green spires, invaluable as 5°. plant from the mountains of Arizona and North- ft. — A semi-dwarf, picturesgue accent points in the landscape planting. Our trees ern Mexico. A handsome tree for desert with densely crowded, tufted, twisted are the true narrow type, holding their slender shape sections, and when planted in hedge form branches which looks as if it had been permanently. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins or balled, makes an excellent windbreak. Flats of trained artificially. For picturesgue beauty 5-6 ft.. $2.25; balled, 6-7 ft., $3.00. 5- shade. 100 small olants, $3.00; gal. tins, 50c; it is without equal. Sun or half $1.50. 5-gal. tins, $2.50; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00. Stately, long-lived Incense Cedar gal. tins, Narrow Irish Juniper 5°. Juniperus communis hibernica. C14. "Narrow Irish Juniper." 6-8 ft. — A very narrow and erect columnar plant, similar in shape to Italian Cypress but staying much smaller and entirely different color—grey blue- green. A very attractive conifer for framing doorways or accenting columns, where great height is not desired. Eventually becomes about ll/2 ft. to 2 ft. in diameter, but seldom exceeds 6 or 8 ft. in height. See illustration opposite page. Full sun or semi-shade. Balled, 2-3 ft., $2.00; 3-4 ft., $3.00; 4-5 ft., $3.75; 5-6 ft., $4.50.

J. californica glauca. C7A. "Blue California Juniper." 10 ft. 5°. A native of the high desert mesas, making a beautiful, small, pyramidal tree in culivtion. Silvery blue when young, darker green as the plant matures. Hardy any place. Balled, 4-5 ft., $3.50.

J. pachyphlaea. Silver. C-17. "Silver Alligator Juniper." 8 ft. 0°. A beautiful dwarf form of the Alligator Juniper, native to Arizona and New Mexico. It makes a loose, round-topped shrub, with most intense brilliant silvery blue foliage, more brilliant than any other conifer that we grow. Hardy anywhere in western United States and thrives under all condi- tions. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.25; 4-5 ft., $3.00; 5-6 ft., $4.00; 6-7 ft., $5.00 — 29 — The black squares under every month below indicate that you can plant conifers during any month in the year.

Month JFMAM J JASOND Ball or Tins

Armstrong Arborvitaes

Thuja orientalis Beverly Hills. C31. (beverleyensis.) "Golden Column Arborvitae." 15 to 20 ft. The tallest and stateliest of the Chinese Arborvitaes, growing into a narrow column of golden-green foliage, particularly effective for specimen plant- ing or for framing a doorway. Needs full sunshine to bring out the rich golden color. Balled, 3-4 ft., $1.75; 4-5 ft., $2.50; 5-6 ft., $3.25; 6-8 ft., $4.00.

T. orientalis Baker. C29. 10-12 ft. —5°. A tall, narrow column of bright green foliage. A little broader at the base and not quite so fast growing as the Pyramidal below. Balled, 2-3 ft., $1.50; 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., $2.50.

T. orientalis Pyramidal. C33. "Green Pyramid Arborvitae." 10-12 ft. —5°. A tall, narrow column of bright green foliage. Fast growing and thriving anywhere in any climate. Balled, 2-3 ft., $1.75; 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., $2.50.

T. orientalis Yellow Column. C34. (elegantissima.) "Golden Pyramid Arborvitae." 12-15 ft. —5°. Similar to Beverly Hills but not as tall, with a broader, more bushy base. The green foliage is tipped with golden bronze. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., $2.75; 5-6 ft., $3.50.

T. orientalis compacta. C32A. 6-8 ft. 0°. A dwarf compact cone of green all year regardless of cold, sun, wind or rain. Narrow Irish Juniper makes Small growing enough to make a good long-lasting accent for a beautiful, dense, blue- planting on either side of steps or to mark an entrance. green column. Balled, U/2-2 ft.. $1.75; 2-21/2 ft., $2.00; 21/2-3 ft., $2.50. Incense Cedar Dwarf Golden Arborvitae Libocedrus decurrens. C20. "Incense Cedar." Thuja orientalis Berckmanns. C30. (aurea 25 to 50 ft. —5°. A native of the California nana.) "Dwarf Evergolden Arborvitae." 6 ft. mountains and one of our finest evergreen 0°. This is the most popular dwarf conifer trees. Makes a tall, dense, compact pyramid grown in California and in the Southwestern with deep green, lustrous foliage which is States. Dwarf, compact and broadly conical delightfully fragrant and pungent. It grows in form, the tips of all the branches are cov- easily anywhere and is a magnificent tree ered with bright gold throughout most of the anywhere in the Southwest. Gal. tins, 75c; year. See illustration at bottom of page. Gal. Giant Sequoia, permanent Christmas Tree. balled, 4-5 ft., $3.00; 5-6 ft., $4.00; 6-7 ft., $5.00. tins 65c; balled, 15-18 inches, $1.25; 11/2-2 ft., Beautiful at all ages from 1 to 3,000 years. $1.75; 2-21/ ft., $2.25. Koster Blue Spruce 2 Thuja orientalis Bonita. C32. 0°. The most The Giant Sequoia Picea pungens Rosier. C20A. "Koster Blue perfect of the dwarf, cone-shaped green Ar- Spruce." 8-15 ft. — 10°. One of the most borvitae. Never exceeds 5 feet in height, Sequoia gigantea. C25. "Giant Sequoia." spectacular of all evergreens because of its broad and compact. Balled, 11/2-2 ft., $1.75; —5°. Everyone knows about the famous "Big brilliant, glistening, silvery blue color and 2-3 ft., $2.25. Tree" of the Sierras, oldest and largest of all symmetrical shape. The plants are difficult living things, but do you know how trim and to graft and, therefore, are always scarce. beautiful they are when young, with each Balled, 2-21/ ft., 2 $7.50. Pines sturdy little side branch doing its share to form a perfect cone of blue-green foliage? It The Fern Pine Pinus canariensis. C21. "Canary Island Pine." you plant a small tree now (even in a small 80 ft. 10°. One of the most beautiful and yard) as your young son's outdoor Christmas Podocarpus elongatus. C24. 15 ft. 10°. South permanent of all Pines for California. Ex- tree, it will still be small enough to decorate African forest tree which in California gar- when his great-grandson is old enough to en- tremely long needles in large tufts. The new i dens makes a beautiful medium-sized plant growth is silvery white. Tall and slender. joy it. Thrives anywhere in California except with soft, fine-cut green foliage, fern-like in Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. in desert regions. Gal. tins, $1.00; balled, 2-3 appearance. It makes a dark green tracery ft., $4.00; 3-4 ft., $5.50; 4-5 ft., $7.50. stucco P. halepensis. C22. "Aleppo Pine." 50 ft. against walls and has become increas- Sequoia sempervirens. C26. "Redwood." 150 ingly popular over the past few years since 5°. A rapid growing Pine suitable for quick ft. 0°. The well known California Redwoods it effects, particularly in dry locations. Longer has become better known, and fits beauti- are among the largest and most picturesque fully into the finest California lived than the Monterey Pine and similar in plantings. Sun trees known. They grow rapidly into beau- or half-shade. 5-gal. tins, $2.50; tubbed, 4-5 appearance. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. tiful specimens and thrive readily anywhere ft., $4.00. P. radiata. C23. "Monterey Pine." 60 ft. 8°. on the Pacific Coast except on the desert. A well-known native of the California coast. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Yews "The Aristocrat" Very bushy when young, with bright green foliage. Valuable for quick effects because Taxus baccala Irish. C27. (T. hibernica.) it is the fastest grower of all Pines. Although "Irish Yew." —5°. This famous Yew is in- native to the coast, it grows readily inland, comparable where a narrow, upright, perfect but is not long-lived there. Gal. tins, 65c; green column is desired for framing doors or Golden Column 5-gal. tins, $1.85. in formal gardens. It is trim, sedate, formal, Arborvitae, illus- and has beautiful red berries. Very slow In order to avoid errors in filling your order, trated at extreme growing, the plants below are already many please be sure to include on your order sheet right. years old. Balled, 3l/2-4 ft., $15.00; 4-4 Vz ft-, both the name of the item and the number $20.00. following the name.

Dwarf Golden Arborvitae (shown at right). Order by Mail Juniperus sabina Tamarix (below). Excellent for If it is not convenient for you foreground planting. to visit our Display Yards, send in your order by mail. We will get the plants safely to you by the best available means of transportation no matter where you live, whether it be by mail, express, freight or our own trucks. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping information.

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% - Armstrong Select

Nothing improves the California landscape more than ever- green trees. We need all of the green foliage that we can ge ; and we need summer shade. You'll find many magnificent flowering trees here which are seen in California but rarely because planters simply do not know how lovely they are. These include Acacia elongatus, Cape Chestnut, Shamel Ash, Golden-Flowered Dwarf Eucalyptus, Hymenosporum and Tri- cuspidaria.

C gyg 1 Q 0/ When you purchase five of one variety, or fifteen ' * or more assorted ornamental plants listed on pages 23 to 62, inclusive, of this Catalog (except flats, divisions or 21/s- inch pots), you are entitled to the following reductions: Listed each Rate

$0.25 to $0.65, inclusive - Deduct 5c per plant

.70 to 1.75, inclusive - Deduct 10c per plan! 1.80 or more Deduct 25c per plant

Please include on your order sheet both the name and code num- ber of each variety ordered. This will help us to avoid errors in filling your order.

The average shipping weight of plants jmppmg^hinnino Wpicrhf-Cyt cigins. m gallon (ins is 10 lbs each _ for plants in 5-gallon tins 50 lbs. each. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping costs and information.

1 e ^lack squares under each month in the tO Plant . ^ When calendar below indicate that you can plant evergreen shade trees during every month in the year.

Months J FMAMJ J A S O N D From Tins Flowers of the Orchid Tree (pink, purple and yellow). The tree is full of them in early summer. Note the handsome foliage too.

Fast Growing Acacias The Orchid Tree Lily of the Valley Tree Bauhinia purpurea. T5. "Orchid Tree." 15 Clethra arborea. Til. "Lily of the Valley Acacia baileyana. Tl. "Cootamundra Wattle.'' ft. 22°. An exceedingly showy small tree Tree." 15-20 ft. 20°. This beautiful little 30 ft. 15°. Probably the most of handsome with two-lobed leaves and quantities of mag- evergreen tree from Madeira, with long, shiny all Acacias, with beautiful fernlike, silvery nificent large flowers, deep pinkish-lavender 4-inch leaves, is loaded in the late summer blue-green foliage. Completely enveloped from in color with brilliant markings of purple and and ectrly fall with magnificent panicles of January to March with great sprays of lovely yellow, 3 inches or more across. It grows little, white, cup-shaped flowers which are fragrant lemon-yellow flowers. Large spread- easily anywhere except directly on the coast, extremely fragrant. Its handsome foliage, ing and fast growing, it makes a beautiful standing any amount of heat and a consider- dainty flowers and exquisite fragrance all garden tree. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. able amount of cold. It makes a good cut combine to make it one of the most valuable A. longifolia. T3. (floribunda.) "Everblooming flower, and if you would like a whole tree small flowering trees. Best where protected Acacia." 25 ft. 18°. A fast growing upright full of orchids in your garden, just plant one from dry winds and hot reflected sun. Plenty tree, making a dense round head. Long, nar- of these beautiful Bauhinias, which will cause of moisture. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. row leaves, small creamy yellow flowers your neighbors to come from blocks around blooming constantly during summer. Gal. in May or June to admire the sight. Gal. tins, tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; balled, 5-7 ft., $5.00. Shade for Patios

Ficus retusa. T17. "Indian Laurel." 20 ft. The Carob 25°. A compact, rounded head of thick, rub- Dwarf Pearl Acacia Ceratonia siliqua. T8. "Carob." 40 ft. 16°. bery leaves. Grows well in locations where Its symmetrical shape and dense, glossy, ever- there is very little room for roots. Fine for Acacia podalyricdolia. T4. "Pearl Acacia." green foliage, the same throughout the year, small parkways, patio corners and other loca ft. 18°. dwarf spreading Acacia has 15 This makes the Carob one of the most desirable tions where a trim little tree is wanted. Coast flowers; the showiest and most spectacular trees for street planting or all-year home or inland. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50: of brilliant big canary-yel- immense clusters shade. It is long-lived, deep-rooted, does not tubbed, $3.75. balls in profusion right low flower borne become too large, and is a most satisfactory through the middle of winter, from November tree under all climatic conditions. Gal. tins, to February, and usually in full bloom at 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Evergreen Christmas time. Beautiful, large, velvety blue- Mexican Ash gray foliage which makes a perfect back- Fraxinus uhdei. T22. "Shamel Ash." 25-30 ft ground for the lovely fragrant flowers. Gal. Fruit and Shade, Too 15°. Mr. A. D. Shamel of the U. S. Dept. of tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Avocado. If you would like to have in your Agriculture was in Mexico several years age garden beautiful, luxuriantly foliaged, ever- and admired this splendid evergreen Ash sc Acacia elongata. T2. 15 ft. 15°. A beautiful green shade trees will also provide ex- that he brought back seeds for propa small Acacia, fine for the average garden be- which much cellent fruit, we suggest a Duke, Jalna, Leu- gation in California. We like the beauty of cause of its small, compact, bushy shape and cadia or Zutano Avocado tree. See pages the long, glossy, 18-inch pinnate leaves, its the great quantities of bright yellow, fra- 21-22. convenient size, and its clean, cool, grant, bullet-shaped blooms which line every medium trim appearance. The young trees have grown branch in March and April. Excellent for cut very rapidly here. 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, sprays. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. The Lovely Cape Chesnut 5-6 ft., $2.25; 6-8 ft., $3.00; 8-10 ft., $4.00. Calodendrum capense. T6. "Cape Chestnut." 25-40 ft. 15°. The finest native flowering tree The Camphor Tree of South Africa and just as fine here in Cali- Something Different fornia. Makes a medium sized rounded head Cinnamomum camphora. T10. "Camphor Tree." of foliage which in early summer is almost Calamondin. FC1. 10-15 ft. 15°. You might 75 ft. 10°. The Camphor often attains great solidly covered with great 6-inch panicles of never think of this fruit bearing citrus tree size, but not for many years, and because of unbelievably beautiful rosy-lavender blooms. for ornament and shade unless we called your its moderate growth and regular form it is See color illustration page 34. Not difficult to attention to it, and we are doing that right often used as a parkway or garden tree. Al- grow, quite hardy (partially deciduous in now. Handsome all-year foliage; tall, slen- ways handsome with its dense, bright green, colder areas). Full sun, light soil, little water. der, trim shape; fragrant spring flowers; and glossy foliage tinged with rich bronze in Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; 16-inch box, best of all, quantities of beautiful little red- spring. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. 6-7 ft., $10.00. orange fruits, not only good to look at on the tree, but which make the best orange- of the It's easy to put your order in the mail, and we'll get the plants to you by the safest and colored limeade you ever tasted. One hardiest of citrus fruits. See page 3. 5-gal. most economical method whether it be mail, express, freight or our own trucks. See tins, $2.50; balled, tree shaped, $3.00; extra pages 40 and 41 for shipping information. size specimens, $4.50,

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Flowering Eucalyptus Scarlet- Eucalyptus These lovely new Dwarf Eucalyptus, with col- ored blooms of exceptional beauty, have re- Eucalyptus ficifolia. TT4. "Scarlet Flowering 20-25 20°. cently been introduced from little explored por- Eucalyptus." ft. One of the most tions of Western Australia and because of their glorious sights in California is one of these small size are adapted to small gardens. Ex- trees in full bloom, with its great clusters of ceedingly valuable for the unigue and color- brilliant scarlet flowers set in a background ful cut flower sprays which they supply for the of large, dark, glossy leaves. It is a rather house. They usually bloom in late summer and dwarf tree and does not take much room, of fall. Keep them staked and pinch back while thriving best near the coast. Needs plenty young to keep them bushy. water. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00.

Eucalyptus caesia. T12. "Gunguxru." 15 ft. 20°. Lovely weeping sea-green foliage and The Best Windbreak long, drooping racemes of rose-pink flowers which make the most beautiful cut sprays for Eucalyptus globulus. T1S. "Blue Gum." 150 the house that you have ever seen. We don't ft. 18°. One of the fastest growing trees in know what "Gungurru" means, but it must be the world and the most widely planted in Cali- Australian bush lingo for "Wow, what beau- fornia. Much used for windbreaks and fuel; tiful flowers " Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. thrives anywhere except in very cold sections E. crucis. TT2. "Southern Cross Eucalyptus." or in the desert. The young growth has a beau- tiful color. 10 ft. 15°. At Christmas time the unigue blue- blue Flats of 100 small plants, $3.00, gray foliage is capped with clusters of lovely $27.50 per 1,000; gal. tins, 50c. blue-gray flower buds which make the most E. globulus compacta. T16. "Bushy Blue Gum." beautiful table decorations, later opening into 20-30 ft. 18°. A variety of the Blue Gum which lovely primrose-yellow flowers. Gal. tins, $1.10; has no main trunk but is very bushy and 5-gal. tins, $2.25. densely branched, forming a symmetrical, E. erythrocorys. TT3. "Golden Flowered Euca- round, compact head. A very small percentage lyptus." 15 ft. 20°. The big, brilliant red, of the plants from flats may be the regular pointed flower caps on the flower buds are Blue Gum. We consider this one of our best gorgeously beautiful in themselves, and when plants for a quick growing screen. Flats of they drop off they reveal beautiful fluffy gold- 100 small plants, $3.75; gal. tins, 60c. en yellow blooms. Both flowers and buds on E. polyanthemos. T18. 40-75 ft. 14°. Medium- their red stems are present together, and com- sized, spreading tree, with round leaves, thriv- bined with the lovely long bright green leaves, ing anywhere in California or Arizona, being create a vivid picture. Gal. tins, $1.10; 5-gal. resistant to extreme frosts, heat or drouth. tins, $2.25. Flats of 100 small plants, $3.50; gal. tins, 60c;

E. grossa. T17. 4-8 ft. 20°. Very dwarf, bushy, 5-gal. tins, $2.00. with blue-green foliage and golden yellow E. camaldulensis. T13. (rostata.) "Red Gum." flowers. It takes very little room in any gar- 80-120 ft. 12°. A rapid grower that endures den, and you'll have something beautiful and much heat, severe frost and considerable unigue. Gal. tins, 75c. drouth. Widely planted for windbreak and shade in California and Arizona. Flats of 100 Eucalyptus Lemon-Scented Cum small plants, $3.50; gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, citriodora has a slender, grace $1.85. ful. white trunk, and its leaves are pun Eucalyptus citriodora. T14. "Lemon-Scented gently lemon-scented. Gum." 40-80 ft. 20°. A picturesque tree E. rudis. T19. "Desert Gum." 75 to 100 which sends a slender, straight white trunk ft. 14°. Valuable for windbreaks in towering high in the air, with a graceful crown hot desert valleys. A vigorous, rapid- White Cum of foliage at the top. rows rapidly. The growing, erect tree with round leaves G Eucalyptus viminalis. long, slender leaves are pungently lemon-scent- when young, lance-shaped when older. T21. "White Gum." 125 ft. 10°. One of the beautiful of ed. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Flats of 100 small plants, $3.50. most the Euca- lypti, with a smooth white trunk, shedding its bark in long ribbons. A wide-spreading pictur- The Cape Chestnut is a glorious sight in June. Examine this photograph closely and you'll esque crown, long pendulous branchlets and nar- see that the tree is literally covered with the beautiful 6-inch pink flower clusters shown row lance-shaped leaves. Almost as fast-growing below. See color illustration on page 34. as the Blue Gum and much hardier, thriving from the seacoast to the hottest desert. Flats of 100 small plants, $3.50; gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75.

E. sideroxylon rosea. T20. 20-40 ft. 15°. A tall, slender tree of moderate size, with masses of delicate pink flowers contrasted with the slender silvery-gray leaves. A more uniform grower than the Scarlet Eucalyptus and much hardier, thriv- ing in almost any climate. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85.

Crevillea

Grevillea robusta. T23. "Silk Oak." 75 ft. 15°. A tall, slender tree, with fern-like leaves; covered in early summer with comb-like golden yellow flowers 6 inches long. Drouth and heat resist- ant. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Handsome Harpullia

Harpullia arborea. TT8. 40-50 ft. 24°. If you want a tree that is just about as handsome the year around as any tree that we can possibly grow in California and which has the added ad- vantge of being quite rare and unusual, we heartily recommend this beautiful tree from the South Sea Islands. The foliage is large, luxuri- ant and a bright glossy green in color, and it grows into a dense round-topped tree of the most magnificent proportions. The flowers are incon- spicuous, but in the late fall, just in time for Christmas, the great brilliant red seedpods cover the tree, making it look ilke the most beautiful Christmas tree that you ever saw, and they hang on most of the winter. Hardy any place in the coastal or milder foothill sections. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. We like to recommend shade trees that bear fruit. The White Sapote makes a fine medium sized shade tree with big, handsome leaves, and you'll get all kinds of big, green, deliciously fla- vored fruits from it. It grows and bears easily anywhere where an orange tree thrives. See page 7. — 32 — — )

Evergreen Trees < Continued

Hymenosporum Southern Magnolia

Hymenosporum flavum. T24. "Sweet- Magnolia grandiflora. T27. "Southern shade." 25 ft. 20°. This tall, slender, Magnolia." 60 ft. 5°. Has beautiful tree small has the most sweetly fra- dark green, heavy, shining foliage, and grant flowers of any evergreen tree in the summer and fall produces its that you can grow in your California magnificent large pearly-white flowers garden. It has handsome foliage all 6 to 8 inches across, intensely fra- the year, in spring early and and grant. Although a tree of compara- summer produces masses of long, tubu- tively slow growth, eventually it makes lar, yellow blossoms, creamy many one of the largest and noblest speci- iimes the size and with many times mens. Should have a considerable the fragrance of orange blossoms be- — amount of water when young. Gal. lieve it or not! Grows anywhere ex- tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, 3-4 cept in desert sections. Gal. tins, 75c; ft., $2.00. 5-gal. tins, $2.00; tubbed, S3.00; 16-inch box, SI 0.00. Dwarf Magnolia

Jacaranda Magnolia grandiflora exoniensis. T26. "Dwarf Magnolia." 15-20 ft. 5°. To Jacaranda acutifolia. T25. 30 ft. 22°. One of the handsomest flowering trees those who want a Magnolia for a grown in Southern California. Forms a small yard we highly recommend this round, symmetrical head of light green, variety. It is a variety of the South- fern-like foliage, and in June the entire ern Magnolia above, but much more tree is a mass of light violet-blue tubu- dwarf and slower growing, blooming lar flowers. Gal. tins, 65c; 5gal. tins, when very voung. 5gal. tins, S3. 00; 4-5 5-6 ft., 6-7 $1.85; balled, 8-10 ft., $7.50; 16-inch balled, ft., $4.50; $6.00; box, $10.00. ft., $7.50. The stately California Live Oak is our most beautiful native tree and grows rapidly into a handsome specimen. Shade—And Nuts Flame Tree California Live Oaks Macadamia ternifolia. FS26. "Austra- Sterculia acerifolia. TT9. (Brachychiton Quercus agrifolia. T29. "California Live Oak." 50 ft. 10°. lian Nut Tree." 20-30 ft. 26°. Just acerifolius.) "Flame Tree." 30-50 ft. The most picturesque and beautiful native tree that graces because this beautiful evergreen sub- 18°. This unique tree, with large, shin- the landscape of California is this handsome evergreen Live tropical tree bears some of the most ing, maple-like leaves, is covered in Oak. Its dark glossy green, medium sized leaves form a delicious nuts in existence, there is no the early summer with many cup- dense handsome head, and the tree is fast growing and reason why we should not recommend shaped blooms of rich red on scarlet does well almost everywhere except in the extreme it for shade as well, and we do hear- desert stems. In the southern coastal coun- sections. We can enthusiastically recommend it for plant- tily. See page 8. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- ties is one of the showiest flowering ing on home grounds, for parkways and any other location gal. tins, $3.50. trees that can be planted, a solid mass where a good sized, fast growing, long-lived, evergreen of dazzling color, even more vivid than shade tree is wanted. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, S2.25; the Scarlet Flowering Eucalyptus. balled, 6-8 ft., $4.50. Parkinsonia Blooms in June. Boxed specimens. Gal. tins, 85c; 5gal. tins, S2.00; 16-inch Parkinsonia aculeata. T28. 15 ft. 18°. box, California Laurel This beautiful native of the Colorado $12.50. Umbellularia californica. T37. "California Laurel or Bay" Desert thrives in dry soils almost any- Sterculia diversifolia. T34. (Brachychi- "Oregon Myrtle." 40-60 ft. 10°. One of the finest of native where in the Southwest. During the ton populneus.) "Bottle Tree." 25 ft. Pacific Coast trees, with a compact, round-topped crown of early summer it is a great mass of 15°. Excellent for narrow parkways dense, dark green foliage. The leaves, pungently fragrant small bright yellow flowers, a striking and dry soils becase of its small, nar- when crushed, can be dried and used for flavoring in the contrast to the smooth, bright green row pyramidal shape and deep-rooted kitchen. Grows slowly but easily anywhere with little care. bark of the trunk and leaflet. Gal. habit. Excellent for the desert. Gal. Gal. tins 85c- S-gal tins $2.25. tins, 65c; 5gal. tins, $1.85. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Pepper Tree A Flowering Oak The handsome Evergreen Elm Schinus molle. T30. "California Pep- Tricuspidaria dependens. T35. (Cri- per." 50 ft. 18° This unique and nodendron dependens.) "White Lily- beautiful tree has become so iden- tree." 25 ft. 15°. A small flower- tified with California that it stands ing tree from the canyons of the as a symbol of the Golden State. Andes in Chile which at first glance Grows anywhere with little care. Its looks like one of our California Live handsome foliage and red berries, Oaks, but no Oak ever produces the which stay on through the winter, quantities of little white, bell-shaped and the gnarled, rugged trunk, make flowers which this tree displays in it a picturesque tree. Because it great drooping clusters throughout thrives so easily and shades a great the spring and early summer. Easily space of ground under conditions un- grown but likes plenty of water. A suited to many more pampered trees, good tree for planting in the lawn it will always be valuable for Cali- a location which many trees dislike. fornia. Gal. tins, 50c; 5-gal. tins, SI. 75. Does well anywhere except in ex- treme desert sections. Gal. tins, 85c; terebinthifolia. T31. "Brazil Pep- S. 5-gal. tins, $2.25. per." 15-30 ft. 22°. A much small- er tree than the above, having larger, broader leaves and greater quanti- The Evergreen Elm ties of brilliant scarlet berries. Does Ulmus parvifolia Evergreen (semper- remarkably well under the hottest virens). T36. "Evergreen Elm." 25 splen- desert conditions, and also a ft. Zero. A small tree with a spread- did tree on the seaccast. Gal. tins, ing crown of slender drooping 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. branches and bright green leaves. For a small home shade tree we highly recommend it. Next to the Carob, the Evergreen Elm is probably the most popular evergreen street and Firewheel Tree garden tree planted in Southern Cali- fornia at the present time. Drops its Stenocarpus cunninghami. T33. "Fire- leaves for short time in cold sections. wheel Tree of New South Wales." Many inferior seedlings of Ulmus 20^0 ft. 20° This is such a spec- parvifolia are often sold as Evergreen tacular tree with its large, shining, Elm. The Armstrong type is care- 8 to 12 inch maple-like leaves, and fully selected for its evergreen habit, it explodes so colorfully into great beautiful foliage and handsome masses of crimson flowers, shaped shape, and they are grown from like the spokes of a wheel, that we cuttings to insure that every tree is have grown some for trial here in the same. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, California. A great big Fourth of $2.25; balled, 6-8 ft., $6.00; 8-10 ft., July celebration in the shape of a 3/4-1 in. caliper, $8.50; 8-10 ft., 2-3 tree. Gal. tins, $1.00. in. caliper, S12.50.

— 33 — The new Carnation-Flowered Dwarf Pomegra- nate. Beautiful red fruits, too.

A flower cluster of Cape Chestnut (shown above much reduced) is a big double handful of beauty.

The Lovely Cape Chestnut Calodendron capense. T6. "Cape Chestnut." 25-40 ft. 15°. The finest flowering tree of South Africa makes a magnificent medium sized, rounded specimen in California, solidly covered in early summer with great 6-inch panicles of unbelievably beautiful, rosy lav- ender blooms. Easy to grow. Leafless in win- ter in colder areas. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.35. New Dwarf Pomegranate Pumica granatum Dwarf. S198. "Carnation- Flowered Dwarf Pomegranate." 3-4 ft. 10°. Quantities of brilliant scarlet carnations, borne on bushes; that's what you'll get on this im- proved new dwarf Pomegranate, with its fresh bronzy-green summer foliage, bright col- ored flowers and small crimson fruits borne in fall and winter. Grows on coast or desert equally well, partially deciduous in cold cli- The finest Lilac for Southern California is the mates. Full sun. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, Cutleaf Persian. A mass of delightfully scent- $2.25. ed lavender blooms in spring. Cutleaf Persian Lilac Syringa persica laciniata. DS21. "Cutleaf Per- of Australian sian Lilac." 5-6 ft. Below zero. The finest Above, the dainty winter flowers All winter long you can cut big sprays oi Fuchsia. Lilac for Southern California because it likes these lovely little waxy flowers from the Ger- our climate. Great masses of bright lavender aldton Wax Flower (Chamaelaucium). Shown flowers on long, arching branches in spring, Berries of Graber's Firethorn, shown here two- here is Cameo Rose. See others on page 48. thirds Natural Size. Biggest and reddest of all. and, of course, they're sweetly fragrant. Dainty, fern-like foliage in summer. It grows in any climate, hot or cold. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Australian Fuchsia Correa pulchella. S61. 22°. One of the finest foreground shrubs for California gardens, mak- ing a dense mass of foliage, to 4 feet across, but only about 18 inches high. The little, pink, bell-shaped flowers are borne in the winter from November to Aoril. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Biggest Reddest Berries Pyracantha crenata-serrata Graber. S200. "Graber's Firethorn." 6-8 ft. 5°. Of all the varieties of this popular berried shrub this kind is the most brilliantly colored and has the most berries, and the birds do not seem to like them. A vigorous grower, with large glossy foliage. The enormous crimson berries look like little crab apples, borne in clusters as big as your two fists, and are at their best at Christmas for decorations. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Ceraldton Wax Flower Chamaelaucium ciliatum. "Geraldton Wax Flower." 6 ft. 22°. The most successful new shrub introduced into Southern California in the past ten years, a special Armstrong Strain of it. The graceful open bush, with its attrac- tive, needle-like foliage, is covered all through the winter season from January to April with sprays of lovely little waxy blooms in various shades of pink and lavender, each flower with a little maroon cup. One of the finest of cut flowers, the sprays keeping for days in the house, and very easy to arrange. Shown at the right is the beautiful Cameo Rose (S43). See other kinds listed on page 48. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. — 34 — Bauhinia galpini is covered with flowers like this all summer. Always Big Red Berries Trinidad Flame Bush Ilex cornuta burfordi. S135. "Burford Calliandra guildingi. S23. "Trinidad Flame Holly." 8-12 ft. Zero. One thing you want Bush." 6-8 ft. 15°. The large heads of to be sure of when you plant a Holly is vivid scarlet stamens. 3 inches long, which that you are going to have plenty of red cover the plant like a sheet of fire in berries at Christmas time because a Holly spring and summer, make this a vivid and is not a Holly without them. You are cer- colorful plant. Its feathery, fern- like foliage tain to get plenty with this fine variety is handsome the year around. Full sun. which likes our warm Southern California Plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, &5c; 5-gal. climate (it likes almost any climate). You'll tins, $2.25. not only get plenty of berries but you get the biggest and reddest, all borne against See the Birdies big, deep green foliage, so glossy that it looks as though it had been varnished. Crotalaria agatiflora. ST4. "Canary Jird The berries hold on the plant almost seven Flower." 6-10 ft. 25°. When this East Air: - months. Gets to its ultimate height slowly. can plant blooms in your garden it will be Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, the most spectacular object there. It has 3-4 ft., $5.00. luxuriant, tropical appearing leaves and racemes of large, 3-inch, green and gold flowers in sprays as much as 3 feet long. The boughs look as though they were full of gorgeous canary birds, and cut, make A Startling Flower splendid table decorations. Sun. Plenty moisture. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Bauhinia galpani. SI 1. "Red Bauhinia." 5-8 ft. 22°. Take a showy red orchid, Serbian Bellflower cross it with the most beautiful big scar- let nasturtium you ever saw, and you can Campanula poschaiskyana. PI 1. 10°. For imagine what a magnificent flower you bordering a lawn or to place in front of would get. No matter how much you let larger shrubs, we know of rio finer small your imagination run riot, you'll not ex- plant than this beauty from Jugo-Slavia. aggerate the startling and vivid beauty of A beautiful clump of evergreen violet-like this rare Bauhinia. It's unique in the way foliage, 4 to 6 inches high and 12 to 18 it grows too because it's a perfect plant inches across. For many weeks in early to lean up against a wall or to train up summer hundreds of little, starry, bell-

a pillar to arch out up above. It blooms shaped lavender-blue flowers, about 1 1/4 from early spring to late fall, profusely. inches across, look up at you. Grows easi- Likes sun or part-shade. Gal. tins, $1.25; ly in any soil. Shade or semi-shade. Gal. The gorgeous flower of Trinidad Flame Bush. 5-gal. tins, $3.00. tins, 60c.

Puzzle: Look at the picture on the left and see how many cute little canary birds you can find. Crotalaria agatiflora is full of these beautiful green and gold birds all summer, and you can carry them right into the house if you like.

The Serbian Bellflow- er looks like a luxu- riant clump of violets most of the year, but in the spring it be- comes a cheery mass of beautiful little blue flowers which last for at least two months. Easy to grow anywhere.

35 TOPICAL INDEX TO ARMSTRONG'S 1943 CATALOG

Coronilla ..... 49 Populus 28 Correas .34, 48 Fruits Ornamentals Ilex 35, 53 Princess Flower 58 Cotinus .._ 25 Incense Cedar 30 Privets 54 Cotoneasters .. 49 Indigofera 25 Prunus 26, 28, 56 Cottonwood .. .._ 28 Itea 52 Pueraria 62 Almonds 12 Abelias _ _ 45 _ Crab, Flowering 28 Ivy 39,61,62 Funica 34, 56 Apples 9 Abies ... 29 Crepe Myrtles 25 Pyracanthas 34, 56 Apricots — — 11 Abutilon _ 45 J Crotalaria . 35, 49 Pyrostegia 62 Artichokes 18 33 Acacias _ 31 Cup of Gold 62 Jacaranda Pyrus 18 _ _ 56 Asparagus Acer -_ 27 Cupressus 29 Jasmines 54, 61, 62 Avocados -..21,22, 31 Actinidia .... 60 Cymbidiums 50 Jasminum 54,61,62 Q B Adenocarpus _ ... 45 Cypress 29 Junipers 29 Quercus 33 Agapanthus 23 Cytisus 49 Juniperus 29 Quince, Flowering 25 Berries .17, 18 Ajuga 39 Blackberries 17 K R Almond, Flowering .... 25 Kniphofia 23 Raphlolepis 56 Boysenberry 17 Ampelopsia 60, 62 Daboecia 50 Koelreuteria 27 Redbud 25 c Amygdalus 25 Kolkwitzia 25 Anemone 23 Daphnes 49 Redwood 30 Deciduous ICudzu Vine 62 Rhamnus Calamondln ...3, 31 Angelonia 23 Shade 57 Trees 27, 28 Rhus Carissa ...6, 47 Antigonon 60 L _ _ 57 18 Deciduous Shrubs. ...25, 26 Lagerstroemia 25 Ribes 57 Chayote Apricot, Flowering .... 28 Cherimoyas — 7 Arborvitaes 30 Delphiniums 23 Landscape Service .... 38 Rockroses 48 Cherries ._ 15 Arbutus 45 Deodars 29 Lantanas 39, 53 Romneya 57, 58 12 Dianella _ 23 Lavandula 54 Rondeletia _ 57 Chestnuts Arctotis ... 23 39 Citrus, Dwarf 5 Arclostaphylos 45 Dichondra Lavatera 53 Rosa de Montana 60 18 Dierama 23 Leptospermum 54 Rose-Apple 6 Currants Arecastrum . 59 Distictis 61 54 Roses _63 to 76 Ash _ 27,31 Leucophyllum Doxantha 61 Libocedrus 30 Rosmarinus 56 Asters 23, 45 Espaliers 11,20 Dracaenas 59 Ligustrums 54 Ruellia _ 57 Aster Frikarti „ 23 _ Eugenias 6 _ Duchesnea 39 — Aucuba 45 Lilacs 26 Duranta 50 Lily of Valley Tree.... 31 Azaleas 42 Salix 28 F-G Dyschoriste 50 Lippia _ 39, 54 Azara ... 45 Salvias Feijoas 8 Liquidambar 27 24,57 Schinus _ Figs _ — 16 B Liriodendron 27 33 - 12 Sequoia 30 Filberts Echium _ 23 Lonicera 61 Bamboos 59 Shasta Daisy 24 Gooseberries 18 Elaeagnus 50 Grapes _ 19,20 Barberries 46 M Silverberry 50 Elms -....28,33 Macadamia 33 Grapefruit 3 Bauhinias 31,35,46 Smoke Tree . _ 25 Epidendrum 42, 50 Magnolias 26, 33 _ 54 Beauty Bush 25 Snowball 26, 58 Guavas — 8, Eranthemum 51 Beloperone 46 Mahonia 54 Solandra 62 Ericas 50 H to K Berberis 46 Malpighia 54 Solanum 6, 57 Escallonias 51 Hiccan 12 Betula _ _ 27 Malus __ 28 Sollya 57 Espaliers .._ 11, 20 Jujubes — 15 Birch 27 Malvaviscus 54 Spartium 57 _ _ Eucalyptus 32 Kumquat — — 5 Bird-of-Paradise 58 Mandevilla 62 Sphaeralcea 57 Eugenias 6, 51 Bletilla 50 Maples 27, 45 Spirea 26 Euonymus _ _.39, 51 Bomarea 60 Marguerite 24 Star Bush 58 Eupatorium 51 Matilija Poppy __..57, 58 Lemons -.3, 4, 5 Boston Ivy 62 Statice : 24 Euryops _50, 51 Mascagnia 62 Lime3 _ — 3 Bougainvilleas 60 Stenocarpus 33 Evergreen Grape 60 Melia 27 Limequat 5 Bouvardias _ 46 Stenolobium 58 Evergreen Shrubs 45 to 59 39 Loganberries 17 Boxwood 46, 55 Mesembryanthemum.. Stephanotis .._ 62 Evergreen Trees 31, 32, 33 Longan 8 Breath-of-Heaven 48 Mondo 59 Sterculia 33 .._ 24 Loquats - 6 Bridal Wreath 26 Moraea Stokesia 24 Brooms 49,51,57 Moras _ 27 Stranvaesia 58 M Brunfelsia 46 Fatshedera 51 Mulberries 27 Strelitzia _ 58 Macadamia _ 8 Buddleias 46 Felicia 23 Murraya 55 Strepiosolen 58 Mandarin 5 Buxus _ 46 Ferns 59 Myrsine 55 Sun Roses 52 Mangos — 8 Ficus ..31, 61 Myrtus 55 Sweet Gum 27 N-O Firethorn _34, 56 N Sweet Olive 55,56 Flame Tree 27 Nandina 55 Sweetspire ... 52 6 Calamondin 3, 31 Natal Plum Forsythia 25 Natal Plum 6, 47 Sycamores 28 .._ 24 Nectarines 15 Callas Fragaria 39 Nerium 55 Syringa 26, 34, 55 13 Calliandra .._ 35, 47 Nut Trees —12, Fraxinus 27, 31 Nierembergia ... 24 Syzigium 8 Olives — 7 Callistemon _ 47 Fremontia 51 o T Oranges — 1, 2, 3, 5 Calodendron _31, 34 Fuchsias 51 Camellias 43, 44 Oaks __ _ 33 Tamarix 26 Campanula 23, 35 Ochna 55 Taxus 30 Oleanders 55 Tea Plant 47 6 Camphor 31 Papayas Galvezia 51 Orchids 42, 50 Campsis -.. 60 Tea Tree _ 54 Passion Fruit 7, 62 Gardenias —.51, 52 Candollea 46 Orchid Tree 31 Tecomaria .._ 58, 62 Peaches 10, 11 Gaudichaudia 61 Cannas 23 Oregon Grapes 54 Teucrium 58 Pears — 16 Gazania 39 Cape Chestnut 31 Osmanthus 55, 56 Thryallis _-57, 58 Pears, Dwarf — 16 Gelsemium - 61 Carob 31 Oxera 62 Thuja 30 Pecans 13 51 Genistas _ Thunbergia 58, 62 6 Carpenteria 46 P Pepino Geraldton Wax • Carissa — 6, 47 Pachysandra 39 Tibouchina 58 Persimmons _ 13 Flowers 48 Cassias _ 47 — Palms _.. 59 Trachelium 24 Pineapple Guavas 8 24 Ceanothus 47 Geraniums Pampas Grass 59 Trachelospermum 62 Pistachio Nut 12 Gerberas 23 Cedrus _ 29 Parkinsonia 33 Trachycarpus 59 Planting Distances .... 38 23 Celtis 27 Geum _ Parthenocissus 62 Tree Roses 66 Plums _ 14 Ginger Lily 52 Ceratonia 31 Passiflora __7, 62 Tricuspidaria 33 Pomegranates 13 20 Ceratostigma 23, 47 Grapes 19, Peaches, Flowering 28 Troliius 24 Prunes 14 Ornamental.. 39 Cercis 25 Grasses, Pear, Evergreen 56 Trumpet Vines 61, 62 Q to Z Cestrum 47 Grevilleas 32, 51 Pelargoniums 24 Tulbaghia 24 Chalcas (see Murraya) Ground Covers 39 Pennisetum 59 Tulip Tree 27 Queensland Nut _ 8 Chamaecyparis 29 Pepper Trees _ 33 Turraea . 58 Quinces 15 H Chamaelauciums 34, 48 Pentstemon , 24 Raspberries 17 Cherries, Flowering.... 28 Hackberry 27 Perennials 23 u Rhubarb _ 18 Ulmus _.28, 33 Chaenomeles 25 Halesia 25 Phaedranthus 60, 62 Rose-apple 6 Umbellularia 33 Chimonanthus 25 Halimium _.. 52 Philadelphus ....26, 55, 62 Sapotes 7 27 — Chilopsis 25 Hamelia 52 Phlox 24 Umbrella Tree Strawberries 18 Choisya 47 Hardenbergia 61 Phormium 59 Sub-Tropicals 6, 7, 8 Chorizema 47, 48 Harpullia 32 Photinias 55, 56 Surinam Cherry 6 Verbenas 24 Cienfuegosia 48 Heathers 50 Phyllostachys 59 Tangelos - 4 Viburnums 26, 58, 59 Cissus ~ 60 Hedera 39, 61 Picea _ 30 Tangerines 5 Vines _.61, 62 Cistus 48 Hedychium 52 Pinus 30 Walnuts 12 Violets 24 Clematis 61 Helianthus 23 Pistacia 12, 28 Vitex _ 26 Clerodendron 49, 50 Hemerocallis „.23, 24 Pittosporums 55, 56 Vitis 62 Clethra _ 31 Hibbertia _60, 61 Planting Guide 37, 38 Clytostoma 61 Hibiscus 53 Platanus 28 Wto Z . ues Cocos (see Arecastrum) Hollies .._ _..35, 53 Plumbago _.. 55 Weigela __ 26 Fertilizers 39 Coleonema 48 Holmskioldia 52 Podocarpus 30 Willows _ 28

Lawn Seeds 39 Columbine 23 Honeysuckles ....60, 61 , 62 Poinsettias 51 Wintersweet 25 Peat Moss _ 39 Conifers _ 29, 30 Hydrangeas 25, 52 Polygonum 62 Wistaria 62 Tree Protectors 38 Convolvulus 39 Hymenosporum 33 Pomegranate Xylosma 59 Tree White _ 38 Coprosma 48 Hypericum 53 Flowering 34, 56 Yews - 30 -36- What? Where? How?

That's what wise people ask themselves before they start digging and planting. Beautiful, private outdoor living rooms must be planned just as convenient houses are always care- fully planned by someone before a nail is driven.

What to Plant? The answer is, plant those shrubs and trees that will give you what you want. Some make excellen! live walls for privacy. You pick delicious tree-ripe fruit from - others. Maybe you need some view framers or some screens to hide nearby ugliness. You are certain to need some par- ticular kind of shade tree. Some plants bring into your garden the exotic beauty of far places. Still others make the garden bright with color and also provide gorgeous sprays for indoor bouquets; many can bring sweet perfume into your garden. When you plant your garden, put into it that which you will enjoy for many years. "I've got lots of room tor plenty of something, but where to put those beautiful plants I have been reading about?—Those ornamental Where to Plant? Some plants grow tall and slim like and tasty fruits would be nice, too." soldiers, others spread out like mother hens protecting young chicks. Some should go where the hose reaches easily, others Planting Instructions. With each order we send a printed copy need to be kept on the dry side. Many plants look well in of Armstrong's Planting Instructions. They are prepared on the basis certain company and yet may be completely out of place when of our many years experience in Southern California. We have made planted with others. Some colors blend when placed together, ihem simple and easy to follow because the job of planting correctly while others fight a continual duel at your nerves' expense. is not difficult plants should selected and placed to do their best for provided detailed instructions are available. The in- All be formation below will be of information to you if you are planting you. fruit trees or berry vines.

How to Go About It? It is easy to be a landscape man these the basis of an ability to splash water, mow Protect Your Trees Planting Distances days on lawns or to draw pretty pictures. Creative plantsmen are Yucca or Variety Paper Tree Protectors. All Ft. Apart harder to find. Plants to them are building material. They young deciduous fruit trees and Oranges, Lemons 18 to 25 know what uses plants can be put to, what places they will deciduous shade trees should be Avocados _ _ 25 to 35 protected for the first season at Peaches, Apricots .20 to 25 fill with distinction, how to treat them so they will do well and Pears, least by the use of Tree Protectors Apples, Figs 20 to 35 look well for years. At Armstrongs the men who help you or Tree White in order to prevent Walnuts and Pecans 40 to 60 make your selections have several advantages over most so- sunburn which may lead to seri- Olives 30 to 35 ous injury from borers. Tree pro- Jujubes, Low-Pruned Figs 12 to 16 called "landscape architects." Armstrongs grow such a wide tectors also offer the finest protec- Grape Vines 6 to 8 selection of plant material (over 800 tested ornamental varieties tion from rabbits and squirrels Blackberries, Boysenberries.. 6 by 8 which may gnaw the bark of trees. Raspberries 3 by 5 and over 250 fruiting varieties) that they always have just the Easily attached. Use Strawberries 1 1/2 by 3 30-inch for right plant to fill a need. They also are in a position to offer Walnuts and Pecans; 24-inch for Eucalyptus for Windbreak.... 4 to 8 Peaches, Apples, Apricots and most their valuable planning help on an astonishingly attractive deciduous trees; 18-inch for Cirrus, basis as salaried nursery employees and no commissions are Avocados and Figs. Number Plants to involved. Each Per 100 Per 1000 An Acre 30-inch $0.05 $3.00 $25.00 You incur no obligation when you ask our garden planning Distance 24-inch 05 2.75 20.00 Apart No. Plants assistance at either of our Salesyards. Bring your blueprints 18-inch 05 2.50 17.50 8 feet by 8 feet. _.. 680 8 feet by 10 feet 545 and come to either our Ontario or our North Hollywood Sales- Tree White. The very finest mate- 16 feet by 16 feet 170 yards. We will be able to answer your questions and give rial for making a preparation to 18 feet by 18 feet 134 detailed information and suggestions. Using the blue- paint tree trunks to prevent sun- 20 feet by 20 feet 108 you burn. Simply mix the powder with 22 feet by 22 feet 90 prints or a rough sketch you have prepared which is approxi- water to the desired consistency. 25 feet by 25 feet 69 mately to scale, we can show you the exact location for 5-lb. package. 80c; 1-lb. package, 40 feet by 40 feet 27 30c. 50 feet by 50 feet 17 each plant.

A Guide to Successful Planting

Plants for Arizona Brazilian Sour Orange (5) Geraldton Wax Flower (34, 48) Privet (54) Bridal Veil Broom (51) Geraniums (24) Red Winter Creeper (51) Here is a list of shrubs, trees and Bridal Wreaths (26) Italian Cypress (29) Rockroses (48) vines suited to Arizona and the Buddleias (46) Japanese Boxwood (46) Rosemary (56) dry desert sections of California. Burford Holly (35, 53) lasmines (54, 60, 61) San Diego Fremontia (51) If you ore in the northern part oi California Holly (55) Lantana (39, 53) Scarlet Bottle Brush (47) this area or at a high altitude, Canary Island Lupine (45) Laurustinus (59) Shasta Daisy (24) check minimum temperatures giv- Cassias (47) Lemonade Berry (57) Silver Alligator lumper (29) en in each description. Page Coffee Berry (57) Lippia (39, 51) Silver and Blue Germander (58) numbers given below. Cotoneasters (49) Mexican Mallow (57) Silver and Gold Bush (51) Crepe Myrtles (25) Meyer Lemon, 4, 5) South African Daisy Bush (50) Abelia grandiflora (45) Desert Willow (25) Mulberries (27) Spreading Savin luniper (29) African Boxwood (55) European Smoke Tree (25) Myrtles (55) Strawberry Trees (45) Arborvitaes (30) Evergreen Euonymus (51) Nandina (55) Sugar Bush (57) Arctotis (23) Evergreen Pear (56) Natal Plum (6, 47) Sumac (57) Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Feathery Pink Tamarix (26) Oleanders (55) Sun-Roses (52) Australian Fuchsia (34, 48) Fertile Chinese Holly (53) Pampas Grass (59) Syringas (26, 34, 55) Beautybush (25) Firethorn (34, 56) Photinia (55, 56) Tea Tree (54) Big Yellow Spanish Broom (57) Flowering Crab Apple (28) Pineapple Guavas (8) Tecate Cypress (29) Blue Chaste Tree (26) Flowering Quince (25) Pittosporum (56) Thyme (24) Blue Morocco Creeper (39) Gazanias (39) Plumbago (55) Trinidad Flame Bush (35, 47) Bottle Brush (47) Giant Matilija Poppy (57. 58) Poinsettias (5!) Verbena (24) 37 — Planting Guide (Continued) What and Where to Plant For Arizona:ona (continued(continued) Fragrant Trees Seashore Plants For the MountainsMoun Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Trees Acacias (31) Bougainvilleas and Colder Flowering Apricot (28) (60) Areas Brazil Skyflower Aleppo Pine (30) Flowering Crab Apples (28) (50) Cape Honeysuckle Arizona Cypress (29) Hymenosporum (33) (62) (Minimum temperatures given in Climbing Peruvian Lily Ash (27, 31) Magnolias (26, 33) (60) descriptions) Bottle Tree (33) Cup of Gold (62) Abelias (45) Carob (31) Distictus (61) Arborvitaes (30) Cottonwood (28) Plants for Escallonias (51) Shady Places Babywhite Calla (24) Desert Gum (32) Eugenias (6, 51) Barberries (46) Desert Willow (25) Abelias (45) Flame Vine (62) Bearberry (45) Elm (28,33) African Boxwood (55) Fragrant Corsage Plan I (62) Beautybush (25) Eucalyptus (32) Agapanthus, Blue African (23) Fuchsias (51) Blueberry Climber (60) European Sycamore (28) Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Gazanias (39) Blue Carpet (39) Hackberry (27) Australian Fuchsia (34, 48) Geraniums (24) Blue Chaste (26) Italian Cypress (29) Azaleas (42) Hibiscus (53) Blue Lawson Cypress (29) Olive Tree (7) Barberry (46) Ice Plants (39) Blue Star Hydrangea (25) Orchid Tree (31) Bergenia cordifolia (23) Lantana (39, 53) Boston Ivy (62) Palms (59) Bird of Paradise (58) Lippia (39) Bridal Wreath (26) Parkinsonia (33) Blue Carpet (39) Myrtle (55) Buckthorn (57) Pepper Tree (33) Blueberry Climber (60) Natal Plum (6, 47) California Holly (55) Pistachio (12,28) Boston Ivy (62) Night Blooming Jessamine (47) Ceanothus (47) Poplars (28) Boxleaf Azara (45) Oleanders (55) Chinese Gooseberry (60) Umbrella (27) Boxwood (46, 55) Orange Clock Vine (58, 62) Chinese Photinias (55, 56) Callas (24) Pittosporum (56) Chinese Plumbagos (47) Vines Cape Honeysuckle (53, 62) Plumbago (55) Clematis (61) Catalina Currant (57) Pride of Madeira (23) Blueberry Climber (60) Coffeeberry (57) Chinese Giant Snowball (58) Privets (54) Boston Ivy (62) Coral Bells (23) Chinese Plumbago (47) Red Lantern Plant (54) Bougainvilleas (60) Coioneasters (49) Creeping Fig (61) Rockrose (48) Carolina Jessamine (61) Day Lilies Daphnes Rosemary (56) (24) Catclaw Yellow Trumpet (61) (49) Dwarf Blue Dianella Scarlet Bottle Brush (47) Ceratostigma (23) Chinese Gooseberry (60) (23) Dwarf Roses Blue Ceratostigma Shore Juniper (29) (66) Syringa (55, 62) Dwarf (23) Climbing Evergreen Pear (56) English Laurel (56) Silverberry (50) Evergreen Grape (60) Ferns (59) Eranthemum (51) Sky Flower (62) Fig Vine (61) Flowering Escallonia Sun Roses (52) Crab Apple (28) Flame Vine (62) (51) Tea Trees (54) Flowering Quince (25) Gilded Fairyvine (61) Eugenias (6, 51) Trumpet Vines (61) Golden Giant Honeysuckle (61) Gloryvine Grape (62) Evergreen Pear (56) Pine Hall's Honeysuckle (61) Green-Gold Vine (62) Fern (30) Winter Flowering Hollies (35, 53) Honeysuckles (61) Ferns (59) Holly Leaf Cherry (56) Fragrant Carpenteria (46) Azaleas (42) Ivies (39, 61) Hydrangeas 52) Corsage Plant (62) Fuchsias 48) (25, Jasmines (61, 62) Fragrant Australian (34. Hypericums (53) Vine (62) Fuchsias (51) Bearberry (45) Kudzu Italian Cypress (29) Red Trumpet (60) Gardenias (51, 52) Bird of Paradise (58) Orange Japanese Anemone (23) Montana (60) Giant Glossy Ivy Bush (51) Blue and Gold Daisy (23) Rosa de Junipers (29) Roses, Climbing (63, 64) Ginger Lily (52) Blue Winter Eranthemum (51) Creeper (60) Kniphofia (23) Scarlet Woodbine (61) Glossy Leaved Bougainvilleas (60) Korean Boxwood (46) Silver Lace Vine (62) Gold Dust Plant (45) Bouvardias (46) 56) Kudzu Vine (62) Star Jasmine (62) Graber's Firethorn (34, Breath of Heaven (48) (54) Lemonade Berry (57) Syringa (62) Grand Duke Jasmine California Strawberry (39) Lilacs (26, 34, 47) Ground Orchid (42, 50) Cape Honeysuckle (58, 62) Trumpet Vine (60, 62) Lilyturf Hemerocallis (23, 24) Cape Plumbago (55) (59) Wistaria (62) Manchu Cherry Holly 53) Catalina Currant (57) (26) (35, Old Fashioned Lavender Holly Malpighia (54) Chinese Hat Plant (52) (54) Orange-red Trumpet Creeper (60) Fragrant Plants Hollyleaf Sweetspire (52) Coral Bells (23) Oregon Grape (54) Azaleas (42) Hydrangea (25, 52) Cymbidiums (50) Perennial Sunflower (23) Azara (45) Hypericum (53) Daphnes (49) Phlox (24) Bechtel's Double Flow. Crab (28) Iris Moraea (24) Dwarf Roses (66) Privets (54) Bouvardias (46) Ivy (39, 61, 62) Everblooming Daisy (23) Pyracanthas (34, 56) Brazilian Sour Orange (3) Japanese Anemone (23) Feathery Cassia (47) Red Winter Creeper (39, 51) Bridal Veil Broom (51) junipers (29) Flame Pea (47) Roses, Climbing (63, 64) Buddleias (46) Lilac (26, 34) Flame Vine (62) Serbian Bell Flower (23, 35) Calamondin (3, 31) Lilyturf (59) Flowering Crab Apple (28) Shasta Daisy (24) Carolina Jessamine (61) Maidenhair Fern (59) Flowering Quince (25) Silver Lace Vine (62) Ceanothus (47) Mexican Orange (47) Geraldton Wax Flower (48) Purple Spot Mock Orange (26) Cassias (47) Myrtle (55) Geraniums (24) Star Magnolia (26) Chilean Jasmine (62) Nandina (55) Gilded Fairyvine (61) Strawberries, Ground Cover (39) Chinese Dwarf Lemon (4, 5) Natal Plum (6, 47) Golden Wonder (47) Strawberry Madrone (45) Climbing Syringa (55, 62) Necklace Cotoneaster (49) Ground Orchid (42, 50) Sugar Bush (57) Daphnes (49) Night Blooming Jessamine (47) Hardenbergia (61) Tea's Weeping Mulberry (27) Daylilies (24) Orange Jessamine (55) Hardy Yellow Trumpet (58) Viburnums (26) Deciduous Magnolia (26) Oregon Grape (54) Heather (50) Weigelas (26) Escallonias (51) Osmanthus (55, 56) Hibiscus (53) Western Redbud (25) Evergreen Pear (56) Photinia (55, 56) Hollyleaf Sweetspire (52) Wistarias (62) Fragrant Corsage Vine (62) Pink Indian Hawthorn (56) Honey Coronilla (49) Wintersweet (25) Gardenias (51, 52) Pittosporum (55, 56) Korean Spice Viburnum (26) Gingerlilies (52) Plumbago (55) Lantanas (39, 53) Glorybower (49) Princess Flower (58) Magnolias (26, 33) Heliotropes (23) Privet (54) Mexican Mallow (57) Fruiting Ornamentals Honey Coronilla (49) Red-Leaved Maple (27) Oleanders (55) Honeysuckles (60,61,62) Reinwardtia indica (24) Orange Clockvine (58, 62) Avocados (21-22) Lemon Verbena (54) Rondeletia (Back Cover) Osmanthus (55, 56) Calamondin (3) Lilacs (26,34) Rosy Glorybower (49) Pelargoniums (24) Cherimoya (7) Lilac-Scented Viburnum (26) Serbian Bellflower (23) Poinsettias (51) Chestnuts (12) Natal Plum (6, 47) Shrimp Plant (46) Princess Flower (58) Fruit Espaliers (II -20) Skyflower (62) Flowering Maple (45) Mexican Orange (47) Red Glossy Leaved Creeper (60) Nepal Privet (54) Star Jasmine (62) Red Lantern Plant (54) Gloryvine Grape (62) Night Blooming Jessamine (47) Star Magnolia (26) Red Winter Creeper (39, 51) Kumquat (5) Orange Jessamine (55) Strawberry Tree (45) Reinwardtia (24) Loquat (6) Osmanthus (55, 56) Syringa (26, 34, 55) Royal Trumpet (61) Manchu Bush Cherry Passion Fruit (7, 62) Terrestrial Orchid (50) Salvia (57) (26) (back cover) Pink Fleshed Lemon (4, 5) Trollius Golden Wave San Clemente Snapdragon (51) Meyer Lemon (4) Pittosporums (55, 56) Trumpet Vine (61, 62) Shrimp Plant (46) Mulberries (27) Royal Trumpet Vine (61) Tulbaghia (24) Skyflower (62) Myrtle-Leaved Orange (5) (63-76) (26, 58, 59) Bush Roses—many varieties Viburnum South African Daisy (50) Natal Plum (6) Violets (24) (26) Silver Lace Vine (62) Star Magnolia Olives (7) Spanish Jasmine (61) Weigela (26) Streptosolen (58) Passion Fruit (7) Star Jasmine (62) White Breath of Heaven (48) Tea Trees (54) Pineapple Guava (8) Vanilla Scented Trumpet Vine (61) Wintersweet (25) Thryallis (57, 58) Pomegranate (13) Violets (24) Wood Strawberry (39) Trailing Lantana (39, 53) Queensland Nut Wintersweet (25) Xylosma (59) Trumpet Vine (61, 62) (8) Wistarias (62) Yellow Cypella (23) Weigela (26) Rose-Apple (6) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (46) Yesterday, Today, Tomnrrow (46) Wintersweet (25) Strawberry Guava (8) Viburnums (26, 58, 59) Yew (30) Yesterday, Today, Tommcrw (46) Surinam Cherry (6) 38 — Armstrong Grass Seed & Ground Covers

When you purchase Armstrong Grass Seed, you are making the very best kind of a start Cool Green—Easily Crown—No Mowing toward a perfect lawn. Armstrong Grass Seed Plant ground covers are becoming more popular every day. Flats 18 inches square In is the very best that can be obtained, in keeping with the Armstrong policy of offering most cases plant about 200 square ieet. our customers nothing but the finest in qual- ity. Grass seed can be purchased in many Aiuga reptans. Gl. "Blue Carpet." Makes Lantana sellowiana. G13. "Trailing Lantana." different grades which vary in percentage of a beautiful solid carpet of shiny, deep green A fast growing creeper, ideal for covering germination, freedom from weed seed and foliage. It stays uniform and neat through- sunny banks, rock walls or can be used as other factors. out the year, and in the spring and summer a ground cover. Its good looking foliage and Some grasses are better than others for cer- sends up little flower spikes with dainty blue clouds of lavender blooms throughout most of flowers to tain locations, and if you are in doubt regard- shaped like tiny bugles. Must have the year form a pleasing contrast green, ing the best grass to use for a certain loca- shade and plenty of moisture. $2.75 per flat. well-kept lawns. Gal. tins, 45c; flats of 100, $3. tion, write us and will be glad to advise. Convolvulus mauritanicus. G4. "Blue Morocco We Mesembryanthemums (Ice Plants). Remember Prices quoted below are subject to change Creeper." An easily grown trailer, covered those beds at the San Francisco Fair? Their without notice. Write for prices on larger throughout the spring and summer with many blaze of rosy color put the most colorful prod- quantities. bright violet-blue flowers. It is very good for planting in narrow places or along borders ucts of the looms to shame. They are easily Seed grown, like full sun, and require only a rea- Armstrong Lawn where it is impossible to mow. 214-inch pots, of have Bronze Armstrong's "Sunny Lawn" Mixture. GS2. The $1.25 per 10, $7.50 per 100; gal. itns, 40c. sonable amount water. We very finest lawn mixture for most lawns which Euonymus fortunei radicans. GS. "Bed Win- (G15), Bed (G16), Pink G17). $2.75 per flat. sunshine. Composed largely receive plenty of ter Creeper." A dense flat mat of large, deep Pachysandra terminalis. G18A. "Japanese Clover with several other of Blue Grass and green foliage all spring and summer, turning Spurge." The hardy evergreen ground cover saecies which help to make up a perfect lawn. bright red in the winter but never dropping. which will make a close-knit mat of soft One pound plants 200 square feet (20 by 10 Stands desert to zero, in heat, hardy grows green foliage. It will stand zero weather and feet). $1.00 per lb.; 3 lbs. for 52.70; 10 lbs. any soil. Will grow under trees. Sun or is one of the few ground covers that grows for $8.50. shade. Flats of 100, $5.00. well under trees. $3.50 per flat. Armstrong "Shady Lawn" Mixture. GS1. A special mixture of various grasses which are Wild Strawberries particularly adaptable for places largely shad- Dichondra Duchesnea indiea. "Mockstrawberry." ed. This mixture will provide luxuriant green G4B. plants look like beautiful, luxuriant lawn under trees or similar locations where The straw- Dichondra repens (G4A) has been widely used berry plants the fruits are perfect little growing a good lawn is sometimes difficult. and in Southern California during the last year red strawberries (not to eat). splen- One pound covers 150 square feet $1.15 per good A or two. It requires no mowing, no renovating, did ground cover with attractive rich yellow lb.; 3 lbs. for $3.00; 10 lbs. for $9.30. is not affected by brown spot, resists weeds Kentucky Blue Grass. GS4. The basis for flowers- instead of white ones. Easy to grow and takes no more water than the ordinary and quickly becomes solid mat. Likes the most of the finest California lawns is Blue a Blue Grass and Clover lawn. Dichondra is a Grass. Although there are a number of grades sun. $3.00 per flat. low, creeping plant with Clover-like leaves, Fragaria caliiornica. G6. "California Wood of Blue Grass commonly sold, we carry only spreading by means of runners, which go just Strawberry." native strawberry which the best. One pound covers 150 square feet. A slightly below the surface of the soil. It "ground covers" large spots with handsome 70c per lb.; 3 lbs. for $1.80; 10 lbs. for $5.60. grows rapidly and soon fills and makes a per- White Clover. GS9. Particularly fine for win- deep green foliage, white flowers and little manent deep green cover of fine turf. It can bright red berries that are delicious to eat. ter sowing in Bermuda Grass. It gives quick be used for any purpose for which you would Good in sun near coast in or part- results and will make a brilliant green lawn and shade use a grass lawn and seems to be excellent shade anywhere. Needs little moisture. Has by itself. However, it is more often combined around stepping stones. Sun or semi-shade. with Blue Grass. One pound covers 200 square no top runners, spreads from underground For lawn use, one flat will plant about 200 roots, will not interfere with other shrubs feet. $1.90 per lb.; 3 lbs. for $5.00; 10 lbs. square feet. $1.50 per flat. Flats packed for S3. 50 per flat. for $15.50. shipment weigh about 60 lbs. Fragaria chiloensis. G7. "Chilean Strawberry.' Red Top. GS6. Useful for a quick durable vigorous and luxuriant looking strawberry turf. 45c per lb.; 3 lbs. for $1.15; 10 lbs. for A ground cover, with glossy leaves edible $3.60. and Make It Grow With Vigoro berries. Best for sunny situations. $3.00 per If you want a "picture" garden, one admired Perfect Lawn Crass flat. plants should fed regu- Seaside Bent. GS7. The most luxuriant, vel- Gazania aurantiacum. G8. A splendid ground by everyone, the be larly with Vigoro, the complete plant food. vety green lawns in California are of Seaside cover for sunny places, making a dense mat Vigoro contains all eleven of the elements Bent. The gardener who takes a real pride of soft grey-green folaige. Covered with my- plants need for proper nourishment. That's in his lawn will be rewarded for the extra riads of large, showy, bright orange flowers. why they develop exiensive roots as well as care, watering and mowing that it requires. Also Gazania splendens (G10) with yellow luxuriant foliage and blossoms. It is a par- Does particularly well in partial shade. One flowers. Flats of 100, S2.50. ticularly fine fertilizer for lawns, greening pound covers 300 square feet. $1.50 per lb., Gazania pavonia. G9. This new strain is the them up in no time. The effects are long-last- 3 lbs. for $4.00; 10 lbs. for $12.50. family pride—has more brilliant 3-inch flow- ing, and it is odorless and easy to apply. Bermuda Grass. GS3. Grows readily in hot ers of fiery orange-red, the foliage is larger dry places where it is difficult to establish and a deeper green. Flats of 100, $3.25. We recommend Vigoro because we know that covers 200 square other grasses. One pound The Ivy-Leafed Geraniums are excellent if used according to the simple directions in- feet. lb.; 3 lbs. for $4.30; 10 lbs. $1.60 per ground covers. We have the following vari- cluded in every bag and package it will give for $13.50. eties: Flesh-Pink (G20), Red (G19), all in 4- you amazing results at very low cost. Get a Western Perennial Bye. GS8. A good hardy inch pots at 40c each, $3.50 per 10. supply of this complete, plant food at once lawn for hot dry climates and exceptionally English Ivy. G10A. A favorite ground cover and feed everything in your garden—lawns, good for intersowing with and freshening up for sun or shade. Flats of 100, $2.50. flowers, shrubs and trees. Bermuda lawns in the wintertime. It does well in shady places, grows rapidly and will Drouth-Resistant Lippia 100 lb. bag $3.50 make a splendid lawn in a short time. One 50 lb. bag 2.30 pound covers 100 square feet. 50c per lb.; Lippia canescens. G14. A creeping, fast grow- 25 lb. bag 1.40 3 lbs. for $1.35; 10 lbs. for $4.15. ing ground cover which soon establishes itself 10 lb. pka 70 Meadow Fescue. GS5. A broad-leaved, deep into a dense olive-green turf. It thrives under 5 lb. pkg _ .45 green grass much used for lawns in the San adverse conditions in hot locations, poor soil; 1 lb. pkg 10 Fernando Valley and other hot summer cli- requires little water and will stand much mates. Stands clenty of abuse. 90c cer lb.; abuse, including trampling. Dees not require For acid-loving plants such as Azaleas and 3 lbs. for $2.35; 10 lbs. for $7.50. mowing. $2.50 per flat. Camellias, we recommend specially prepared Bandini Acid Plant Food. 5 lb. pkg., 40c; 10 A Trim, Well Kept Lawn is Usually an Important Fcctor in th« Mcit Eeautlful Home Lasdaeap* lb. pkg., 70c Picture!. Better Plants With Peat Peat Moss. This finely ground, centuries old moss from northern peat beds is just the thing to lighten heavy clay soils and to mix with sandy soils so that they will retain moisture better. There is nothing better for this pur- pose. It is almost necessary to use it in South- ern California in order to provide an acid soil for Azaleas, Camellias, Gardenias, and simi- lar plants requiring that type of soil.

Each bale contains 20 bushels of humus and will cover at least 300 square feet one inch deep. Fifteen to twenty pounds of peat moss dug in around each newly planted shrub or tree will pay big dividends and in light sandy soils will save enough water to pay for itself many times over. Be sure to soak the peat In water before mixing with the soil. Large bales, $4.50 each; one-half bale, $2.50 each.

- 39 — Truck Delivery

If you are in our delivery zone as shown on the map at the right, any order you place amounting to $1.50 or more can usually be delivered safely to your door on one of our covered trucks for the small delivery charge of 40c. Some small light weight orders (roses, grapes, etc.) shipped in this area for less. See next page. By careful conservation of rubber and truck equipment we are able to continue this service for our custom- ers. Please note that because of the necessity of sending out only full loads and combining routes (and because some parts of your order may have to be dug fresh from our growing grounds), it may take a week or ten days to, get delivery on your order.

San Diego, Santa Barbara Our covered trucks deliver to these two cities and nearby areas as often as we have full loads. Delivery charges are reasonable. If in a hurry for your order, better give us the option of shipping by express or freight. No delivery charge to San Fernando Valley points on orders placed at our North Hollywood Branch. We deliver by truck to the unshaded area on this map for 40c par order (any size order over $1.50).

Genuine Armstrong Products at Two Salesyards

Main Display Yards at Ontario New North Hollywood Cash Branch

Telephone Ontario 61 1-44 Telephone (from North Hollywood and vicinity) STJnset 11522. From Metropolitan Area Phone STanley 7-2394. All Correspondence to Ontario Address Our North Hollywood branch is located at the corner of Magnolia Boulevard and Coldwaier Canyon Avenue. You will find there a com- salesyards are located on famous Euclid Ave- Our main offices and plete selection of all Armstrong products with the usual trained, cour- east of Los Angeles. Two main east and nue at Ontario, 35 mile3 teous Armstrong personnel to serve ycu. Free delivery to all points Foothill Blvd. (U. S. 66) and the Valley Blvd. west boulevards, the in the San Fernando Valley, including the City of Burbank. (U. S. 99) cross the beautiful double drive Euclid Avenue within a few blocks of our display yards.

You Will Enjoy a Visit

At our display yards there is always a great wealth of beautiful plant material on display for you to look at and enjoy. It's a con- tinuous fruit and flower show at both places. Courteous trained salesmen are there to give you the planting information you may need.

Please Observe When Ordering

All quotations made by us prior lo the issuance of this Catalog are hereby cancelled. All prices quoted in this Catalog are subject to change without notice. All orders are accepted subject to the stock being available at time of delivery. TERMS. Cash. Send postoffice or express money order, bank draft or check. No order sent C.O.D. except by special arrangement. No We Are Open Most of the Time shipping orders accepted for less than $1.50. All purchasers whose points will Cali- orders are being shipped to California please add Both of our Display Yards, with salesmen In attendance, are open fornia Sales Tax of 3%. every day, including Sunday, all through the year except in July, September, are closed Sunday. are also INSPECTION. We guarantee all shipments to pass inspection wherever August and when we on We closed Easter 4th, shipped. In most California counties plants must be inspected upon on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Sunday, July Labor Armistice Christmas arrival. Look for directions on inspection tag attached to order. For Day, Day, Thanksgiving and Day. We can Information concerning inspection, telephone your inspector or the always give you better service if you will visit us on a week-day. office of your County Agricultural Commissioner. GUARANTEE. Our reputation depends upon your having good results with Armstrong plants. We handle them carefully to get them to you in excellent condition—give you planting instructions based on our experience. Plants are subject to the whims of Nature and man, and Armstrong Nurseries no one can guarantee that a certain one will thrive. When our in- structions are followed, however, only very rarely should you lose a plant. Tell us immediately if any shipment on arrival is in any MAIN OFFICES AND SALESYARDS way unsatisfactory. At any time please feel free to ask our salesmen to help you find why a certain plant failed so that the next planting 408 North Euclid Avenue will do well. It is our desire to make fair adjustments and help you get the best results possible. Ontario, California PACKING CHARGE. On mail, express and freight shipments we make a packing charge on balled fruit trees and all plants in tins, pots or other containers (except Azaleas and Camellias), this to partially NEW NORTH HOLLYWOOD defray the cost of the expensive packing materials used. Figure the charge this way: Add together the cost of these kinds of plants on CASK BRANCH your order. Take 10% of it. That is the packing charge to include in your remittance. Do not add in items not mentioned like berries, de- 12908 Magnolia Boulevard ciduous fruit trees, roses, etc. No packing charge on orders delivered by our truck. Cor, Coldwater Canyon Avenue

— 40 - Order By Parcel Post-Express or Freight

For 53 years Armstrong customers in all parts of the world have been sending in their orders by mail. They know that they will get only the fine quality plants that everybody associates with the Armstrong name. We have hundreds of letters in our files, letters that say: "My plants arrived in excellent condition, thanks to your splendid packing." Naturally, it requires special knowledge and expe- rience to pack live plants so that they will reach you in good condition and at a minimum cost. Recently we have developed a method of shipping heavier material in specially designed fibre containers, greatly reducing Jransportation costs.

What Method to Use Express Shipments Freight Shipments

1. On the back of our order blank and Express is one of the most practical methods For heavy shipments (50 lbs or over) freight throughout the Catalog you will find the of shipping plant materials. The fastest pass- is the most economical method of delivery. plant. shipping weights given for each type of enger trains carry express shipments to all We use either fast "through rail service," or for citrus, 9 for most For example: See page 1 parts of the country so quickly that they ar- dependable hi-way truck line, whichever deciduous trees, 68 for rose bushes, etc. rive in perfect condition. There are no size or serves you best. If -you live within the limits 2. If your order consists of berry plants, weight limitations. of your city or town, delivery will in most grape vines, up to 15 rose bushes, up to 10 cases be right to your door. valued at $50.00 or made deciduous fruit trees or deciduous shrubs, root Each express shipment usually is the divisions or plants that can be removed from less is automatically insured against damage The minimum freight charge rate for 100 lbs. You make the greatest sav- tins, parcel post is the most economical meth- or loss and perishable shipments are given ing, therefore, when you build your order up od of transportation. special careful handling, all at no extra cost. to 100 lbs. or more. Charges on shipments of Southern California 3. If you live outside If you live in town, delivery will be made weighing over 100 lbs. are based on the shipping costs, citrus, avo- and wish to cut right to your door; otherwise, your express actual weight at the per 100 lb. rate. cados and cherimoyas can be bare rooted and agent will telephone or mail a notice of ar- August Send no money for freight charges unless you sent by parcel post except in July, rival immediately. and September. especially want the shipment prepaid. You Send no money for express charges. Unless pay them when delivery is made. The table 4. Packages weighing up to 70 lbs. and you wish to make special arrangements, they below will help you figure approximately 100 inches combined length and measuring how much the freight on your order will be. around the package at the will be collected when delivery is made. airth (measure Figure from the town in the table nearest you length), can be sent ex- largest part and add the The table below will help you estimate and make necessary allowances. by parcel post, but usually shipments of 20 press charges on your order. Example: If lbs. or over can be handled best by express. your order weighs 30 lbs. and you live 200 5. Certain large but relatively light items, miles from Ontario, charges will be about 76c. such as tree roses and larger deciduous orna- Table for Freight Rates mental trees, must be sent by express or cut back very severely. Table for Express Rates From Ontario to: Per 100 Lbs. 6. Heavy shipments (50 lbs. or more) are usu- Bakersfield, Calif $ .65 Miles from Ontario ally best shipped by freight. Fresno, Calif „ 85 100 200 400 600 1000 1500 2000 San Francisco, Calif 1.17 If Using Parcel Post 15 lbs. 41 .47 .59 .71 .94 1.24 1.42 El Centre Calif— 67 " Calif. 1.33 20 49 .57 .73 .88 1.19 1.60 1.83 Redding, 1. Approximate shipping weights for each " Portland, Oregon 1-70 item are indicated in the catalog, also in 25 .56 .67 .86 1.06 1.44 1.96 2.24 Seattle, Washington - 1-82 table on back of order blank. To determine " 30 64 .76 1.00 1.24 1.69 2.31 2.65 Phoenix, Arizona 1-07 the total weight of the shipment, just add the " 35 .72 .86 1.14 1.41 1.94 2.66 3.07 81 weights of each item on your order. Yuma, Arizona shipping " 40 79 .96 1.27 1.59 2.20 3.01 3.48 Tucson, Arizona _ 1-21 2. Determine your Postal Zone from the Zone " Prescott, Arizona — 1-21 Map above or miles from Ontario in the table. 45 87 1.06 1.41 1.76 2.44 3.37 3.89 " Las Vegas, Nevada 1-07 right of the Zone 50 .94 1.15 1.54 1.93 2.70 3.73 5.30 3. From the table at the 1.95 postage " Albuquerque, New Mexico Map it is easy to figure how much 3.20 4.43 5.12 60 1 .10 1.35 1.81 2.29 Deming, New Mexico 1-95 to include with your order. For example, if " 70 1 .25 1.54 2.09 2.64 3.70 5.14 5.95 1-89 you ordered 3 fruit trees weighing 6 lbs. and Salt Lake City, Utah " 3.12 live in the 3rd Zone, the correct amount would 80 1 .41 1.74 2.36 2.99 4.21 5.85 6.77 Denver, Colorado _ " I- 95 be 19c. 90 1 .56 1.84 2.63 3.34 4.71 6.56 7.60 El Paso, Texas post- " Houston, Texas — 3.35 4. Be sure to include enough extra for 100 1 .63 2.05 2.83 3.61 5.14 7.19 8.34 age with your remittance, as we have to pay Oklahoma City, Okla 3.59 postage in advance (also packing charge—see New Orleans, Louisiana 4.17 weights vary slightly, but 4 2 Page 40). Shipping In most of Southern California (see page 40) Atlanta, Georgia — -| those indicated will provide a fairly accurate 4 -°4 we get your order to you, usually by our Miami, Florida _ basis for figuring. The amount may be 4 -' 7 truck, for a 40c packing and delivery charge. St. Louis, Missouri. smaller or greater, but you are charged only 4 -28 Outside of our delivery zone we use our Judg- Chicago, Illinois what postage Is actually needed to ship your shipment. York, New York 464 order. All extra will be promptly refunded. ment unless you specify method of New

— 41 — PLEASE USE THIS ORDER BLANK (Do not write in this space)

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Berries (except Strawberries). 10 plants weigh 3 lbs. Other quantities Avocados. Balled. 3-4 ft., 40 lbs.; 4-5 ft., 50 lbs.; 5-6 ft., 70 lbs.; 6-7 ft., in proportion. 75 lbs. Strawberries. 25 plants weigh 1 lb. Avocados, Cherimoyas. Bare Root. Average, first tree 3 lbs., each Grapes. First plant 1 lb., each additional plant Vz lb. added 2 lbs. Deciduous Fruit Trees. 6-8 ft. First tree 5 lbs., each additional tree 3 lbs. Roses, Bush and Climbing. First plant 2 lbs., each added 1 lb. Deciduous Fruit Trees. 4-6 and 3-4 ft. First tree 3 lbs., each additional Tree Roses. Bare Root. First plant 7 lbs.; more, 2 lbs. each. tree V-/z lbs. All plants in 4-inch pots. 3 lbs. Figs. 1 lb. per tree heavier than deciduous fruit trees above. All plants in gal. tins. 10 lbs. (Except Camellias.) Pecans, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Hiccans. 8-10 or larger. First tree 6 lbs., All plants in 5-gal. tins. 50 lbs. (Except Camellias.) each added tree 3 lbs. Ornamentals. Balled. 2-3 ft., 25 lbs.; 3-4 ft., 35 lbs.; 4-5 ft., 45 lbs.; Pecans, Walnuts, Hiccans. 6-8 ft. or smaller, First tree 4 lbs., each 5-6 ft., 60 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 75 lbs. added tree 2 lbs. Deciduous Shrubs. Bare Root. Average, first tree 3 lbs., each added Citrus Trees. Bare Root. 1-yr. First tree 2 lbs. each added tree 1 lb. 2 lbs. Citrus Trees. Bare Root. 2-yr. First tree 4 lbs., each added tree 2 lbs. Deciduous Shade Trees. Bare Root. 4-6 ft., 5 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 7 lbs.; 8-10 Citrus Trees. Balled. 1-yr. 40 lbs. each. ft., 10 lbs.; 10-12 ft., 14 lbs. Citrus Trees. Balled. 2-yr. 60 lbs. each. Azaleas. 6-inch pots. 3 lbs. each. Loquats, Cherimoyas, Sapotes. Balled. Average 50 lbs. each. Camellias. Gal. tins, 4 lbs.; 5-gal. tins, 30 lbs.; lubs, 50 lbs. Armstrong Nurseries

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Every year more garden enthusi- asts are enjoying the glorious mass of brilliant spring color which Aza- leas produce. How to grow them. Azaleas prefer full shade or semi-shade and do well next to the house on the north side or under trees. Observe three rules: (1) Plant them in an acid soil composed largely of leaf mold or peat moss. (2) Keep the soil acid by frequent applications of an acid plant food (we have it or you can get it anywhere). (3) Give them plenty of water, especially during the warm, dry summer season. De- tailed planting instructions go with every order. See them in bloom. Both of our Display Yards are brilliant during late winter and spring with thou- sands of blooms on beautiful plants of the three finest types of Azaleas. See this display once and you will want these spectacular heralds of spring in your garden. Shipping Weights on Azaleas: 6- inch pots, 3 lbs.; 9-inch pots, 8 lbs.; lbs. Purity. One of the Rutherfordiana Azaleas. Very fragrant. Azalea L. J. Bobink tubs, 50

Colorful Kurume Azaleas The New Rose-Flowered Azalea Azalea roseaflora. SA30. rare dwarf gem Kuruine Azaleas will always be popular be- Azalea Rutherfordiana A 2-inch, very double blooms of cause they bloom so heavily. During their with deep pink hybrids combine all of the finest with salmon undertone. They look like brief early winter nap they lose some of their These new a characteristics of other types of Azaleas. The small, many-petaled, open rose to leaves but awake early, and burst into flower blooms flowers are very large, usually double, and some, but like miniature camellia blooms to before winter is over. At the height of their blooming season they are indescribably lovely are borne in clusters. The handsome foliage us. 2-3 ft. 6-inch pots, $2.25; 9-inch pots, $3.00. large. along the clouds of small pastel colored flowers. AH is evergreen and Anywhere the colors blend well together and massed Pacific Coast or the Southern States the plants Orchids for Your Garden plantings are very effective. The plants reach are smothered in blooms every spring. The plants themselves are hardy down to zero, but radicans. 25°. 2 to 6 ft. in height, are hardy down to zero Epidendrum S89. Some of the and grow easily. the most tender flower buds may be damaged magnificent, brilliantly colored orchids of the 25°. All varieties, blooming sizes, 6-inch pots, $1.00; by temperatures below Central and South American forests thrive in varieties, blooming sizes, 6-in. pots, $1.90; 9-inch pots, $2.25; large specimens in tubs, All the open here in Southern California, and this $5.00. Flowers single unless noted. 9-in. pots, $3.00; large specimens in tubs, $6. is one of them. A semi-climbing, leafy plant, Bells of Arcady. SA3I. Deep lavender, very Alaska. SA1. A garden blizzard of semi- sending up stems from 3 to 6 feet tall on large bell-shaped flowers. double snow-white blooms. Early bloomer. which are borne clusters of fascinating and Botticelli. SA32. Apple blossom pink and Albion. SA2. A most fragrant, pure white, brilliant small orange-red and yellow orchids. cream. Semi-double (two rows of petals). semi-double kind, blooming late. Wonderful cut flowers. 6-inch pots, $1.75. Cherry Ripe. SA33. Bright cherry red. Constance. SA3. Deep lavender-pink, paling Epidendrum Coral Bells. SA34. The delicately formed to creamy white in the center. Single. radicans. A gorgeous orchid, blooming all semi-double flowers have several shades of Delight. SA4. Pale apple blossom pink; red year in Southern California. coral and pink. Our most popular Kurume dots in the throat. Double. Azalea. Dorothy Gish. SA5. Brick-red with rich red Coralie. SA35. Glowing pastel salmon. Semi- markings in the throat. double. Fairy Flame. SA6. Very deep cerise-red, Laughing Water. SA37. Very large, pure semi-double. Pleasantly fragrant. white, 2V2 inches across. Most fragrant. Firelight. SA7. Glowing light crimson. Semi- Orchid. SA38. Rich orchid color. Large. early bloomer. Rosy Morn. SA39. Cerise-pink. Semi-double. double. An L. SA8. Salmon Queen. SA40. Deep salmon. J. Bobbink. Very free-flowering, fra- grant, soft orchid-lavender. Santoi. SA41. Creamy light pink. Semi-double. Corcoran. SA9. Snowflake Double. SA43. The' semi-double Mary Best single, apple blos- som-pink, flecked deep rose in the throat. pure white blooms glorify the colors in other kinds. Morning Blush. SA10. Neatly ruffled, semi- 21/2 across. . SA44. Large deep pink. double, orange-pink flowers inches Pink Ruffles. SA12. Uniform bright pink, Vivid. SA45. Brilliant red shaded orange. deep Semi-double. with two rows of ruffled petals. Wood Dove. SA46. Deep mauve-lavender. Pinky. SA13. There is also a little rich sal- mon tone in Pinky's double blooms. Purity. SAM. Large, pure white blooms, quite Indian Azaleas fragrant, two rows of petals. See above. These are the evergreen Indian Azaleas for Salmon Perfection. SA17. Wavy petaled, semi- which many of the famous Azalea gardens in double, deep salmon-pink. our Southern States are noted. Indian Aza- Snowbank. SA42. Our largest, fragrant, sin- leas in much of California are just as gor- gle white. Compact grower. geous as in the Old South. The huge blooms, Sunset. SA18. Showy, brick-red, semi-double. 3 and 4 inches across, are individually spot- Yuletide. SA19. Semi-double, vivid cherry- ted around on the plants more than on other red which blooms early. Azaleas. They show off well against the ver- dant evergreen foliage. Indicas do not like For Late Azalea Blooms cold below 28°. Price: 6-inch pots, $1.90; 9- mch pots, $3.00. The two beautiful Azaleas below have no Pride of Mobile. SA25. A large, single, water- competition whatever in their season because melon-pink with deep crimson markings. Ala- they bloom six weeks after all other kinds are bama's best. 4-6 ft. gone (May and June). Mme. Van Der Cruysen. SA28. Three-inch Sakuragata. SA26. Medium sized saucer flowers of clear salmon-pink with crimson dot shaped blooms, very bright pink, lightening to markings in the throat. 3-foot grower. white in the center. Vervaneana. SA29. Salmon-rose with lighter Sei-Qua. SA27. Same as above but luminous pink border and crimson dot markings, also glowing salmon. salmon flowers occasionally. 3 to 5 feet. Plants in 6-inch pots, $1.90 each.

— 42 — Lady Vansittart Princess Bacciochi, a peony type flower Nagasaki, 4 to 6 inches across Colonel Firey, a perfect red

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Herme, sweetly fragrant Rosita, perfectly formed Purity, exquisitely white

The exquisite flowers of Camellia japonica, waxy and delicate in texture Special New Novelties and beautifully tinted, are now the most admired winter and early spring blooms of the Pacific Anita. SC2. Probably the most spectacular and beautiful Coast and Southern States. And the plant itself is striped Camellia. The medium-sized, high-centered flower handsome, with its glossy evergreen foliage forming a perfect setting for has four rows of petals. The color background is light pink, the bright-colored blooms. with bold, heavy stripes of deep pink or carmine. It's very rare and our stock will not last long. 5-gal. tins, 12-18 Where to Plant Them. Camellias grow Check the Prices. We'll stack our inches, $6.00; balled, 2-2V2 ft., $10.00. easily everywhere on the Pacific Coast prices up against others any time. Fimbriata Alba. SC21. A rare and beautiful white Ca- except on the desert. They are hardy You'll find them low. mellia, larger than average, with double, high-centered, down to 10°, requiring only a good many-petalled flowers, each snowy white petal delicately well drained soil and a sheltered, Shipping Weight on Camellias. Gal. frilled or fimbriated around the edges. The plant is some- largely shaded location. Complete plant- tins, 4 lbs., 5-gal. tins, 30 lbs., tubs, 50 what dwarf and blooms with great freedom. Very scarce. ing instructions with every order. lbs. See shipping costs on page 41. Balled, 2-21/2 ft., $10.00; 21/2-3 ft., $15.00. Soil Preparation. The addition of some Note. Solid colored Camellias occasion- peat moss or leaf mold to most sods ally show slight markings or may even insures better results. Camellias begin throw a flower of an entirely different to flower Very Rare Camellias as soon as they are a foot color and shape. This does not neces- or two in height so you will not have sarily mean that it is incorrectly named Colonel Firey. SC9. Camellia connoisseurs rate it at the to wait for blooms. or described. top in red Camellias because of the glowing rich crimson color and the beautifully shaped flowers, 5 or 6 inches across. The many petals open out into a full, broad, imbri- cated bloom, similar to Pink Perfection in form but much larger. Its rich glowing color is even lovelier under arti- lulia Drayton ficial light. Fairly dwarf in growth. lulia Drayton. SC34. By far the largest red Camellia that we grow. The huge flowers, often 6 and 7 inches across, are a uniform shade of brilliant scarlet and the very large petals are beautifully veined and textured. Very double, with a high-pointed center. Its clear bright color and enor- mous size make it one of the most spectacular and magni- ficent of all Camellias. A good strong grower, too. Kumasaka. SC3S. Rare, giant flowered, rose-pink bloom of informal, irregular form with a few very large petals and a varying number of smaller petaloids in the center. The flow- ers have a characteristic delicate, sweet fragrance. It com- bines large flowers and lots of them with a good, strong growing, tall plant. Nagasaki. SC47. A very large, semi-double flower of bright rose-pink, heavily marbled with white; 10 or 12 extremely large petals, with a few smaller ones in the center; most informal and lovely in appearance; 4 to 6 inches across; a slight, sweet fragrance. We consider it to be one of the most beautiful of all variegated Camellias. Pink Beauty. SC49. A very large-flowered, large-petalled, fully double flower often 6 inches across, and a clear uni- form light pink, without other shadings. The plant is ex- ceedingly vigorous, with large glossy foliage, blooming late. Best in a moist coastal climate. Wakanouri variegata. SC69. A very bizarre looking varie- gated variety, somewhat similar to Anita. The flowers are larger, however, and the coloring is more irregular, with many broad stripes of deep pink and rose-red, emphasized by narrow white stripes. It's so different that it will startle you when you first see it. 5-gal. sizes only. Prices on all Very Rare Camellias: Gal. tins, S2.50; 5-gal. 2i tins, 11 2-2 ft., S5.00 each; 2-21 2 ft., S7.50; 2 -3 ft., S10.00. Large specimens priced on request. Visit our Display Yards at Ontario or North Hollywood from December to March and see these Camellia varieties in full bloom.

— 43 — The Camellia, winter's most beautiful flower, likes shade or semi-shade Rare Camellias Unusual Kinds Size Each (Continued) Gal. tins $1.85 Camellia Chandleri elegans. SC5. 11/2 to 2 feet, 5-gal. tins 4.00 One of the most spectacular of all 2 to 21/2 feet, 5-gal. tins 6.00 Camellias, the great 7-inch rose- 21/2 to 3 feet, 5-gal. tins 8.00 pink flowers, lightly splashed with Large specimens priced on request. white, astonishing the beholder with their size and beauty. The Alba plena. SCI. So lovely is its plant is comparatively dwarf bui form, so fragile and delicate its beauty that you can see at a glance produces its gigantic high-centered, beautifully colored blooms in great why it is the most sought after white Camellia. The very large profusion. You will never complain flowers, 5 or 6 inches across, fully about any shortage of flowers be- cause this double, with many imbricated pet- one sets an amazing of buds even very small als, open beautifully and never number on show the stamens. Brought from plants. In the winter the plants you buy from us will have plenty. the Orient to England in 1792, has been rare ever since. Lady Campbell. SC37. If you want to enjoy the foliage Daikagura. SC12. Its large, double, handsome and deep rose flowers (sometimes streak- exquisite flowers of a Camellia in ed with white) would be beautiful a tub, in your patio, you can not pick a better kind than this. A at any season, but it is doubly compact grower and tremendous valuable because it is the earliest producer of medium sized, double, Camellia to bloom, flowers appear- clear rose-pink ing in early November. flowers over a long period. Does even better planted Emperor of Russia. SC18. The flow- in the ground. ers are very large, 5 or 6 inches across, with very large petals Marchioness of Exeter. SC41. In around the outside of the flowers size, brilliancy of coloring and per- and with smaller recurved petals fection of form, this beautiful pink variety, Belle Romana, light pink splashed crimson in the center. The color is a bril- salmon-pink with a few oc- liant scarlet. Plant somewhat dwarf casional white markings, is possi- in habit. Undoubtedly one of the bly the finest Camellia in its color. finest reds. Amazing in size, the gigantic flow- Standard Varieties (continued) ers are crowded with petals and H. A. Downing. SC30. Beautiful Saumerez. SC38. A splendid informal, large-petalled. yet gracefully arranged, the color Lady de large flowers, deep rose-pink in semi-double flower of bright pink, medium to very large, fully open is glowing and lustrous. Dwarf, color, almost red. Three rows of center showing contrasting yellow stamens. Splendid large spreading habit. at the very large petals, with a center of foliage. Professor C. S. Sargent. SC53. A beautifully contrasting yellow sta- Llewellyn's Red. SC39A. The deep red flowers are just the right mens. The flower averages 5 inches most unusual bright scarlet flower, size and shape for corsage or boutonniere. Fifty or more petaloids across and is one of the loveliest 3 inches across, with a very full, tightly clustered together form the center, surrounded by two rows of its color. round, peony type center, almost of very large petals. A fine-foliaged, fast grower. like a pompon chrysanthemum, the Jarvis Red. SC33. A small to med- flower often carrying than 200 Mrs. John Laing. SC45. A splendid symmetrical, fully double flow- ium red flower with a row of large, more er of clear rose-pink, ZVz inches across, darker than Pink Perfec- crisp petals around the outside and petals. It usually has one row of very large round tion but lighter than Rosita. Exceedingly vigorous with handsome, a tufted center of smaller petals. petals around the outside of the bloom. With Em- deep green foliage, growing in popularity because of its lovely It probably has the darkest red peror of Russia, Colonel Firey, form, delightful color and freedom of bloom. color of any Camellia that we grow. and Rather dwarf. Flowers young and Julia Drayton, this rates as one of Pink Perfection. SC50. Probably the most popular Camellia grown finest of reds, blooms heavily. One size only. the the and is deep- in California, and its very double, medium-sized flowers of delicate er in color than any of these. A indeed. Never fails to display large 5-gal. tins, 1 1/2-2 ft., $4.00. light pink are very charming semi-dwarf plant, very free in quantities of perfect flowers from Thanksgiving time on through Lady Vansittart. SC39. If we had bloom. the winter. One of the strongest and most vigorous Camellias in to choose one deep pink Camellia, Camellia sasanqua. Graceful, com- growth. this would probably be it. The d'Or.) Its name describes it. Symmetrical, large 41/2-inch, vivid deep pink pact plants. Handsome foliage, Purity. SC54. (Neige snowy white flowers of large size, often blooms have three rows of broad, fragrant flowers, and many of them exquisitely formed, double other grow. wavy-edged petals, symmetrically all at one time in the fall. Fine 5 or 6 inches across. It outsells all whites we arranged around a ring of golden for espalier. We have Dawn (SC62), Rosita. SC59. Very double, medium size flowers of bright rose- stamens. The glossy, wavy foliage single light pink; Judith (SC63), pink, the petals delicately veined and arranged in a symmetrical to in winter. is more beautiful than that of any single light red; and Mine-No-Yuki rosette-like form. The very latest Camellia bloom A other Camellia in our opinion. (SC64), double white, with wheat fast, vigorous grower, with every flower a perfect one. straw fragrance. Gal. size and 5- Princess Bacciochi. SC52. A flower gal. ft. only. of Marchioness of Exeter of startling beauty, very large, 1V2-2 The giant pink flower modified peony type, rich velvety carmine-red, without other shad- ings, contrasting brilliantly with the Standard Varieties golden stamens which show among Size Each the petals in the slowly opening Gal. tins $ .90 flower. IV2 to 2 feet, 5-gal. tins 2.75 2 to 21/2 feet, 5-gal. tins 3.50 Unusual Kinds 21/2 to 3 feet, 5-gal. tins 4.25 Size Each 3 to 31/2 feet, 5-gal. tins 5.25 Gal. tins $1.35 31/2 to 4 feet, tubs 6.75 11/2 to 2 feet, 5-gal. tins 3.00 Cheerful. SC6. Clear, bright cher- 2 to 21/2 feet, 5-gal. tins 4.00 ry-red, medium size, very double, 21/2 to 3 feet, 5-gal. tins 5.00 setting enormous quantities of 3 to 31/2 feet, 5-gal. tins 6.50 blooms, many more than most Ca- 31/2 to 4 feet, tubs 8.00 mellias even while the plants are Large specimens priced on request. small. Blooms late. Alba superba. SC57. A magnifi- Czarina. SC11. Exactly the cent, semi-double, pure white Ca- same as Emperor of Russia, but variegat- mellia, 4 to 5 inches across, with ed with white. contrast be- enormous petals. More informal The tween the brilliant red and the pure and less symmetrical than Purity. white is quite startling. Belle Romana. SC4. This striking variegated kind is perhaps the Fanny Bolis. SC20. Big red flowers, ideal corsage Camellia. It has the blotched with white, with enormous unique ability of blending with all petals loosely arranged. Six inches fabrics regardless of color. Most of across, it is one of the largest and the big, double, large-petaled flow- most beautiful of the variegated Ca- ers are light pink, profusely striped mellias. A beauty. and splashed with crimson. Grows Herme; SC32. (Jordan's Pride.) Huge, vigorously and blooms profusely. 5 to 6 inch, semi-double flowers of C. M. Hovey. SC8. Exactly like light rose-pink with a broad, ir- lulia Drayton with the same enor- regular border of white around mous flowers and big petals, but each big petal. Occasional stripes usually has little flecks of white of bright red. This is one of the against the brilliant red. 5-gal. few fragrant Camellias, possessing sizes only. a delightfully sweet perfume. — 44 — Armstrong Evergreen Shrubs

Save Approximately 10% Strawberry Madrone When you purchase five of one variety, Arbutus unedo. S5. "Strawberry Madrone." or fifteen or more assorted ornamental 6-10 ft. or larger. 15". A bushy spreading, plants listed on pages 23 to 62, inclusive, medium sized shrub with rich green foli- of this catalog (except flats or 214-inch age very similar to California Holly. Has pots), you are entitled to the following many delightful little pearly white bell- reductions: shaped flowers in summer, followed by clusters of brilliant red strawberry-like Listed Each Rate h-uits ripening about Christmas time. S0.25 to S0.65 inc Deduct 5c per plant S ' ai\ds heat, cold and drouth. Sun or part .70 to 1.75 inc Deduct 10c per plant |hade. Gal. tins, 65c; balled or 5-gal. tins, 1.80 or more Deduct 25c per plant AUfl||« OM and New Arbutus unedo compacta. S6. "Dwarf MDellaS WlQ ana l>ew Strawberry Madrone." 6 ft. 15°. A lower, Abelia floribunda. SO. "Red Mexican Abe- more compact and rounded form of this lia." 4 ft. 15°. One of the loveliest new beautiful shrub with the glossy, holly-like evergreen shrubs for Northern and Cen- leaves, dainty flowers and red fruits, tral Here's your chance to enjoy all this The Shrub Aster is a mass of flowers in spring. California gardens. Has handsome beau- glossy foliage and breaks out in late ty in a plant which occupies less space, spring with a profusion of pendulous, Grows anywhere. Sun or part shade. Gal tubular, reddish purple flowers 1 to 2 tins, SI. 00; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. Important— Please Read inches long. Not very successful in South- ern California. Plenty of water. Full sun We try to make this Catalog an accurate, thorough or part shade. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, B©arbsrrV and interesting guide to the plants that we grow, $2.00. 7 available Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. S6A. "Bearberry." and in the limited space we have crammed Abelia grandiflora. SI. 6 ft. Zero. Its Zero A handsome little low-growing possible in order to make it - as much information as small, shiny, bronze-green foliage and . creeping plant from the California easy for you to select the right plant for the right arching stems clothed with clusters of coastal mountains which makes a dense evergreen place in your garden. little fragrant rosy-white flowers, borne carP et °f * ma11 rk green leaves, hand- almost continually, make it exceedingly ! ^? some all through the year Becomes 3 or 4 In these descriptions you will valuable for mass or foundation planting feet ac oss Grows easily anywhere in Where tO Plant - * in either full sun or partial shade. Hardy ? , find the approximate average soil Sun or shade but prefers coas- to plant will grow, they anywhere. Gal. tins, 50c; 5-gal. tins, $1.50. F?Y height which each whether tal little ...... „_. , _, ,. „ ,_ conditions. Pretty red or dark prefer sun or shade, and other helpful information. S2. Pink Abelia. Abelia schumanrn. 5 pink berries m SUmmer (that's what the the approximate mini- You'll find in each description ft. Zero. Somewhat similar to A. grandi- bears eat) Gal tins $1 25. mum temperatures at which each plant will be flora, but the beautiful pinkish lilac blooms damaged by frost (approximate only since the age with yellow throat are much larger and and condition of plants during cold weather have brighter and are produced in profusion v,w,uf.ftlrl Ductusl rPlant much to do with their resistance to frost). In Cali- all through the spring and summer. Sel- " «•• fornia, the plant would probably have its mature dom exceeds 3 or 4 feet in height. Per- Aucuba japonica Gold Dust. S9. "Gold twigs injured if the temperature reaches the figures fectly hardy anywhere, and thrives in any Dust Plant." 15°. Splendid hardy evergreen several hours, but often the plant mentioned for soil in full sun or part shade. A most foliage plant for shady location and excel- the tempera- would recover. In other States where satisfactory flowering shrub for all sec- lent as a background for Azaleas. Masses these figures times in a sea- ture may reach many tions. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. of big, glossy, shining green leaves, 7 son, usually such plants should not be planted. Also inches m 1 long, lightly dusted with gold. Guide on pages 37 and 38. see the Planting HiOWering Maple Grows to 6 or 8 feet but easily kept down 5 feet If - Y°u have both male and Abutilon vitifolium Vesuvius. ST1. "Red 1° , If you visit our Display female Plants present, the Aucubas will Come and See Us. Flowering Maple." 5 ft. 20°. The showi- Yards, you will be able bear very beautiful, large bright est of the Flowering Maples is this variety red ber- of to see many varieties not listed herein, hundreds "es ™ore 1 long. Balled or with the enormous 2-inch bell-shaped ', in bloom, large specimens not listed here, S " 1 J?$} plants ,ms 3 - g - 2 00 each - One male flowers of brilliant orange-scarlet. A fast- ? ', ,f and our trained salesmen will be able to give you °ne tem° le (the pair), $3.50; or 2 growing shrub, blooming the yeaT around. , information regarding your planting. lan helpful Shade or part shade. s m °n® 5 ah tm (one male and one Gal. tins, 60c. f \ , ^ female), $2.50 for the pair. to Order by Mail. It's easy to order Canary Island Lupine Easy Armstrong plants Adenocarpus foliolosus. S3. "Canary by mail and just as easy to get delivery on them. Is- Vam!lA-^r£>nf-£><4Vanilla JCCnreO land Lupine." 8-10 ft. 15°. The See page 41. tip of every one of its many bright gTeen Azara microphylla. S10A. "Boxlecrf Azara." branches is a glowing mass of brilliant 8 ft. 12°. Graceful arching pendulous Packed for shipment, plants yellow flower spikes, like Shipping Weights. giant yellow branches and small, round, glossy leaves, in gallon tins weight 10 lupines through April, May and June. Fine for tracery effect against or to hang lbs. each; 5-gal. tins 50 lbs. each. Balled plants Splendid foliage throughout the entire over walls. Its little flowers have the fra- average 50 lbs. each. See page 41 for shipping costs yed Full sun. Fairly dry soil. Gal. tins, giance of vanilla. Gal. tins. 75cr 5-gal. 65c; 5-gal. by rail. tins, $1.85. tins $2 .00

Two Shrubby Fruit, flowers, and foliage of the Strawberry Madrone. Asters Aster fruticosa. S8. "Shrub Aster." 3 ft. 18°. It is not in the least like other Asters, being neither annual nor perennial, but a permanent evergreen shrub, just the right size to fit into the average garden, with dark evergreen foliage which breaks out m April, May and June into great masses of deep lavender or rosy-mauve flowers, completely covering the plant, each flower 1 t° IV2 inches across, making a magnificent display of color. Likes fairly dry soil, full sun, and we give it our heartiest recommendation because of its ease of growth, freedom of bloom and remarkable beauty. Gal. tins, 60; 5-gal tins, $1.75. Aster filifolius elongatus. S7. "Early Flowering Shrub Aster." ft. 15° 3 Similar in growth and flowers to the above kind but blooms two weeks earlier and has slightly more delicate flow- s a hghter shade of lavender. these II L" We like both of Shrubby Asters because they stay small and do not over- grow their location, but care must be taken not to give them too much water, for they like but a sparing amount of mois- ture and plenty of sunshine. Should be pruned back severely once a year, immediately after blooming. Gal. tins. 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75.

You Can Plant Shrubs Anytime

The black squares under every month below indicate that you can plant evergreen shrubs during every month in the year.

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- 45 — Red Orchids Barberries Bauhinia galpinii. Sll. "Red Bau- Berberis darwini. S14. "Darwin's hinia." 8 ft. 22°. Clusters of glor- Barberry." 6 ft. Zero. Small, glossy, ious, exotic, spidery, red orchid-like dark green, holly-like leaves with flowers, borne in clusters of from 6 brilliant orange-yellow flowers in the to 10 from spring to late autumn. spring, followed by plum-colored ber- That's what you'll have if you plant ries. It has long been and still is this clambering, handsomely foliaged one of the most popular Barberries shrub with roundish two-cleft leaves. for the West. Sun or shade. Gal. There is no lovelier plant to drape tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. wall, trellis or rocks itself over a low Berberis darwini nana. S14A. "Dwarf in the garden. Likes moisture but Darwin's Barberry." (B. gracilis.) 2 must have good drainage. Sun or ft. 5°. Foliage, flowers and berries half-shade. See illustration in color like the above but makes a low, Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. on page 35. rounded, dense mound of foliage. tins, $3.00. Sun. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. A Desert Beauty Berberis pruinosa. S15. 6 ft. Zero. think this is one of the most Beloperone californica. S12. "Chupe- We beautiful of Barberries, and here are rosa." 4 ft. 15°. A low, spreading the reasons: (1) The beauty and grace shrub from the water courses of the its arching branches which do not Colorado Desert. A beautiful sight of get too big; (2) Long 2-inch, dark when in bloom in the spring, covered green, glossy, spiny-toothed leaves with racemes of rich scarlet flowers. which cover the plant; (3) A few of Dry soil, full sun. Gal. tins, 75c. them become brilliant red in the fall and winter (but do not drop); (4) Dry Land Shrimps Bright yellow flowers in late win- Yesterday violet, today lavender, tomorrow white, but always Beloperone tomentosa. S13. "Shrimp ter; (5) Followed by big, beautiful sweetly fragrant are Brunfelsias. Plant." 2 ft. 25°. Handsome little blue-black berries. Sun or half-shade. compact plant which bears all year Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. odd but attractive flower spikes of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow atropurpurea. S15A. coppery bronze bracts, enclosing B. thunbergi Brunfelsia calycina floribunda. S17. "Yesterday, Today and "Red-leaved Japanese Barberry." 4 small cream and purple flowers. Ex- Toraorow." 6 ft. 20°. Medium size shrub of compact habit brilliant purplish- cellent for cut flower arrangements. ft. Zero. Leaves with rich dark green foliage, producing throughout most of the of them drop- Sun, half-shade. Gal. tins, 65c. red at all times, some year many intensely fragrant flowers which open deep violet winter. Perfectly, hardy ping off in and fade gradually to lavender and white, yesterday's flowers and extremely Colorful Buddleias under all conditions, being a different color today. Tomorrow they will be a still colorful wherever planted, whether it different color. Few flowers are more sweet-scented than these, Buddleia davidi. S20. "He de France." be mountain, desert or coast. Gal. and few plants bloom over a longer summer period. Plenty of 8 ft. 15°. The finest of the "Sum- tins, 65c. moisture. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. mer Lilac" type of Buddleia, with great long flower spikes 6 to 12 for Hedges inches long, in color a brilliant rosy Boxwood purple tinted with violet. Deliciously Bouvardias Buxus microphylla japonioa. S22. "Japanese Box." 2 to 4 ft. fragrant. Perfectly hardy anywhere. 10°. This Boxwood makes the best low evergreen trimmed Bouvardia. 2-3 ft. 25°. The colorful Should be pruned back almost to the hedge that can be grown in California and is much used for clusters of dainty, long, tubular flow- ground each winter. Full sun. Gal. this purpose, as well as for trimmed pyramids or globes for ers produced continuously through- tins, 45c. garden or tubs. Naturally grows low, dense and compact, out the year make them very valu- Buddleia asiatica. S18. "White Sum- with glossy, bright green, small leaves. Flats of 100 small able for bright colors in the garden. mer Lilac." plants, $3.00; 4-inch pots for hedge planting, $2.50 per 10. Similar to above but Should be pruned severely once or with white flowers, the most fra- $20.00 per 100; trimmed globes, 14-16 in., $3.00; trimmed pyra- twice a year to keep them in bloom. grant of all the Buddleias. Gal. tins, mids, 24-30 in., $4.00; 30-36 in., $5.00. Full sun or semi-shade near coast, Buxus harlandi. S21. "Korean Boxwood." 2 ft. 5°. A new 45c. Al- shade inland. B. humboldti and displace the Buddleia "Charming." 8 ft. 15°. Boxwood which may Japanese Boxwood for S19. batross are intensely fragrant with a The finest of all the pink Buddleias. hedges and trimmed plants in many places, particularly where delicious Jasmine scent, but in the Bears all through the late a lower hedge is desired, since this variety does not naturally summer other varieties color takes the place and autumn beautiful long sprays of grow much over 18 inches or 2 feet and becomes very dense of fragrance. lavender-pink blooms, 12 to 16 inches and compact at that height, keeping its shape with almost no in length, extremely fragrant and B. Albatross. ST2. A new, improved, pruning. Grows guite rapidly to 18 inches, however. Flats of very dainty in coloring. Grows fast white Bouvardia with magnificent 100 small plants, $4.50; trimmed globes, 12-15 in., $1.50; 15-18 and will start to bloom for you the snowy white flowers, the tubes be- in., $2.00; 18-24 in., $2.50. first summer after planting. Gal. tins, ing 3 or more inches in length and 50c. the petals about IV2 mches across. Like a Yellow Wild Rose are borne in extreme profusion Candollea cuneiformis. S28. 4 ft. 22° A beautiful, compact, Please include both name and code They and are even more intensely and de- rounded plant, covered from March to June with many ll/2-inch number of the variety on your liciously fragrant than humboldti, if bright yellow flowers almost like a free-blooming yellow wild order sheet. that is possible. Gal. tins, $1.00. rose: Gal. tins, $1.00. he brilliant orange flowers of Darwin's Barberry. Fire Chief Red Carpenteria. white flowers big as a dollar. Bouvardia ternifolia. ST3. "Fire Chief Red." 3-4 ft. 25°. An extremely bril- liant new variety of Bouvardia that you can see a block away. A glowing brilliant red just like the Fire Chief uses on his car. Gal. tins, $1.00. Bouvardia humboldti. ST3A. Large, fra grant, snowy white flowers, 2 to 3 inches long, intensely swet. Gal. tins, 65c. Bouvardia Dark Rose Pink. ST2A. Deep pink. Gal. tins, 65c.

Fragrant Carpenteria Carpenteria californica. S29. "Fragrant Carpenteria." 6 ft. 15°. A handsome California native flowering plant, with large, long leaves and single, white, exceedingly fragrant, 5-petalled flow- ers, 2-21/2 inches across, which look like single roses or single camellias. Exceedingly lovely in form and texture and borne in such profusion as to make the plant look like a mound of snow. Best in part shade under fil- tered sunlight, with good drainage. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00.

In our delivery zone (see page 40) we deliver in covered trucks.

— 46 — Armstrong Shrubs

Trinidad Flame Bush Here is a Find Calliandra guildingi. S23. "Trinidad Ceanothus papillosus roweanus. S34 2-3 ft. 18°. The only reason most Flame Bush." 8 ft. 15°. The large people do not have this marvelously heads of vivid scarlet stamens, 3 inches long, each head shaped like beautiful new dwarf Ceanothus in a pompon, which cover the plant their gardens is because they have never seen it. Has been popularized like a sheet of fire in the spring and Botanic summer, make this a sparklingly by the Santa Barbara Garden. vivid and colorful plant. Its feath- Intense blue flowers cover the plant profusely in February, ery, fern-like foliage is handsome the March 01 year around and makes a beautiful April, and its lovely, compact, glossy background for the brilliant flowers. foliage is beautiful at all times, un- Comes from Trinidad. See colored like many native Lilacs. Being seldom exceeding 3 feet illustration on page 35. Full sun. dwarf, in height, can find room for it Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. you al- most anywhere. Only a few plants Cascades of Crimson available. Gal. tins, $1.35. Ceanothus impressus. Callistemon viminalis. S27. "Scarlet S33A. 4-6 ft 12°. A dense, compact plant with Bottle Brush." 15 ft. 15°. No plant good looking foliage, and thickly-set will provide a magnificent show of little flower spikes covering every brilliant scariet color more easily branch and making the entire plant than this tall, slender, semi-weeping, a mammoth bouquet of deep rapid growing shrub which covers blue in the spring. Most Wild Lilacs do not The brilliant yellow flowers of Golden Wonder. itself in the spring with great masses keep when cut, but this one does. of cascading scarlet blooms, 4 inches Prefers light sandy soil. Full sun. long. Grows easily anywhere, and Gal. tins, $1.00. Golden Wonder for Winter Color you'll get plenty of spectacular color for your money. Full sun. Gal. tins, Cassia splendida. S31. "Golden Wonder." 20°. We are very 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. A Spot of Blue enthusiastic over this large shrub, which is spreading, much Ceratostigma willmottianum. S-38. branched, and becomes 6 to 8 feet in height and as much True Tea Plant "Chinese Plumbago." 3-4 ft. 10°. across. Beginning in November and continuing through Decem- Camellia sinensis. (Thea.) S27A. "Tea One of the finest blue flowering gar- ber it and January, bears spectacular quantities of big golden- Plant." 4-6 ft. This is the true Tea den shrubs, of medium size. From yellow flowers at a time when it is difficult to get bright color Plant, grown in Ceylon and China. June to December the handsome plant in the garden. Its low, compact shape fits it into almost any You can use those "tender young is covered with great masses of the sunny spot. Thrives in the face of severe ocean winds. Full leaves of the Tea Plant" to make deepest, richest, most brilliant shade sun. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. your own tea if you wish. Those of blue imaginable. It grows with same leaves become 5 inches long the greatest of ease anywhere in Cassia artemesoides. S30. "Feathery Cassia." 8 ft. 15°. Finely are very beauti- sun or shade and in any type of cut silvery-gray foliage and clear yellow, sweet scented flow- when mature and ful, especially when they furnish a soil, never failing in its bounteous ers; needs little water, likes plenty of sunshine, thriving in background for the large, fragrant, crop of flowers. In colder sections it Arizona and other desert sections, as well as near the coast. ll/2-inch white flowers like single drops its leaves, but it should be Full sun. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. white camellias. Grows easily in pruned back once a year anyway California and is a most attractive wherever planted. Gal. tins, 65c; 5- ornamental. Part-shade. Plenty of gal. tins, $1.85. Sprays of the waxy, pink blooms of Geraldton Wax Flower make water. Gal. tins, $1.10; 5-gal. tins, ideal flower arrangements, keeping for days. $2.75. Night Blooming Carissa grandiflora. FS1. "Natal Cestrum paTqui. S40. "Night Bloom Beautiful ornamental fruiting Plum." ing Jessamine." 5 ft. 21°. Just a shrub. See page 6. Gal. tins, 75c; good-looking, inconspicuous evergreen 5-gal. tins, $2.00. shrub in the daytime, but making itself known in the darkness by the California Lilacs ravishing fragrance from its small In the springtime the California foot- greenish-white flowers—a fragrance hills are glorious to behold because of musk mingled with heliotrope. the landscape is massed with the Flowering branches placed in a room delicate blue flowers of the Califor- will emit perfume during the entire nia Lilac and the air is scented with night but no longer. The pearl-white their sweet perfume. They grow rap- berries make splendid indoor decora- idly in the garden, and thrive any- tions. Full sun. Gal. tins, 60c; 5- where in well-drained soil. Full sun. gal. tins, $1.75. Ceanothus cyaneus. S32. "Lakeside Cestrum aurantiacum. S39. "Orange Cestrum." 8-12 ft. 22°. Wild Lilac." 6-10 ft. 12°. The most Large, bright, prized of the Wild Lilacs, with 6- handsome, 4-inch leaves on a tall, inch spikes of the richest, most beau- slender, gracefully arching plant, tiful, deep indigo-blue flowers imag- producing at the end of every branch inable covering the plant from May clusters of long, tubular, bright or- to late fall. One of the showiest of ange-colored flowers, deliciously fra- grant. all native California shrubs. After it Very large, white berries as is once established, be sparing with big as a small marble follow the irrigation. A short-lived plant unless flowers, and flowers, foliage and grafted. All Armstrong plants aTe berries are splendid decorations in Full grafted. It makes a big difference. the garden and on the table. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 65c. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus griseus. S36. "Deep Blue Wild Lilac." 6 ft. 10°. Mexican Orange We consider this to be one of the Choisya ternata. S46. "Mexican Or- very finest varieties of the California ange." 5 ft. 15°. A dense, globu- Wild Lilac because of the magnifi- lar shrub, with bright, glossy green cent deep blue color of the fragrant foliage profusely covered in spring flowers, almost as intense as Lake- with showy-white, sweetly scented side Lilac, and its medium size. An blooms resembling orange blossoms. easy to grow variety and a never- Hardy anywhere in Southern Cali- failing source of delightful spring fornia. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, color. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2. 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, 18-24 Carpet of Blue in., $2.25. Ceanothus gloriosus. S33. "Point Flame Pea Reyes Ceanothus." A low, dense, Chorizema varium. S48. "Flame Pea." spreading mat of glossy evergreen 2 ft. 20°. A low, dense mound of foliage, never becoming more than glossy, holly-like leaves on slender, 6 or 8 inches high but covering the drooping branches, covered with ground for as much as 6 or 8 feet. great quantities of brilliant, little, It covers itself in late spring with pea-like flowers, bright orange-red masses of rich, bright, blue-lavender and reddish purple in color, borne flowers (on red stems), fragrant and throughout the winter and spring. lovely in coloring. Does best in par- For a spot of really brilliant color in tial shade with occasional watering, your garden you will find nothing but along the coast and in most better than this easily grown shrub. northern areas it will otow well in Sun or semi-shade. Gal. tins, 65c; full sun. Gal. tins, $1.10. 5-gal. tins, $1.75. — 47 — Geraldton Wax Flower The Rockroses Illustrated in color on page 34. Rockroses are exceedingly valuable ever- Chamaelaucium ciliatum. "Geraldton green shrubs for California because they Wax Flower." 6 ft. 22°. This magnifi- grow so well in dry soils, like plenty cent Western Australian shrub has of sunshine, are hardy alike to heat and proved to be the most popular and suc- cold, and because of the sheer beauty cessful new shrub introduced into South- of the flowers and the great profusion

. ern California in the past ten years. It of bloom. The plants require almost no has attractive heath-like foliage, a grace- pruning. Be sure that they get plenty ful open habit and sprays of lovely little of sunshine and not too much water. -waxy blooms which range in color from The blooming season lasts for many white to various shades of pink and weeks in spring and early summer. light lavender-red. blooms The have a Cistus corbariensis. S50. "White Rock- little waxy cup in the center which is rose." 3 ft. 10°. A low bank of sage- green when it first opens, soon changing green foliage studded with 2-inch white to rich maroon. The flowers start to flowers. A plant that stands dry soil, open in January and never stop until sea sprays or hot sun, always looks the middle of April when the oldest fresh and luxuriant and is never-failing blooms are still beautiful. One of the with its many beautiful blooms which finest of cut flowers because the sprays appear for many weeks in spring and for taken the keep days when into early summer. Grows well almost any- house, and are very dainty and grace- where, and we find it to be one of the ful in bowl arrangements. Prune back most useful plants in California gardens quite severely after the blooming sea- because of its all-year foliage, small size son. Chamaelauciums prefer an open and long blooming period. See illustra- sunny position and will grow in any soil tion below. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2. but probably do best in a light soil kept fairly dry. The following exclusive Arm- Cistus cyprius. S51. "Brown-eyed Rock- 10°. strong varieties have been selected from rose." 3 ft. . Pure white flowers, 3 hundreds of fine seedlings as being su- inches across, with golden stamens in perior to other types, and you'll find the center and a spot of maroon-crimson :hem immensely better than ordinary like a drop of blood at the base of each plants on the market elsewhere. petal. Gal. tins, 65c. Cistus ladaniferus maculatus. "Crim- Chamaelaucium Blush White. S41. This S52. Orchid Rockrose. "Old Rose" color, maroon-spotted. son Spot Rockrose." 6 ft. 10°. The flow is a very fine, large flowered, heavy blooming variety. Almost white, with ers resemble the Brown-eyed Rockrose, but everything about the plant is larger, :ust a blush of pinkish lavender to give the 3-inch flowers, the foliage and the Breath of Heaven it effective color. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. plant itself. Provides gTeat quantities tins, $2.00. Coleonema album. S56. (Diosma alba.) "White Breath of its lovely big blooms every season. 4-8 ft. 20°. This popular shrub with its Chamaelaucium Cameo Pink. S42. Slight- of Heaven." 5-gal. tins, $1.85. sweet-scented, heath-like foliage and its literally thou- ly smaller flowers in a much more pro- Cistus purpureus. Rock- little star-like white flowers in late winter and nounced shade of dainty pink tinged S53. "Orchid sands of If the foliage is rubbed, a with lavender. A very profuse bloomer, rose." 10°. It makes a compact, hand- spring is a great favorite. aromatic fragrance is released. Full with upright sprays unsurpassed for some plant, 4 feet high and 6 feet most entrancing across, covered lovely flowers 3 to sun. Gal. tins, 50c; 5-gal. tins, $1.50. cutting. Gal. tins, $1.10; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. with 4 inches across, rich rosy-pink in color pulchrum. S57. "Pink Breath of Heaven." Chamaelaucium Cameo Rose. S43. The Coleonema (it with might be called "old rose"), a 3-5 ft. 20°. The plant is very much like the White richest in color, deep rosy lavender. deep mahogany or maroon spot at the Breath of Heaven above and it has the same sweet- Blooms very freely. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- base of each petal, and with a center scented foliage, but it grows a little more compact, low gal. tins, $2.75. of yellow stamens. It is certainly the and bushy, and the flowers are bright pink instead of Chamaelaucium Dwarf Pink. S44. An most colorful of all the Rockroses and a white. Full sun. Gal. tins, 50c; 5-gal. tins, $1.60. unusual large-flowered type in a deep most satisfactory plant for a dry spot shade of pinkish lavender. The plants in full sun. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, are only about two-thirds the size of $1.75. Pink Australian Fuchsia the others (4 ft.). 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Correa pulchella. S61. "Australian Fuchsia." IV2 ft- 22°. This is one of the finest foreground shrubs for Polished Coprosma California gardens. It stays small, only about 18 inches high, and makes a dense mass of foliage which may Red, White and Blue Coprosma baueri. S55B. 3-5 ft. One of for 4 or 5 feet. The little, waxy, bell-shaped the most popular foliage plants in Cali- spread out Cienfuegosia hakeaefolia. S49. "Desert are beautiful soft pink, and are borne in the fornia, with its thick masses of big, shin- flowers a Rose." 4-8 ft. 18°. This is the only to April. Extreme heat does not ing, varnished leaves. Sun or shade. winter from November plant know of that displays our na- it, it rather likes dry soil. A fine shrub to we Gal. tins, 50c. bother and tional colors all in one flower. The plant in front of Chamaelauciums offered at left. Sun or big, bell-shaped blooms, lVz to 2 inches shade. See illustration on page 34. Gal. tins, 85c; 5- across, have a cerise-red throat, then a gal. tins, $2.00. of white, while the rest of the Correa band New Red Correa alba. S59. "White Correa." 4 ft. 20°. More flower is rich lavender-blue. The plant Correa harrisi. S60. "Red Correa." 1-2 upright than the above, becoming about 4 feet high and is fast-growing, with needle-like foliage, silvery grey foliage. ft. 22°. Startling new Correa, with as much across, with handsome and starts to wave the colors in April, bell-shaped flowers an inch or more in Hanging all over it in the summertime are many little continuing to produce the showy blooms length in a bright shade of orange-scar- bell-shaped white flowers about a half inch long. It until the middle of summer. Grows eas- not let. It's new, it's rare and it's a beauty. will do well in any soil. The hottest sun does ily anywhere in full sun. Gal. tins, 75c. Plants very scarce yet. Gal. tins, $1.50. bother it. Gal. tins, 65c.

At the left, the showy flowers of Chorizema. orange-red and reddish- purple in color. One ol the most useful of low flowering shrubs. Flow- ers shown here natural

The plant of Cistus cor- bariensis, shown at the right, is about 3 feet high and 4 feet across, and those white flowers are 2 inches across. It's hard to beat for all year around beauty. — 48 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

Berried Cotoneasters The Clorybower Indispensable in California gardens are the Clerodendron bungei. S54. "Rose Glory- Cotoneasters, which are splendid foli- bower." 3-5 ft. 20°. Almost age plants, but their most valuable char- anywhere in California you can enjoy this easily acteristic is the quantity of cheerfully col- grown plant, because it is perfectly ored red berries that brighten the bushes haTdy, and although it may freeze down to the in autumn and winter and which are ex- ground in cold sections in winter, cellent cut material for bowl arrangements it grows righ: up again to 4 feet in the course in the house at the holiday season or any of a few weeks and starts producing other time. Hardy and fast growing any- again, over its big heart-shaped leaves, where. They all like a sunny position. quantities of big rosy-red hydrangea-like flower heads, We grow five excellent kinds to fit almost 8 inches across. Deliciously any position in the garden from the low, fragrant. It will grow almost any place, but spreading Cranberry Cotoneaster up to the prefers a cool, semi-shady tall, large, Silverlecrf Cotoneaster. location. Gal. tins, 65c- 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Cotoneaster apiculata. S62. "Cranberry Cotoneaster." 2-4 ft. Zero. A very fine Clerodendron myricoides. S54A. "Blue spreading, semi-prostrate variety with the Glorybower." 6 ft. 20°. A handsome biggest, new reddest berries you ever saw on . shrub from East Africa which we a plant of this kind, almost as large as have admired greatly in our test gardens. cranberries. Very handsome foliage as It's rather tall and slender, with luxuriant well, and it thrives easily any place. Full all-year foliage, covered in late summer sun. Gal. tins, 75c. and fall with beautiful little purple and C. conspicua decora. S63. "Necklace Cot- blue 11/2-inch flowers. They look like dain- oneaster." 3-4 ft. 10°. Taller than the ty little blue orchids, and the sprays are above low kind but still a low, spreading splendid for cutting. We believe you'll shrub, with arching branches which are like this in your garden. Full sun or always handsome throughout the year, light shade. Gal. tins, $1.00. particularly so in April when every branch is strung with little white flowers like Fragrant sparkling, gems and just as attractive in Coronilla the fall and winter, when those flowers Coronilla glauca. S58. "Honey Coronilla." have turned to bright red berries. Gal. 3 ft. 15°. Bushy, little, gray-foliaged plan: tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. smothered with quantities of small, pea- C. horizontalis. S64. "Rock Cotoneaster." shaped, brilliant yellow blooms in late 2 ft. Zero. A prostate, half deciduous winter. Extremely fragrant, particularly shrub, its angular branches hugging the at night. It grows with the greatest of ground. In the autumn it has spray upon ease almost anywhere in California. A spray of glowing crimson berries, which, much better source of yellow color than combined with its deep red leaves, are a most of the Brooms. Sun or half-shade. beautiful sight (red in fall only). Gal. tins Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.60. 60c. The biq red berries of Parnays C. lactea. S65. (C. parnayi.) "Parnays Red Clusterberry (Cotoneaster Red Clusterberry." 5-6 ft. 10°. This is The Fragrant Daphne lactea) cover the plant at Christ- the best of the larger growing Cotoneast- Daphne odora. S81. "White Daphne." mas-time and for many weeks ers because of its large, luxuriant ever- 2-3 ft. 10°. This is just about the most before and after Christmas. green foliage, which is dense and luxuri- powerfully fragrant plant in the world, Multiply this picture by three ant throughout the entire year and be- and it is difficult to realize that one small times and you get an idea of cause of the enormous clusters of brilliant plant can radiate such an intense, delight- what the approximate size will red berries. It does not overgrow like so ful and deliciously sweet perfume. In the be. It never fails to berry, and many of the larger growing Cotoneasters, garden you can inhale it many yards the birds do not eat them. seldom exceeding 6 feet in height, and is away, and one little sprig of blooms will well foliaged right down to the ground, perfume the entire room when cut. The showing no bare stems. Gal. tins, 50c- small flower heads of creamy 5-gal. tins, $1.60. white are borne profusely all over the plant Canary-Bird Flower C. pannosa. "Silverleaf Cotoneaster." through- 8 out the winter. The handsome plant with ft. 15°. One of the best known and most See colored its shiny green foliage does best in par- illustration on back cover. widely planted Cotoneasters. The leaves Crotalaria tial shade with plenty of moisture but agatiflora. ST4. "Canary-Bird Flower." are a soft gray-green, silvery underneath. 6-10 ft. 25°. good drainage. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. When you get this unusual fast grow- White flowers in spring, followed by great ing shrub from the mountain tins, $3.00; balled, 18-24 in., $3.25. slopes of East Africa masses of silvery red berries, remaining in bloom in your garden it will be the most striking all fall and winter. A splendid desert Daphne odora Yellowedge. S83. "Gold- and most spectacular object there. It has luxuriant shrub but equally good on the coast. Gal. edged Daphne." 2-3 ft. 10°. Leaves mar- tropical-appearing leaves and racemes of large, 3- tins, 45c. gined with gold, the flowers are pink. inch green and gold flowers in sprays as much as Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00; balled 3 feet long. The boughs look as though they were Orange-Red Broom 18-24 in., $4.00; 24-30 in., $5.00. full of gorgeous canary birds, and cut, make splen- Cytisus Pomona. S79B. 6 ft. 10°. Daphne odora did A Rose Queen. S82. "Large table decorations. Sun, plenty of moisture. Gal. showy hybrid Broom, its arching branches Pink-Flowered Daphne." 3-4 ft. 10°. A tins. $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. so covered with orange-apricot sweetpea- beautiful strain with plain green leaves like blooms in the spring that you cannot and deep pink flowers a little larger than see the stems. Best on the coast from the other varieties. The leaves are big- Flowers of Rosy Christmas Heather Santa Barbara north. Full sun. Plenty of ger, the plant is larger and it grows fast- moisture. Gal. tins, 65c. er. Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.00.

A flower cluster of the new Daphne, Rose Queen. Exceedingly fragrant.

49 Irish Heath Daboecia cantabrica alba. S80. "White Bell Irish Heath." 2 ft. 10°. Right from the green sod of old Ireland comes this beautiful little Heath, which makes a beautiful low mound of dark shining green leaves, covered in summer with beautiful nodding white bell-shaped flow- ers, 1/2-inch across. It does better in Cali- fornia than most of the South African Heathers. Sun or semi-shade. Use plenty of leaf mold or peat moss and plenty of water. Gal. tins, 60c. Dwarf Duranta Duranta stenostachys. S85. "Brazil Sky- flower." 4-6 ft. 24°. If you want a lovely foliaged, graceful arching plant about 5 feet high and as much across in a sunny or half-shady spot in your garden, bear- ing beautiful little 4 to 6-inch sprays of lovely lilac-purple blooms, each one a half inch across, borne almost all sum- mer long and sometimes in other seasons, The flower heads on Clerodendron bungei search no farther, here it is. Do not con- ore 8 inches across, sweetly fragrant. fuse this with the old tall, weedy, thorny Duranta plumieri. One of the finest of Garden Orchids small garden shrubs in habit, foliage and flower. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Cymbidiums. We have all been asleep here in California for years in not realiz- Brilliant Purple ing that we can grow some of the most Dyschoriste thunbergiflora. beautiful hardy Orchids outdoors in our S86. 3 ft. 24°. A little handsomely foliaged gardens with ease. Part of our indiffer- shrub which is fine for leaning against ence has been due to the fact that the wall or fence in a sunny or half-shady spot plants have not been available until re- with plenty of moisture. The trumpet-shaped cently. The Cymbidiums, a bloom of which blooms, 3 inches long, are rich violet-blue :s illustrated on this page, make clumps with deeper purple markings in the throat, of grassy foliage, 2 to 4 feet high, and in such an intense color that •he winter and early spring carry great you can hardly be- lieve them real. Best near coast or in sprays, from 1 to 3 feet long, of the most mild-wintered areas. oeautiful Orchids imaginable in a wide Gal. tins, 85c. range of colors. As many as 40 blossoms may be found on a single spray, while Silverberry 10 to 20 sprays are not uncommon for a Elaeagnus Fruitland. S87. "Fruitland Sil- .-nature plant. verberry." 8 ft. 10°. A large spreading Cymbidiums will grow well along the shrub with 4-inch leaves and stems cov- roast from San Diego to San Luis Obispo ered with frosty shiny scales. Even the and in all inland valleys except the hot- great silver-bronze berries look as though "est desert valleys. They like a location they had been gilded. Thrives anywhere, where they have light shade or are pro- even in the ocean spray. Sun or part :ected from the hottest sun during the day. shade. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. While like fibrous soil with plenty they a Elaegnus pungens maculata. S87A. Simi- of coarse leaf mold or peat moss mixed lar to the above but with foliage varie- :n, they have drainage. They must good gated gold and silver. Gal. tins, 60c- 5- :hrive under Oaks, Sycamores and other gal. tins, $1.75. Flowers of Cymbidium, reduced one-third. As many r rees readily and will stand minimum tem- as 40 on a 3-foot spray. Many beautiful colors. peratures down to 20°. Once established Heathers ".he plants are permanent. They come in Erica blanda. S91. "Red African Daisy Bush many lovely shades of amber bronze, lu- Everblooming Heather." 3 ft. 15°. minous claret. Low, rounded, it Euryops athanasiae. S103. "South African Daisy green, chartreuse, pink and bears clusters of tubular red flowers Bush." 4 ft. 18° On the tall slender evergreen Strong clumps: S7.50, S5.00, S10.00, S12.50, throughout the entire year. What other plants are borne large quantities of big, daisy-like 515.00 and on up to S50.00 each. The sizes flowering shrub will do more? Full sun. bright yellow flowers, 3 inches across, borne on 12- priced at S10.00 or less usually will not Gal. tins, 65c. inch stems. The flowers appear in the greatest pro- have flower sprays this season, but many E. canaliculate rosea. fusion in the middle of winter, giving plenty of of the larger clumps will bloom during S92. (E. melanthera rosea.) "Rosy January color. Plants somewhat awkward in appear- the current winter blooming season. See Christmas Heather." 6 ft. 15°. This is the ance but well worth having in the garden for their them in bloom from January to April in best known and most popular value as winter cut flowers alone. Full sun. Gal. our Display Yards and pick out the one of all the Heathers in California, and certainly tins, 75c. you like. In most sizes we can usually it is one of the most beau- tiful of winter flowering See Euryops pectinatus on the next page. supply plants in shades of bronze, creamy shrubs. From No- vember to yellow, or pink. The other colors must March the plants are a solid mass of small rosy-lavender flowers usually be selected while in bloom. dotted Flowers of African Daisy Bush with black stamens. It is sometimes called "Scotch Heather" but it never saw Scot- Ground-Orchids land, being a native of South Africa, and (See illustration in color on page 42.) is much showier and brighter than the Epidendrum o'brienianum. S88. "Ever- real article. Full sun, good drainage. Gal blooming Ground-Orchid." 5-6 feet. A tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, 2-3 semi-reclining, leafy plant, sending up ft., $2.00; 3-4 ft., $2.25. '.eafy stems from tall 3 to 6 feet on which Erica cruenta. S94. "Dwarf Scarlet Heath- are borne big clusters of brilliantly col- er." 3 ft. 18°. Bushy, low grower, light- ored, bright scarlet flowers, the lip shaded ed up all through the late summer, the with orange-yellow. They are magnificent fall and early winter months with 6 to 8 for cutting and you can easily have such inch spikes of slender, tubular flowers in flowers if you live in Southern California a showy shade of flame-red. Gal. tins, 90c. where the temperature does not go below E. lusitanica. 25°. Once established, the plants will S95. "Spanish Heather." 4 ft. 18°. provide blooms almost every day in the So covered with snowy-white flowers in late year and will grow into large clumps. winter that it looks like a young snowdrift. Full sun along coast, semi-shade else- Gal. tins, 60c. where. 6-inch pots, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. E. mediterranea. S96. "Biscay Heath." 4 ft. 5°. Epidendrum radicans. S89. "Orange Ground Compact and bushy, with stiff stems and purplish-pink flowers Orchid." 4-5 ft. A slightly smaller plant from Mar. than the above but with even more and to June. Hardy anywhere. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins or balled, $1.85. brighter blooms. Its 1-inch flowers are a brilliant cinnabar-red approaching orange. E. John McLaren. S9SA. 2-3 ft. 15°. It 5-inch pots, $1.50. bears magnificent 6-inch spikes of brilliant rose-pink Bletilla hyacinthina. P9. "Terrestrial Or- flowers splendid for cutting. Best along coast. chid." 20°. Another delightful, easily Gal. tins, 75c. grown outdoor Orchid, with grassy foliage E. melanthera rubra. S97. "Fall Blooming 1 to 2 feet high, bea^ng in spring months Heather." 3-4 ft. 15°. Similar to the i profusion of 11/2-inch lavender-pink flow- Christmas Heather, but a low growing ers with orchid and purple markings, plant, deeper colored, rosy red flowers, splendid for cut flowers. Full sun along and a much earlier blooming period, from roast, semi-shade elsewhere. Gal. tins, 90c. Oct. to Dec. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.

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Colorful Armstrong Shrubs

Evergreen Euonymus Colden Fremontia Euonymus japonicus. S100. "Evergreen Fremontia mexicana. S106. "San Diego Euonymus." Euonymus has long been Fremontia." 10 ft. 5°. A splendid a most useful foliage ornamental in large native flowering shrub with the West and South, standing heat and small, fig-like, gray-green leaves and cold, easily grown anywhere, and al- a marvelous profusion of coppery, or- ways with a dense, glossy, handsome ange-yellow flowers, 2 to 3 inches foliage. Often used as trimmed speci- across, in the late winter and spring. men plants and makes splendid hedges Full sun, good drainage and not too which can be pruned to any desired much water. Gal. tins, $1.25. height. Gal. tins, 50c; balled, 18-24 in., $2.00; trimmed pyramids, 30-36 in., Freeblooming Fuchsias $3.00. We also have the Giltedge There is no other shade-loving shrub (S100A) in gal. tins, 50c, and the Gold- that will bloom so profusely and with spot (S101) in gal. tins, 50c; balled, so much color over such a long season 18-24 in., $2.00; 2-3 ft., $2.50. as the Fuchsia. They like a cool, moist Euonymus forfunei radicans. G5. "Red situation, shady, thriving anywhere Winter Creeper." Zero. One of the in California. 18°. Price on all Fuch- finest spreading, creeping foliage sias: gal. tins, 75c. plants for a ground cover. See page Our Largest- Flowering Fuchsias 39. Flats of 100 plants, $5.00. Gypsy Queen. ST14. Double giant Coral with rose-pink petals and flame col- Like Frosted ored sepals. 4-5 ft. Eupcrtorium vernale. S102. "Coral Eu- Aviator. ST11. Single, pure white, with patorium." 4-5 ft. 24°. Just visualize long, rose-red sepals curving outward a handsomely foliaged 4 ft. plant, like . 2-4 ft. glossy and bright green right down to Pride of Orion. ST17. Immense double Gardenia Mystery, Armstrong Strain (One-half Natural Size). the ground, carrying at the end of flowers, with pure white petals, bril- every branch from January to April, liant scarlet sepals. Our best white. 5 or 6-inch heads of small, flesh-pink 4-5 ft. like a blooms, soft and feathery, Tubular-Flowered Fuchsias dainty piece of pink coral. Blooms The Fragrant Escallonias Corymbiflora. ST13. Spectacular, 4- first winter after planting. Prune se- Escallonias are particularly inch, crimson, tubular flowers in big The fine shrubs for the seacoast, verely after each blooming period. Gal. since they like the salt air and their splendid foliage is clusters. 4-8 ft. tins, 60c. particularly luxuriant under coast conditions. Their sweetly Souv. de Henry Henkel. ST18. Long, fragrant spikes of delicately colored flowers appear over tubular, scarlet flowers and plum-ccl- most of the year. They like plenty of water, and grow in Poinsettias ored foliage. 2-4 ft. full sun or part shade. Minimum temperature about 15°. Euphorbia pulcherrima. ST7. "Poinset- Our Best Hanging Basket Fuchsias tia." The well known scarlet "Christ- Escallonia viscosa Apple Blossom. S99. "Apple Blossom Cascade. ST12. Almost 4 inches long. mas Flower" so popular for sunny po- Escallonia." 5 ft. 15°. Dainty blush-pink; very free- Coral-rose sepals, bright rose petals. sitions in milder situations. Gal. tins, blooming. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. 1-2 ft. 65c. Marinka. ST15A. Single. Brilliant Escallonia Eric Walther. S99A. 6-8 ft. 15°. A hybrid from Henriette Euphorbia Ecke. ST8. "Double shades of red. 2-4 ft. Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. One of the most beau- Poinsettia." 28°. The big, brilliant red Aurora superba. ST10. Single, orance- tiful pink Escallonias ever seen. Large, glossy, dark rich flowers, enormous in size, are semi- salmon. 2-4 ft. green foliage with big flower clusters of deep clear pink double, with extra petals in the cen- flowers borne in great profusion. Gal. tins, 75c. Our Best Low-Crowing Fuchsias ter. Very unusual and spectacular, it Little Beauty. ST15. Single, purple is about halfway between the improv- Brilliant Winter Blue ed, very double form below and the petals, red sepals. The most compact plant and the heaviest bloomer. 1-2 ft. Eranthemum nervosum. S90. "Blue Winter Eranthemum." ordinary single type listed above. They Mauve Beauty. ST15B. Double, lav- beautiful, if like the 4 ft. 24°. We are always very much pleased when we can are all and you ender petals, red sepals. 2 ft. good, small, blue flowering shrub simpler forms, this one will appeal to recommend a because Pasteur. ST16. Double, white petals, they are scarce, especially one which has such luxuriant you most. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, scarlet sepals. 1-2 ft. looking all-year foliage. This plant from tropical India bears $2.00. Euphorbia Henriette Ecke Improved. many large clusters of the most brilliant blue flowers From a Lonely Isle throughout the late winter and spring. Prefers a shady ST9. "Giant Peony-Flowered Poinset- Galvesia speciosa. S108. "San Cle- position with plenty of moisture but is not particular and tia." 28°. Here is the most spectacu- mente Snapdragon." 3 ft. 20°. From will do as well in the sun, if not allowed to become too lar of all Poinsettias, with an enor- the off dry. Gal. tins, 65c. mous, brilliant red flower, fully double channel island of San Clemente like a peony. Until you have seen the California coast comes this hand- The Useful Eugenias those gigantic, spectacular flowers some plant which performs the almost which get to be 9, 10 or even 12 unbelievable feat of producing lovely, paniculata australis. ST6. (E. Eugenia myrtifolia.) "Austra- inches across, you've no idea how carmine-red, snapdragon-like flowers Cherry." 22°. If unpruned, lian Brush this splendid foliage magnificent they are. Plants are scarce. IV2 inches long, throughout the entire plant will attain 12 or 15 feet in height, but is usually Always plant Poinsettias in full sun year. A low, arching, spreading mound grown as a trained pillar or pyramid to any desired height, in a warm spot. Gal. tins, $1.00 each; of handsome foliage, 3 feet high and or as hedge, and for either use it is exceedingly lovely a 5-gal. tins, $2.75. 4 feet or more across, and you will because of its clean, glossy, Myrtle-like foliage which takes find that there will be seldom a day on a cheerful bronze tint in the new growth. The big purple during the year when you cannot find excellent jelly if is Silver and Cold berries make too there any left after beautiful blooms on it. Grows easily the children get through eating them. (They won't hurt the Euryops pectinatus. S104. "Silver and almost anywhere. Full sun or semi- 2-3 18°. children.) Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Gold Bush." ft. Where the shade. Gal. tins, $1.00. above variety is tall and slender, this Eugenia hookerL ST5. (E. paniculata.) 8-12 ft. 25°. Simi- is beautifully rounded and compact, lar to the above but with larger, darker foliage, more vig- silvery Swirling Snow orous growth, and large, edible, violet-colored berries larger with handsome gray leaves 3 inches long, covered in late winter Genista monosperma pendula. SI 12. than Cherries. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. and spring with beautiful bright gold- Bridal Veil Broom." 10 ft. 10°. Tall Eugenia smithi. ST6A. (Acmena smithi.) "Lillipilli Tree." en yellow, lVi-inch flowers on 6-inch and slender, with drooping greyish 15 ft. 18°. This unusual and rarely found Eugenia has stems. A beautiful low garden plant, branchlets, completely clothed in the beautiful shining bronzy-green foliage and is covered in furnishing a spot of brilliant color in a spring with a dense shower of dainty, with big clusters 1/2-inch the winter months drooping of dry sunny spot. Gal. tins, 75c. little, pure white, fragrant flowers like berries, a lovely delicate lavender in color. Cut sprays of Fragaria. Wild Strawberry for ground swirling snow. Full sun. Gal. tins, berries beautiful table decorations. plant these make The cover. See page 39. 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. grows tall and slender, but not nearly so rapidly as the other commonly known Eugenias. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. Crevilleas tins, $2.00. A Botanical Miracle Australian 20°. Fatshedera lizei. S105. 6 ft. 5°. GreviUea banksi. SI 13. 8 ft. Eugenia uniflora. FS13. "Surinam Cherry." 6 ft. 20°. One of rarest Dense fern-like foliage and large, comb- Handsome ornamental fruiting shrub. See page 6. Gal. the objects in nature, an ar- like deep crimson flowers 4 inches tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. tificial hybrid between plants of dif- ferent genera, the giant leaved Fatsia long. It blooms almost every month in japonica and the ordinary English Ivy the year. Sun or part shade. Gal. It's Easy to Order by Mail (Hedera). Makes a plant halfway be- tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. not convenient to visit our Display Yards at Ontario or tween the two with extremely H hand- When ordering, please include on North Hollywood, just put your order in the mail and no some deep green glossy foliage. Splen- of matter where you live we'll get it to you by the safest and did for training flat against or over a your order sheet, both the name most economical means, whether it be truck, mail, express wall. Its large, glossy, 6-inch leaves the variety wanted and the code or freight. Evergreen shrubs in gallon tins (wt. 10 lbs. make a cool green covering in no number (the code number is given in each) and in 5-gallon tins (wt. 50 lbs. each) are usually time. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 65c; after the shipped by truck in Southern California, by express or 5-gal. tins, $2.00; espalier, 5-gal. tins, each description directly freight elsewhere. See pages 40 and 41. $2.50. botanical name).

— 51 — Fragrant Gardenias Scarlet Hamelia "Scarlet Bush." The Gardenia, or as it is often called, Hamelia erecta. ST20. compact, Cape Jasmine, is unequalled for its rich, 2 ft. 25°. The little, rounded in sweet perfume, and its snow-white densely foliaged bush is covered other blooms are produced in continuous the late summer (and often at succession throughout the year. They seasons) with large heads of exceed- flowers which are a little difficult to grow in the open ingly brilliant scarlet In the fall where it is hot and dry, doing best in look like Fuchsia blooms. partial shade or in filtered sunlight, and winter, to prolong the color effect, with good drainage and a slightly acid some of the leaves turn a brilliant branches and soil condition, best obtained by the scarlet. Even the young sun or liberal use of peat moss or leaf mold. leaf stalks are bright red. Full Gal. Give the plants plenty of moisture but part shade. Plenty of moisture. do not keep them too wet, and since tins, 65c. ihey root near the surface, do not cul- tivate around them. They grow 2 to 4 feet high and are hardy down to 18°. Orange Ginger-Lily "Mystery." (Arm- Gardenia jasminoides Hedychium gardnerianum. S119. "Or- strong Strain.) S109. During the last 18°. ange Indian Ginger-Lily." 4-5 ft. several years this Gardenia has be- For something really startling in the come the most popular variety in way of exotic color and fragrance, try Southern California largely because it this surprising Ginger-Lily from India. has the biggest, glossiest and most The 8 to 12 inch flower spike is a luxuriant foliage and also has the big- complicated affair with long tubes of gest and most spectacular blooms, the saffron-yellow, contrasted with extra- magnificent, fragrant, snowy white blos- ordinarily long filaments which are soms often measuring 4, 5 and even 6 orange, shading to orange-scarlet at inches across. It makes a big, vigor- the tip, exceedingly brilliant. And it ous plant quickly and opens all its intoxicating sweetness that fills into magnificent flowers. has an buds perfectly with fragrance (or the house strains of Gardenia the garden There are several It blooms if you want to cut them). sold under the name Mystery, and we with great freedom in spring and sum- feel that the Armstrong Mystery Gar- mer, and even when out of bloom the denia is much superior to any other big, glossy leaves, 18 inches long and type, having larger, more perfect inches across, are beautiful. .Plenty blooms, with bigger, glossier foliage 6 moisture. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, and a robust habit. Gal. tins, 85c; of SI. 25; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. 5-gal. tins, $2.25; tubs, 18-24 in., $3.50. SI 18. "White Gardenia radicans. Sill. "Dwarf Gar- Hedychium coronarium. 6 ft. 22°. Similar to the denia." A dainty and interesting little Ginger-Lily." exceedingly fragrant Gardenia, much like Mystery but much above, but with used by the na- smaller in every respect. Small glossy 3-inch white blooms, Sea Islands for their foliage and miniature blooms only IV2 tives in the South emphasize that fra- inches across. Grows 12 to 18 inches leis And let us extremely pow- 4-inch pots, 60c. grance again, for it is high. plenty 01 erful. Sun or shade. Likes Gardenia veitchi. SI 10. The foliage is moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, not nearly as good as Mystery, but it Orange Ginger-Lily (Yellow, Orange and Scarlet). has the faculty of producing more S2.25. blooms, though small ones, than any other Gardenia, and once established, Yunnan Sweetspire provides great quantities of medium Hat Plant Chinese 15°. sized (2-inch), fragrant flowers. Gal. Itea yunnanensis. S140. "Yunnan Sweetspire." 5 ft. sanguinea. S122. "Chi- tins, 75c. Holmskioldia From the mountains of Yunnan in China comes one of the nese Hat Plant." 8 ft. 22°. Planted finest all-year foliage plants that can be grown in Califor- in a warm, sunny spot, this unique nia, the big, "bronze tinted, bright green leaves having a Cheerful Sun-Roses plant will produce great long clusters polished surface which never dulls in any weather, even al- Halimium ocymoides. SI 17. "Spanish of brick-red flower bracts during in the middle of winter. Long, fragrant, white catkins in even through the Sun-Rose." 3 ft. 10°. For many weeks most the entire year, spring. Full sun or part shade but requires plenty of mois- use it in the spring and early summer this middle of winter when you can ture in the summertime. Gal. tins, 50c; 5-gal. tins, $1.50. The flow- little rounded plant with gray-green for Christmas decorations. Itea ilicifolia. S139. "Holly Leaf Sweetspire." 8 ft. 15°. clusters of foliage is a glorious mass of bright ering branches, resembling The big, toothed, polished, deep green leaves look more keep yellow flowers, each bloom with a ma- the richest colored Bougainvilleas, like Holly than Holly itself, and you will never find any- in the house. roon-red center. Plant it in a sunny well when cut and placed thing better than its foliage to use for your Christmas dec- trained flat spot where it will not get too much A beautiful thing when orations. One of the most magnificent foliage plants for any facing south. water and prune it back once a year against building or wall California garden. Sun or part shade along coast but only and plenty after the flowering season. Grows eas- It likes plenty of sunshine part shade inland. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. colorful ily anywhere. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. of water. One of the most Cali- tins, $1.75. new ornamental shrubs for milder 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. Halimium halimifolium. SI MA. "Afri- fornia Gal. tins, can Sun-Rose." 3-5 ft. 10°. One of the most handsome of light grey-foli- ciged shrubs. The plant, flowers and HydiIrangeas foliage all larger than the Spanish Sun- Rose above, while the flowers are a Everybody loves the big Old-Fashioned lighter primrose-yellow with maroon Hydrangea macrophylla described be- blotch. Full sun. Dry soil. Gal. tins, low, but you will enjoy these new 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. hybrids with their richer, deeper col- shade. 10°. Price Halimium lasianthum. SI 15. "Portu- ors as well. Part varieties except Rouget de Lisle: gese Sun-Rose." 2 ft. 10°. Grows low on all 5-gal. tins, $1.85. and spreading, becoming about 4 feet Gal. tins, 65c; across. Its soft down gray foliage is America. S123. A brilliant deep rose- beautiful at all times, and every morn- pink. ing in the spring and early summer, Avalanche. S129. Immense, pure white. it is profusely covered with its brilliant Matador. S125. Deep rich rose-red. canary-yellow flowers, blotched purple very fine deep pink. at the base. Wherever you live in Triomphe. S127. A Rouget de Lisle. S126. Normally this California these plants are ideal for carmine but the sunniest, driest spots in your gar- is a rich shade of deep the soil to make them den. Gal. tins, 60c. we have treated rich blue. The flowers Halimium lasianthum concolor. S115A. bloom a deep that way if you keep Just like the above, but the flowers are will always be Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. bright canary-yellow without the pur- the soil acid. $2.25. ple spots. If you prefer not to see tins, (H. spots, try this one. Gal. tins, 60c. Hydrangea macrophylla. S124. Hydrangea." Halimium lihanotis. SI 16. (H. rosma- hortensis.) "Old-Fashioned in California riniiolium.) "Rosemary Sun-Rose." 18 5-8 ft. Long a favorite bold foliage inches. 10°. Dainty little compact gardens, with its large flowers, plant with fine, gray-green, rosemary- and immense heads of pink iron. like foliage, covered for many weeks which turn blue in soils containing in spring with quantities of little %- inch pure white flowers. We like it very much because it stays small, gets The plant of Rosemary Sun- quite compact, and grows with the Rose at the right is 18 inches greatest of ease almost anywhere. See high. Covered with little illustration at right. Full sun. Gal. white flowers in early sum- tins, 60c. mer. Likes a dry, warm spot.

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Cold Flower The Biggest Holly Leaves Hypericum moserianum. S130. Ilex altaclarensis wilsoni. S132. "Broad 10°. 2 ft. A popular low fore- Leaved Holly." 6-8 ft. 5°. The long ground shrub, covered with big, dark green 3-inch leaves are rich glossy 2-inch golden yellow blooms in and ideally shaped, and they are the the spring. tins, 60c. Gal. biggest Holly leaves of any variety ir. Hypericum patulum henryi. S131. our collection. Compact, beautifully filled 10°. 4 ft. Similar to the above in, it makes a magnificent shrub and but the plant, foliage and flow- the beautiful big red berries are on a ers all larger. Sun or part- par with the handsome foliage. Gal shade. Gal. tins, 60c. tins. $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50.

Chinese Hibiscus English Hollies

Hibiscus are one of the showi- Ilex aquifolium fertilis. S133. "Fertile est flowering shrubs for South- English Holly." Ordinary English Hollies ern Califonia, with large glossy grown from seed will not all produce leaves and immense bright-col- berries so we have grown these special ored flowers. They all like grafted plants of a type bearing heavy plenty of sunshine and moisture crops of very large, red berries every and are hardy down to about year if planted in a location suitable for 28°. Given these conditions English Holly. Most of the plants al- they grow easily and bloom ready have berries on them in the during the entire year. All sin- larger sizes. Plant in shade or semi- gle unless noted. shade in Southern California. Plenty oi moisture. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins Standard Varieties $2.75; balled, 5-6 ft., $10.00. Ilex aquifolium Silver Queen.. "Sil- Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. S134. Agnes Gait. SHI. Immense-coral- ver-Edged English Holly." The foliage is pink. beautifully variegated with silver and Apricot. SH1A. Apricot, shaded light green against the dark green. The yellow. beautiful red berries show up even bet- Brilliant. SH2. Immense brilliant ter than on the dark foliage. Gal. tins 2-2i/ Scarlet. $1.00; balled, 2 ft., $3.00. Double Red. SH5. Rich dark Ilex aquifolium. (Van Tol.) S137. "Dutch Holly." A form of the English Holly bear ing great big half-inch berries ever when the plants are very small. You Unusual Hibiscus will not have to wait for berries on this The big coral-pink Hibiscus Agnes Gait. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. one. Gal. tins, $1.10; 5-gal. tins, S2.75. Pure White. SH11. Snowy white, no Take Your Price Reductions other shadings. Delightfully fragrant. Chinese Holly Purchase 5 of one variety or 15 or more of the assorted Sophisticate. SH12. Big white petals, plants on pages 23 to 62, inc. (no flats, divisions or heavily blushed with deep pink. Very Ilex cornuta femina. S136. "Fertile Chi- 2Vi-inch pots), and get the following reductions: 25c to lovely coloring. Got its name because nese Holly." 6-10 ft. 5°. This is one oi 65c each, inc., deduct 5c per plant; 70c to SI. 75 each, the rouge is in just the right shade and the very best Hollies for Southern Cali- inc., deduct 10c per plant; SI. 80 or more, each, deduct just the right amount. We'd call it a fornia or anywhere in California because 25c per plant. perfect job of makeup. it is better adapted to warmer climates than the English Sunshine. SH13. Big flowers of golden Hollies and can be planted right out the sun in the Hollyhocks on Bushes yellow, paling toward the center, with in a deep pink throat. southern part of the State. Large, dark Lavatera olbia. S148. 15°. A fast-growing Mallow which green, many toothed leaves forming c has long been a favorite in English gardens and is rap- bushy, compact plant. These are cutting idly becoming just as popular in California. It grows Rare Hibiscus grown plants of a special heavy berry- rapidly to about 6 feet and bears almost continuously Gal. tins, SI. 00; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. producing type. Ordinary seedling Chi- good sized bright pink flowers like single Hollyhocks. Butterfly. SH3. A large, bronzy yellow nese Hollies will not usually produce safely it for almost soil We can recommend any and any flower with a rich red center. No tropi- berries profusely, but these we offer will location. Should be cut back each year during winter cal butterfly ever had richer colorings. not fail to bear. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, almost to the ground. Gal. 65c; 5-gal. tins, SI. 75. tins, $2.75; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.75; 3-4 ft. Double Yellow. SH6. Beautiful, large $5.00. flowers of Lavatera look like big pink hollyhocks many petalled flowers of clear yellow without and completely cover the 6-foot spreading bush. other shadings. Burford Holly Prince Takamatsu. SH10. A very large and lovely red Hibiscus, almost 7 inches See Illustration in Color on Page 34. across. It is a glowing orange-scarlet, Ilex cornuta burfordi. S135. "Burford larger and with more orange in it than Holly." 6-10 ft. 5°. A particularly fine the variety Brilliant. foliaged and heavily berried type of the Chinese Holly which does exceptionally The Newest Hibiscus "well in California. The foliage is large so glossy that it looks as if it had beer- Bronzino. SH2A. Here is a magnificent varnished, deep green in color. The new Hibiscus of Hawaiian origin, extra- plant bears plenty of big, bright red ordinary in the richness of its color and berries like those illustrated on page 34 the beauty of its form. The entire flow- While it makes a large shrub in time, il er, which is almost 6 inches across, is a will not reach its ultimate height for o brilliant orange-bronze with a little tinge number of years. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-ga!. of red in the very center. The enormous tins, $2.75; balled, 3-4 ft., $5.00. petals overlap, forming a very full, large bloom, and the petals are ruffled like crepe paper, giving a most unusual ef- Lantanas fect. It's an exclusive Armstrong intro- Lantanas. 22°. These popular ever- duction, and you'll find it to be one of anc the most beautiful Hibiscus you have blooming shrubs grow very rapidly are a mass of bloom almost all the year ever seen. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins $3.00. The dwarf varieties grow from 1 to 3 feet high and the tall varieties to 5 or Fiery Furnace. SH7. A new variety with 6 feet. All kinds: Gal. tins, 45c. an amazingly rich color scheme, glow- ing golden orange deepening toward Orange-Red. S142. Dwarf. the throat until it becomes flaming red Pure White. S143. Dwarf. in the center, from which protrudes the Clear Yellow. S144. Dwarf. rich golden orange stamens. The petals Light Pink. S145. Tall. are heavily ruffled and crinkled like thick crepe paper, giving a most unusual Orange-Red. S146. Tall. and delightful effect. Gal. tins, SI. 50. Pure White. S146A. Tall. Hippa Hula. SH9A. Enormous 7-inch Trailing Lamtana. C13. (L. seUowiana.) flowers, mostly a lovely shade of lilac- 22°. Much used for trailing over sunny pink, changing to coppery tones at the banks and walls. A mass of lavender outer edges of the petals and becoming flowers during most of he year. Fas" almost white in the throat. Gal. tins growing. Flats of 100 plants. $3.00; qal $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. tins, 45c. — 53 — Grand Duke Jasmine Jasminum sambac Grand Duke. S141. 2-5 ft. 20°. A rare and beautiful, semi-re- clining shrub with double 3-inch flowers of pure white with a powerful and re- freshing sweet perfume. Quite hardy, but prefers some shade and blooms almost the year around. It is easier to grow than the Gardenia, while the flowers look like perfect many-petalled Gardenias and exceed those fragrant flowers in the inten- sity of their sweet perfume. Part shade. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.75.

Jelly on Bushes Guavas. Don't overlook Red and Yellow Strawberry Guavas as ornamentals. They The sweet-scented Jasmine Grand Duke (natural size). make beautiful glossy-leaved, 5-foot shrubs, and everybody likes those juicy, delicious fall-ripening fruits, to "say nothing of the Old Fashioned Lavender marvelous jelly mother can make from them. See page 8 for sizes and prices. Lavandula officinalis. S149. "Old-Fashioned Lavender. 18 inches. 0". The beautiful rounded, little silvery-gray leaved plant from which the true Oil of Lavender is ob- When Can You Plant? tained. Tall 1 rosy-purple flower spikes, ex- ceedingly fragrant when rubbed. Gal. tins, The black sguares under each month in the calendar be- 50c; balled, 12-15 inches, $1.25. low indicate that you can plant evergreen shrubs during Lavandula pedunculata. S149A. "Purple every month in the year. Plume Lavender." 15 inches. 0°. Similar to the above, but a little smaller plant, Month JFMAM JJASOND while the long-stemmed, deep purple flow- er spikes, each topped by 3-inch purple Tins or Ball The red lantern of Malvaviscus. plumes, IV2 inches long, are much brighter but just as fragrant as the old type. Gal. tins, 50c. Privets for Hedges Red Lanterns henryi. "Henry's Privet." Australian Tea Tree Ligustrum S154. Malvaviscus grandiflorus. S163. "Red Lantern 3-8 ft. 5°. Small, glossy, pointed leaves. Plant." 8-10 ft. 24°. Here is a shrub that really Leptospermum laevigatum. S150. "Austra- of the finest for a low hedge or for a One gets out and goes to town as soon as you plant lian Tea Tree." 8-10 ft. 15°. Large spread- pruned specimen plant. Flats of 100 small ing shrub with graceful arching branches it, for within a few months it will be a big mass plants, $4.00; gal. tins, 50c. of handsome, and grayish-green foliage, needing very evergreen foliage, decked with Ligustrum lucidum. S156. "Japanese Privet." large, bell-shaped, 21/2-inch, bright crimson flow- little water and thriving in any soil. Splen- 4 to 12 ft. 10°. Leathery dark-green glossy ers like miniature Chinese red lanterns, did for cut sprays for house decoration be- and we leaves and white flowers. The best tall doubt if there will be a day in the year there- cause of its handsome little foliage and its hedge plant, making a fast, heavy, substan- after when you will not find plenty of flowers little white flowers. Easily trained in es- tial growth. Hardy, drouth resistant. Excel- It palier form against a sunny wall, but give on the plant. is one of those shrubs you can lent for Arizona or other desert areas. Flats plant in almost any climate, any soil, any place, it plenty of room. Needs good drainage. of 100 small plants, $2.50; gal. tins, 45c; sun or semi-shade and get abounding beauty in Full sun. Gal. tins 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. 5-gal. tins, $1.60. foliage and flower. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Ligustrum japonicum. S155. "Nepal Privet." Please include on your order sheet both the name 3-8 ft. 10°. Large, glossy deep green leaves, Rose-Flowered Tea Tree and code number of each variety ordered. This hardy from seacoast to desert. Flats of 100 will help us to avoid errors in filling your order. Leptospermum scoparium Rose Double. S151. small plants, $4.00; gal. tins, 60c. "Dwarf Rose-Flowered 4-6 ft. Tea Rose." Ligustrum ovaliiolium. S157. "California 15°. Here is one of the most beautiful little Privet." 3-8 ft. 0°. A most popular hedge Flowers of Rose-Flowered Tea Tree. The size and flowering shrubs ever offered for California plant for severe climates. Strong growing, color of Cecile Brunner Roses. gardens. It grows fairly erect but never bright green foliage, makes a compact hedge gets very large, has soft, fine-cut, dainty of any desired size when pruned. Partially foliage which looks the all the year. same loses leaves in winter. Flats of 100 small In March and April it produces great quan- plants, $3.00; gal. tins, 45c. tities of little double pink blooms which look like little Cecile Brunner Roses and are about the same size. The plant grows easily anywhere, preferring reasonably dry Oregon Crape soil and full sun. It is a delightful and use- Mahonia aquifolium. S159. "Oregon Grape." mi plant from which to obtain material for 3 to 6 ft. 0°. Dark, lustrous, holly -like bowl arrangements for the table. The little foliage flowers in dense clus- pink buds and flowers with their accom- and yellow ters in the early spring, followed by pur- panying foliage look well with many other plish berries. Thrives in almost any loca- bloom sprays. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2. tion but partial shade and ample moisture result in brighter and glossier foliage. An all-climate plant. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, A Texas Ranger $2.00.

Leucophyllum trutescens floribundum. S153. Mahonia aquiiolium compacta. S 16 1 , "Dwarf (texanum.) 5 ft. 10°. A beautiful plant from Oregon Grape." 2-4 ft. 0°. Quite similar Texas, with soft, silvery-gray foliage, and to the above, but with slightly smaller, nar- pinkish lavender flowers, 1 inch across, rower leaves. The main difference is in the borne in great profusion in the later sum- lower, more spreading habit of growth. For mer, and sometimes in the spring as well. a dense, compact, low bank of foliage, it is Prefers full sun and not much water. Gal. almost unexcelled, and it grows easily any- tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75. where, always retaining its handsome ap- pearance. Like the regular Oregon Grape, it does its best in half shade with plenty of Lemon Verbena moisture. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, H/2 -2 ft., $2.00. Lippia citriodora. S158. "Lemon Verbena." 5 ft. 22°. The cool, delightful fragrance of its foliage is unequalled, and the white flower spikes in summer are attractive. It Miniature Orchid is always found in the patios of old Spanish Malpighia coccigera. S162. "Holly Malpig- gardens in Europe and America- Gal. tins, hia." 2 ft. 26°. Dainty little dark green 75c. holly-like leaves V2 to % inch long. Cov- If it is not convenient for you to visit our ered in late summer and fall with little pink Display Yards, mail your order in and no and white frilled blooms which in their matter where you live we will see that it delightfully dainty and bizarre form and reaches you by the saiest and most eco- rich colorings resemble the most beautiful nomical method, whether it be mail, ex- tiny orchids. Shade or semi-shade. Plenty press, freight or our own trucks. See de- moisture. Use peat moss or leaf mold. Easy livery and shipping information on pages to grow under these conditions. Gal. tins,. 40 and 41. $1.25. — 54 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

True Myrtle Holly Leaves—Fragrance Note: Armstrong Myrtles are cutting-grown Osmanthus fortunei. S180. 6 ft. 10°. Big, and therefore uniform in size, compact in dark, 3-inch leaves that look like the glos- shape, with fine glossy foliage. Most siest, most beautiful English Holly leaves, Myrtles bought elsewhere are grown from and many white, very fragrant flowers, seed because it's great- cheaper, and vary even- sweeter than those of the Sweet ly in shape, foliage and rale of growth. Olive below. This combination of foliage Myrtus communis. S168. "True Myrtle." and fragrance will make room for it in 4- 8 ft. 15°. Valuable for either single many gardens, and it is easily grown specimens or small hedge. The foliage is almost anywhere. Best in part shade shining green and highly aromatic, with Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; balled, creamy-white flowers in spring and cur- 2-3 ft., $2.50. rant-like black berries in summer. Easily kept pruned to almost any desired height. Thrives in hot, dry situations and cool Climbing Syringa ones as well. Flats of 100 small plants, Philadelphia mexicanus. V37. "Climbing S4.00; gal. tins, 45c; 5-gal. tins, $1.50. Syringa." 12°. While often grown as a M. communis Compact. S169. "Dwarf vine, this plant makes a big, spreading, Myrtle." 3-6 ft. 15°. One of the finest 6 or 8 foot shrub if desired and is well low evergreen hedge plants for California worthwhile growing as such for its great or Arizona. Extremely dense and compact, quantities of creamy white, double, 2-inch with small dark shining leaves; shapes it- flowers, intensely fragrant in spring. Sun self, can be pruned down to 2 or 3 feet or half-shade. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, if desired. Plant 24 inches apart. Flats of $2.00. 100 small plants, $4.50; gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. California Holly Nandina Photinia arbutifolia. S183. "California Holly" or "Toyon." 6-10 ft. 15°. of Nandina domestica. S170. 5 ft. Zero. A One finest favorite of California gardens is this plant, the California shrubs is the Califor- densely clothed with compound leaflets, nia Holly or Christmas Berry, which covers Pittosporum rhombiiolium may be grown as a small bronzy red when young, dark green at itself with great handsome clusters of bril- tree or as a large shrub. Either way it's beautiful. maturity, and with beautiful coppery red liant red berries at the Christmas season. tones in winter. Topped with great showy It makes a large, spreading, well-shaped clusters of red berries in winter, but more bush and is an astonishing sight when Orange Jessamine its than one plant is necessary to secure ber- loaded with handsome berries, which exotica. 6-10 Murraya S166. "Orange Jessamine." ries. Full sun or part shade. Gal. tins, make splendid indoor decorations for ft. 20°. of The foliage is that rich, luxuriant shade 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Christmas. Ours are no ordinary Califor- green that everybody likes, always glossy and fresh nia Hollies but a specially selected, very looking. And in the spring and summer the plant Oleander (Nerium) large-fruited strain found only in secluded has many panicles of white, exceedingly sweet-scent- canyons on Catalina Island. Full sun, good The Oleander, with its brilliant, ed flowers like orange blossoms which frequently ap- showy drainage. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, 33.00. pear at the same time as the small, bright red fruits blossoms, is a beautiful shrub throughout all of California. It does particularly well which the plant bears as it gets older. It is unques- in Red-Bronze Photinia tionably one of the finest of fragrant flowering plants. the desert regions and warm inland valleys. Sun or part-shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. Grows and blooms quickly wher- Photinia glabra. S184. "Red-Bronze Pho- ever planted and blooms almost all through tinia." 6-8 ft. 15°. A fine big spreading the year. The flowers are very sweet and shrub which has exceedingly attractive African Boxwood fragrant. A good tub plant too. Hardy foliage at all times during the year. down to 15°. All varieties listed below: Myrsine africana. S167. "African Boxwood." 2-3 ft. Throughout the winter the handsome, Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, SI. 75. Also we 15°. Particularly valuable because it retains its glossy, 3-inch leaves are a dark bronzy have Pink, small, compact form without pruning and because Double Salmon, Double Rose green, but in March and April the new- Single Cherry Red and Single White as of its small, glossy, dense foliage which keeps its leaves come out in an amazingly rich 3-4 beauty uniformly throughout the year. Splendid for balled bushy plants, 2-3 ft., $1.75; ft., shade of reddish bronze, sometimes bright $2.25; 4-5 ft., $3.25. small specimen plant or low hedge, in fact, it is one scarlet, and hold their color for many Double Salmon (Mrs. Roeding). SI 73. of the best low foliage plants on our list. It does weeks. It holds its winter foliage better Double Light S172. well in almost any climate from coast to desert and Yellow. than the two Photinias below. In the sum- Double Rose Pink. S174. in any soil even where alkali is present. Full sun mer it has 4-inch white flower clusters, or part-shade. Flats of 100 small plants, 36.00; gal. Double White. S171. followed by red berries. Full sun. Gal. Single White. S176. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Single Cherry Red. S175. Rogers Firethorn in bloom. Orange berries in great Single Light Pink. SI 77. profusion follow these white blooms. Chinese Photinia Always a New Picture Photinia serrulata. S185. "Chinese Pho- tinia." 8-10 ft. 5°. Ochna atropurpurea. SI 78. 3-4 ft. 18°. For all of California With this beautiful plant from Africa in and Arizona there is no finer large ever- your garden, you have an entirely differ- green shrub than this magnificent plant. ent color scheme almost every month in At all times it is clothed with great dark, the year. From December through Feb- shining 8-inch leaves, which are dotted ruary the plant is luxuriant with its rich during fall and winter with occasional brilliant the deep olive-green foliage; in March it is red leaves, and in spring covered with bronzy red new shoots; in plant becomes a solid mass of great 6- May the plant is strung with brilliant inch heads of white flowers. See illustra- little bright yellow 1-inch blossoms hang- tion below. Gal. tins, 65c. ing from every branchlet. In June and Photinia serrulata nova. S186. "Compact July the sepals of each flower have turned Chinese Photinia." Like the above but a brilliant scarlet and look like red flow- much glossier foliage and bigger, lacier ers themselves. In July these crimson flower heads. The big, handsome foliage calyxs look like a bright red shooting star is bronze, reddish green when it first upside down, but hanging from the tip of comes out, turning to bright glossy green each one is a bright green berry. In Aug- as the leaves attain their full size. We like ust this berry has turned shining black, to recommend it because it is not only one contrasting with the brilliant red calyx. of the most beautiful of large shrubs but Best in half shade. Gal. tins, $1.25. it will grow almost anywhere with ease. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Sweet Olive Osmanthus fragrans. S181. "Sweet Olive." Blue or White Plumbago 10 ft. 10°. Large, handsome, dark green Plumbago 20°. foliage and small, white, extremely fra- capensis. S193. 5 ft. A grant flowers in clusters, whose cloying clambering, semi-climbing shrub covered sweetness, like gardenia and hyacinth all summer with lovely clear azure-blue mixed, will betray their presence in the flowers. Placed in a corner or against a garden before you see the plants. Plant sunny wall, it will fill the space quickly, are it to the windward and the breeze will so give it plenty of room, and if you waft the perfume over the entire garden. in a hurry for results, Plumbago will fill A splendid large background shrub. See the bill. Full sun. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. illustration opposite page. Sun near coast, tins, $1.85. part shade inland. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. Plumbago capensis alba. S194. Like the tins, $2.25; balled, 2-3 ft., $2.75; 3-4 ft., above, but with pure white flowers. Gal. $3.25. tins, 65c. Useful Pitf-osporums Carnation-Flowered Pittosporum eugenioides. S188. "Lem- Punica granatum Dwarf. S198. "Car- on Wood." 8-20 ft. 20°. Long a popu- nation-Flowered Dwarf Pomegranate." lar, fast growing plant for backgrounds 3-4 ft. 10°. Quantities of exceedingly or tall hedges in the coastal regions, brilliant scarlet carnations, full and because of its thick masses of medium double, borne on bushes; how would sized, shiny, deep green leaves with you like to have plants that will pro- sweetly wavy edges. The leaves are vide such blooms? It's easy—you'll lemon-scented when bruised, while the have it in this much improved new yellow flowers are heavily fragrant. dwarf Pomegranate, with its fresh, Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. bronzy-green summer foliage, bright Pittosporum rhombifolium. SI 89. 15 ft. colored flowers and small showy crim- 20°. Small tree or large shrub of com- son fruits borne in the fall and winter. pact habit, with very fragrant white In colder sections loses most of its flowers, followed by clusters of large leaves for a very short time in the orange berries in fall and winter. It middle of winter. This is not the old makes a beautiful little tree for walled type Dwarf Pomegranate usually sold, garden or parkway, never getting too it's an entirely different plant which large for its location. Gal. tins, 65c; we first offered several years age. 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Plant in full sun, coast or desert. See illustration in color on page 34. Gal. Pittosporum tobira. S190. 5 to 8 ft. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. 15°. A wide spreading, dense round headed shrub, with deep, glossy green foliage, excellent for massing against Berried Pyracanthas the house or wall, or for a fine large The evergreen Hawthorns (or Fire- hedge. In the winter it is covered with small fragrant white flowers resemb- thorns) are exceedingly valuable for their great wealth of bright-colored ling orange blossoms. It thrives any- berries in the fall and winter, which where in California and in Arizona as remain the plant for months. well. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; on many Easily grown and hardy anywhere. balled, very bushy, 2-2Vz ft., $2.50. There are many varieties of Pyracan- variegata. S191. 4-8 Pittosporum tobira thas, but after testing many kinds, we ft. 15°. A beautifully variegated form have selected the three varieties below Foliage of the above, with handsome silvery as being the very best. Plant them all and flowers of the Sweet Olive (Osmanthus fragrans) foliage. Gal. tins, cream and green in full sun. 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Pyracantha coccinea lalandii. S199. Pittosporum undulatum. S192. "Vic- "Orange Firethorn." 6-8 ft. 0°. The The Picturesque Evergreen Pear torian Laurel." 8-20 ft. 22°. Large most populaT orange berried variety, deep green, glossy undulated leaves. growing more slender and erect than Pyrus kawakami. S202. "Evergreen Pear." 8-12 ft. 15°. Its yellowish white flowers are very most others. On fire in the fall and Only now has sufficient stock of this extremely unusual and fragrant, especially at night. Big or- winter with great masses of brilliant, lovely large shrub or small tree been available in California ange berries follow the flowers. Excel- lustrous, orange berries, larger and to offer generally. Fresh, luxuriant Pear foliage which lent for planting in narrow parkways, showier than any other in its color. amazingly enough does not drop in the winter and is much for tall hedge or for foundation plant- a Hardier than other Pyracanthas, grow- better looking than any Pear foliage you ever saw. In the ings where a large handsome mass of ing over a wide range. Ours is a se- spring the foliage is almost obscured by masses of fragrant foliage is desired. Probably more lected, improved type, fruiting younger white flowers, making the plant one of the most beautiful widely planted within 30 miles of the and with bigger berries. Gal. tins, 65c; sights imaginable. May be grown according to needs as a coast in California for large foliage a 5-gal. tins, $1.75. picturesque small tree, large shrub or espaliered against plant than any other plant. Gal. tins, "Rogers wall or fence. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; espaliered, 2-3 P. crenulata rogersiana. S201. 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85; balled, ft., 5-gal. tins, $4.00. Firethorn." 6 ft. 5°. New and im- $2.25; 3-4 ft., $3.50; 4-5 ft., $5.00. proved variety, with guantities of Daphne Pittosporum bright orange berries borne clear to branch, thus Pittosporum daphniphylloides. S187. the tip of every willowy Pink Indian Hawthorn making splendid cut sprays. When the "Daphne Pittosporum." 8-10 ft. P. C. plant is covered with its frosty, lacy, Raphiolepis indica rosea. S204. "Pink Indian Hawthorn." says 15°. 22°. Not only is it a beau- white bloom in May (see illustration at 3-5 ft. 15°. One of the finest of the medium sized flowering tiful large, handsome shrub with glos- right), it is a magnificent sight and shrubs for California, requiring no pruning, becoming as sy, bright green, 6-inch, long, narrow worth growing for that reason alone. wide as it is high, and covered in early summer with the leaves, but it carries in spring and It also seems to be immune to pear- most magnificent large 6-inch panicles of half-inch pink early summer 2-inch clusters of creamy blight, which occasionally attacks other flowers like the loveliest of apple blossoms, sweetly fra- yellow flowers which are delightfully Pyracanthas. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. grant. Its foliage is extremely handsome and the flowers fragrant of spice, lem- with a mixture are followed by interesting clusters of blue-black berries. on and orange blossom fragrance which tins, $1.75. Plant it where close-up beauty will be appreciated. Ours gives it the name Daphne Pittosporum. are cutting-grown plants from selected, large flowered, You'll walk toward it to inhale that Graber's Giant Red deeply colored specimens. Ordinary seedlings, while they fragrance many times when it's in Pyracantha crenato-serrata Graber. may be sold under this name, will never even approach bloom. Full sun or part shade. Plenty S200. "Graber's Firethorn." 8-10 ft. them in beauty. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00. 5°. Of all the red berried Pyracanthas that we have grown, this is the best, Hollyleaf Cherry it is superlative in almost every and Chinese Photinia is an all-climate shrub that thrives every- Prunus ilicifolia. S195. "Hollyleaf Cher- way. The plant is the largest and where. Flower heads 8 inches across. ry." 5-10 ft. 10°. The glossy holly- most vigorous of all, with larger, glos- like leaves of this splendid native Cali- sier foliage. The big, bright crimson fornia shrub make fine Christmas dec- berries are enormous, borne in clusters orations. Useful for large hedge or as big as your two fists and thickly background planting in dry soil. Full covering the plant. A single plant, sun. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. allowed to grow freely or trained flat against building or wall, is a spec- Two Fine Laurels tacular sight in the fall and winter, and since the berries are at their best Prunus laurocerasus. S196. "English at Christmas-time, they make splendid Laurel." 5-8 5°. ft. Makes the finest Christmas decorations. Many small specimen shrub possible with its large, white flowers in spring. Give it plenty thick, glossy green leaves. Thrives of room, because it will use it. Gal. anywhere except in the desert. Sun or tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; 5-gal. tins, shade. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85; espalier form, $4.00. balled, 3-4 ft., $3.50; 4-5 ft., $4.50. Prunus lusitanica. S196A. (Laurus lu- Rosemary sitanica.) "Portuguese Laurel." 5-10 ft. 5°. A slow growing, very dark Rosmarinus officinalis. S216. "Rose- green foliaged shrub, glossy, dense, mary." 3 ft. 0°. A delightful plant compact and handsome. Spikes of fra- for the garden, not only for its fra- grant white flowers in the spring. Sun grance but for the soothing beauty of or part shade. Gal. tins, 65c. its gray-green foliage and little light lavender blooms. Gal. tins, 50c. Catalina Cherry Rosemarinus officinalis Prostrate. Prunus lyon. S197. (integrifolia.) "Cata- S216A. "Prostrate RosemaTy." 0°. A lina Cherry." 15-25 ft. 10°. Large, delightful little, spreading, creeping glossy, holly-like leaves, 3 to 5 inches form of the Rosemary, with slightly long, handsome the entire year. Popu- smaller foliage, which becomes 2 or lar and useful as large background 3 feet across but never gets over 8 plant, large hedge or small street tree. inches high. It has the same delightful Growing easily anywhere in full sun, fragrance, lavender blooms and cool any soil. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2. grey-green foliage. Gal. tins, 60c.

— 56 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

Lemonade Berry Jungle Queens

Rhus integrifolia. S209. "Lemonade Berry." Rondeletia cordata. S215. 4-6 ft. 22°. 4-10 ft. 20°. For a thick bank of rich From the luxuriant, little known jungles of green, abundant, all-year foliage, this is southern Mexico, down on the border difficult to equal. Grows easily anywhere Guatemala way, comes a plant that will with little care and no summer irrigation, bring brilliant tropical color right into your although it doesn't object to some water. garden because it grows beautifully here Has little pink flowers in spring. Responds and makes the most magnificent clump of to pruning readily and can be grown as glossy, bright green foliage throughout a large 10-foot shrub, a low ground cover the year. Covered in spring with big to 3 or 4 feet or can be grown espaliered heads of richly colorful blooms as shown against a wall. The pulp on the big red in color illustration on back cover of this berries make a delightful lemonade-like Catalog. The buds and flower tubes are drink. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. deep reddish salmon, while the lovely flowers are flesh-pink with a yellow beard- Rhus laurina. S208. "Laurel 4-6 Sumac." ed throat. The plants we have are so ft. 25°. Another handsomely foliaged na- beautiful and so full of flower buds right tive California shrub with large, 5-inch now that we get a lot of pleasure out of white bright green leaves and panicles of sending them out, and you'll get far more flowers. Fine for dry, sunny, rocky spots pleasure out of them for many years to since it stands any of heat and amount come. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75 Thryallis glauca shines out with hundreds of little drouth. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, SI. 75. Rondeletia amoena. S214. 4-6 ft. 22°. golden star-like flowers for many months in summer 6-10 Rhus ovata. S210. "Sugar-Bush." ft. Another lovely foliaged, brilliant flowered and fall. 20°. 5-gal. containers, SI. 85; gal. contain- beauty from Central America, with slightly ers, 65c. A native California shrub with larger leaves than the above and some- leaves lovely all-year foliage. The 4-inch what smaller but even more vivid flowers. Coffee Berry are thick and leathery, shiny green, and The flowers are rich pink with a yellow in late fall other summer and when many bearded throat. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. " foliage bit because of Rhamnus caliiornica crassifolia. S205. "Coffee Berry. plants look a rusty tins, $2.75. 4-6 ft. 10°. A native California shrub, medium sized, the heat and dryness, the Sugar-Bush is rounded, densely clothed right down to the ground fresher and brighter than ever. Small with dark green, 3-inch leaves. Has dull red coffee- creamy flowers in April, followed by deep like berries. A splendid plant for use in any soil in red berries with a sugary covering. Grows The Showy Ruellia almost any location where you want a thick, dense, anywhere. Full sun. Any soil. Gal. tins, 3-4 25°. low background along property lines, or in out of 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. Ruellia macrantha. ST22A. ft. the way corners where you don't want to spend too One of the showiest and most everbloom- much effort in looking after the plants, but where ing of flowering shrubs for a mild cli- you'll have a good looking background all the time. Catalina Currant mate, producing freely all over the spread- ing large foliaged plant big, dark laven- Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Ribes viburnifolium. S212. "Catalina Cur- en- Rhamnus crocea ilicifolia. S206. 5-10 ft. 10°. der, funnel-shaped flowers almost the A rant." 2-3 ft. 15°. A spreading half-trail- larger shrub than the above, with holly-like, tire year, even through the winter. Partial bigger, ing little shrub from Catalina Island, with shade or sheltered position. Gal. tins, 60c. more luxuriant foliage and bigger red berries. Full small, dark green, glossy leaves and sun. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. wine red stems, producing many small, Rhamnus crocea pirifolia. S207. "Holly-Leaved Buck- deep maroon colored flowers in the spring, followed by red berries. Excellent for Sea-Coast Beauty thorn." 15-20 ft. 15°. Big, glossy, 4-inch leaves and plenty of big, bright red fruits in summer. trailing on slopes or for hanging over a These Solanum rantonneti. S219. 6 ft. 25°. In wall. Grows anywhere in sun or shade berries are immensely beautiful and the birds do not the mild coastal regions this bushy, round- relish them. Easily tins, SI .00. near the coast, but prefers a slightly shel- grown anywhere. Gal. ed, sized shrub is covered with tered position in hot inland locations. medium its one-inch violet flowers almost every Needs little water. Gal. tins, 75c. The crimson flowers of Mexican Mallow. day in the year, and it is a splendid shrub speciosum. "Fuchsia-Flowered Ribes S211. for such locations. Gal. tins, 60c. Gooseberry." 6-8 ft. 15°. California na- tive, with fine, glossy, gooseberry-like foliage, every branch strung in January and February with pendulous, bright red Australian Bluebell flowers with long red stamens which turn Sollya heterophylla. S220. "Australian into red gooseberries later on. In our Bluebell Creeper." 1 ft. 22°. A trailing opinion, it is one of the very finest of shrub with many slender twining stems. native shrubs. Full sun along coast, half- Splendid for covering banks, low fences, shade inland. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, stumps and other objects. Brilliant blue, $2.25. small, bell-shaped flowers. Gal. tins 65c. Giant Matilija Poppy Spanish Broom Romneya White Cloud. S213. "Improved Matilija Poppy." 6 ft. 10°. The California Spartium junceum. S221. "Big Yellow Matilija Poppy has long been one of the Spanish Broom." 10 ft. 10°. Fast-growing, most popular of native plants. This new with many slender, bright-green branches hybrid is a great improvement over the almost devoid of leaves. Bears almost con- ordinary Romneya, lctrger and more beau- tinually, large pea-like, bright yellow flow- tiful both in flower and foliage. The 8- ers, sweetly scented. Thrives equally well inch blooms, snowy white, with the tex- in the salt spray of the seashore or the ture of crinkly white crepe paper, are hot sun of the desert. Gal. tins, 60c. graceful in spite of their enormous size and are held on the ends of the 5 to 6 foot stems, which are thickly clothed with Mexican Mallow handsome, big, blue-grey, 5-inch leaves right down to the ground. Makes a wide- Sphaeralcea umbellata. S222. "Mexican spreading, many-stemmed clump which is Mallow." 4-6 ft. 19°. It grows fast, with quite hardy, and even if frozen down will big luxuriant leaves, and in February come up quickly again in the spring. The starts producing many big, bright crim- big blooms are magnificent when cut and son, cup-shaped flowers, 2 inches across, placed in a big brass bowl. Grows any- with a white splash at the base of the where in full sun. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. petals. Throughout the entire late winter, tins, $2.75. spring and summer it never stops bloom- ing and in September is going as strong as ever. The hotter the weather the better Colorful Salvias it likes it, and since it is a native of the desert Salvia leucantha. S217. A 2-foot sub-shrub, regions of Puebla, in Mexico, you can go it for sending up in the late summer and fall away and forget to water six many spikes of woolly, violet-purple and weeks and it doesn't mind it at all. Gal. white flowers. Colorful both in the garden tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. and for bowl arrangements. Full sun. Cut Please include on your order sheet both back once a year in winter. Gal. tins, 45c. the name and code number of each Salvia mexicana. S218. 4-6 ft. Tall, fast- growing, bearing many deep blue flowers variety ordered. This will help us to in late winter. Full sun. Gal. tins, 45c. avoid errors in filling your order. — 57 — Bright- Yellow Trumpets Colden Star Shower Stenolobium stans angustatum. S223. "Hardy Thryallis glauca. ST26. "Goldshower Thry- 8 ft. 22°. Erect stems, Yellow Trumpet." allis." 4- ft. 20°. A plant that we consider cut leaves. heavily clothed with big, shiny just about perfect for the average California 2-inch trumpet-shaped, bril- Clusters of big garden because it grows easily under ail early liant yellow flowers in late winter and conditions of soil and climate, stands the heat, brilliant splash of color. spring which make a dry soil and several degrees of frost, is at- 5-gal. Fast growing. Full sun. Gal. tins, 75c; tractive in appearance, with long, light green, tins, $1.85. 2-inch leaves, and from July to January is covered with little star-shaped bright yellow Autumn Color blooms in many flowered panicles, each flow- Stranvaesia davidiana. S224. 6-12 ft. 0°. er one-fourth of an inch across. They look like A splendid large Chinese shrub with glossy the little golden stars used by teachers to dark green, 4-inch leaves which assume in reward their pupils for attendance and good behavior. Gal. tins, 5-gal. tins, $2.50. the winter many brilliant hues from purple- $1.00; bronze to red and orange, although they do not drop. Then follow great quantities of bril- liant fruits like little red apples and in the Orange Cover spring a profusion of handsome white flow- Ground interesting ers. It presents a colorful and Thunbergia gibsoni. V44. "Orange Clock Vine." picture during every season of the year. It's a rambling shrub that just wanders off While it thrives almost anywhere in Califor- from where you plant it, rambling along, and nia, it is most luxuriant in cold-wintered sec- if it finds a stump, rock or fence in its path, tions of California and other Pacific Coast it'll just climb right over them. All through regions. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. the year it bears lovely golden orange trum- pet-shaped flowers, IV2 to 2 inches across. Bird-of-Paradise Best near coast. Sun. Gal. tins. 75c.

Strelitzia reginae. ST23. "Bird-of-Paradise."

2-4 ft. 22°. The exotic, showy flowers of this striking plant, which resemble the crested Star Bush head of a tropical bird, gorgeously hued in bright blue, are brilliant orange and among Turraea obtusiiolia. ST28. 3 ft. 26°. We have 3- California's most magnificent blooms. The found this new and still rare South African foot stems come from the base of the plant, introduction one of the most satisfactory small which has wide, stiff, evergreen leaves some- flowering garden shrubs. It makes a com- what like small banana leaves. Blooms in pact, handsomely foliaged small plant, carry- The Star Bush has flowers like this from July winter and spring. Full sun on coast, part ing most of the summer many star-shaped Jas- to November all over the plant. shade inland. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, mine-like pure white flowers, IV2 to 2 inches balled, 2-3 ft., tubbed, $8.50. $4.50; $6.50; across. It stands plenty of heat and will Giant Chinese Snowball grow in either full sun or part shade. A Viburnum macrocephalum. S233. "Giant Chi- shrub which is just the right size to fit into Brilliant Orange nese Snowball." 5-6 ft. 0°. A gorgeous most gardens. In the summer it is a mass of Oriental Snowball, with big flower heads, 6 Streptosolen jamesoni. ST24. 3 ft. 20°. P. C. blooms from July to November, every branch says 28°. Few plants will provide as much to 9 inches across, snowy white, nestled looking like the one illustrated at the right.. 4-inch brilliant orange color throughout most of the against the dense oval leaves in May Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. their year. Likes the sea coast, full sun, good and June. Ordinary Snowballs lose leaves in the winter. This is evergreen drainage but plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, 75c. one except in the very coldest locations, where it Mail may lose a part of its leaves. It is lavish Cape Honeysuckle It's Easy to Order by with those great big snowballs and makes a Tecomaria capensis. V43. "Cape Honey- If it is not convenient for you to visit our spectacular sight in the garden. Full sun suckle. 22°. May be trained as a half-climb- Display Yards in Ontario or North Hollywood, near coast, half-shade inland. 5-gal. tins, $2.50. er. A splendid mass of dark green foliage, just put your order in the mail, and no matter Viburnum cinnamomifolium. S231. "Cinnamon dense and compact, with clusters of bright where you live, we'll get it to you by the Viburnum." 6-8 ft. 18°. Large, handsome, red, tubular flowers like scarlet honeysuckle best and most economical means, whether it glossy green 5-inch leaves. Also has 7-inch in fall and winter when other flowers are be mail, express, freight or our own trucks. flower heads in spring. Semi-shade. Gal. scarce. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping information. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. The new Matilija Poppy "White Cloud" has giant white flowers 8 inches across, twice the size Giraffes Browse On It of this picture.

Tecomaria shirensis. S227. 6-8 ft. 22°. We introduced this beautiful flowering shrub two years ago from Nyassaland in northeastern Africa, where the giraffes and the elephants roam. An upright plant with slender, arching branches, large, bright green leaves, produc- ing in late winter and spring, big, 2-inch flowers in a most brilliant flaming shade of orange. The fiery, glowing blooms are borne in large clusters of 15 to 20 and look like glorified tropical honeysuckles. Full sun. Gal tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Silver and Blue Teucrium fruticans. S228. "Silver and Blue Germander." 3 ft. 10°. One of those useful little plants that grow under any soil or cli- matic conditions, its handsome blue-gray foliage making a good background for the little light blue flowers which are borne in great profusion during the summer. Particu- larly good for dry, rocky places. Full sun. Gal. tins, 60c. The Princess Flower Tibouchina semidecandra grandiflora. ST27. "Princess Flower." 6 ft. 27°. An improved, large-flowered form of this colorful plant with soft, velvety, bronze-green foliage and quanti- ties of glorious 4-inch royal purple flowers, bome almost eight months in the year. Needs a sheltered location away from wind, and ex- tremely good drainage. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00.

C,„a 1 no/ Purchase S of one variety or Jave I U /o . 15 or more Q f the assorted plants on pages 23 to 62, inc. (no flats, divi- sions or 2V4-inch pots), and get the following reductions: 25c to 65c each, inc., deduct 5c per plant; 70c to S1.75 each, inc., deduct 10c per plant; S1.80 or more, each, deduct 25c per plant — 58- Perfect Foliage Xylosma senticosa. S239. "Shiny Xylosma." Flowering 5 ft. 12°. We will have to state that this little known Chinese plant is the finest foli- age plant for sunny positions in Southern California, for certainly nothing has sur- passed it in our experimental garden. Every day in the year the shiny green foliage is Shrubs handsome enough to draw admiration. Graceful, luxuriant, it needs no pruning to keep it in shape, is not particular about Viburnums soil or water and extreme temperatures of 110°, and 17°, affect it not in the least. Viburnum cylindricum. S232. 6-8 ft. 18°. What plant! Gal. tins, 90c; tins, Nothing makes a garden more successful a 5-gal. $2.25. than dependable, glossy, all-year foliage, and this fine new Chinese introduction sup- Hardy Ferns plies that in perfection, the big, green, You can transform a cool, shady bed into waxy leaves being 6 or 7 inches long. a luxuriant fern glen by planting in it a Added attractions are small white blooms few easily grown, hardy ferns. Use leaf followed by big black berries. 5-gal. tins, mold or peat moss in planting. The follow- S1.85. ing six Hardy Ferns in 4-inch pots, 60c each, Viburnum odoratissimum. S234. "Sweet Vi- S5.50 per 10. burnum." 6-8 ft. 10°. If we were to select Maidenhair Fern (Adiatum). Fl. Well known the one best permanent evergreen shrub delicate lacy favorite, 12-18 inches. for shade or semi-shade in California, we Polystichum setiferum. F8. A close, compact believe it would have to be this beautiful clump of graceful, feathery fronds, 12 to plant from China, with its big, long, 6-inch 18 inches. shining foliage and its fragrant, white, 4- Pteris cretica Wimsett. F9A. Narrow finger- ;nch flower panicles, which possess a most like leaflets, 5 to 7 inches long. Eighteen delightful fragrance. Following the flowers inches high. appear red berries. Best in shade or part Pteris cretica Riverton. Fll. Graceful long shade but grows in sun as well. Likes 12-inch fronds, narrow and arching. The waxy white, pink-flushed flower cluster of plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. Pteris tremula. F12. "Australian Brake Gardenia-Scented Viburnum, each cluster three tins, S2.25; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00; 3-4 ft., $3.75. Fern." Long, feathery, slender, bright green inches across. fronds, 2 to 3 feet long. Viburnum suspensum. S236. 8 ft. 15°. A Special Fern Bed Offer: of the luxuriant mass of shiny dark green leaves. One each above five kinds in 4-inch pots for S3.40. One of the most popular of foundation Offer shrubs for California plantings. Fragrant, No. 18. Gardenia-Scented Viburnum Dryopteris dentata. F4. white, rose-scented flowers in winter. Best "Downy Wood "Gardenia-Scented Fern." Fronds 3 feet long 1 foot wide. Viburnum burkwoodi. S230. in light shade. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-aal. tins, and Viburnum." 4 ft. Zero. In the very early spring 31.85. Gal. tins, 75c. the end of every branch on this handsome shrub Dryopteris hirtepes. F5. Long, feathery, 18- bears a large, 3-inch head of the most delightful, inch fronds, graceful and arching. Gal. waxy white, pink-flushed flower clusters, intense- tins, 75c. ly sweet with Gardenia-like fragrance. Through- Holly Xylosma Polystichum aculearum dudleyi. F6A. Dark out the summer it has exceedingly beautiful, green fronds, 2 feet long, 6 inches wide. shiny foliage which in colder climates turns a Xylosma heterophylla. S238. "Holly Xylos- Gal. tins, 75c. bright color in the fall. Becomes 4 or 5 feet ma." 2 ft. 15°. It is difficult to find fine- Polystichum adiantiforme. F7. Fronds tri- across when fully developed, and for the average foliaged shrubs which stay small like this angular, 2 feet long and 8 inches wide. small garden in a semi-shady position with one, 2 feet high and 3 feet across. A beau- Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. plenty of moisture, it is one of the finest shrubs tiful little compact mound of handsome foli- Woodwardia chamissoi. F13. Makes a big that can be planted. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, age throughout the year. Shade or semi- clump of broad fronds from 3 to 6 feet long. S2.25. shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.75.

Armstrong Palms, Bamboos and Grasses Queen Palm Date Palm Pampas Grass Arecastrum romanzoffianum. Ml. (Cocos plumo- Phoenix canadensis. M4. "Ornamental Date Cortaderia selloana. M2. "Pampas Grass." Palm." 10°. Its dense, immense crown of sa.) "Queen Palm." 17°. Southern California's 6 ft. Handsome big clump of long, arching, beautiful curving leaves, each 15 feet long favorite Palm is the Queen Palm, with a tall grass-like leaves, surmounted by great sil- and of a pleasing dark green color, and its slender, smooth trunk topped with a plume-like very white plumes. Ours is the superior, stately rapid all condi- crown of feathery, graceful leaves. The roots and growth under fluffy, silvery white "plume, better than the tions, combine to it an ideal Palm accommodate themselves to surprisingly small make ordinary type. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins. for street, park lawn, seacoast to spaces and when once established they need and from $1.75. desert. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $1.85; very little water. For parkways, patios, and Pennisetum ruppelii Crimson. M3A. "Foun- balled, 2-3 ft., $2.00. lawn plantings the Cocos plumosa lends an in- tain Grass." 3-4 ft. Beautiful dense tuft of formal yet dignified tropical appearance. Balled handsome grassy leaves and lovely rosy 4-5 ft., $2.75; 6-8 ft., $5.50; 8-10 ft., $8.50; 10-12 Windmill Palm crimson flower spikes on slender bending ft., 12-14 ft., $12.00; $15.00. Trachycarpus fortunei. M4B. "Windmill stems. Full sun. Gal. tins, 50c. Palm." 10-40 ft. Tall, slender, hairy trunk, with graceful head of 3-foot fan leaves on Fan Palms top. Gal. tins, 75c. New Zealand Flax Phormium tenax Veitchi. M4C. "New Zea- Washingtonia filifera. M4A. "California Fan Palm." Graceful Bamboos land Flax." 4-6 ft. Long, rigid, ribbonlike 30-50 ft. 10°. Native to our California deserts, The Bamboos grow easily in almost every leaves, marked with creamy-white stripes the Washingtonias are fitting permanent memo- location and their noble clumps of graceful on a green ground. The reddish purple rials to the father of our country. Hairy fan- stems, their wealth of soft green foliage and flower stalks borne occasionally become 10 shaped leaves and a tall sturdy trunk. Gal. tins, their informal lines of symmetry make them feet high. The leaves are often used now 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; balled, 4-5 ft., $4.50. indispensable for certain landscape effects. in dainty bowl arrangements. 5-gal. con- Washingtonia robusta. M5. "Mexican Fan Palm." All Bamboos except Dendrocalamus: 5-gal. tainers, $1.85; gal. containers, 65c. tins, $1.85. B. nana, B. ventricosa Phyl- 50-100 ft. 12°. Similar to W. filifera, but the and Mondo jaburan Gold Stripe. M3. "Lilyturf." trunk is much taller and more slender. Gal. tins, lostachys nigra also available in gal. tins 1V2-2 ft. Robust, graceful, low grass which 4-5 5-6 at 75c each. 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; -balled, ft., $4.50; makes a thick clump of narrow, handsome Bambusa nana. M1G. "Striped Bamboo." ft., $6.00. green leaves, striped with gold, surmounted 6 ft. A dwarf arching clump, with slender by spikes of beautiful blue flowers that look Butia capitata. M1B. "Pindo Palm." 10-15 ft. canes striped green and gold. 15°. like the blooms of Grape Hyacinth. Very 10°. Stout fan-like short-trunked, with arching Bambusa ventricosa. M1H. "Buddha Bam- handsome. 4-inch pots, 50c; 6-inch pots, 85c. graceful leaves of powdery blue. The fruit is boo." A dwarf Bamboo, never over 3 feet good to eat, something like a loquat. Gal. tins, high. 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Bambusa multiplex. "Dwarf Fern- Ml J. Dracena leaved Bamboo." 8 ft. A dwarf variety Chamaerops humilis. MID. 6 ft. 15°. The short with finely-divided fern-like leaves. 15°. Cordyline australis. M1E. "Giant Dracena." trunk is soon hidden in a mass of leafy suckers, Dendrocalamus latiflorus. M1F. "Giant Bam- 8-20 ft. Sword-shaped arching leaves borne making a miniature thicket. 5-gal. tins, $2.00. boo." The very largest and tallest of all, in a cluster at the top of the tall, slender Erythea armata. M2A. "Blue Palm." 10-20 ft. reaching height of 60 feet in time trunk. Grows easily anywhere. Gal. tins, 15°. Lovely steel-blue fan-like leaves. Gal. tins, a and with great rapi- 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; balled, 3-4 ft., $3.00; 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. making an enormous clump dity when once established. 18°. 5-gal. 4-5 ft., $4.00; 6-7 ft., $6.00. Erythea edulis. M2B. "Guadalupe Palm." 25 ft. tins, $2.00. Shipping Weights: 4-inch pots, 4 lbs., 6- 15°. A sturdy small Fan Palm with large, long- Phyllostachys nigra. M3B. "Black Bamboo." inch pots, 10 lbs., gal. tins, 10 lbs., 5-gal. lived rich green leaves. Stands ocean winds well, 8 ft. 15°. Black stems headed with beau- thrives anywhere. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. tiful feathery foliage. tins, SO lbs. each. — 59 — Armstrong Vines

You will find offered here not only the hardy vines of the colder climates which thrive in California but many brilliant flower- ing vines of the Tropics. The minimum temperature given after the name is approximate only to give some idea of the hardiness. All vines evergreen unless otherwise stated. All vines listed here can be shipped and planted at any time during the year unless otherwise specified in the description. Gal. tins weigh 10 lbs., 5-gal. tins 50 lbs. each packed. For shipping costs see page 41. Chinese Gooseberry Actinidia chinensis. VI. "Chinese Gooseberry." Fast growing, twining shoots, big, roundish, 5-inch leaves, 2-inch white flow ers in spring, and large, 2-inch fruits like giant gooseberries. Plant two to be sure of getting fruit. Loses leaves in winter. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Blue-Berry Climber Ampelopsis brevipedunculata. V2. "Blue-Berry Climber." Be- low zero. Big, handsome, three-pointed, five-inch leaves will thickly cover wall or arbor, and in late summer or fall the vine is brilliant with many clusters of the most beautiful shining metallic blue berries which make wonderful decorative material when cut. Can be grown in sun or shade in almost any climate. It has the most beautiful ornamental berries of Giant Burmese Honeysuckle (Lonicera hildebrandiana). These Magnificent any vine that we grow. Leafless in winter. Gal. tins, 85c each. Flowers, Shown Here Less Than Half Size, Become 6 or 7 Inches Long.

Trumpet Vine (Phaedranthus). See Page 62. Blood Red Beautiful Bomarea Orange-Red Trumpet Bomarea caldasiana. P10. "Orange Campsis tagliabuana Mme. Galen. V7. Climbing Peruvian Lily." 27°. A re- (Tecoma grandiflora.) "Orange-Red markable climbing herb with striking Trumpet Vine." Zero. The most flori- flowers of great beauty. It has grassy ferous and gorgeous of all Trumpet broad foliage, grows to 4 or 5 feet, Vines, with great clusters of very large needs a fence or trellis to twine around, brilliant scarlet-orange flowers, borne and throughout spring and summer it in great profusion in spring and early has big clusters of 2-inch tubular flow- summer. Perfectly hardy anywhere. ers that look like a cross between an See illustration below. Bare root dur- orchid and a trumpet flower. Brilliant- ing January, February and March, ly colored in orange, yellow and red. $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. Rare and scarce. Sun near coast, half- shade elsewhere. Gal. tins, $1.25. Evergreen Grape Cissus capensis. V7A. "Evergreen Bougainvilleas Grape." 24°. One of the most luxuri- Bougcinvillea spectabilis. V6. "Purple ant, picturesque and daintily foliaged Bougainvillea." 20°. The hardiest of of all vines for rambling over a large the Bougainvilleas, bearing a mass of space is this wild grape vine, with its brilliant reddish-purple flowers against all-year foliage and reddish black edi- a background of bright green leaves. ble fruits in the summer which make Easily grown, but needs sun. Gal. some of the most delicious jelly you or part shade. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. have ever tasted. Sun Bougainvillea spectabilis Crimson Lake. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. VT1. 26°. Just as vigorous in growth as the above but immensely different in Glossy Winter Foliage the color of the flowers, which are Cissus hypoglauca. V8. "Glossy Leaved brilliant crimson. Fairly tender, full' Creeper." 20°. An informal rambling sun. Particularly fine on the seacoast creeper or climber which will spread in Southern California but splendid in over any kind of an object in a short milder interior sections as well. Gal. time. We like it because of its hand- Rosa de Montana tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. some shiny evergreen foliage, which Bougainvillea spectabilis praetorius. looks as though it ad been polished Antigonon leptopus. V4. "Rosa de Montana." "Queen's VT2. "Bronze Bougainvillea." 26°. The the middle of winter as in the Wreath." 10°. This .magnificent flowering vine from Mexico most unusual of the Bougainvilleas be- spring. One of the most beau- thrives almost anywhere in Southern California, including cause of the beautiful color of its tiful foliage vines that we the milder desert sections, grows very rapidly to 20 or 30 bronzy gold flowers which change at grow. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. feet, and from early spring to late autumn is a mass of times to apricot or orange-yellow. Best tins, S2.25. bright rose-pink heart-shaped flowers. Dies down in winter. near seacoast or in frostless areas. Gal. Plants available March 1 to December 1. Gal. tins, $1.00. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50.

Orange-Red Trumpet Vine Sky-Flower (See Page 62) Hibbertia (See Next Page) Armstrong Flowering Vines

Yellow Trumpet Vine Two Beautiful Jasmines Jasminum officinale grandiflorum. Doxantha unguis-cati. V15. (Bignonia tweedi- V24. "Span- ish Jasmine." 10°. Extremely vigorous, ana.) "Catclaw Yellow Trumpet." Zero. Large, rapid growing, resistant to heat and very brilliant yellow trumpet flower, 3 inches long, hardy. The large pure white flowers are nches across. The long, slender shoots cling extremely fragrant, this variety producing the essence o any surface (that's the reason for the name), which forms the basis of the world's finest making a dense mat of foliage. Excellent for per- fumes. Thrives from coast to desert. Gal. tins, the desert (or anywhere else). Best in sun. 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. Jasminum mesnyi. (J. primulinum.) V23. "Prim- Clings to Any Surface rose Jasmine." Zero. A fine winter blooming yellow-flowered Jasmine with long pendulous Ficus pumila. V16. "Creeping Fig." 15°. The green branches which may be trained along a best evergreen vine for covering stone, brick or fence, over a pergola or as a big shrub. Flow- wood, making a close mat of small heart-shaped ers almost 2 inches across, only slightly fra- dark green leaves which cling closely io any grant. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. surface. Thrives anywhere in California. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 65c. Honeysuckles Showers of Yellow Cold Lonicera japonica halliana. V28. "Hall's Honey- suckle." Zero. Delightfully fragrant, white Gaudichaudia mucronata. VT3. "Gilded Fairy flowers, changing to yellow. It thrives equally Vine." 28°. A beautiful and rare climber from on coast or desert, in sun or shade. For rapid the high Mexican mountains which has fasci- growth, dense foliaqe, and quantities of fra- nated us by its beauty and charm. Fast grow- grant flowers this Honeysuckle is unexcelled ing, with graceful, small foliage, it becomes and it grows easily anywhere. Gal. tins, 60c. covered in the fall months with sprays of Lonicera etrusca Cream. V26. "Etruscan Honey- lovely little lV2-rnch, brilliant yellow blooms suckle." 10°. An improvement over Hall's Ja- which cascade down over the plant in rippling pan, with creamy yellow flowers, 2 inches long, masses. When the sun shines on the flowers becoming deeper in color as they age, almost they have a peculiar glittering effect as though orange. The blooms are larger than Hall's they had been sprinkled with gold dust. It Japan, much more colorful, and even more fra- does well under average garden conditions grant. The foliage is larger and more hand- here in Southern California. Sun or semi-shade. some than most honeysuckles and it grows Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. rapidly. Gal. tins, 75c. Carolina Jessamine Lonicera sempervirens Scarlet. V29. "Scarlet The Fragrant Chilean Jasmine Woodbine." Zero. The large, showy, orange- Gelsemium sempervirens. V17. "Carolina Jes- scarlet flowers have the brightest color in samine." 12°. A slender twining vine, rapid Honeysuckles. Easily grown anywhere. Does Large Flowered Clematis growing and hardy, covered in spring with not get as dense in growth as Hall's Japan. golden-yellow, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers. The brilliant scarlet flowers attract much atten- Clematis jackmani. V10. "Purple Cle- Splendid for framing a small arch, gateway or tion everywhere. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2. matis." Zero. The showy, large-flowered low fence, where moderate size is desired. Gal. Clematis with the big, bright purple flow- Lonicera tellmanniana. V30. "Golden Giant tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. ers which are so highly prized in the Honeysuckle." Zero. Here is something new East and Middle West. They do not thrive and unusual. A magnificent, vigorous, luxuri- quite so well in California, but can easily Dainty Hardenbergias antly foliaged Honeysuckle with beautiful, large, be grown if desired. The top should be intense golden yellow blooms, tipped with Hardenbergia comptoniana. V18. "Vinelilac." cut off at the ground during winter and bronzy red. A mass of beautifully colored 22°. allowed to start over in the spring. Part Among all blue flowering vines this is blooms in late spring and perfectly hardy any- shade. Gal. tins, SI. 25. our favorite. It sends its dainty, twining, slen- where. Sun. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. der leaflets over and around any kind of a fence or other object, and even shoots up into Violet Trumpet Vine over-hanging shrubs or trees, and then in late Giant Burmese Honeysuckle Clytostoma callistegioides. V12. "Violet winter is a marvelously beautiful sight when Lonicera hildebrandiana. V27. "Giant Burmese Trumpet Vine." 18°. Lovely large glossy covered with its myriad 6-inch racemes of love- Honeysuckle." 20°. The giant of all the Honey- foliage, covered with lovely big flowers ly violet-blue pea-shaped flowers. Among the suckles, covering large spaces and with enor- of delicate violet in late winter and early few vines which will thrive on the north side mous flowers reaching the unbelievable dimen- spring. The delicate beauty of its flowers of the house. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. sions of 7 inches, yellow, changing to orange, and the luxuriant, dark green foliage Hardenbergia bimaculata. V17A. More bushy red and buff, most deliciously fragrant. Most makes it one of California's most beau- than H. comptoniana, with slightly broader foli- plants offered of this rare Honeysuckle are tiful vines. It will clamber over fence, age but wtih the same beautiful dark violet- grafted on other roots and will never be satis- wall, building, or over a shrub or tree if blue flower spikes. Also hardier. Gal. tins, 75c. factory because they "sucker" badly. Ours are you want it to. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, cutting grown and will always remain true. 75c; 5-gal. tins, S2.00. Especially fine right on seacoast. Sun. Gal. Golden Hibbertia tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Hibbertia volubilis. V21. "Guinea Gold A Lavender Beauty Vanilla Scented Trumpet Vine (Distictis lactiflora) Vine." Its flexible Distictis lactiflora. V13. "Vanilla Scent- twining branches grow rapidly to 8 or 10 feet, clothed ed Trumpet Vine." 20°. This is one quite densely with handsome, heav of the finest of all vines for the milder / textured, dark green foliage against regions of California, making a dense which are borne for many weeks in mass of deep green foliage, covered al- summer quantities of brilliant yellow most all spring, summer and fall with flowers of the size shown on preceding big frumpet-shaped flowers 3V2 inches page. Probably the best evergreen, across, purple when they open, light- yellow-flowered climber that offer. ening to various lovely shades of lav- we flowers are the size ender as they age. Blooms almost eight The about and shape of an English gold guinea. Sun months in the year and the flowers are or part-shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. deligthfully vanilla-scented. Gal. tins, tins, $2.25. 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Royal Trumpet Vine Evergreen Ivies Distictis riversi. V14. "Royal Trumpet Hedera canariensis. V19. "Algerian Vine." 20°. See illustration front cov- Ivy." 10°. We like it better than Eng- er. A more rampant climber than the lish Ivy because it grows faster and Vanilla Scented Trumpet - Vine above. has bigger and brighter green leaves This new hybrid has an abundance of 6 inches across. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. big glossy leaves, handsome all tins, $2.00. through the year. Almost every day in Hedera canariensis multicolor. V20. the year you can see on it clusters of 10°. Beautiful big leaves handsomely long, flaring trumpets, almost 6 inches blotched with light green, dark green, in length, the tube of the trumpet a and creamy yellow. Shade or semi- brilliant yellow, and the face open a shade. Gal. tins, 65c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. gorgeous royal purple which changes as the flowers age to rich shades of Hedera helix. V20A. "English Ivy." 10°. violet and lilac, always with a vivid Excellent wall for bank covering in tins, flats orange color in the throat. Its brilliancy sun or shade. Gal. 50c; $2.50. is breath-taking, and it's fragrant too. of 100, The size of the flower will startle you. Hedera helix Maple Queen. V20C. 10°. Full sun. Plant Pat. No. 554. Gal. The finest dwarf Ivy for indoor use. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Plant Pat. No. 430. 3-inch pots, 50c.

— 61 — Chilean jasmine Mandevilla suaveolens. V31. "Chilean Jasmine." 5°. The flowers, 2 inches across, have big, white, trumpet-shaped scent, and they are larger and the' delicious sweet Jasmine showier than the true Jasmines. Is hardy and has big, handsome foliage but put it where you want sunshine in cold weather. winter because it usually drops its leaves in Gal. tins, 75c. Big Green Butterflies Mascagnia macroptera. V32. "Green-Gold Vine." 18°. We could use a half column to express our admiration and enthusiasm for this lovely flowering vine from western Mexico. Against a background of handsome honeysuckle- sprays like foliage are borne all during the summer months and clusters of brilliant, shining golden yellow flowers, about three-quarters of an inch across, followed by, and often side by side on the vine with, beautiful, big, 2-inch seedpods which look like chartreuse colored (yellow green) butterflies of enormous size. These are lovely both on the vine and as cut decorative sprays for the house. Of med- Left to Right Above: Flowers of Double Violet Wistaria, Long Cluster Wis- ium size, likes full sun, dry soil. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. taria, White Chinese Wistaria and Blue Chinese Wistaria. The Flower Clus- tins, $2.50. ters of the Long Cluster Wistaria Shown Above are Cut Short and are Actually About One-third Longer in Proportion to the Others. ivory White Trumpets Oxera pulchella. 'V33. "Ivory White Trumpet Vine." 25°. Possibly the loveliest of all white flowering vines. In the Cape Honeysuckle Cloryvine Crape year it is a solid sheet of ivory-white trumpet- fall of the Viiis coignetiae. V47. "Gloryvine blooms, 2 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, so waxy Tecomaria capensis. V43. "Cape Hon- shaped Grape." Zero. A fast growing, heavy texture that you can hardly believe them eysuckle." 22°. May be grown as a and delicate in foliaged vine, with great plush-like real as they shine out against the handsome, dark glossy half climber or a large shrub. Has leaves, 8 to 12 inches across, which green foliage. Semi-shade. Best along coast or in sheltered thick bright green foliage and clusters turn brilliant shades of red and bronze foothill districts. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. of bright red flowers like scarlet Honey- in ' autumn. Loses its leaves for the suckle in the fall and winter when winter. It bears big clusters of fine other flowers are scarce. (But no fra- Boston Ivies blue-black grapes, excellent to eat or grance like Honeysuckle.) Gal. tins, veitchi. (Ampelopsis for jelly. more beautiful vine Parthenocissus tricuspidata V34. 75c each; 5-gal. tins, $1.85. A much veitchi.) "Small-Leaved Boston Ivy." Zero. A vine which than any of the fruiting grape varie- clings to any surface unaided and closely covers walls, ties because of its summer and fall chimneys and stonework with a soft mantle of green in the The Blue Sky Flower foliage. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. summer, turning to gorgeous reds and yellows in autumn, dropping in winter. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 75c. Thunbergia grandiflora. V45. "Sky- Wistarias Ampelopsis tricuspidata. V2. "Boston Ivy." Zero. Leaves Flower." 26°. Of extremely rapid Wistarias grow so rapidly everywhere twice as large and a much brighter, glossier green but with growth, with large heart-shaped leaves and their long, pendulous flower clus- same rich autumn colors. Clings to any surface. Deciduous. which overlap to make a dense cover- ters are so beautiful that they are one Gal. tins, 75c. ing, the individual 3-inch blossoms of the most popular of the spring flow- hanging in clusters over the plant, ering vines, but plenty of Passiflora edulis. V35. "Passion Vine." Delicious fruiting and give them with a color that is rare in vines, room. They really go places. Full sun. vine. See page 7. bright sky-blue. Even if frozen down, Leafless in winter. Prices on Wistarias: it comes up and blooms the same sea- 2-yr. bare root (from Dec. to April), Blood Red Trumpet Vine son. Usually blooms in fall, winter $1.25; 3-yr. in 5-gal. tins, $2.50. (Bignonia cherere.) "Blood Phaedranthus buccinatorius. V36. and spring. Semi-shade or morning Wistaria sinensis. V50. "Chinese Wis- 24°. evergreen climbing Red Trumpet Vine." A splendid sun. See illustration in color on page taria." Zero. Probably the most popu- shrub which sends its heavy, dark green foliage every- 60. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. lar of all the Wistarias is this variety, where, all through the spring, summer and fall is cov- Thunbergia gibsoni. V44. More of a and covered with its giant blue flower clus- blood-red, tubular flowers. It ground cover than vine. 58. ered with clusters of great a See page ters before the leaves appear in the will anything will cover stone walls, fences, climb over and spring. Never fails to bloom. or buildings with a dense mantle of green in a short time. sinensis alba. "White Chi- Almost everblooming. Full sun. See illustration in color on The Star Jasmine W. V51. nese Wistaria." Zero. Same as above page 60. Gal. tins, 75c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. but with white flowers honey- Philadelphus mexicanus. V37. "Climbing Syringa." 12°. Trachelospermum jasminoides. (Rhynco- and a sweet fragrance. Fragrant flowering shrub which can be used as a vine. spermum. V46. "Star Jasmine." 15°. From the Malay Peninsula this See page 55. comes W. violaceaplena. V52. "Double Chi- splendid vine, which will absolutely nese Wistaria." Zero. A beautiful Silver Lace Vine dominate the garden in spring and double flowering variety, with long, early summer by the marvelous per- violet-blue flower clusters. Fragrant. Polygonum auberti. V38. "Silver Lace Vine." Zero. A fume which it wafts on the air from a hardy, fast-growing, twining, deciduous vine, smothered with W. floribunda macrobotrys. V48. "Long myriad little star-shaped white flowers great clouds of small, white, fragrant flowers in panicles in Cluster Wistaria." Zero. Probably the like miniature pinwheels. Worth plant- late summer when flowers are scarce. Gal. tins, 75c. most beautiful of all Wistarias because ing for one whiff of its delicate, deli- of the extreme length of its lilac flow- cious fragrance. The vine is strong er racemes, which often measure over The Kudzu Vine growing but not rampant, with big, 2 feet. Blooms later than the Chinese leathery, glossy leaves which make a Pueraria thunbergiana. V39. Kudzu Vine. Zero. For pro- but not so profusely. ducing a quick effect this vine has no equal, since it often dense mass, and it thrives equally well W. floribunda macrobotrys rosea. V49. makes a growth of 40 to 60 feet in one season. A perennial, in full sun, shade or semi-shade. Hardy "Rose Long Cluster Vistaria." Zero. dying down each winter and coming up again in early almost anywhere in California. May The long, slender racemes are light spring. Leaves a foot across. Showy pea-shaped purple also be grown as a large shrub if lavender-pink. flowers. Large roots, 60c each. pruned. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00; trellised plants, $3.00. Climbing Roses. See pages 67 to 76. The Flame Vine Pyrostegia ignea. V40. "Flame Vine." 26°. For brilliancy The Fragrant, Snowy White, Waxy Flowers of Stephanotis. of color and abundance of bloom, this magnificent vine is difficult to excel. Its handsome foliage is smothered with a brilliant mass of vivid flaming orange-scarlet flowers all through the winter. The top of the vine must be in full sun. Easily grown in ihe warmer sections of California. Gal. tins, 85c. Cup of Cold Solandra guttata. V41. "Cup of Gold." 26°. A tall, vig- orous vine with big shiny leaves, and enormous trumpet- shaped, golden-yellow flowers 6 to 8 inches across and quite fragrant. A very showy, spectacular vine which needs plenty of room. Sun. Gal tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.00. Fragrant Corsage Vine Stephanotis floribunda. V42. "Fragrant Corsage Vine." 30°. Here is one of those rare and lovely vines you dream about. The snowy white, exquisite shaped blooms, waxy in tex-' ture, 1 to 2 inches long, and with a fragrance so delight- ful and permeating that it will fill the entire garden. The thick, 4-inch, glossy leaves are beautiful in themselves. Sun or shade. Plenty of moisture. Best along coast. Gal. tins, $1.50 each.

62 — Newer Climbing Roses

Here are the best of the new climbing roses, based on our tests here in Southern California and on observations elsewhere. Ten or more as- sorted roses (sometimes three) sold at reduced prices. See page 68.

1943 s Best New Yellow Climbing Picture. RC24. (Armstrong Climbing Golden Rapture. RC16. (Arm- Nurseries.) Last year the Bush Rose, strong Nurseries.) In our opinion, the Picture, was the most popular pink yellow rose with the most beautifully variety in our entire list. That's why we think that the most outstanding formed bud and open flower is Gold- new climbing rose of 1943 is this big, en Rapture. The bush form of this strong, beautifully foliaged, climbing rose has increased in popularity by type of the same variety. Where you get dozens of fine blooms on the leaps and bounds since it was intro- bush form, you'll get hundreds of duced several years ago, and this is beautiful, long-stemmed, perfectly a new Armstrong-originated climbing formed buds on this climber every spring, with every flower a "Perfect form of this glorious rich shining yel- Picture." Clear rose-pink with warm low rose. Not only will it produce salmon undertones, enchantingly fra- hundreds of magnificent blooms in grant. Plant Pat. No. 524. $1.50 ea.* the spring to reflect the sunshine in Climbing Texas Centennial. RC27A. (Weaver.) A big, vigorous grower, the garden, but it will provide many blooming profusely in the spring. The long-stemmed, perfect buds for cut- big, brick-red buds with their rosy ting. We expect it to be the No. 1 red open flowers are even larger, yellow climbing rose for the Pacific more lovely and borne on longer Coast and the Southern States. The stems than on the bush form. Order bush variety of this beautiful yellow Climbing Picture early, because we'll be sold out quick- rose is listed on page 70. Plant Pat. Our most popular pink bush rose (see page 73) now climbs too. ly. Plant Pat. Applied For. $1.50 ea* No. 508. $1.25 each* Climbing Golden Rapture Climbing Mrs. Sam Deep Dark Red See also Bush Variety described on page 70. Climbing Mrs. Sam McGredy. RC22. Climbing Night. RC23. (Armstrong Nur- (Western Rose Co.) For many years the series.) This new climbing rose of our bush form of this variety has been own introduction we believe to be the pleasing thousands of rose lovers with finest deep red climber. Large, full its beautifully formed, coppery orange flowers of deep crimson, shaded black buds and flowers, and now when we and maroon, opening out to beautifully can have that beautiful, glossy, bron- shaped blooms and saturated with the zy green foliage, the most luxuriant same delightful cinnamon-clove fra- and handsome in the rose world, spread grance which the Bush Rose Night pos- over fence or wall and get dozens of sesses. It is a vigorous climber and for those beautiful long-stemmed blooms us has bloomed exceptionally well. A instead of just one, we feel very happy large plant covered with these velvety about it, and you will too when you textured, fragrant, deep dark red get one in your garden. Plant Pat. No. blooms certainly is a delightful thing 394. See illustration page 72. $1.00 ea* to have in any garden. Plant Pat. No. 439. $1.25 each .* Cay Mood Sunshiny Gold Gay Mood. RC30. (Lammerts, intro- Sungold. RC39. (Geo. C. Thomas, Jr.) Armstrong.) Ever since the duced by You can have glorious golden sunshine first plant of this new seedling bloom- in your garden throughout the spring ed in the trial rows we have gloried in blooming season and can take it right the rich, deep coral-flame color of the into your house, with this fine yellow flowers which are produced buds and climber, which produces great quanti- all over the 6-foot plant, their beauty ties of lovely, long, slender buds, gold- brilliancy enhanced by a back- and en yellow with a hint of lemon, pro- ground of large, glossy foliage. Amaz- duced on long stems for cutting. Opens ingly colorful in the spring, and keeps up into full, double flowers, holding flowering right through the summer. on their shape and color well under all It has put us all in a gay mood, and conditions. Glossy, mildew - resistant hope it will do the same for you. we foliage. Hardy on East coast. $1.00 each. $1.00 each. Golden Star Climber Climbing Cecil. RC9. (Armstrong.) So far as we know, there has been no bright yellow, single climbing rose un- til our introduction of this new climb' ing sport. Visualize these giant 4-inch, golden, star-like blooms shining out against a background of large, glossy, luxuriant foliage in your garden. $1.25. Climbing Hinrich Gaede Described page 65. See also Bush page 70. An Orange for Coast to Coast Rose Anne. RC38. (George C. Thomas, Jr.) A moderate grower, suitable for smaller spaces. The flowers are a beautiful soft orange-apricot and borne on 18-inch stems, one of the finest Climbing Roses for cutting that has ever been grown, and it blooms not only in the spring, but at intervals throughout the summer as well. Splendid reports reach us on its behavior in the East, South, and on the Pacific Coast, so it evidently is a coast-to-coast rose. Award- ed Certificate of Merit in 1939 by American Rose Society. $1.00. Blooms All Summer Captain Thomas. RC5. (George C. Thomas, Jr.) A magni- ficent climbing rose in every way. The flowers are single, medium size, creamy yellow in color, produced almost every week during spring, summer and fall—a most remarkable characteristic in a climber. Quite hardy, and in colder cli- mates makes a 5 or 6 foot pillar, growing up to 8 feet in California. Even without the beautiful flowers, its hand- some, glossy foliage is worthwhile as a lovely covering for fence or wall. It is practically mildew-proof, and in Cali- fornia is evergreen. Plant Pat. No. 393. $1.00 each.* 63 2- * J Standard Climbers

See page 68 for reduced prices on 10 or more bush or climbing roses. Shipping costs are low on roses. Gigantic Pink Blooms

Belle of Portugal. RC1. There is no more vigorous grower among Roses than this variety and 10 or 12 foot canes the first season are to be expected, so give it plenty of room. The amazingly beautiful salmcn-pink buds are also gigan- tic in size, often 3 and 4 inches in length. Do not expect after because it is too it to bloom the first year planting busy growing, but thereafter be prepared to admire it, in Califor- for it is a mass of bloom from January to May nia, where it often starts to bloom in mid-winter. 75c ea. BiSly Boiler

Billy Boiler. RC2. We think that this variety has the most erfect blooms of any red climber. The robust plant sends up many canes to 12 feet, and at the tip of each side branch on great long stems for cutting are the immense flowers, absolutely perfect in every way, deep red, with blackish shadings, quite double, beautifully shaped and deliciously fragrant. The color does not fade in the hot- test sun. 65c each. Banksia White. RC3. A rampant old California climber, spreading all over the place, festooned in the springtime with a profusion of little, button-like, white flowers. Abso- lutely thornless. We have a few of the Yellow Banksia, RC4, also. $1.00 each. Climbing Countess Vandal Climbing Countess Vandal. RC11. The bush form of Coun- ress Vandal, with its long, pointed buds of coppery-bronze, pink and gold, has been increasingly popular each year. The climbing sport produces the same beautiful buds in even greater profusion and fills two roles, that of a mag- nificent vigorous climber, covered with beautiful blooms for garden decoration, and as a reservoir of magnificent long-stemmed buds for cutting. $1.00 each. For 50 Years a Favorite Climbing Cecile Brunner. RC10. (Polyantha.) This famous Climbing Rose, with its great quantities of perfect little miniature pink buds and flowers, has long been a favo- rite in California and will continue to be such. Exceed- ingly vigorous, with dense handsome foliage. You can cut a bouquet of beautiful little buds from it almost any time of the year, for it is almost a perpetual bloomer in The Lovely Orange Climber, Rose Anne (See Opposite Page) mild climates. 75c each. Climbing Dainty Bess Climbing Dainty Bess. RC12. For years those rose lovers who ad- mire so much the dainty, single, amber-pink flowers of Dainty Bess Climbing Night have been asking for this variety in a climbing form. It is avail- The deepest, darkest red in Climb- able now and comes up to all expectations. If you like this variety ing Roses. See also Bush Variety in a bush, and almost everyone does, imagine having a large on page 73. climbing plant of it covered wtih hundreds of blooms instead of a half a dozen. 75c each. Climbing Etoile de Hollande. RC13. See description and illustration on next page. $1.00 each.

Climbing Golden Emblem. RC15. It produces great quantities of the same highly colored buds of golden yellow with brilliant red shad- ings, which are so much admired on the bush form of Golden Em- blem. Extremely vigorous, rampant grower, with polished, glossy foliage. 75c each.

Climbing Rose, Reveil Dijonnais See page 66. Armstrong Climbing Roses

Climbing Hinrich Caede Best White Climber Climbing Hinrich Gaede. RC18. The extraordi- Climbing K. A. Victoria. RC20. A grand white nary brilliant orange-vermillion coloring of this climbing Rose; large, deep and double; it is striking Rose is now found in a climber, and the strongest growing, free blooming and most what a climber! The color illustration on page satisfactory of the white climbers. 75c each. 63 gives but a poor idea of the richness and and beauty of the flowers on this free bloom- • ing Rose, which does not stop with the spring Climbing Mrs. Thorn blooming period but continues to produce occa- Climbing Mrs. Erskine P. Thom. RC21. Few will sional magnificently colored blooms all through dispute the claim of Mrs. E. P. Thorn to be one the summer and fall. Plant Pat. No. 244. $1.25* of the finest yellow bush Roses. The vigorous climber multiplies many times the number of flawless yellow buds which can be produced Two Favorite Red Climbers on a bush. See illustration in color on page 76. 75c each. Climbing Hadley. RC17. This vigorous climb- ing sport will produce many times the number of beautiful flowers in a season that can be Climbing Hoover produced on the bush Hadley. The beautifully Climbing President Herbert Hoover. RC25. The shaped, double, velvety red blooms, sweet with famous President Hoover, with its multi-colored the good old Hadley fragrance, have for years pink, red, yellow, and buff flowers, is vigorous been admired everywhere, and few kinds can enough as a bush, but as a climber it grows all beat them yet. 65c each. over the place, producing its beautiful flowers Climbing Hoosier Beauty. RC19. Rich velvety in great profusion, each one on a long stem scarlet buds and flowers, long-stemmed and every bloom perfect in color and symmetry. See fragrant, borne on a vigorous climber. Hoosier bush illustration on page 74. 65c each. Beauty and Hadley have built up such a fine Climbing Mrs. Sam McGredy. RC22. Popular reputation as red bush Roses that we need coppery orange. See page 63. $1.00 each.* only to mention these climbing counterparts to Climbing Night. RC23. Darkest of all red climb- establish the fact that they will be particularly ers. See page 63. $1.25 each.* enjoyed in any garden. 75c each. Climbing Rose Marie. RC26. HT. The beauti- fully formed rose-pink flowers are borne in great profusion all during the spring, summer Climbing Golden Dawn and fall, each flower larger than on the bush, and what a grower this is, Climbing Golden Dawn. RC14. The big, sun- one 8 or 10 foo: canes in one season. 65c each. flower-yellow, fully double blooms of Golden Dawn are exceedingly popular in the bush form, and this vigorous climbing sport of that Climbing Talisman variety, which will produce quantities of the Climbing Talisman. RC27. It is difficult to fine large blooms on a climbing plant, we think imagine anything more striking than a fence is the best climbing Rose in the lighter yellow or trellis covered with the lovely red and gold shades. It blooms profusely in the spring and flowers of the much admired Talisman. On c has a good many flowers thereafter right up 4-year-old plant last spring, we counted 311 to late fall. The foliage is plentiful and hand- perfect, long-stemmed buds and flowers at one some, and it has just about everything that a time. How's that for a marvelous garden show? yellow climbing Rose would be expected to What a rose! 75c each. have, including a splendid fragrance. Awarded Certificate of Merit, 1939, by American Rose So- Climbing Texas Centennial. RC27A. For the Climbing Golden Dawn ciety. Plant Pat. No. 243. $1.00 each* first time this popular rosy red variety with the lovely buds is available as a climber. See page 63. Plant Pat. Applied For. $1.50 each * The Best Red Climber Shining Yellow Climbing Etoile de Hollande. RC13. A good strong grower with plentiful foliage, it pro- Climbing Ville de Paris. RC28. In the bright Etoils de duces some of the finest big red buds and shining yellow shades this has been, the bes; Hollande open flowers that we have ever seen on any of the Climbing Roses. We introduced it sev- Everyone agrees Rose, and the blooms are larger and on longer eral yeaTS ago for the first time, and it origi- stems than the bush Etoile de Hollande, pos- nated in our fields. The glossy, large, hand- that this is one cf sessing the for the three best red same delicate fragrance. We rate it some foliage is not the least of its beauties, as the finest the unfad- roses. You can get red climbing Rose that we grow. it creates splendid background for $1.00 each. ing brilliant yellow flowers. 75c each. it as a climber, listed at right, or as a bush, see page 70. The Dainty Cherokees We like to recommend the old single-flowered Cherokee Roses for California because they fit in so well with our colorful informal landscapes. The foliage is a bright shining green at all times during the year, and the delicately colored single flowers pro- duced in great masses in the spring and to a lesser degree through- out the rest of the year are lovely indeed. They do best allowed to ramble over a wall or fence without pruning, and bloom over a surprisingly long period. We have White Cherokee, RC8; Pink Cherokee, RC8; and Red Cherokee, RC7. $1.00 each. Beautiful Pink Buds Ednah Thomas. RC29. Only Mme. Gregoire Staechelin will com- pete with this variety in its claim to the most beautifully formed buds among Climbing Roses. A magnificent deep clear pink color, which stays unfading to the last petal. A modest grower but the flowers are on long stems for cutting, and they appear not only in the spring but in summer. Mildly fragrant. 75c each.

Gay Mood. RC30. You'll capture it by planting this Rose. See page 63. $1.00 each. Gold of Ophir. RC31. (Beauty of Glazenwood, Fortunes Yellow.) Some of the finest old Rose plants in California are of this variety. A marvelously beautiful thing in the spring with its mass of old gold and apricot flowers which literally cover the plant. The older it gets the more lovely it becomes. $1.00 each.

Brilliant Fadeless Pink

Kitty Kininmonth. RC32. The flowers of this beautiful Rose are supremely lovely. Very large, ruffled, semi-double blooms of bril- liant fadeless pink, in unbelievable profusion. We rather think that it is our favorite pink climber because of its freedom of bloom and beautiful clear soft pink color. 75c each. are a Collection of the World's Best

Mermaid The Spanish Beauty Dawn in Dijon Mermaid. RC34. This magnificent Rose is in- Mme. Gregoire Staechelin. RC35. For sheer Reveil Dijonnais. RC37. For sheer brilliancy dispensable in every garden where there is exquisite beauty of color and form, this pink of coloring this is probably one of the mosi room for it. It can be grown in almost any Rose from Spain is unexcelled. The plant outstanding climbers ever introduced. The form desired—either as a climber on wall or makes a vigorous growth, producing an ex- blooms are a brilliant cerise-pink with o fence, as a pillar Rose, or just as a big traordinary abundance of good-sized delicate bright yellow center. In the center the flow- rambling bush, and in every case it makes a pink blooms, shaded carmine, which keep ers are borne in great masses and each bloom great mass of the most beautiful glossy ever- opening for several months in the spring. The is immense in size. One of the most spectacu- green foliage, just as handsome in winter as buds are long-pointed and the wavy petals lar of all climbers, so rich in coloring that yov in summer. It blooms steadily throughout the form a large, semi-double open flower which can hardly believe that the blooms are real. season and produces quantities of exquisitely radiates a delightful fragrance. 75c each. 75c each. beautiful single flowers of great size, pale Rose Anne. RC38. Orange. See page 63 sulphury-yellow with a gold center. 75c each. Famous Paul's Scarlet $1.00 each. Sungold. RC39. Yellow. See page 63. SI each. Maiechal Neil. RC33. Superb old lemon-yel- Paul's Scarlet Climber. RC36. The flowers low Noisette, with its large, globulaT, highly are an intense vivid scarlet, semi-double, and GET THE LOWEST PRICES perfumed blooms, still popular, although it are very freely produced in clusters of from 3 See page 68 for quantity rates on roses. Ten was introduced in France in 1864. Exceed- to 20 blooms on long much-branched canes, assorted bush or climbing roses sold at re- ingly vigorous and profuse in bloom, espe- the plant being a mass of flaming color from duced prices. Be sure to take advantage oi cially fine in California and the Southern top to bottom. The flowers do not fade but these reductions. The best rose buy in our States. SI. 00 each. maintain their color until the petals trill. 65c. Catalog is the Armstrong Big Ten on page 76.

Tiny Dwarf Roses

Rosa Rouletti Pixie

Rosa Rouletti. RM4. Here is one of the most Pixie. RM3. A dainty miniature rose bush interesting little Rose plants in the world, for only a few inches high (6 to 9 inches), bear- the plant, which grows easily either in a pot ing the tiniest white rose buds in the world, or in the open ground, seldom gets more than fully double, perfectly formed, and so small 6 or 8 inches high and produces almost con- tinually great quantities of perfect little double that you can put a whole bouquet of them flowers, deep pink in color, so small that 12 into a vase but one inch high. When fully buds occupy but one-half of a walnut shell. open, the little flowers crowded with minute The open flowers are three-quarters of an inch petals look like dainty white buttons. Both across. 4-in. pots, 75c each, 3 for $1.95. buds and open flowers often show delicate Miniature Rose Collection. We offer a special tints of pink, adding to their loveliness. The group of three of these unique Dwarf Roses, bushy little plants, which are easily grown including two Pixie and one Rosa Rouletti, for anywhere in pots or in the garden, have tiny $1.95. Order Collection No. 8. Plants in 4-inch lace-like leaves and bloom almost continuous- pots, wt. 11/2 lbs. each packed. See page 41 ly. Plant Pat. No. 408. 4-inch pots, 75c each, for mailing cost. • 3 for $1.95*

Pixie, The Tiniest Rose Armstrong Tree Roses Armstrong Tree Rose Standard or Tree-shaped Roses are grown by Heart's Desire. RT11. Magnificent long red An luxuriant foliage and lovely budding the variety of Rose desired into a buds; amazingly fragrant. $2.50 each.* A large head of stout 36-inch stalk. tall, straight height of 36 inches blooms on a stalk at a Hinrich Gaede. RT12. Rich vermilion-orange. from the ground, forming a bushy head at the top of this straight stalk. Many Rose vari- Imperial Potentate. RT13. Fragrant rose-pink. eties produce even blooms when grown more K. A. Victoria. RT14. The old favorite white. in this way than on an ordinary bush, and the individual flowers crre frequently larger Mary Margaret McBride. RT15. A 1943 All- and more brilliantly colored. For lining walks, America rose. Deep coral-pink shaded gold emphasizing corners, or planting in locations at the base. $2.75 each* where height is desired, they are excellent. McGredy's Ivory. RT16. Long, fragrant, ivory We believe Armstrong Roses to the Tree be buds and fine big open flowers. finest produced in this country. Tree Roses are shipped without earth on the roots in the Miss Clipper. RT17. Lovely salmon-pink buds months of December, January and February. and orange-pink flowers. The world's finest After that date they are shipped in 5-gal. tins. rose fragrance. $2.50 each.* Price S2.25 each, S20.00 per 10 (except where Mme. Henri Guillot. RT18. Raspberry-pink to noted). Those marked with a * below sold watermelon-pink, magnificent foliage. at each rate only. Shipping Weight: Bare Mrs. E. P. Thom. RT19. Beautiful bright yel- root, 7 lbs. lbs. for each for first plant, 2 low buds, freely produced. plant added. 5-gal. tins, 55 lbs. each. Mrs. Sam McGredy. RT20. Coppery orange. Tree Rose Varieties Picture. RT21. Sparkling, warm pink buds flowers in great profusion. Charlotte Armstrong. RT1. Long, blood-red and open buds and brilliant cerise flowers. $2.50 each.* President Hoover. RT22. Big, multi-color buds stems. Christopher Stone. RT2. Glowing, brilliant of red, pink, buff on very long crimson-scarlet which does not fade. Radiance. RT23. Favorite silvery pink. Condesa de Sastago. RT3. Brilliant scarlet and Red Radiance. RT24. Fragrant cherry-red. shining yellow. Startling bi-color. buds. Countess Vandal. RT4. Salmon-pink shaded Talisman. RT25. Lovely scarlet and gold copper and gold. $2.50 each .* Texas Centennial. RT26. Rose-red form of Crimson Glory. RT5. Velvety crimson shaded President Hoover; beautiful buds. $2.50 each* maroon; extremely fragrant flowers. $2.50 ea.* Two-Color Combination No. 1. RT27. Two va- Eclipse. RT6. Long, slender, streamlined yel- budded into the same head gives you low rieties buds in profusion. $2.50 each* a unique novelty. This one has Talisman, Etoile de Hollande. RT7. Probably the bes! yellow and scarlet, and Mary Hart, velvety red; exceedingly fragrant. blood-red. $2.75 each. Golden Rapture. RT8. Bright shining yellow. Two-Color Combination No. 2. RT28. An ex- Grande Duchesse Charlotte. RT9. A new shade ceedingly vigorous and free-flowering head is pink, orange of red—rich claret. $2.75 each.* obtained with President Hoover, and Texas Centennial, rosy brick- Hadley. RT10. Long a popular red rose and and buff, $2.75 each. still a good one. Old time fragrance. red. — Newer Armstrong Introductions

The new roses on this page have been created through hybridization by the Armstrong Research Department, one of the foremost projects of its kind in the world. The beautiful Charlotte Armstrong, recognized only two years after its introduction as one of the finest of all roses, is the outstanding Armstrong origination, but every other kind described below is a new and superior addition to modern roses. The AARS insignia indicates an All-America winner.

Charlotte Armstrong The Finest Rose Perfume flMCbjt Charlotte Armstrong. R1I. (Lammerts, Miss Clipper. R59. (Lammerts, introduced by WiiSuHw mtroduced by Armstrong.) The finest Armstrong.) How would you like to have the rose grown or sold by the Armstrong world's richest, most "rose-like" rose fragrance Nurseries in our 52 years of rose growing! That's in your garden? Miss Clipper, the new Arm- what we think of this amazingly beautiful new strong Rose for 1943, will provide it for you Rose, Charlotte Armstrong, which won the only and that's not just our opinion. Scientific tests by All-America Rose Award in 1941, the year of its one of the country's largest chemical companies, introduction, and since then has been awarded conducted in the summer of 1941 in order to find the famous John Cook Medal for "The Best New the rose that would produce the finest essential American Rose since 1935," the Fuerstenburg oil for rose perfume, showed conclusively that Prize for "The Best New Rose of American Ori- Miss Clipper has the finest rose fragrance. The gin," the Gold Medal of the City of Portland long, slender buds and lovely cupped flowers oi and innumerable other prizes and awards pale salmon-pink shaded orange and yellow, are throughout the country. good for the eyes, and that intoxicating fragrance But most important, thousands of pleased planters is good for the lungs because you'll want tc throughout the country are telling us and anybody breathe deeply every time you get near a flower. who will listen how much they enjoy all those A hundred thousand people admired it, and forty lovely long, streamlined buds and perfect open thousand suggested names for it at the 1941 Los blooms of Charlotte Armstrong. It is Angeles County Fair. Maybe you were one oi a rose amazingly beautiful in all them. Now you can admire it in your own garden stages, from the long, slender, rich and on your own living room table. Plant Pai. carmine buds through the magnifi- No. 522. $1.25 each.* cent, brilliantly colored spectrum-red Note: See color illustration of Miss Clipper on full-blown flowers, to the still lovely front cover of this Catalog. blooms of rich cerise. These color terms mean very little—you have tc see the flowers to visualize their amazing richness. The long-stemmed Sierra Clow blooms are produced in great quan- tities throughout the season and are Sierra Glow. R84. (Lammerts, introduced by ideal for cutting, and, of course, every- Armstrong.) One of the loveliest light pink roses body appreciates the strong, vigorous, that we have ever seen. The long flaring buds free-branching growth which clothes open out into many-petalled, high-centered flow- the plants luxuriantly with handsome ers, lovely at every stage, which last well on the foliage. It is a pleasure to have a plant and when cut. If you have ever seen that variety like this in the garden which indescribable summer afterglow on the snowy grows prodigiously without coddling peaks of the High Sierras, you will know where and never stops blooming through- we secured the name for this rose. In the center out the whole season. And reports from cold cli- of the bloom and at the base of the petals is mates indicate that it is hardier than most roses a most unusual tan shade never seen before in too. From Maine to California, it has been a roses, while the outer petals are a beautiful sil- great success. Plant Pat. No. 455. $1.25 each* very sun-bathed pink. Many new roses lack fragrance, but not this one, for it is richly scented Times Square with the good old attar of roses perfume with a hint of spice added. The plant is spreading, vig- R93A. (Lammerts, introduced by Times Square. orous and highly disease-resistant. Armstrong.) If you have ever seen New York City's busiest corner before the dim-out, with its One of our friends in Atlanta, Georgia, who kaleidoscopic, colorful bright lights, always chang- really knows his roses, says (Oct. 12, 1942) ing but always brilliant, you know why this Rose "Sierra Glow, now in its second season with me was called Times Square. Its big ovoid bud and more than lives up to its fine first year's per enormous, big-petalled flower come in prevailing formance, and I mean every word of praise shades of orange and apricot with dashes of bril- have given this rose in various articles I have liant yellow and rich red. Always redolent with written. The bloom is beautiful in all stages and heavy rose fragrance. Long heavy stems and big, at all seasons. The wood is firm and the foliage glossy, polished leaves. The plant is large, tall virtually black-spot-proof." Plant Pat. No. 521. and free-branching. Propagation Rights Reserved. $1.25 each.* Charlotte Armstrong SI .50 each* (Above; Hail to the Chief The Chief The Chief. R92. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) This Exceedingly Fragrant new rose has amazed observers with its gigantic, ex- tremely long buds and the delightful form and rich color of its blooms. The color of the bud varies with the weather from deep rose to flame, opening to a magnificently full flower of flame, coral and copper, changing to a beautiful shade of orange-pink as the flowers age. The blooms are borne singly on exceedingly long stems, with plenty of thick, heavy, lasting petals, and best of all they have a rich fruity fragrance which few Roses can equal. A spreading vigorous plant, remarkably resistant to mildew. A 1941 All-America Rose Selection. Awarded Silver Medal, Portland Rose Test Gardens, in 1940. Plant Pat. No. 456. $1.00 each.* Boutonniere Boutonniere. R6. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) If you want to be able to go into the garden at almost any time and cut a perfect little bud for your buttonhole or a half dozen for a small vase or corsage, you'll want this new variety. The perfectly shaped, solid, little, orange-apricot buds are full and long lasting and borne in exceeding profusion. The buds open to a rich deep salmon-peach and are pleasantly fragrant. The plant is low and bushy, heavily clothed with glossy foliage which is almost mil- dew-proof. Plant Pat. No. 454. $1.00 each* Little Copper Cems for the Garden Copper Nugget. R16. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) Just close your eyes and picture to yourself a handsome little rounded mound of glossy foliage about 15 inches high, studded all through the growing season with dainty little miniature buds and small, very double, open flowers, both a rich coppery orange-salmon in color. It is a semi-dwarf plant in keeping with the size of the flower, and it blooms all the time. Propagation Rights Reserved. $1.00 each.*

67 Important Rose Facts

We try to make Armstrong Rose bushes the finest that can be grown. That we have succeeded seems to be shown by the fact that our Rose plants have pleased thou- sands of planters in the United States during the past SO years. Armstrong Roses thrive anywhere in this country from California to Maine and from Oregon and Washington to Florida. Ready to bloom. All of our rose bushes are ready to burst into bloom within a few weeks after planting. They are well-rooted and well-branched. Most Armstrong Roses are budded cn Ragged Robin (Glorie des Rosamanes) root, which we have found to be the best for most climatic and soil conditions. Pruned ready to plant. Our rose plants are cut back to 12 inches before we send them to you. In most cases it is not necessary to do any further pruning when planting. Follow the planting instructions which accompany the plants, carefully. For protection. Spray the tops of your newly planted rose bushes with "Tree White" and you'll have better results. Add a 5-lb. package of "Tree White" to your rose

order. It costs 80c.

Shipping Time. Dormant, bare-rooted Planting Calendar Armstrong Rose Plants are avail- able for shipments from December A black square under any month means that plants 15 to May 1 and are shipped any- are available during that month. where safely and cheaply during this period. During the rest of the year most kinds are available as Month J FMAMJ JASOND blooming plants in 5-gallon tins B a re (wt 45 lbs. each). To distant points Hoo,|||i]DDDDDDD[l we may take these plants out of s-ga,. Bn the tins and ship them bare root. Boutonniere In Southern California they will be mmm delivered in the containers. Quantity Rates Shipping Costs & Weights The transportation charges rose The price given after each variety applies on bushes or any other plant material are based on when less than 10 Bush or Climbing Roses the table on page 41. Dormant, bare root are included in your order. For 10 or rose plants weigh 2 lbs. for the first plant and '/2 lb- for additional plant. 12 or more plants reduced rates are given ac- each less roses are usually shipped by mail, so cording to the following table and apply be sure to include postage based on the on any assortment of Bush or Climbing table on page 41, with this size order. More than 12 roses will usually be Roses, with certain exceptions given in the shipped by express and shipping charges will be note following the table. Not less than 10 collected by the express company at des- assorted at the 10-rate; not less than 50 tination. We use our judgment as to of assorted at the 100-rate. method shipment and refund any amount sent us for postage which is Less not used. Than 10 10 or More 50 or More Each Each Each Grande Duchess $1.50 $1.25 $1.10 Charlotte 1.25 1.10 1.00 A new red color in 1.00 90 .80 roses. See descrip- .85 75 .65 tion page 71. .75_ 65 .55 .65 55 .50 .50 45 .40

Note: The varieties marked with a * after the price are not sold at less than the 10- rate. Those varieties marked with a * may be ordered in guantities of 3 or more of one kind at the 10-rate. At least 3 of such varieties must be included in any order to get the 10-rate on these particu- lar kinds.

Sierra Glow All-America Rose Offer WfWSjt£ Each year most of the finest new rose varieties not yet on ^^WTfiy me market ots entered for official test and competition m sixteen official All-America trial and demonstration gardens scattered from New England to California and from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico. Fourteen of the ablest rose critics in America score these varieties on a uniform point basis, and at the end of a two-year period the scores are averaged and the top-scoring roses are then named as All-America Roses. They are the best of each year. 'The Collection below includes all rose varieties winning All-America Awards for 1943, 1942, 1941 and the best of the 1940 winners.

Mary Margaret McBride. R54. (1943 All-America.) Clear deep coral- pink suffused with rich gold at the base. $1.50 each.*

Grande Duchesse Charlotte. R38. (1943 All-America.) A new shade of red in roses, rich claret or brick-red, changing to a begonia-rose. $1.50.*

Heart's Desire. R40. (1942 All-America.) Magnificent, long, stream- -ined buds of bright luminous red; superbly fragrant. $1.50 each.*

Charlotte Armstrong. Rll. (1941 All-America Winner.) The finest of all All-America Roses in our opinion. Long, slender, carmine buds and brilliant open flowers of spectrum-red and cerise. $1.25 each.* Apricot Queen. R3. (1940 All-America.) Deep salmon-apricot shaded orange-yellow and phlox-pink. $1.25 each.*

Special All-America Rose Offer, one each of the above five All-America Roses (regular single rate value S7.00) for S5.85. Ask for Collection No. 9. Add 18c sales tax on California ship- ments. See page 41 for postage charges. (Weight 4 lbs.) — 68 — Armstrong Bush Roses

The Best Standard Kinds From Everywhere

There are thousands of rose varieties, but we try to grow only the very best ol

both the new and the old kinds. Every rose that we list is a good one so it's just a question of your choosing the color and type that you like best. New Armstrong introductions are described on page 67 and other new varieties are described on page 71. The Finest Dark Red Dainty Bess Crimson Glory. R18. We rate this com- Dainty Bess. R20. The delicate charm paratively new variety as the Number One and elusive loveliness of this dainty single Dark Red Rose. It has about everything Rose have made it the most popular single that a good Rose needs, starting with rose grown. The five-petalled flowers are beautifully shaped, flaring urn-shaped borne in clusters of three or more, each buds which always open beautifully into flower three inches across, delicate pink a magnificent vivid flower of velvety crim- in color, with a brownish-red overcast and son with black and maroon shadings. The contrasting center of wine-red stamens. glowing deep scarlet color has a velvety The flowers are very lasting when cut, sheen that catches either sunlight or arti- and the bush is strong and tall, blooming ficial light and glows like a red hot coal. continuously. 75c each. The blooms have a pleasant rich fragrance. Dainty. R19. (Polyantha.) Has large heads The plant is vigorous and well foliaged, Crimson Glory of small, semi-double, salmon-pink blooms, low and spreading rather than upright. a bright and cheerful color. Plant low and U. S. Plant Pat. No. 105. $1.00 each* bushy, covered with big 6 to 8 inch flower California. R8. See page 71. $1.50 each* heads almost continually. A beautiful low The Best White 15-inch border, and lovely for cutting too. 75c each. Alice Stern. Rl. The perfection of form in bud and open flower and its large size, combined with the Cecile Brunner Dame Edith Helen. R21. Still remains splendid, upright, strong growing plant, have forced popular. Big, full, double flowers of us to rate this one as the best white Rose. In cool Cecile Brunner. R10. The miniature flow- glowing clear rose pink, produced on a weather there is an ivory tone at the base of the ers of this favorite old Baby Rose, rose tall, upright, long-stemmed bush. Its im- buds, as well as a faint but exquisite hint of pink pink shaded salmon, fill a niche which mense size, lovely clear color and delight- at the tip. The open flower is white at all times. no other Rose can occupy. A strong grow- ful fragrance, combined with its unusual $1.00 each. er too, and always in bloom. 65c each. lasting qualities when cut, make it hard displace. 65c each. American Beauty. R2. An old-time Spring blooming Cecil. R9. Big, 4-inch, star-shaped, golden to Hybrid Perpetual with large full blooms of rosy- yellow flowers borne freely on a low- carmine. Fine in Arizona but of no value on the branching, bushy plant, with handsome Copper-Bronze coast. Rich damask perfume. 65c each. glossy foliage, blooming from early to late. Duchess of Athol. R22. For intensity ol See new climbing sport of this variety on is outstanding. The full, Apricot Queen. R3. See page 71. $1.25 each.* coloring, this Rose page 63. 75c each. double flowers on their heavy stems pos- Austrian Copper. R4. Becomes a spreading bush 4 Charlotte Armstrong. Rll. Finest Rose of sess an extremely rich shade of copper- or 5 feet high, covered in spring with brilliant 2-inch them all. See page 68. $1.25 each.* bronze flushed with orange and old rose. copper-scarlet blooms, startling and vivid. Do not You'll find that it will make one of the prune. $1.00 each. Christopher Stone. R12. Bright red. See . biggest and most robust plants in your page 75. 75c each. garden, clothed right to the ground with big, handsome, bronzy green foliage and Autumn Colors many sturdy flower stems. 65c each. Contrast Edith Nellie Perkins. R25. The flowers are Autumn. R5. The full handsome buds are a superb two-toned, orange-buff inside the petals shade of burnt-orange, and the opening flowers are Contrast. R15. A brilliant combination of and a rich salmon or coppery-pink out- heavily suffused with russet-brown and bronzy red colors catches the eye at once in this ex- face of side. The long buds are splendidly shaped, all over-laid on a background of rich yellow in a quisite bi-colored rose. The upper have excellent stiff stems for cutting, and color combination reminiscent of the most glorious the petals is a glowing orange-rose or while the are produced in great quantities on the autumnal foliage. It would be difficult to exaggerate china-pink in some weathers, strong, vigorous bush. The only thing it the colors. Deliciously under side is a light straw color shaded fragrant. 50c each. that with bronze. Semi-double, beautifully shap- lacks is fragrance, and we can forgive Boutonniere. R6. For lapel and corsage. See page its other fine qualities. 75c each. ed in the bud, borne on long stems, it is for 67. $1.00 each.* a splendid rose for cutting, and you will Caledonia. R7. The purest white among Hybrid Tea find the bush to be one of the largest and A Sun-Tanned Beauty Roses. The beautifully shaped, long, snowy white most vigorous plants in your garden. Duquesa de Penaranda. R23. A most in- buds are exquisite and their fragrance is delicious. Fragrance slight but pleasant. $1.00 each. triguing color of orange-apricot, with deep- In certain weathers the buds "ball" and do not er coppery tones, the huge, pointed buds always open up properly, it but produces its blooms being quite double, sweetly perfumed and so profusely and they are so very fine of the most long lasting. A tall, strong grower with time that can forgive it Beautiful Single we those few lapses. 65c ea. beautiful light green shiny foliage. One Collette Clement. RI3. The enormous, of the first varieties to bloom in the spring. large-petalled, richly colored flow- have in- Girona single, We think so much of it that we ers are a beautiful rich salmon-flame (deep cluded it in the "Armstrong Big Ten" list- Daintily colored, deliciously fragrant coral-pink in very hot weather), with an ed on page 76. A dependable garden per- intensely yellow center. Exceedingly vig- former in almost any area. 75c each. growth, large foliage, and spicy orous Eclipse. R24. Long, streamlined yellow fragrance, lead us to recommend it high- buds. See page 72. $1.25 each* ly. $1.00 each. E. G. Hill. R26. One of the outstanding de Sastago. R14. Yellow and Condesa reds. See page 75. 50c each. scarlet bi-color. See page 75. 65c each. Copper Nugget. R16. See page 67. $1.00 ea. Eternal Youth Eternal Youth. R27. The large perfectly formed buds and flowers are a lovely Countess Vandal clear soft, cheerful pink, with a touch of salmon, shaded yellow at the base. It is Countess Vandal. R17. Coun- loveliest in the half-open stage, and even tess Vandal has established it- when it is full blown, we do not believe self as one of the very finest that a Rose can be more beautiful. The pink Roses. Its long tapering fragrance is exceedingly sweet and spicy, buds of salmon-pink, richly indeed, there are few more fragrant Roses shaded with copper and gold than this. A medium grower. Plant Pat. tones, are richly perfumed, and No. 332. $1.25 each.* the Countess produces continu- ously many of these beautifully Frau Karl Druschki. R30. (Hybrid Per- formed, long-stemmed, lovely petual.) Pure white, with immense long wax-like in blooms. It is exceptionally fine buds and very double flowers, for cutting because long-stem- texture. Hardy everywhere, with long med buds are nearly always upright growth up to 6 feet. Put it where available and they keep excep- it has plenty of room to grow because it tionally well after cutting. Buds will greatly exceed most Rose bushes in and open flowers are always size. 65c each. perfect no matter what the Fiesta. R29. The only real striped rose, weather. Plant Pat. No. 38. vermilion and yellow. Se page 72. $1.25 $1.00 each* each.* X 69 — Are Garden Favorites

A Glorious Red Brilliant Gaede Etoile de Hollande. R28. This magni- Hinrich Gaede. R41. We can tell you ficent red Rose is ranked among the that the general color effect in this first three of its color by everyone who flower is orange-scarlet, copper-orange, knows Roses, and many will place it or luminous vermilion, but no matter first. The perfect buds are of medium how much we juggle the color adjec- size, opening beautifully and cleanly tives, you could not possibly get an into glorious great flowers with incom- idea of the magnificence of its bloom. parable fragrance, holding its brilliant It has a rich honey-sweet fragrance, color to the end. The bush is strong, and the quite double flowers are borne free branching, and healthy. A Rose on long stems on a vigorous strong that actually has no serious fault. See bush with excellent foliage. See illus- illustration and description of climbing tration in color on page 63. 75c each. sport also on page 65. Since it is one Hadley. R39. Everybody knows this of the most outstanding red roses we, old favorite, which, with its brilliant of course, include it in the "Armstrong rich crimson color, vigorous growth, Big Ten" listed on page 76. 75c each. long stems, full blooms and rich frag- rance, is close to the top in red Roses. Cirona It suffices to say that if you like red Roses you must not be without Hadley. Girona. R3I. This fine new rose from 50c each. Spain has been somewhat overlooked Heart's Desire. R40. See next page. shuffle, but it's too in the good a rose $1.50 each.* to stay overlooked. The full, double Home Sweet Home. R42. flowers are magnificently formed and See next Autumn are beautifully colored in various tones page. $1.25 each. of pink, carmine and yellow. You'll find it one of the most fragrant roses Los Angeles you've ever dipped your nose into, and Surpassing Fragrance California product, in color em- it produces long-stemmed flowers very Los Angeles. R50. A and Imperial Potentate. R43. clear shin- it freely on a tall, strong beautifully A blematical of the Golden West, has gained international ing rose-pink. Exceptional form foliaged plant. Splendid for cutting be- and recognition as one of the finest roses ever produced. The lasting qualities have cause they keep so well. $1.00 each. made this vari- color is a glorious rich flame-pink, shaded gold and yellow. ety one of the finest and best liked A very large, strong-growing, free-blooming bush, so give pink Roses. It is possibly the most it plenty of room. 50c each. Salmon-Pink Buds highly perfumed Rose grown. When you bury your nose in a bloom of Im- Gloaming. R32. The flowers are very perial Potentate you are amazed at Lovely Little Lulu large high-centered, guite double, in a the concentrated sweetness that one rich shade of deep salmon-pink with Lulu. R51. This dainty little Rose has always been a great bloom can possess. 75c each. shadings of fawn and yellow at the favorite with us and with our friends because of the great base of the petals. Always long beau- Innocence. R44. The great crisp-pet- quantities of dainty, long, slender buds of coral-apricot with tifully shaped buds on rigid, hand- alled flowers, 4 inches or more across, which the bush is covered at all times. There is not a somely foliaged stems. Only slight are single and snowy white, with con- Rose more exquisitely formed in the bud stage than Lulu, trasting stamens, astonishingly large number of Rose lovers will put fragrance. We consider it one of the amber opening from and an best of the salmon-pink Roses. Plant a long, slender, ivory bud. Clove and Lulu at the very top of their list of roses. Plant low and Pat. No. 137. $1.25 each.* cinnamon fragrance. 75c each. bushy but very vigorous. 75c each. Golden Emblem. R36. The lovely long Irish Fireflame. R45. Buds wonderfully buds of golden yellow are beautifully rich in coloring, deep rich orange Sparkling Lydia tinted with crimson on the outer petals, splashed with crimson, opening to a large, single flower of satiny old gold. Lydia. R52. A particularly fine pink offering a delightful contrast at all The tall, willowy plant produces Rose, with long-pointed buds and big, times. The glossy green foliage is par- them full, high-centered, perfectly shaped flow- ticularly fine and the buds are borne in great profusion, and it is most use- ful for cutting because the dainty flow- ers, rose-pink with a touch of on long, stiff stems. For 20 years Gold- deep ers are lovely on the table. 75c each. cerise which gives it a sparkling tone. en Emblem has held its popularity un- exceedingly fine fragrance, dimmed in California. 75c each. Possesses while not the least of its strong points Joanna from Indiana its strong, vigorous bush. 75c eacn. Golden is Rapture Joanna Hill. R46. A slender, daintily Golden Rapture. R37. This Rose has colored, orange-yellow bud, which is Countess Vandal produced some of the most perfectly extremely fragrant, and the colors, The perfect rose for cutting formed bright yellow buds that we while not brilliant, are dainty and have ever seen—not a pale yellow, lovely. There is no finer Rose of ? but a glowing for cutting, because the shining rich yellow its color | without any shadings and the color buds keep a long time and are seldom fades. Has a mild but pleasant borne on long, upright stems. 50c. fragrance. The growth is medium. In Jonkheer Mr. G. Sandberg. R47. our opinion there is no finer yellow Yellow. See page 75. $1.00 each. Rose in its color class and its perfec- tion of form and richness of color make it popular with everyone who sees it. Splendid for Cutting . One of the "Armstrong Big Ten." See color plus [ration on page 63; also de- Korovo. R49. We continue to be scription of climbing variety on same enthusiastic about the beauty of page. 75c each. this lovely pink Rose, the color be- Golden Dawn. R35. The large, oval ing more accurately described as buds are a rich sunflower-yellow, heav- old rose with peach blossom shad- ily diffused with cerise before opening ings. The full buds are beautituily and developing into high-centered, fully formed, extremely fragrant, and the double flowers of light lemon-yellow, plants are so strong and prolific with the original old Tea Rose scent. that when we go into the fields to The luxuriantly foliaged, much-branch- cut a few particularly choice buds ed, strong growing plant is not the we find ourselves coming back least of its fine qualities. 65c each. many times with a lovely bouquet pink Korovo. One of the Gloria Mundi. R33. Little double flow- of glowing Ten." 75c each. 8r! e baby P°m n chrysanthemums "Armstrong Big K 'iv P° —brilliant, luminous, orange-scarlet borne in great clusters which cover the 2-foot plant. 65c each. A Favorite White Glowing Sunset. R34. A large, robust K. A. Victoria. R48. Pure ivory Rose ( in every way, with big, fully white, producing quantities of beau- m double, high-centered Long flowers, excel- tiful buds and full flowers. \ lently formed, borne on a strong, vig- considered one of the best white \ orous bush, with large, heavy, glossy Roses for California because it foliage. Only the colorings are deli- blooms so freely and continuously, cate, but lovely, a soft shade of or- no matter what the weather. If ange with shadings of pink and apri- this were a new Rose, we would cot-yellow. Plenty of the real old sweet be writing a 2-inch description of Tea fragrance. Plant Pat. 104. years No. it, but since it is more than 40 $1.00 each.* old, we'll just tell you that you'll Grande any- Duchesse Charlotte. R38. See find it mighty hard to beat next page. $1.50 each.* where as a white Rose. 65c each. — 70 — New Rose Introductions

e offer no new rose varieties unless we have tested them in our own trial gardens or have observed them carefully elsewhere. All new kinds described here we recommend as definitely different and superior to other roses heretofore available. New Armstrong introductions, originated by our own Research Department, are described and illustrated on page 67. Apricot Queen Record Breaker ^mmit>£ Apricot Queen. R3. (Howard McGredy's Salmon. R56. (McGredy.) Plant this rose in your garden and & Smith -) Take the richest w JvwF count the flowers off it colors from a perfect tree- you get of in one season and we rather think you'll ripened California apricot, instill them establish a new high record for num- into one of the most beautifully formed ber of blooms. It's mighty good iuds that you have ever seen and a pink rose to start with, with its full, high- _et some idea of the beauty of orange-pink charming Rose. The general color centered, buds and large, clear salmon-pink flowers and rich is rich deep salmon-apricot, with fragrance. The low, bushy, much- lovely tints of orange-yellow at the branched plants just keep sending up base of the petals and an occasional those flower buds one after another flush of phlox-red as the flower ages. The magnificent buds have ruffled, without a break. Plant Pat. No. 410. laciniated petals and are delightfully $1.50 each* fragrant. Plant upright, of medium growth. 1940 All-America. Plant Pat. Pinocchio No. 464. $1.25 each.* Pinocchio. R74. (Kordes.) The loveliest Mary Margaret McBride California little Polyantha that we've seen in An All-America Rose for 1943 many a year. Great clusters of beau- AM£ndl California. R8. (Howard & tiful little blooms in the brightest, daintiest shades of salmon, All-America Roses for 1943 W^^W Smith.) You will be thrilled cheeriest, ^^**C with the unusual orange col- flushed with gold, that you can im- agine, and every little bud in the Mary Margaret McBride. RS4. (Nicolas.) Here is or found in the large buds of this cluster is a perfect garden rose in the top ranking All-America Rose tor 1943, so Rose. The flowers have about seven- miniature. Lovely in the garden, per- pronounced by the official judges from coast to teen of the enormous petals, the buds the fect for cutting. Blooms all season, 20 coast. And a beautiful rose it is, with lovely, long, flaring are large, long and lovely, and to 24 inches tall. Plant Pat. No. 484. buds and many-petalled flowers in a rich yet delicate color, particularly in cool weather, is $1.25 each.* coral-pink color with a shimmering golden color at the base beautiful in its ruddy orange shades of the petals. It has a satisfying fragrance. You'll find toned with saffron-yellow. A strong Pasadena Tournament. R70. (Marsh.) that the plant starts going places right away, as soon as grower. Delicately scented. At its best Very attractive little red buds and sections. 1940 All- you get it in the ground, becoming tall and rather slender, in coastal or cooler blooms of about the same size and the canes beautifully foliaged with big, broad, leathery America. Plant Pat. No. 449. $1.50 ea* shape as Cecile Brunner. Seems tc leaves. It has a tendency to be a bit shy with its beautiful be everblooming, and vigorous. Pat. blooms, but since every one is a perfect flower, we'll not Heart's Desire Applied For. $1.50 each.* complain. It is, indeed, a Rose of guality. Plant Pat, No. 537. $1.50 each* Heart's Desire. R40. (How- ard & Smith.) The 1942 All- Queen Astrid America winner. Its long, Astrid. (Leenders.) Long, Grande Duchesse Charlotte. R38. (Ketten.) An- Queen R76. pointed buds of pure bright luminous other All-America Rose for 1943 which introduces slender buds and intense coloring of red, without other shadings, are mag- reddish apricot lavish shadings of an entirely new shade of red to the rose world. and nificent to behold. They are always coppery bronze and peach-pink. Every- The interesting buds are a rich claret color (you may call borne on long stems, and keep longer thing about it is substantial the very it brick-red), which changes as the flowers age to a lovely — than almost any other rose in our petals, the big, begonia-rose. The flowers are not perfect in form, but they large, thick, crepe-like fields after they are cut. But the most the vigorous growth are always beautiful because of that rich color, and the cup-shaped flower, outstanding feature of the rose is its the characteristic you'll plant is big, strong and free-branching. To us the fragrance of the bush, but powerfully sweet and superb fragrance. admire most is the slender gracefulness is like that of ripe fruit, others say it has a carnation A few blooms will perfume an entire of the richly colored buds. Moderately scent. It was named after the reigning sovereign of the room. True, it will occasionally dis- fragrant. Very profuse in its bloom. tiny Duchy of Luxembourg, where it originated, and who play a weak neck and in certain sea- is now in this country. See illustration on $1.00 each. page 68 and sons a few globular flowers, but no All-America Offer listed on same page. Propagation Rights red rose is without its faults, and we Reserved. $1.50 each.* think these are far outweighed by its Sunlit points. The plants are tall, vig- good Sunlit. R89. (Alister Clark.) One of Note: orous and free-branching, therefore, The AARS insignia indicates an All-America the prettiest little roses you'll ever see, free-blooming. Plant Pat. No. 501. Award winner. about half the size of the usual Rose, $1.50 each* and perfect in every detail. Both buds Heart's Desire and open flower are exquisite in form high-centered, fully double. You'll find The most fragrant of all red roses Home Sweet Home yourself putting a few buds in a little Home Sweet Home. R42. (Wood and vase on your table or mantelpiece Ingram.) Remember those great big, every day. The color is apricot-pink, full, old-fashioned spring roses that quite intense in the bud, paling to a bloomed in your grandmother's garden lighter shade in the open flower, but back East? Well, here's an old-fash- always lovely. A beautiful little com- ioned rose that will bring those mem- pact plant, handsomely foliaged, and ories back into the modern garden, practically thornless. $1.50 each. along with the same old-fashioned, in- tense rose fragrance. The big double blooms are a glowing bright pink and do not stop with the spring season but Sunlit keep on coming right through the sum- mer and fall. A moderate grower. $1.25 each. Lots of Buds Mme. Edouard Estaunie. R62. (Bua- tois.) We like roses that have lots of perfect buds for cutting and we think most of our customers do too. That's what you'll get from this fine new rose. Long, flaring, urn-shaped, 'symmetrical buds of creamy nankeen yellow with deeper flesh tones in the center of the bloom and on the under side of the petals. Every bud and half open flow- er is perfect in form, borne on long, straight stems for cutting on a tall, vig- orous, free-blooming plant. A nice spicy scent too. $1.00 each.

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Alphabetical List Continued lrom Page 70

Perfection in Ivory A Red Talisman McGredy's Ivory. R55. The flowers are Mary Hart. R53. This striking red sport to a creamy ivory-white, which turns of Talisman has the same handsome with occasionally of clear white as it opens form the Talisman buds but is ma- center in cool faint pink flush in the roon-red, opening to open blossoms of a as weather. The buds are just about velvety blood-red with an overglow of as Roses can be, and the flowers amber. The color varies considerably perfect The possess a delicate damask perfume with weather conditions and is at its of a lovely purity, grace and beauty best in cool weather. Exquisitely frag- about takes your bud of this variety just rant; growth medium, upright. Plant perfect breath away, and if you want Pat. No. 8. 85c each.* those you white Roses this is one of Miss Clipper. R59. The new rose with each. should plant. 75c the finest rose perfume. Illustrated in color on front cover. See page 67. Sunset Colors $1.25 each* McGredy's Sunset. R57. Sunset colors are beautiful, high- much in evidence in this Mme. Butterfly of centered flower, with its rich shade chrome- Mme. Butterfly. R60. Year after year yellow underlaid with deep Guillot this fine Rose remains a much loved Mme. Henri yellow, the outer petals lightly brushed favorite in the garden, with its deep with apricot. Exceedingly fragrant and lack- shadings of apricot and gold on a back- exquisite in color though somewhat Your Bud Vase Full flowers ground of brilliant pink. The delicately Keep ing in form and substance, the modelled flowers are exquisite in both outstanding characteristic of this are produced in such large quantities Eclipse. R24. The shortcomings. color and form, and since it also pos- exceptionally long stream-lined bud that you can forgive its splendid Rose is the sesses a delightful fragrance and lovely 2 inches long. The open Plant Pat. No. 317. $1.25 each* of pale yellow, often more than foliage, it cannot be displaced by any are somewhat uninteresting, but when you can McGredy's Yellow. R58. The buds are blooms of the newer Roses. 65c each. out almost any morning and pick a bouquet of these medium size but beautifully formed, with go exquisitely beautiful, long slender buds, each one on a plenty of petals, and are a lovely uni- difficult to resist. The big, tall, strong light buttercup-yellow. One One of the Best long stem, it is form shade of fragrant buds coming along con- about the variety is bush keeps the mildly of the finest things Mme. Henri Guillot. R61. Here is one of vigor and tinuously. Plant Pat. No. 172. $1.25 each* the fine bush, which is full of the best half dozen roses of the past good stout, is continually sending up ten years. As the beautiful tight bud surmounted by straight stems, each one begins to unfold its 25 large, crisp, and clothed one of the beautiful buds, heavy-textured petals of raspberry pink, Holly- in extremely handsome dark green the bloom becomes lovelier in every suc- does like foliage. Stands heat well and ceeding stage, and the great full-blown not fade. 75c each. flower is a thing of splendor. Luxuriant glossy foliage clothes the big spreading Mrs. Sam McGredy plants right down to the ground. You'll find the flowers on top of those straight Mrs. Sam McGredy. R68. This wonder-

stems unbelievably gorgeous. They're , ful Rose is a beautiful copper-orange richly fragrant, too. Put this one near in color, heavily flushed with Lincoln- the top of your list because that's where red.. There is no other color in Roses high- it belongs. Plant Pat. No. 337. $1.25* like it. The buds are long-pointed, centered, and double, with a moderate fragrance. Growth low, robust and much Spanish Fiesta Colors branched with the most beautiful bronzy Fiesta. R29. Dazzling is the only word green foliage, glossy and luxuriant, ever that describes this remarkable variegated seen on a rose bush. To cap it all, the Rose. The color scheme consists of stripes flowers possess a sweet fragrance. See and flecks of bright yellow on a back- also the new climbing sport on page 63. ground of rich vermilion. The flowers 75c each. nestle in dark green, glossy foliage of large size and make a great show on the plant, as well as providing most un- usual cut flowers. A modest grower, re- quiring a little extra water and fertilizer to secure the finest blooms. Slightly fragrant. You and your friends will ex- claim over this bizarre yet daintily col- ored Rose when it blooms in your gar- The "Streamlined Rose," Eclipse den. Plant Pat. No. 389. $1.25 each*

Mrs. Sam McGredy A coppery orange beauty

Fiesta (At Right) Believe It or Not Armstrong Bush Roses

Peaches and Cream Radiance Mrs. Oswald Lewis. R66. (F. Cant.) An Radiance. R77. This ever-popular Rose wiD English rose, introduced by us last year, probably produce more first class blooms with a true English "peaches and cream" to the plant than any other variety, and complexion. Everything about the bud is it is exceedingly vigorous, hardy, and di- all conditions of soil dainty — its long, slender, aristocratic sease-resistant under shape, the light buff and pink buds, fading and climate. The flowers are a lovely silvery-pink, suffused deeper pink, to rich cream, flushed beautifully with light delicious damask per- pink as the flowers open. It is one of the and carry a most most exquisite buds in form and color to fume. Give it plenty of room and be pre- cut that we have seen in a long time. A pared to cut many long-stemmed flowers, good grower and bloomer, too. $1.00 each. for no planter was ever disappointed in the performance of this famous Rose. 50c. Red Radiance. R80. All we need to do is A Solid Performer repeat the splendid recommendations made for its sister variety Radiance above, be- Mrs. Pierre S. duPont. R67. Just visualize cause this red Rose is exactly the same a bushy, 2-foot plant so thickly covered in everything except color of flower, which with luxuriant, glossy green foliage that is a rich cerise-red. No Rose will excel you cannot see the ground, surmounted it in fragrance, growth or quantity of with many stiff-stemmed, medium-sized, blooms. You can plant either Radiance or golden yellow buds, heavy with fragrance. Red Radiance in almost any location in That's what you'll have in your garden all any climate and get a great big plant summer in this fine Rose. You can count Talisman without any trouble, for they are rugged on it being a solid performer in the gar- enough to thrive anywhere. 50c each. Favorite Cut Flower of Scarlet and Gold den. 75c each. Mrs. Sam McGredy. R68. See preceding "The Perfect Rose" page. 75c each. Radio Mroe. Joseph Perraud. R63. The enormous big- Radio. R78. The ground color is clear petalled, perfectly formed buds of nasturtium-buff, Shades of Night a and with a glowing orange heart, are always per- shimmering yellow which in itself would Night. R69. One of the darkest of all beautiful, but Radio is in that fectly formed, and the vigorous growth, heavy be different Roses, deep crimson shaded black and ma- stems, big, broad glossy foliage and free-blooming most of the flowers are daintily striped roon. The buds and flowers are well with cannine in varying de- qualities are all on a par with these perfect buds. and marked shaped, quite double, and it has the spicy grees. Never the same on any two flow- Loaded down with gold medals, it came across from clove and cinnamon fragrance that you France a few years ago acclaimed as "The Perfect ers. The beauty of this variety is in the can imagine would be wafted on the half-open and fully open blooms, which Rose," and it has lived up to that glowing phrase. balmy airs of a tropical night. We con- are full, many-petalled, delicious- The flowers are sweetly fragrant and long lasting. very and sider this to be the best of the deep dark 75c each. ly fragrant. The plant is strong growing, reds, but like most dark Roses, the flowers tall and free-blooming, in fact, it will out- are at their best in cooler weather. It's grow most roses you plant. Plant Pat. No. The Evergreen Shrub Rose a good vigorous grower. See also the 197. $1.00 each* new climbing sport of this variety de- Mrs. Dudley Fulton. R34. is covered dur- The bush scribed on page 63. 75c each. ing the spring, summer and fall with good-sized, single, silvery-white flowers which make the plant Pasadena Tournament. R70. New Baby Pastel Masterpiece look like a small snow-storm. One of the most re- red. See page 71. SI. 50 each. Ramon Bach. R79. One of those big, full, markable things about this Rose is the splendid Piccaninny. R71. A medium sized single many-petalled roses in the pastel shades evergreen foliage, which is clways glossy as if var- rose with five crisp, overlapping petals in which we like much better than others of nished, and in California the foliage is often just as a rich deep dark red color with maroon this type. Apricot-buff, with touches of attractive in the middle of winter as in the summer. shadings. The flowers are delightfully salmon and amber-yellow, is as close as As we write these words, on November 15th, our redolent of the rich spicy scent of cinna- can come to the dainty, lovely color- plants crre smothered in bloom. Growers in many mon, and are continuously borne on long we ing, and it has a rich fruity fragrance. A parts of the East and Middle West have made en- stems on the tall, willowy, free-branching great strong, vigorous plant with many thusiastic reports on this rose. Grows to 3 feet. We plant. The foliage is glossy, too. SI each. sturdy, upright stems, crowned by a recommend plant- each floral masterpiece. Plant Pat. No. 366. $1* ing it right in the shrub border be- Picture cause its hand- Picture. R72. We rate this as one of the some foliage and very finest pink Roses and so do our cus- Rose Marie everblooming hab- tomers, because it is the best selling pink Rose Marie. R81. This variety has for a it fit it better for rose our list. plant is strong on The and long time been almost the ideal pink gar- that location than vigorous and produces one continuous den Rose and is indisputably one of the for the rose bed. burst of bloom after another all through finest Roses of any color for cutting. A Plant Pat. No. 122. the season, every bud is perfectly formed perfectly formed flower, full and long-last- 85c each.* and with plenty of petals so that the flow- ing, dark rose-pink in color, with beauti- ers are substantial and long-lasting with- fully veined petals and a rich sweet per- out being too heavy. The color is not a fume. A good medium grower. 65c each. cold color like so many pinks, but it has those warm undertones of salmon which Rotary-Lyon. R82. See page 75. SI each make the color cheerful and glowing. The flowers have plenty of enchanting sweet Tea fragrance too. One of the "Armstrong Big Ten." 75c each. Mme. Joseph Perraud Rich apricot-yellow with orange heart Poinsettia. R73. See page 75. 75c ea. Texas Centennial Pinocchio. R74. New pink Baby rose See page 71. $1.25 each.* We have it as a bush (page 74) or as a climber (page President Hoover 63). President Herbert Hoover. R75. Cer- tainly no Rose planting would be com- plete without this wonderful multi-col- ored Rose. It combines many shades of cerise-pink, flame, scarlet and yel- low, the long buds being beautifully formed, opening slowly and possessing a most delicious fragrance. One of the finest characteristics is the magnificent growth of the bush, four feet in one season being only quite ordinary growth for this variety, and it is not a ques- tion of how long you wish the stems to be but how long you wish to cut them. It is one of the most — dependable of all roses, and, of course, we wish to include it in our "Armstrong Big Ten" of- fered on page 76. 50c each.

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Planting Calendar for Armstrong Roses

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This is What They Tell Us

Long Beach, Calii., Oct. 2, 1941: "After planting one of your Charlotte Armstrong Roses, I dug up my other roses and planted only Armstrong's."

Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 10, 1941: "My introduction to you was last Christmas, when I presented a friend with one of your Charlotte Arm- strong roses. I had no idea I was doing her such a service. She has been enchanted with the profuse and exquisite blooms!" Alamogordo, N. M., Sept. 10, 1941: "I find most blue ribbon winners in roses at our Otero County Fair and Flower Show are from Armstrong rose bushes. Your root stock seems to be just right for our soil. Have found your roses just as you describe them."

Glendale, Calif., Sept. 29, 1941: "The Boutonniere rose I got from you this spring is especially lovely. Just last week it had no less than 15 blooms."

Mrs. Dudley Fulton, The Everblooming Shrub Rose Saturnia Taliiisman Saturnia. R83. Exceptionally beautiful Talisman. R90. A vividly colored Rose Clear Sunflower Yellow in the cooler areas. Long-budded, large- which is probably better known as a Ville de Paris. R95. Flowers of clear sunflower yellow petalled flowers of brilliant cardinal- cut flower than any other Rose grown. which do not fade. Its shell-shaped petals (20 of them) be- red, salmon-yellow and copper on the The brilliant coloring is a mixture of come lovely cups filled with delicious Tea fragrance. Vigor- reverse, exceedingly fragrant. Fades orange-scarlet and golden yellow in ous, tall growing, glossy foliaged. See also the Climbing and opens quickly in hot weather, but irregular proportions, but always pleas- form on page 65. A handsome bush and an enormous num- in cool weather, the flowers are glor- ing. Very double, exquisitely shaped, ber of beautiful flowers. ious and simply knock your eye out. borne on long stems, and exceedingly Along the coast it will provide some of sweet scented. Talisman is an indis- the most vividly colored roses that can pensable rose for every garden, and World's Fair be grown. Plant Pat. No. 349. $1 ea* after having one plant you usually want more so that you can pick World's Fair. R9S. Big, velvety textured, deep Sierra Glow. R84. See page 67. $1.25.* a larger bouquet of those beautiful buds. red flowers with blackish shadings, borne in clus- It been recommended chiefly for the Scarlet-Orange It's an easy rose to grow because the ters. has plant is vigorous, upright and free- mass of color which it produces from spring to late fall, but Signora. R85. The color is a most in- branching. 50c each. we like it also for the individual beauty of its lovely slender tense shade of scarlet-orange with other buds and gorgeous clusters of open flowers. An All-America Sunlit. R89. Perfect little apricot buds lighter shades of tangerine and cerise, Rose Selection for 1940. Plant Pat. No. 362. $1.00 each* on thornless stems. See page 71. $1.50. and the flower, which has plenty of York and Lancaster. R97. A 300 year old rose with some petals, is always most attractive in Centennial petals entirely white, some entirely red, and sometimes half form from the bud stage to the wide Texas red and half white. Named in commemoration of the end open flower. The big strong plants Texas Centennial. R91. President Her- the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York produce their flowers on excellent long bert Hoover has been an extremely of (white) and Lancaster (red). Grows to 6 or 8 feet. Leave stems, and the substance of the petals popular Rose. This sport of Hoover is it unpruned to get the most flowers. $1.00 each. and stems is such that the flower keeps similar to it except in color. It has indefinitey after cutting. Slight frag- the same strong, tall, vigorous 3 to 4 rance. Plant Pat. 201. $1.00 each* foot plant, with heavy strong stems and magnificent large full buds and blooms President Hoover Snowbird —but the color is a bright, glowing Pink, Yellow, and Buff carmine-red which in cool weather be- Snowbird. R87. A very fine, almost comes deeper blood-red. It has such pure white rose which is not well a big, vigorous plant and is so lavish known but we think it is one of the with its richly colored flowers that it prettiest little white roses that can be has jumped up in popularity each year grown. Long, beautifully shaped, flar- since it became available. See also ing white buds of small to medium size new Climbing Texas Centennial on open into snowy white, high-centered page 63. Plant Pat. No. 162. $1 each* blooms crowded with small petals. Very fragrant. It is lovely in all stages, Biggest of All and the plant is free-branching, free- blooming, and better than average in The Doctor. R93. Enormous, delicately vigor. It will outbloom most white colored, large-petalled pink blooms, roses two to one. $1.00 each. which are so big sometimes you can hardly believe them real— 6 inches Southport across with buds in proportion. The plant is modest in growth, and you Southport. R88. This is one of the will have to give it a little extra atten- finest red garden Roses because vof its tion, but it is worth doing that to get exceedingly brilliant scarlet color and those great, exquisite, silvery pink the great quantity of lovely, long, flowers, with the intensely sweet frag- slender buds which it produces. The rance. One of those big, beautifully flower opens quickly into a good sized, proportioned, richly colored, sweetly loose, open, perfumed bloom which perfumed flowers is really an event in holds its brilliant color well. The plants the garden. $1.00 each. are strong growing, tall and slender, Big, long-budded vari- with the blooms on long stems. Excel- The Chief. R92. 67. each.* lent for cut flowers and exceedingly colored rose. See page $1 lovely under artificial light. It's one of "-^ Treasure Island nf lmsti°^ Bia 10 " offered on page '6. 75c each. Treasure Island. R94. Almost exactly like the popular Countess Vandal ex- Sunshine cept that the colors are deeper and flaming coppery Sunshine. R89A. The only good yellow richer. The shades of Baby pink, light salmon and orange are Polyantha Rose. A compact, lit- tle, indeed, and to say the buds rounded plant 18 inches high, beautiful of Vandal is praise blooming all through the season. The are like those dainty Every bud is perfect and on a little buds and open blooms, enough. aoout li/ stiff straight stem, just right for cut- 2 inches across, are a bright cheery ting. moderate grower. $1.00 each. orange-yellow with deeper tints A in cool weather. A difficult rose to Times Square. R93A. See page 67. propagate so you'll seldom find it. $1. $1.50 each*

When ordering roses, please include both the name, and the number following the name, on the order sheet. This will enable us to avoid errors in filling your order.

E • — 74 rmstrong Bush Roses Do You Like Fragrant Roses?

Then listen to this. In the summer of 1941 one of the country's most im- portant chemical companies conducted tests in the Armstrong rose fields on the ten most fragrant roses that could be found there, with a view to finding the best variety for making essential oils for perfume. After scientific tests were applied, the ten rose varieties were graded in the

order of their excellence of odor. The rose that stood No. 1 was Miss Clipper, the new pink Armstrong introduction offered on page 67. Heart's Desire stood second and Etoile de Hollande third. You'll Like Chris Stone Most Popular Yellow Christopher Stone. R12. Still quite new, it Mrs. Erskine P. Thom. R6S. Over the past "las continued to grow in popularity each several years this has probably been the season and ranks as one of the very finest most valuable yellow Rose for the garden. red Roses of recent years. Glowing, bril- Our customers think so too for it has out- liant crimson-scarlet, with deeper, dusky sold all other yellows almost every year. shadings as the flower ages, it never has The nicely shaped buds and well shaped a trace of blue and does not fade in the open flowers are a bright canary-yellow hottest sun. While it sometimes lacks per- without other tints, and the strong-grow- fection of form, the blooms have long- ing, vigorous bush is lavish with the lasting substance, a delightfully spicy blooms. It has color, form, growth and fragrance, an unequalled richness of color, lovely foliage, so it is going to stay at the and it will out-bloom most red Roses two- top for some time to come. 50c each. To-one, because of the vigor of the plant. 75c each. Vivid Poinsettia Red Poinsettia. R73. For sheer dazzling bril- A Brilliant Bi-color liancy we do not think there is any red Condesa de Sastago. R14. This brilliantly Rose that equals this comparatively new bi-colored Spanish Rose is unsurpassed in kind. Its well shaped, high-centered buds brilliancy, and its startling color combina- are made up of velvety textured p_etals in tion is undoubtedly unique. The large, such a bright and vivid shade of red that cup-shaped flowers, fairly double and yet they seem to glow from within. The plant not too heavy, are glowing orange-scarlet is exceedingly tall and vigorous, produc- on the inside of the petals and intensely ing plentifully of the long-stemmed flow- bright yellow on the outside. The breath- ers. The blooms fade somewhat in some taking beauty of its brilliant flowers is weathers but are nearly always very sat- not its only fine quality because the tall, isfactory. In the fall you'll get from this bushy plants are satisfyingly robust, al- variety some of the most gorgeous red ways in bloom, and the flowers are sweet- roses that you have ever seen. One of ly fragrant. One of the "Armstrong Big the "Armstrong Big Ten" listed on oppo- Ten." See illustration opposite page. 65c site page. 75c each. each. Rotary- Lyon Dazzling Scarlet Rotary-Lyon. R82. Named in honor of the E. G. Hill. R26. Immense flowers of very Rotary Club and the city of Lyon, France, lasting dazzling scarlet, never fading or where this rose originated, so all Rotar- turning blue, but actually becoming deep- ians will want it as a memento. A great er red as they open. The flowers are high-centered bud, opening to a full, forty- borne on long stems, and are deliciously petalled, cup-shaped flower of enormous fragrant. The foliage is abundant. Its size. The bloom is variable in coloring, brilliant color, extraordinary freedom of usually creamy orange-yellow with pastel bloom, and lasting qualities have made it shadings and stains of carmine. It is a popular Rose everywhere. See illustra- always cne of the strongest growing roses tion opposite page. 50c each. in our fields, so expect a big plant and Unfading Yellow big flowers, richly perfumed. SI .00 each. Jonkheer Mr. G. Sandberg. R47. One of Sister Therese the most beautiful yellow roses that we Sister Therese. R88. A remarkably strong, grow, not a pale yellow but a clear, tall, vigorous, free-branching bush. The bright, shining shade which does not fade long, tight, slender buds are always per- in the sun. The ovoid buds are well fect, never becoming misshapen, and they shaped, with plenty of petals, and unlike keep well as a cut flower. The chrome- many other yellows, the flowers are pro- yellow buds tinged with carmine and the duced on a vigorous, upright, bushy plant lighter yellow open blooms, spicily frag- which keeps throwing out its flower stems rant, with deeper tones of apricot and continuously. We rank it right along with gold, are always beautiful to behold. Mrs. E. P. Thom and Golden Rapture and You'll never have to coax this one to Eclipse as one of the best yellow roses, grow and bloom. 65c each. is included in the "Armstrong Big 10" offered on the oppo- site page. SI. 00 each.

Christopher Stone (At Left) Alluring spicy fragrance

Rotary-Lyon (At Right) Big pastel blooms

— 75 Armstrong's Big A Champion 10 Rose Garden

If you said, "I'd like a well-balanced 10-plant rose garden of your best non- patented kinds," we would advise you to buy the "Big Ten," for it is as fine a group of roses as we can put together. Each variety is outstanding in its color, easy to grow and vigorous. There is not a temperamental weak sister among them. The bushes are typical Armstrong rose plants, husky and heavy rooted. Within a few weeks they will fill your garden with lovely blooms and rich rose fragrance.

1. Condesa de Sastago. Petals vivid 6. Golden Rapture. Its rich uniform yellow on one side, bright orange-scarlet yellow buds have the most perfect form on the other. Big, full, high-centered of any yellow rose. blooms, sweetly fragrant. 7. Picture. Lovely buds and flowers of warm pink. Our favorite pink rose. 2. Duquesa de Penaranda. Orange-apri- cot with coppery tones; long-pointed buds. 8. Poinsettia. Dazzling scarlet, velvety

3. Etoile de Hollande. Brilliant non-fad- and fragrant. The most vivid in color of ing red. One of the most fragrant of all all red roses. See illustration opposite page. roses.

4. Jonkheer Mr. G. Sandberg. Clear, 9. President Herbert Hoover. Pink, yel- bright, shining yellow which does not low and buff. Huge buds and flowers on fade. long stiff stems.

5. Korovo. Rich salmon-pink; extremely 10. Southport. Lovely long slender buds fragrant. Lavish with its lovely buds. of vivid never-fading scarlet.

You can't give anyone (even yourself) a finer gift than a lovely rose garden that will live on in the garden year after year. We will be glad to send the "Big 10" anywhere in the country to arrive at any time between December 15 and May 15. Each sturdy bush will be properly pruned for planting, and com- plete instructions for planting and care will be included. Just say, "Please send the 'Big 10' (or Rose Offer No. 10) and you'll get one plant of each variety named above (a $7.40 value), for only $4.95. Add 15c sales tax on California shipments. For delivery to any point in California, Arizona or Nevada add 25c for packing and shipping; other states west of the Mississippi add 70c; and eastern states add $1.15.

These Are the Things That Count West Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 11, 1941: "The Charlotte Armstrong bush we got from you has bloomed continuously since April and has attracted the attention of hun- dreds of passersby."

Los Angeles, Calif., Ian. 31, 1942: "The rose stock I received from you about lanuary 18 was the finest I have ever seen. I also bought a few bushes from two other popular nurseries about the same time, but none were as vigorous or sym- metrical in appearance as yours and all are just jumping with new growth."

El Segundo, Calif., Feb. 16, 1942: "This gives us twenty-eight Armstrong Roses and most of them are perfect, just like the pictures in your catalog."

Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 9, 1941: "I was attracted by your roses in Arkansas. They had been planted in the spring of 1941, were full of bloom and stood taller than I. (I am 5 ft. 8 in.) I was told they were budded on Ragged Robin and were from Armstrong Nurseries. They were a perfect picture."

A " Wonder of Stafa Aster frikarti. P6. Illustrated in color at the left is a flower of this amazing perennial with the long flowering season. From June to December the handsome, 1 compact, 2-foot plants are cov- ft ered with the loveliest lavender- blue flowers—not just two or • i three blooms but a mass of them. Excellent for cutting, too, keeping well in the house and mixing well with other flowers. Gal. tins, 75c. Golden Wave Trollius Golden Wave. P77. When you first see the 18-inch clump of neatly cut foliage you'll probably think it's a per- ennial Delphinium y - - - plant, but you'll be surprised when those Aster frikarti will give you hundreds of long-stemmed flowers of glowing beautiful blooms like this from June to yellow-orange come up. One November. Fine for cutting. plant will produce up to two dozen flowers at once, and they keep coming for weeks in spring and early summer. It's often difficult to find yellow flowers for a shady spot, but that's what this one likes. The flow- ers first make round balls (it is sometimes called Globe Flower), then all of a sudden they pop open and display their full beauty. Gal. tins, 85c. A New Berry Evans Black Raspberry. FB10.

(Illustrated below. ) Everybody likes the rich full flavor of Black Raspberries. They are de- licious to eat with sugar and cream, they make wonderful jam, and you know how popu- Rondeletia cordata, a Tropical Queen from Guatemala. lar Black Raspberry ice cream is. This new one bears large crops of the most beautiful, juicy, sweet Black Raspberries A Tropical Queen that we have seen. It is well adapted to our Southern California cordata. S215. "Heart- climate. Our mouth waters just to write about them 35c each, Rondeletia 6-8 22°. Trollius Golden Wave brings brilliant sun- S2.50 per 10. leaf Rondeletia." ft. shiny spring color into a shady spot. Easy Bring Old Mexico into your gar- to grow. den—a bit of that part down next to the Guatemalan border, Three Big Salesyards to Visit where flowers are large and colors are vivid. You'll get Main Display Yard in Ontario, 35 miles east of Los An- more than a glimpse of its tropi- beauties when you have a geles, can be reached over either of the two main east and cal blooming plant of Rondeletia west highways. Valley Boulevard (U. S. 99) or Foothill cordata right in your own gar- Boulevard (U. S. 66). See map page 40. Motor Transit bus den to enjoy. The large, glossy green look leaves Sixth and Main Streets, Los Angeles, every hour, and foliage has the fresh of perpetual spring. The great the Ontario terminal is four only blocks from our Nurseries. clusters of dainty blooms have vividly blended shades of pink Our North Hollywood Branch, corner Magnolia Blvd. and and yellow, while the corolla Coldwater Canyon Ave., has a complete display of Arm- tubes and buds are rich sal- strong products. mon-pink. This Jungle Queen will make herself at home in any position No Matter When you visit one of the three Armstrong Sales- sunny or semi-shaded in your garden where moisture yards, you'll always see something interesting. They are 5- is plentiful. Gal. tins, $1.00; veritable treasure houses of garden plants. gal. tins, $2.75.

Our Salesmen have at their fingertips such information as Her Sister what plants look well together, how tall and how wide And S214. they grow, when they bloom, what color they are, where Rondeletia amoena. "Bronzeleaf Rondeletia." 4-6 ft. they like to planted, cold, sun, water they be how much 22°. Another lovely foliaged, want—in fact all the information needed to help you brilliant flowered, tropical beau- with select the right plants for your needs. ty from Central America, slightly larger leaves than the smaller Delivery. Truck delivery service to most of Southern Cali- above and somewhat but even more vivid flowers. fornia, wartime regulations permitting. We ship safely to These new Evans Black Cap Raspberries The flowers are rich pink with California the States mail, express, Gal. are the very finest for California. Boy, all of and United by a yellow bearded throat. they're good. freight. See pages 40-41. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75.

Sec. 562, P. L. & R. Armstrong Nurseries U. S. POSTAGE Horticultural Crops and Ontario, Calif. Ontario, California Diseases Permit No. 3 Bureau of Plant Industry Return Postage Guaranteed 0. S. Dept. Agri. Washington, D. C.

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