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There is a Difference

Not all citrus trees are the same. You have seen some orange 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 plant-

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 The New Robertson Navel Orange Citrus Tree, because that's when you'll be en- Produces heavier crops and star s to joying the big crops, the superior for ripen several weeks earlier in the win- quality ter season. which Armstrong strains are famous.

Planting Calendar for Citrus Dependable for 54 Years Are You Up-to-Date? The black squares under every month in the planting For 54 years, always under the same Do you know just how good citrus fruit calendar below indicate that you can plant citrus trees management, Armstrong Nurseries has can be or what new improved kinds (balled, bare root or in tins) during any month in the year been furnishing superior citrus trees to have been developed over the past ten (spring months are slightly preferable). the orchardists and home planters of the years? Most planters are not aware of Southwest. Many of the finest and largest the progress made in citrus fruits re- producing orchards in this State are cently. Month JFMAMJ JASOND planted with Armstrong grown trees, and no matter in what town you live, you're We are constantly testing new citrus va- 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 we definitely recommend include: The Painstaking atteniion to the details of heavy bearing, early ripening Robertson seed selection, rigid grading of seedlings, Citrus trees are usually supplied with a burlap-wrapped Navel for winter oranges; the Armstrong modern bud selection methods and care- ball of earth on the roots, but bare root trees may be Seedless Valencia for seedless summer ful growing and digging practices pro- supplied if specially requested. We recommend and orange juice: the Armstrong Seedless duce an Armstrong citrus tree which is often ship bare root trees to distant points to save trans- Lemon for seedless lemonade the year vigorous productive. portation expense. Balled, 1-year trees weigh 40 lbs., inherently and around; the Summernavel, a delicious 2-year trees, 60 lbs. Bare root trees, 1-year, weigh 2 lbs. juicy orange which reverses the Navel for the first tree and 1 lb. for each added tree. See page Top- Your Trees season by ripening in the summer. 41 for shipping costs. Work Old Unauthorized reproduction of patented Then there are those richly flavored, citrus varieties, including Armstrong juicy Tangelos; the heavy bearing, orna- Seedless Valencia, Robertson Navel, mental, cold-resistant Calarnondin; and Summernavel or Armstrong Seedless the juiciest and finest of all Tangerines, Lemon either as nursery grown trees or the Kara and Kinnow. as top-worked orchard trees is prohibited You might as well have the finest in under the terms of the U. S. Plant Patent citrus fruits while you are planting. Laws. Licenses for top-working orchard Many of these kinds are available only trees to these varieties may be secured at Armstrongs because only Armstrongs from the Armstrong Nurseries for a very have taken the trouble to search them small charge. Write for information if out, test them and grow them for you. interested in top-working.

For Arizona Planters Be Sure It's Genuine Trees of the Robertson Navel Orange, Every tree sold of the Armstrong Seed- Armstrong Seedless Valencia Orange and less Valencia (Plant Pat. No. 124), the Summernavel Orange are available for Robertson Navel (Plant Pat. No. 126), the planting in Arizona from Mr. H. H. Summernavel Orange (Plant Pat. No. Wasser, Nurseryman, Route 2, Box 217 347), and the Armstrong Seedless Lemon (7220 North 12th Street), Phoenix. Mr. (Plant Pat. No. 342), carries a tag bear- Wasser also is authorized to issue li- ing its patent number, and unless it censes for top-working orchard trees to does carry such a tag, it is not a genu- the above varieties in Arizona. ine tree of the varieties named.

Armstrong Seedless Valencia Orange

Armstrong Seedless Valencia. FC20. Throughout the world wherever oranges are grown the Valencia has long been considered 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 2-year trees, piclure. Price on Armstrong Seedless Valencia, $4.50 each, $42.50 per 10.

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California Citrus

Robertson Washington Navel

Navel Orange Washington Navel. FC28. This famous seedless, winter ripening Orange is Robertson Navel. FC23. The finest largely responsible for California's world- wide citrus fame. The fruit is large, winter ripening orange for California with the characteristic navel at the blos- —that is what we claim for this new, som end, and in flavor, juiciness and general high quality, it is not excelled improved, early ripening, heavier pro- by any other Orange. The skin peels off ducing orange. Young trees two and readily, while the sections are easily separated without breaking. While eas- three years old are loaded down with ily grown anywhere in Southern Califor- fruit, bearing two or three times as nia, it is at its best in the foothills and the valleys a few miles removed from the much as trees of the Washington coast. December to April. 2-year trees, Navel of the same age, and it con- $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. tinues to far outbear that variety after the trees are mature. You will not Valencia Orange have to wait for fruit on the Robert- Valencia. FC27. The best summer orange son because it starts producing almost the world over is the Valencia. Valen- Both Paulette and the Robertson Navel Orange tree plant the trees. begin to ripen in May and are as soon as you cias shown above are three years old. Robertson bears young throughout the summer and available and it bears heavily. The Robertson Navel is the best winter fall months. The medium-sized fruit is orange and the one you will find most juicy and sweet, with few seeds, and profitable because the tree is the largest of all citrus varieties. Most of the summer orange juice 1. In appearance, color, tenderness, fla- consumed in the United States comes vor and juiciness the Robertson is equal from the Valencia. If you want your to the finest Washington Navel, making orange juice absolutely seedless, you it the best eating orange in the world. wiil want the new Armstrong Seedless 2. The Robertson is by far the heaviest Valencias on opposite page. April to Oc- bearing Navel Orange, far more produc- tober. 1-year trees, $3.50 each, $32.50 tive than the Washington Navel. It consistently bears more boxes per tree and per 10; 2-year trees, $4.00 each, $37.50 per acre, even though the tree is slight- per 10. ly smaller than Washington. St. Michael. FC25. Sometimes called 3. The Robertson tree usually starts to "Paper-Rind" because of the thinness of bear as soon as it is planted. the skin on the medium sized, richly flavored fruits which are exceedingly sweet 4. The fruit is smooth, uniform, and and juicy. Ripens between the Navel nearly all of it in the desirable medium and the Valencia, and is a fine home sizes. fruit. Feb. to April. 2-year trees, $4.00.

5. You can pick the fruit two to three weeks ahead of the Washington Navel, well before Christmas, before the heavy The Best Blood Orange winter frosts. This is an exceedingly important characteristic in the early ripen- Ruby Blood. FC24. This is the best Blood ing citrus areas such as the San Joaquin Orange. Of medium size, very sweet and Why the Robertson Navel Sets Heavy Crops Valley. In that section Robertsons are juicy. The flesh is streaked with red and The photograph above shows why the Robertson Navel sweet, colored and ready to pick early when fully ripe is blood-red, the color always sets a heavy crop. The larger cluster of fruits in November. extending through the peel to on the right are Robertson Navels, while the smaller Each Per 10 show a red blush on the outside. fruits are ordinary Washington Navels. Both are aver- 1-year trees $4.00 $37.50 The bright red juice age specimens of each variety picked in the same 2-year trees 4.50 42.50 is delicious, and the fruit meets orchard on July 10th. The fruit of the Robertson is so any home use. February to May. 1-year larqe in June and July that hot weather affects it but Write for special low prices on 25 or more trees, $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10; 2-year little, while it causes the smaller fruits of the Wash- trees. trees, $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10 ington Navel to drop.

New Summernavel Orange Juicy Summernavel Orange slices and Sodus Purple Raspberries make a delightful summer salad. Only the Summernavel Orange will give you orange slices in the summertime.

Summernavel Orange. FC26. No orange is as good to eat as a Navel. Their quality, fine full flavor and firm juiciness has made California famous, but until recently 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.

2-year trees of Summernavel, $4.50 each, $42.50 per 10. Write for special prices on 25 or more trees. Armstrong Limes, Grapefruit Lemons

The Piquant Limes

Everybody knows that limeade is one of the most delicious and refreshing of all drinks. Lime trees grow rapidly and bear fruit almost at once and continue to produce heavy crops. They are more susceptible to frost than other citrus fruits, and in colder sections the Eustis Limequat (see page 5) or the Calamondin (pictured 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 drink of 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 For a home fruit if you have little room hardier than the Mexican. Limes have and a reasonably frostless location, been one of the best paying citrus Mexican will give you more satisfaction fruits in recent years. 2-year trees, than any other Lime because it bears $4.50 each, $42.50 per 10. Write for spe- enormously and there is nothing finer cial low prices on 25 or more trees. in flavor. 2-year trees, $4.50 each, $42.50 per 10. Write for special low Rangpur Lime. FC12A. The beautiful prices on 25 or more trees. deep reddish orange fruits, shaped like a tangerine, are as handsome as any citrus fruits you ever saw, and they are just as good inside as they look Beauty and Marmalade Fruits of Calamondin outside. This is the most resistant to cold of all the limes we grow, and it Oriental travelers will tell you that has some of the most beautiful big Brazilian Sour Orange. FC25A. Pro- because of its rich flavor and white fragrant blossoms that you have vides lots of luxuriant big citrus foliage abundance of juice it is one of ever sniffed at too. We recommend it big orange-red fruits. beautiful the finest fruits in the for and A world as a combination fruit and ornamental. beverage purposes. ornamental tree from coast to desert Bush form, gal. tins, $1.2$ each; 5-gal. and easy to grow. All the best English tins, $3.00 each. and Scotch marmalade is made from the Sour Orange. Unexcelled for espa- Beautiful Tree, Delicious Fruit lier against a wall. 5-gal. tins, trained Sweet Lime as espalier on trellis, $5.00 each. Calamondin. FC1. Beautiful, densely-foliaged, tall, slender citrus tree from the Philippines, probably the most resistant Sweet Lime. FC13. The fruit of this to cold of all edible citrus fruits. It bears great quantities variety has the characteristic Lime fla- of little highly-colored fruits, reddish-orange inside and out, vor, but the juice is so sweet that it The Hardy Lemon with an excellent unique flavor and with more juice to the may be taken without sugaT. Large, square inch than other citrus fruit. fruit yellow, very juicy fruits large, any The keeps on a Jan. 14, 1943: "I have had such good ripening for some months, not all at once. Delightful for handsome tree which bears enormous luck with your Meyer Lemon, it being beverage purposes and a splendid ornamental. It crops of fruit, and is considerably makes so sturdy that it stands our Stockton delightfully delicious different hardier than either Bearss or marmalade unique and in Mexican. freezes," L. E. B., Stockton, Calif. flavor. The snowy white flowers ore among the largest and You will find this fruit excellent to eat most sweetly scented of all citrus blooms. Bush form, gal. any time out of hand and that the See the Meyer Lemon described on the tins, SI. 10 each, $10.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $3.00 each, $27.50 juice makes a most refreshing and un- next page and illustrated on page 5. per 10. usual drink. Large 2V2-yr. specimens, The Calamondin and the Satsuma Man- $7.50 each. darin are just as hardy.

This Is the Way Your Armstrong Grapefruit Trees Will Produce Grapefruit (Pomelo) A cluster of 47 Marsh Seedless Grapefruit on a young Armstrong tree. We do not guarantee that you'll always get clusters this large, but you will get Every family is using more and more grapefruit each year, plenty of fruit. and the 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.

Marsh Seedless. FC2. Most commercial plantings of grapefruit 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. 1-year trees, $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10; 2-year trees, $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10.

Thompson Grapefruit. FC4. (Pink Marsh Seedless.) A sport 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. 2-year trees $4.00 each.

New Red Grapefruit Ruby Grapefruit. FC3. Here is a new seedless red grapefruit, exactly the same as the Thompson but with more red in the flesh and with red color showing on the outside of the skin. In the desert areas the red color, both outside and in, is pronounced and beautiful. However near the coast, like all other red grapefruits, it shows very little color. No matter where you plant it, this is the newest and best there is in grapefruit. 1-year trees, $4.50 each. Armstrong Citrus Trees have been producing fine fruit in California plantings for 54 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 or northern districts. For these colder sections we recommend the Meyer Lemon (illustrated on page 5). For most locations in Southern Cali- fornia, we think there is no finer Lemon than the Armstrong Seedless—the only lemon without seeds—with as fine quality as you'll find in any Lemon.

Eureka Lemon The New .Eureka. FC7. In recent years the lead- Armstrong Seedless ing lemon for both commercial and home planting; fruit uniform, of med- Armstrong Seedless Lemon. FC6. Now ium size, of the highest quality. The we are able to offer to California plant- seeds are few and the juice is abun- ers what we have been wanting for dant. The tree is almost thornless. It a long time—a Lemon of the finest bears continuously all through the year quality with no seeds. Gone is the in- and ripens most of its fruit in the sum- convenience of fishing seeds out of mer. The California lemon industry is your lemonade. The variety was dis- largely founded upon the Eureka. If covered in Riverside a few years ago like you want a Lemon the Eureka but and has been tested in a number of entirely seedless, plant the New Arm- locations with the same uniform re- strong Seedless Lemon. 2-year trees, sults, a total absence of seeds. Where $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. planted with other Lemon Bearss Seedless Lime varieties, an occasional seed may be found due to First Choice for Home or Commercial Planting Lisbon Lemon. plant- FC8. Although not cross-pollination, but even then the ed widely is as as Eureka, the Lisbon seeds will be so rare they will be highly favored in certain sections be- found only once in hundreds of fruits. cause the tree is exceedingly strong Seedlessness would not be worthwhile and vigorous, much more so than The Famous Meyer Lemon unless quality was present. In this new Eureka, and it is also much longer- Armstrong Seedless Lemon, however, lived. The buds for our trees were Illustrated in Color on Next Page the quality is just as good as in the taken from an orchard tree which had a famous Eureka Lemon to which this Meyer Lemon. FC9. A Lemon tree that does not freeze even production record of 2,749 pounds of variety is almost identical in every re- in the most severe California frosts, which ripens fruit fruit in one year and has con- been spect except the presence of seeds. The almost throughout the year, fruits that are orange-colored, sistently near that figure. parent The fruit is large, smooth-skinned, juicy, and bigger and juicier than the average Lemon and make the tree was from selected grown buds by the tree bears heavy crops. Plant Pat. finest lemon pie you ever tasted. A tree that is beautiful in A. D. Mr. Shamel of the U. S. D. A. for No. 342. 2-year trees, $4.50 each, $42.50 appearance, has the biggest and most fragrant citrus blooms type, production vigor. 2-year trees, and per 10; large specimens, $7.50 each. (not white but pink), which grows easily anywhere in Cali- $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. fornia (or anywhere in the South and Southwest) from coast to the hottest desert valleys, and bears heavy crops always. This is the Meyer or Chinese Dwarf Lemon, the ideal home Extra Size Specimens lemon tree. As a single tree, for hedge or as a pot plant Real Pink Lemonade the Meyer will give satisfaction. The tree-shaped plants Many of our customers wish to get citrus listed below will make a large tree more quickly but are Pink Fleshed Lemon. FC10. Nature was trees larger than the regular 1 not so ornamental to start with as the bushy type. Bush in a gay mood when this unusual and 2-year grades for home planting, in form, gal. tins, $1.00 each, $9.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $3.00 Lemon was created. The foliage is order to have a large tree more quickly. each, $27.50 per 10; tree shape, 1-year, $3.50 each; 2-year, striped and variegated in many shades We have extra size specimens on $4.00 each. cf green, pink, and white, but is nor- which we leave most of the top, taking mal and vigorous otherwise. The fruit them up with a large ball of earth on Ponderosa Lemon. FC10A. If you want lemons that are is of medium size, juicy, and of good the roots (about 125 lbs.) so that they really big, and we mean big (12 inches in circumference), quality (it is a sport of Eureka), but are not checked in growth. The prices this is the one for you. And you won't have to wait long astonishingly enough it is also striped vary according to variety and size, but either because it's a dwarf tree and starts producing right in green and white, while the flesh and most of them run from $7.50 to $10.00 now. We grow them in the containers and you can keep juice are a rich pink color. With its oach. them there for a long time if you wish, or plant it out in pink flower-buds added, it is a most the ground. The tree is hardier than any other Lemon that unusual and unique tree—exceedingly we list except Meyer. Bush form, gal. tins, $1.25 each; 5-gal. ornamental as well as useful. Bush tins, $3.00 each. form, gal. tins, $1.25 each; 5-gal. tins. $3.00; tree shape, 2-year trees, $4.50 each. Tangelos, Delightful Juice Fruits

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

Sampson Tctngelo. 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 delightful 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 sweetness. February to May. 2-year trees, $4.50 each.

San Jacinto Tangelo. FC31. This variety resembles its Grape- fruit parent more than Sampson, the big, loose-skinned, yellow fruits being very juicy and tender, while its delicious, unique flavor makes it an excellent fruit with which to vary the monotony of grapefruit. Within 20 miles of the coast this will be a more satisfactory home breakfast fruit than grapefruit because it is sweeter and has more flavor than does grapefruit in that area. 2-year trees, $4.50 each.

Ii you live in the western part of Los Angeles or the beach cities, you'll want to visit our new Culver City Salesyard on Sepulveda Blvd., four blocks south of Culver Blvd. Citrus (Continued)

For Ported 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 foliage, 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. The new Kara Mandarin is amazingly juicy, with a new and diffe rent flavor. Rangpur Lime. See page 3. Otaheite Orange. See below. Pink-Fleshed Lemon. See page 4. Myrtle-Leaved Orange. Below. Mandarin Oranges (Tangerines) The Mandarin Oranges, or Tangerines, as they are more popularly called, Eustis Limequat are splendid fruits for home planting because of 1he heavy crops of sweet, Eustls Limequat. FC14. A cross between the Lime and the juicy, uniquely-flavored fruit everyone likes. which Kumquat. The fruit resembles a light yellow Lime and is thin-skinned, firm, very juicy, almost seedless, and is deli- Price On All Mandarins Satsuma cious when used like the Lime for beverage purposes. The tree is small, of rapid upright growth producing fruit almost Each Per 10 immediately after planting, and bearing exceedingly heavy S42.50 Satsuma (Owari). FC19. The hardiest 2-year trees S4.50 crops, the arching branching often being so lined with the Kara and Kinncw, the two Mandarin orange that we grow, and for this rea- beautiful yellow fruits that they arch over with the weight. Oranges listed below, originated by Dr. planted other citrus son can be where From January to June the tree will give you and your Frost of the University of California fruits will not succeed, but it is one of family hundreds of delicious drinks of vitamin-rich, refresh- Citrus Experiment Station, are, in our the best for any district because its ing limequat-ade. Several degrees hardier than Limes. 2- opinion, just about the finest eating of big, flat, loose-skinned, deep orange year trees, S4.50 each. all the citrus fruits. Maybe we should fruits are sweet, tender and juicy, and say drinking, because these beautiful golden thin-skinned Mandarins are best of all, they ripen early, long be- Citrus Fruiting Calendar fore Christmas, when almost no other bursting with unbelievable quantities By careful selection of varieties it is easy to secure deli- citrus fruits are yet ripe. The tree is of the most delicious, sweetest and a cious, healthful citrus fruits for the family to use every dwarf, richest flavored juice that ever trickled seldom more than 10 feet, bear- day in the yeaT even though there is room on the home over the palate. How full of vitamins ing while very young. November to place for but a few trees. If you choose the varieties below, they must be, and what a pleasant March. you will have the best kinds available in their ripening way to 'rrVa their' The trees are vig- periods. orous and heavy bearing. Clementine Mandarin. FC15. (Algerian.) December to June Robertson Navel Orange This excellent Tangerine has four dis- April to October Armstrong Seedless Valencia Kara Mandarin. FC17. This hybrid be- March to September Summernavel Orange tinctive characteristics. (1) The deli- tween faaisuma and the King Mandarin Every month in the year Armstrong Seedless Lemon cious medium-sized fruit is just about is the largest of these two new vari- February to April Kara Mandarin lhe sweetest of all the Tangerines; eties. Its beautiful rich orange flesh, May to August Marsh Seedless Grapefruit the fruit while firm, is exceptionally tender and (2) has a rich red color; (3) Almost every month Bearss Seedless Lime juicy, and so sweet and rich in flavor next to Satsuma it is the earliest to The Meyer Lemon is hardy almost anywhere in that it can be diluted fifty per cent ripen; and (4) its dark green, glossy, California. See description on preceding page. with water and still taste better than compact foliage makes it one of the most citrus juices do taken straight. most beautiful of citrus trees. It has Ycu can get more juice out of these been very profitable commercially in beautiful golden orange fruits than Coachella and Imperial Valleys. De- you would believe possible, and they cember to March. have an entirely new flavor in citrus fruits. February to April. fl Kinnow Mandarin. FC18. These smocth- Otaheite Orange skinned, glossy, yellowish-orange fruits are a little smaller than the Kara, but Otaheile Oranges. FC21A. Splendid both in tree and fruit this variety is for a small pot or tub plant either for the most beautiful in appearance. The outdoor or conservatory use is this tree is a heavy bearer, producing dwarf Orange. It great quantities of the handsome de- makes a spreading licious fruits, exceedingly juicy and full little plant with broad handsome deep of flavor. We have listened to many green citrus foliage, and bearing, even arguments among the experts as to while very small, quantities of small which is the better, Kara or Kinnow, 2-inch orange-yellow fruits, of no value and if Mr. Gallup took a poll, he to eat, but exceedingly ornamental. probably find that per cent would 50 Quite hardy and will thrive in a com- like Kinnow best and the other 50 per paratively small container for a long cent like Kara. They are quite differ- period of time. Gal. tins, 90c each; 5- ent, so we'll let you decide. If it's gal. tins, bushy, $2.75 just looks you want, then you had each. better plant Kinnow. January to April. Myrtle-Leaved Orange An Old Favorite Myrtle-Leaved Orange (Chinotto.) FC21. Dancy Mandarin. FC16. Most of the A beautiful small ornamental fruiting tangerines you buy in the market are shrub about 8 feet high, rounded and of this kind because it's an old variety spreading, densely foliaged with hand- planted commercially for many years. some, little pointed myrtle-like leaves. Large, handsome, thin-skinned, orange- Leaded every winter and spring red fruits, borne on a big, vigorous, with beautiful little golden yellow fruits, heavy producing tree. It is a very of satisfactory Tangerine everywhere in no value to eat, but making splendid the citrus district but we would prefer marmalade. Quite hardy (15°), it grows to sell you a Kara or Kinnow because easily almost anywhere. Bush form we think the quality is better. gal. tins, SI .25 each; 5-gal. tins, S3.00. Sub-Tropical Fruiting

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 fruiting trees and plants which are also most ornamental. 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 Loquats

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 Gold Nugget Loquat purposes alone. 15°. Hardy down to This variety is the largest and sweetest, while Advance. FS21. Large, pear-shaped, deep yellow fruits with Advance and Champagne have the zippiest flavor delicious juicy white flesh. Possibly the most beautiful tree and make the best jelly. and one of the heaviest bearers. The fruit makes the finest Loquat jelly you ever tasted. March to June. Balled, heavy 2-year trees, $3.50 each. The Peruvian Pepino Rose-Scented Fruit Champagne. FS22. The big yellow-skinned, white-fleshed fruits are exceedingly juicy and richly flavored. Fine for The Pepino (Solanum muricatum). FS35. Rose-Apple. FS39. (Syzigium jambos.) both coast and interior areas. Its zippy, zestful flavor will 28°. Is a handsome evergreen fruiting 25°. A mass of broad, thick, shining please you, and it's just right for jelly. March to May. shrub from Peru, 3 feet becoming in green and bronze foliage, 8 or 10 feet Balled, heavy 2-year trees, $3.50 each. height, producing from September all high, luxuriant and handsome. It bears through the winter into the late spring Gold Nugget. FS24. The glossy, deep orange fruits of this beautiful small, round, creamy white quantities of large, oval, bright yellow splendid Loquat rate right at the top in appearance and fruits splashed with violet, rose-flushed fruit, IV2 to 2 inches in flavor. The orange-fleshed Loquats are much sweeter than 4 to 6 inches in length. The fruits are excel- diameter, deliciously rose - scented, the white kinds. They also ripen later and are best suited lent in salads. Full sun. Gal. tins, 85c which may be eaten fresh or used tc to the coastal counties, but do very well inland also. The each; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each. make fragrant jelly or candied fruit. A fruit of Gold Nugget will make you smack your lips and pink mound of this delicious rose- reach for more because it is just about the best eating Loquat there is. The fruit of this variety has been bringing high scented jelly will really cause a sen- it . prices on the market, but if you have a family, you'll find Surinam Cherry sation when you get on the table. they'll eat it all up and there won't be any to sell. May to (The clusters of pink and white fruits June. Balled, heavy 1-year trees, $4.00 each. Surinam Cherry. FS13. (Eugenia uni- make beautiful table decorations too.) ilora.) 20°. Here is one of the most The fruits, which are borne in clusters, beautiful of the ornamental fruiting are preceded by large, showy white The Natal Plum (Carissa) shrubs. A beautiful, glossy leaved, flowers. Does best in coastal regions compact plant, branching close to the or foothill areas protected from the ground, it Natal Plum (Carissa grandiflora). FS1. 5-8 ft. 22°. A lovely is good looking at all times wind, in'full sun or part shade. Likes during the year. In the large shrub from South Africa, uniquely beautiful in flower, spring it bears plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, $1.0C fruit and foliage. The rich glossy green foliage big crops of handsome, deep crimson makes a each; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each. splendid background for the star-like, intensely fragrant, fruits, 34 to 1 inch across, like little white blossoms and the brilliant scarlet fruits which are 8-ribbed tomatoes. The fruits have a about the size of a date or larger. Fruits and flowers appear delicate aromatic flavor when eaten at all times during the year. Naturally grows to a height fresh, make a jelly that rivals that of of 6 or 8 feet with the same spread, but may be trimmed the guava, and a delicious salmon-pink sherbet. lower if desired. The fruits are edible, and when cooked Gal. tins, $1.50 each; 5-gal they make a delicious jam suggestive of cranberry jelly and tins, $3.50 each plum jam. The plant thrives in the extreme heat of the desert or in the cool moist weather of the coast, and is hardy almost anywhere in California. Plants in gal. tins, The Natal Plum 85c each, $7.50 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each, $22.50 per 10. Its brilliant scarlet fruits, Armstrong Large-Fruited Natal Plum. FS2. This is a fine handsome foliage, and selected strain of the Carissa described above which has fragrant flowers make it fruit again half as large, beautiful big scarlet fruits that one of California's most make a magnificent show on the plant and in a bowl. The popular fruiting ornamen- leaves and the entire plant are a little larger too. The fruit tal plants. ripens continuously, especially near the coast. Gal. tins, $1.50 each, $14.00 per 10; 5-gal. tins, $3.50 each.

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, $2.50 each.

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 fertilizer 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 locations 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 togeiher 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, $1.50 each; 5-gal. tins, $3.50 each.

— 6 — Armstrong Sub-Tropical

Delicious California Cherimoyas

The Cherimoya is considered by many (including ourselves) to be the most delicious oi 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 of the consistency of ice cream. They ripen in winter when fruits are scarce.

Cherimoya trees are fast growing, hardy down Booth. FS7. A big, fine flavored fruit which to 25°, and require about the same treatment has proved itself for 12 years in California as a citrus tree. They grow rather quickly to and has been the most popular of all. From a height of from 12 to 20 feet, come into bear- a tree in our growing grounds (now 12 years ing in about three years, and should be old) we regularly pick 500 to 600 fruits each planted about 20 to 25 feet apart. Next to the year. Next to Deliciosa it is the hardiest. Avocado, consider the to we Cherimoya be Ryerson. FS11. Big, smooth, uniform fruits ot the most important commercial sub-tropical exceptionally good flavor. Most of its fruit fruit of the exceptionally because fine quality ripens late in the winter and early spring of those big, delicious, creamy fruits which when other kinds are gone. Bears heavily. everyone likes. They are easy to pick and handle either for home or market use. Newly Dr. White. FS9. Tne newest of the Cherimoya discovered methods of hand-pollination insure varieties and we think it may be the best. Beautiful fruit with three outstanding quali- big crops every year (our salesmen will tell ties. (1) Fewer seeds; (2) an unsurpassed, un- you how to do it). forgettable flavor; (3) lots of fruit. All Cherimoyas, strong, balled trees, S6.00 ea. Deliciosa. FS8. The most resistant variety to Annona senegalensis. FS11A. The fruit of this cold and wind, therefore, planted over a wider Cherimoya species is of no value to eat, but its range. The fruit, though often small, is pro- flowers provide a plentiful supply of easy-to- duced freely and regularly even without hand- use pollen for hand-pollinating other varieties. pollination. The fruits have curious protube- One tree will give you all the pollen you need. rances which make it difficult to handle for Hand-pollination is not essential to get fruit on market but do not affect its value as a splen- Cherimoyas, but will provide much larger did home fruit. A beautiful tree. crops.

Strawberry Guavas Are Fine to Eat Fresh and Famous for Jelly. The White Sapote

White Sapote is a strong growing evergreen tree, considerably hardier than most of the subtropical fruiis, and thriving anywhere in California where the Orange tree grows. Trees Passion Fruit bear enormous crops of fruit which look like green apples, usually ripening in summer.

fruit FS35A. Big, round, green fruits oi Passion Fruit. FS34. 28°. It is a splendid The of the Sapote is very easily digested Coleman. bet- ornamental fruiting vine for the home, grow- and contains much pepsin. The soft flesh has surpassing quality. We know of nothing ing rapidly on fence or pergola. The seed a rich peach-like flavor, and is delicious to ter in good Sapote flavor. eat any time. The tree of the White Sapote from which our plants are grown are taken Suebelle. FS37. Many Sapote connoisseurs from the largest fruiting type makes a beautiful evergreen shade tree for end heaviest consider this to have the finest quality and bearing vines to be found in this State. This the home place. Its big, five-fingered leaves flavor of all the Sapotes, and it begins to bear is important because inferior strains are always handsome, and you never have to are some- at a slightly earlier age than the others. The times sold. The glistening purple fruits, about worry about fruit because it never misses a fruit is pear-shaped. A large spreading tree the size of a hen's egg, are exceedingly fra- crop, usually starting to bear three or four 20°. grant and may be eaten fresh or used in years after planting. Hardy down to Wilson. FS38. A tall, slender tree with big, Large, balled trees, many table delicccies. Grow your own big, S6.00 each. luxuriant foliage. It bears heavy crops oi purple, fragrant "Easter eggs" and provide a Pike. FS36. A large spreading tree, growing large fruit about the size of a big green beautiful mantle of glossy, handsome foliage with great vigor and rapidity, producing usu- apple, ripening continuously from August for pergola, wall, fence or building at the ally a light crop of fruit in the spring and a through to late January. A Wilson tree will same time. Gal. tins, $1.00 each. heavy crop in the fall. The medium to small often bear as many as 1,000 lbs. of fruit in one fruit is borne in clusters, deliciously flavored. season—and delicious fruit, too.

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

Right now Olives are California's Shipping Weigh's for Olives: Vz-Vs best paying orchard crop, and the and 5 8- 3/4 inch sizes, bare root, 2 owner of an Olive orchard is in an lbs. for the first tree, 1 lb. for each extremely fortunate position. Few added tree; 3,4-inch size, bare root, commercial plantings have been first tree 4 lbs., 2 lbs. for each add- made in recent years and the out- ed tree. See page 41 for shipping look seems to be good for a long costs. time to come. Pickled olives, both ripe and green, and olive oil made Olive Varieties from California olives, are worth Manzanillo. FS30. The leading com- almost their weight in gold. And mercial variety for pickled ripe best of all for California, our cli- olives and a good kind for oil too. mate gives this State almost a mo- Bears very heavy crops and the nopoly on olive production. rich dark purple fruit is a little larger than Mission. Prices for Bare Root Olive Trees Mission. FS31. Old trees of this va- (All trees pruned back to 3 ft.) riety are still bearing well at some Each Per 10 of the Missions where they were 1/2-% cal. (3 to 4 ft.)..S1.75 $16.00 in. planted by the original Spanish 5/8-% in. cal. (4 to 5 ft.).. 2.00 18.50 Padres. Probably the best oil olive 3/ - 1 in. cal. (5 to 6 ft.).. 2.50 22.50 4 and good for pickles too. It only 1 in. cal. (6 to 8 ft.) 3.00 27.50 takes 53 pounds of Mission olives Write for prices on 25 or more trees. to make a gallon of oil, and the Best time to plant, February to June. demand for olive oil is enormous Prices for Balled Olives, Unpnined now. For ornamental planting we recom Sevillano. FS32. The famous "Queen mend trees with a ball of earth on Olive," gigantic in size and excep- the roots, the tops unpruned. 5 to 6 tional in quality. The trees are priced ft. trees, $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. hard to propagate, therefore Also large boxed specimens avail- at 25c each more than other vari- able, $35.00 to $75.00. eties.

— 7 — 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 quince all thrown together. The fruit is good to eat too, fine for salads and sherbets.

The plant of the Feijoa is handsome, the Armstrong Grafted Feijoa Varieties leaves glossy green on top, silvery gray underneath, with showy red flowers in Choiceana. FS15. The fruit is the size spring. Becomes 15 feet high but easily of a large hen's egg, 3 inches by 21,4 kept lower by pruning. Makes fine big inches. This variety is the very finest hedge. Fruit ripens in the fall. Hardy Feijoa, but Coolidge or Superba must be down to 5°. Do not confuse ordinary planted with it to insure cross-pollination. Feijoa seedlings with the large-fruited grafted varieties which we offer. The Coolidge. FS16. A long oval fruit, not seedlings usually bear small fruit or quite as large as Choiceana or Superba, crop may not bear at all. For an ornamental but which never fails to bear a itself because the which also bears fruit, it is difficult to even when planted by cross-pollination. beat the Feijoa, especially when it will flowers do not need grow easily and quickly in any Califor- big, round nia garden no matter what the soil or Superba. FS17. Beautiful, ball. conditions may be. fruits, almost as large as a billiard in- All varieties listed: Gal. tins, S1.50 each; Must have another variety with it to balled, bushy, S3.S0 each. sure cross-pollination. Coolidge Feijoas M-M-M-M, What a Heavenly Aroma They Have! Cuavas The Tropical Mango Mango. FS27A. 30°. That delicious, fragrant the Strawberry For eating fresh and for jelly and most famous of all tropical fruits, the are the finest and Yellow Strawberry Guavas Mango, grows and bears well in the frostless in California. small fruits that can be grown coastal and foothill regions of Southern Califor- ornamental They all make very handsome nia. Trees must be kept well mulched and given foliage, shrubs with their beautiful evergreen plenty of water. The plants that we offer are hedge. and are splendid for a medium-sized selected seedlings which are quite uniform in Ripen September to November. the type of fruit borne. We have found that they bear quite young, some of them having already fruited in the containers. We pick de- Strawberry Guava. FS19. 5 ft. 20°. Handsome, glossy-leaved medium-sized shrub producing an licious fruits every year from similar seedling trees grown within 10 miles of Ontario. Plants abundance of luscious deep red fruits about in 5-gal. tins, $6.00 each. the size of a large strawberry, highly prized for eating when fresh and unequalled for jelly. Hardy and easily grown anywhere in Califor- Bolser Carob nia. For a real treat for all the family, a Bolser Carob. FS4. The Carob tree, while plant- clump of two or three, planted as ornamental ed widely as an ornamental in Southern Cali- shrubs, will be one of the finest improvements fornia, varies in the quantity and type of pod garden. Gal. that can be made in any home which it bears. These long, dark brown pods tins, 85c each; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each. contain a sweet pulp, 60% sugar, one of the finest sources of stock food in existence. The locusts which St. lohn the Baptist ate in the Yellow Strawberry Guava. FS20. 17". Similar slightly wilderness were Carob pods, and the tree is to the above but the yellow fruit is sometimes called St. John's Bread. Bolser has larger and has the finest flavor of all the Gua- been selected as a Carob bearing the largest vas. Gal. tins, 85c each; 5-gal. tins, $2.50 each. quantity of pods with the highest percentage of sugar, and, in addition, it is one of the most 26°. Very large fruits, Lemon Guava. FS18. beautiful and vigorous shade trees that you can the flavor is a bit strong. as big as a pear, but imagine. Budded trees, gal. tins, $2.00 each; or 8 feet, has larger, lighter Grows rapidly to 6 5-gal. tins, $5.00 each. colored leaves and is more tender than the above two varieties. Did you know that Lemon Avocados are an Armstrong sub-tropical fruit Guavas were the most potent source of Vitamin specialty. See them on pages 21 and 22. better than buying C among all fruits? Much Always include both name and code num- pills at a drug store. Gal. tins, $1.00 each. ber of each 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 attains Southern California head of long narrow dark green leaves, and a in garden. The fruit height of 20 to 35 feet. The nuts are about Wa inches 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 m consid- ripens continu- on the trees like big bunches of and erable quantity, hanging ously over many The trees usually begin to bear in 3 to 5 years grapes. months. from time of planting. They are healthy, vigorous and easily grown almost anywhere in Southern California exceDt m very cold sections. Hardy down to 26°. The Macadamia the when is a beautiful ornamental tree for shade alone, and you consider its crop of delicious nuts, it becomes doubly valuable. 5-gal. tins, $4.50 each. Plant Sub-Tropicals Anytime The black squares under every month in the planting calendar 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

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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 io 14) should be transplanted during their dormant season, lanuary, Feb- ruary and March. They are safely transplanted without dirt round 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 experience 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 severly before planting. On small orders we do this for you unless you reguest otherwise. The trees grow much more rapidly and there is much less danger of loss in transplanting if the trees are pruned back severely. It is risky not to prune them. Quantity Prices. Ten of one variety (for example, 10 Delicious Apples, 10 Babcock Peaches) sold at the 10-rate. We can supply certain varieties in quantities of 10 or more at lower rates. Please write for quotations. Distance Apart to Plant. See the table on page 38.

The New Valmore Shipping Weights. See shipping costs on page 41. Allow for Apples - ^ or * ree lbs. Apple ^ ^s. ' 3 for each additional tree; for Peaches Apricots, Plums, Almonds allow 3 lbs. for first tree, IV2 lbs. for each additional tree. Crisp, Juicy Apples— Fine for Shade Too Select Varieties Ca refully Melba—A New One For Late Apples It is very important that you pick the right Melba. FD8A. A delicious new early Apple Yellow Bellflower. FD16. A standard market variety Apple for your locality. Yellow De- beautifully pink splashed over yellow, crisp, variety of California, best in the coast val- licious, Bellflower, Winter Banana, Yellow with a sprightly but not too tart flavor. We leys. Oblong fruits with a pale yellow waxen White Pearmain, Rhode Island Greening, Red are not sure of its bearing qualities in the skin, beautifully blushed on one cheek. Oct. Astrachan and the new Valmore all do ex- valleys of Southern California, but in the high- cellently in the lower altitudes of Southern er altitudes along the central and northern Delicious. FD7. Everyone knows Delicious, a California. The late red Apples should be coast of California and in any other good apple magnificent variety of fine appearance and planted in the foothills and mountains, where country, it is a most successful, delicious home delightful flavor; large, conical, brilliant red it gets cold during the winter, to get satis- apple. August. slightly splashed with yellow; flesh fine factory results. grained, crisp, and juicy. November. Red Gravenstein. FD9A. The new Red Grav- Valmore, Winter Delicious Banana and Yellow enstein is all red stripes and far more color- White Pearmain. FD15. An oblong greenish- are three Apples we particularly advise each ful than the old favorite. The large round yellow apple, medium to large, juicy and planter to for if possible. Re- home find room fruits are of the same high quality. The earli- mildly flavored. It bears well and has long member that Apple trees are excellent orna- est commercial apple and a seacoast favorite. been a standard variety, particularly for cook- mental shade and flowering trees too. August. ing. A good keeper. November. Winesap. FD13. A standard late red apple Prices Apples Winter FD14. large, clear On Banana. The wax round, beautifully colored, and of splendid their pink blush (Except Valmore, Yellow Delicious and yellow apples with delicate quality, but in Southern California suitable Transcendent Crab) are beautiful in a bowl of mixed fruit. only for the higher altitudes. December. Whether you reach for one to eat fresh, to put Strong trees, SI. 35 each, S12.00 per 10. Ten of :n a pie or bake, you will be impressed by one variety sold at the 10-rate. the unusual flavor. The taste is what the entic- ing aroma promises it will be. Dependable in Flowers and Crab Apples Shipping Weight on Apples: 5 lbs for first tree, all districts, including the coast. You will get Transcendent Crab Apple. FD11. are net 3 lbs. for each additional tree. a crop every year. August. We sure but that for most of Southern California this is the finest Apple tree that you can Listed in Approximate Order of Ripening plant on the home grounds. First of all, of Red Astrachan. FD9. Nearly covered with Famous Yellow Delicious course, it produces enormous crops of beau- large crimson stripes; juicy, crisp, rich in and tiful medium-sized yellow fruits, handsomely flavor. heavy it Yellow Delicious. FD1SA. For eating out of A bearer, has been Southern striped with red, which make the finest kind California's most . dependable early summer hand we cannot recommend a finer apple. of jelly, perserves and spiced pickles. It Apple and a popular Apple everywhere for When you bite through the golden yellow bears so heavily because it is the most re- years. July. skin deep into the crisp sweet flesh you many sistant to delayed foliation of all Apple trees quickly discover that in Southern California 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. Much juicier than the average Red De- it has very handsome dense foliage and makes Southern California's Finest licious apple, will be impressed with the you a very nice looking small summer shade tree. character of the flavor sweet but full of — August. $1.60 each, $14.50 per 10. Red Apple apple tang. Yellow Delicious starts to bear young and can be relied upon to produce Valmore. FD12. This beautiful, new summer heavy crops in areas not considered apple ripening apple is splendid to a addition those country. September. $1.60 each; $14.50 per 10. Now Three Display Yards varieties which thrive under Southern Califor- nia conditions, ranks right along with Winter Rhode Island Greening. FD10. The favorite All genuine Armstrong products can now Banana and White Pearmain in its consistent green anple of the entire country. Large, ro- be obtained not only at our Ontario Dis- bearing qualities in this area. It bears heavy *und, yellowish-green, with juicy mellow flesh. crops in San Joaquin Valley too. The big, round For cooking purposes it is unexcelled. Oct. play Yard but at our Branch in North Hol- fruits of Valmore are magnificently colored, in lywood, corner of Magnolia Boulevard and fact, we have never seen a finer looking apple Jonathan. FD8. One of the best apples grown. Coldwater Canyon Avenue, and our newest than these bright red frui'.s, with their under- Brilliant red striped with carmine, almost lying golden yellow color, often striped and round, with crisp white flesh. Only to be Branch in Culver City on Sepulveda Boule- blotched with scarlet and yellow on one cheek. grown in good apple sections. October. vard, four blocks below Culver Boulevard. Valmore is deliciously flavored, sweet and yards juicy, making delicious apple sauce and apple If you find it difficult to visit our pie. Since there are few red-cheeked apples To avoid errors in filling your order, please in- send your order in by mail. We will get that we can definitely recommend for the clude on your order sheet both the name of the plants safely to you by the best avail- lower altitudes of Southern California, we sug- the item and the code number following the able transportation, whether it be mail, ex- gest including it with every home planting. Plant Pat. No. 238. $1.60 each, $14.50 per 10. name. press, freight, or our own trucks.

— 9 — Deciduous Fruit Trees

Armstrong Peach Calendar

Peaches can be enjoyed every summer over a long season from early to late if you carefully select your varieties.

See prices below each variety. All Peaches listed in order of ripening, and Handsome Redwing all are freestone unless otherwise stated. Redwing. FD61A. Several intensive years of research in our Plant Hybridi- The New Robin zation Department have given us a new heavy bearing peach, larger than Bab- Robin. FD62A. A glorious new early cock, more beautiful, and with better peach from the Armstrong Research De- quality, but ripening at about the same partment, ripening weeks before any time. We consider it an improved Bab- other good early peach. A beautiful cock in every way. The delicious white red-cheeked, white-fleshed, medium siz- flesh has a blush-pink color when fully ed fruit, semi-freestone, so handsome mature. The fruit is firm, and the good that it will make your mouth water to sized fruit is heavily splashed with look at it. A better balanced flavor rich red. than Babcock, firm, easily handled, (See front cover.) Plant Pat. pending. $1.75 each, $16.00 10. and, best of all, it ripens a very heavy per crop every year no matter where you plant it in Southern California. Robin trees available this year for planting Early Elberta only in San Bernardino County, San Diego County, Western Riverside Coun- Early Elberta. FD52. ty (including Yucaipa), and Eastern Los This new early Angeles County. Early June. Plant Pat. ripening Peach is becoming much more No. 529. $1.75 each, $16.00 per 10. important commercially all over Cali- Golden Blush, Best Mid-August Freestone fornia than its later ripening namesake, Australian Saucer. FD48A. This little Elberta, and both for home and market early - - white skinned, white fleshed we can recommend it highly. The med- Peach gets its name from its peculiar ium size fruit is almost round, yellow- flat shape; exceedingly sweet, juicy, ish, with a rich red cheek and a beau- Red-Cheeked Hermosa and delicious. It ripens a large crop tiful orange-pink cast to the skin. The always, and is very satisfactory for Another one of those new Southern Cali- flesh is of excellent quality, almost Hermosa. FD56A. warm winter climates. June. $1.25 fornia peaches that are going to shove the old ones into the clear yellow, very firm so that it makes each, $11.00 per 10. background. A beautiful big white-fleshed, pink-cheeked an excellent shipping peach. Resistant fruit originated by Dr. Lesley, of the University of California. to delayed foliation, and produces a Enormous in size, it bears extraordinarily heavy crops. Prob- So. Calif, s Favorite crop every year in Southern California. ably too tender for shipping, it is a splendid home peach, Middle July. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. and one of the finest to look at and bite into that you ever Babcock.. FD49. Unguestionably Bab- $16.00 per 10. Weldon. saw. Early August. $1.75 each, cock is now Southern California's most FD63B. Originated by and popular peach for both home plantings named after George P. Weldon, of Chaf- large, round fruits, colored and market orchards. Juicy, richly fla- fey Junior College of Ontario, who was Early Crawford. FD51. Very marbled yellow flesh rayed vored Babcock peaches are in greater also responsible for demonstrating the rich red and golden yellow; at the pit. It has a rich flavor, pleasant aroma and demand than any other peach ripe in value of the Babcock. A handsome big with red Late July. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. July. For seven years Babcocks have peach, yellow-skinned with a bright abundant juice. brought the highest price in the Los red cheek. The flesh is yellow, juicy Angeles market in their season. Picked, and sweet. Too soft for commercial Elberta. FD54. Has been for many years, and still is, one the fruit stays firm and attractive for - well planting, but a splendid home yel- of the finest Peaches. The name Elberta is almost as many days, and on the tree new ripens over known as the Peach itself. Good sized, oval, yellow fruits a considerable low freestone that will give a big crop period. Trees often bear with red cheeks, juicy and well flavored. Early August. the first season after planting every year. Late July. $1.75 each, and grow $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. large with amazing speed. The beau- $16.00 per 10. tiful red-cheeked fruit is fuzzless. The small, freestone pit is surrounded by J. H. Hale. FD57. This long-famous and juicy, sweet, white flesh. Early July. popular variety has stayed at the top Outstanding Yellow Peach $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. because of its exceptional appearance. Big, round fruits, with beautiful yellow Golden Blush. FD56. The beautiful big fruits, slightly more C. O. Smith. FD50. It will never fail to skin, richly marked with deep red and elongated than round, are beautifully blushed with red, and provide a large crop of the better H. beautiful carmine, except in mild winters the va- in flavor and juiciness far exceed known J. peaches every year in the mild win- or Elberta. Time after time when mild winters cause riety bears excellent crops in Southern Hale tered sections of the southwest. Too the older better known kinds to set a poor crop of fruit, California and elsewhere bears them soft to be a commercial variety, it is Golden Blush is heavily loaded. Its exceptionally fine qual- every year. The Golden Blush is larger than Babcock and is a wonder- new ity, appearance and free bearing habit lead us to recom- ful better eating in of Southern Peach for home use. Its richly fla- much most mend it not only as a splendid home peach but a fine com- vored, juicy white flesh is delicious in- California. Early August. $1.25 each, mercial variety as well. Middle August. Plant Pat. No. 473. deed. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. $11.00 per 10. $1.35 each, $12.00 per 10.

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

- 10 - These Two Contrasting °each Trees Illus'rate the Peach and Apricot Trees Reason Why Varieties Such as Babcock, C. O. Smith and Golden Blush Smack Your Lips on Sunglow Peach Are Being Planted in Southern California. Read Sunglow. FD63A. This delicious yellow freestone will make you smack the Caption Below This your lips in earnest because it is probably the best yellow peach ripen- Picture Carefully. ing in its season. Beautiful golden yellow outside with a delicate red blush and clear deep yellow inside. It is extraordinarily rich in flavor, as well as being juicy and firm. Another creation from Dr. Lesley, of the University of California. Only now available for planting. $1.75 each, $16.00 per 10.

Rio Oso Gem. FD62. This splendid Peach is just as fine in appearance as the famous J. H. Hcle, but ripens two weeks later and is 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 profitable planting now in the Yucatpa-Beaumont district. Late August. Plant Pat. No. 84. $1.35 each, $12.00 per 10. Krummel. FD58. One of the latest freestone Peaches and a good market variety. Fruit large, lemon yellow, lightly blushed with carmine; flesh yellow, red at the pit. Now ihe best of the late summer freestones for any purpose. Late September. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. 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. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. Canning Peaches

Peaks Cling. FD61. 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. Ripens one week before Sims. Middle August. $1.25 Both of These Trees Were Planted at the Same Time each, $11.00 per 10. The tree on the left is a Babcock; that on the right is a J. H. Hale. They were both planted in the same orchard in February, following a Sims Cling. FD63. Sims Cling is the leading commercial canning cling mild winter, and the photograph was taken in July of the same year. of Southern California because it bears more consistently there than The Babcock tree was not injured by the mild winter and has made any other cling and is of very fine quality. Fruit larger than average, to folia- golden yellow outside and in; flesh clear yellow to the pit. For home an enormous grow'h. J. H. Hale, being susceptible delayed tion following a mild winter, did not leaf out normally and almost a or commercial planting, there is no finer Cling. Late August. $1.25 year's growth was lost. The same thing happens to mature trees, each, $11.00 per 10. loss of the crop on T. H. Hale and similar varieties but not causing a White Heath Cling. FD64. Creamy white, blush on sunny side; flesh affecting Babcock, Early Elberta, C. O. Smith, Weldon, Redwing, Her- white, tender, juicy and delicious. A fine late white Cling for home Golden Blush, Sunglow and Fontana. mosa. use, and there is nothing more beautiful nor more delicious than home canned white peaches. September. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10.

Fontana Cling. FD55. Mr. George P. Weldon, of Chaffey Junior College, Delicious Apricots who introduced Babcock to Southern California, is very proud of his new Cling Peach, Fontana, and we agree with him that it is a big step forward in clingstones for this section. Slightly smaller than Sims, they in the summer before most other fruits Apricots ripen early are a better shape, more uniform in size, a rich deep orange-yellow are ready, and to enjoy their mellow golden goodness to inside, and unquestionably bear much heavier crops, never missing. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10. the full, you almost have to pick them right from your own tree, fully ripened in the sun. Boy! they're really good then to eat fresh, and there is nothing finer for home jams Royal—the Finest of All Apricots 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.

Price on all Apricots, except Earliqold: S1.25 each, S11.00 per 10. Ten trees of one variety sold at the 10-rate. Earligoid. FD16B. The earliest fruits always taste the best, and Earligold beats all other Apricots by many days, and it beats them all in the quantily of fruit that it carries because it is resistant to delayed foliation and ripens a big crop every year in Southern California, which is more than you can say for other kinds. The fruit is medium sized, rich golden apricot color, and the flesh is sweet, juicy and melting. Earligold is an Armstrong origination. If you want to eat apricots before they are on the market, and good ones, plant Earligold. $1.50 ea., $14.00 per 10. 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 satisfactory in all sections, from coast to inland valleys, and aside from Earligold, it is the variety most certain to produce a good crop for you every year. Early June.

Moorpark. FD!8. If you want the finest flavored and best quality 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 bearer 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 beautiful 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 ordinary trees. We have Apples, Figs and Dwarf Pears in well trained specimens for $10.00 each. Grapes, 6 to 7 foot standards, $7.50 each.

— 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 enable successful pollination to take place. alone. them plenty of room. One Almond tree will rarely bear Good combinations are Nonpareil and Drake, Price on all varieties, large trees: S3. 00 each, Jordanolo and Ne Plus Ultra or I.X.L. per 10. S27.50 Price on all varieties, strong trees: SI. 25 each, Average shipping weight for Walnuts, 6 lbs. S11.00 per 10. for first tree, 3 lbs. for each added tree. See Shipping weight for Almonds 3 lbs. for first shipping weights on page 41. tree, Wz lbs. for each additional tree. See shipping weights on page 41. Placentia. FD104. The Placentia is the most popular and profitable Walnut in Southern Jordanolo. FD3. A new Almond which we California. The nuts are roundish oval, smooth, highly recommend for Southern California because of its resistance to delayed foliation with a thin strong shell, of the most desirable Pistachio Nuis as They Look on the Tree medium size. Exceptionally large crops. and its extremely heavy bearing habit which is in evidence wherever it is planted in Cali- Eureka. FD101. Ranks second to Placentia as fornia. A very large, vigorous tree, with a commercial nut. Very large, elongated nuts, heavy, dense foliage, bearing abundant crops heavy and well sealed; cream colored, plump, of large, long, soft-shelled nuts of a superior Pistachio Nuts waxy kernels. A better quality nut than Pla- quality, shelling out easily. Pollinizer, Ne bear as young nor so centia but does not Plus Ultra. The knowledge of most people concerning the heavily. Hardier than Placentia. Drake. FD1. Bears well and adapts itself to Pistachio is that it has a nice green color and Payne. FD103. A very popular commercial all almond districts. Medium size, almost imparts a very pleasant flavor to ice cream. Walnut in the central valleys of California be- round, with a medium soft shell, plump and It is less generally known that Pistachio Nut cause of the extremely early and heavy crops well filled. A good pollinizer for Nonpareil. trees will thrive in California wherever the borne by the young trees and because of its Nonpareil. FD5. Probably the most valuable fig and olive do well. They are hardy deciduous trees of small size, the nuts appear- hardiness. Exceptionally high quality. commercial Almond for California because it bears uniform heavy crops, does well almost ing in large clusters like a loose bunch of Franquette. FD102. Owing to its lateness in grapes. California and Arizona are the only everywhere, and because of its large, smooth, blooming, its hardiness and dense foliage, this two states where they have been successfully plump kernel and its paper-thin shell. Pollin- variety is favored in colder sections. The nut grown. fortunate planters izer, Drake. Those few who is large, elongated, smooth, tightly sealed. have Pistachio trees in bearing now are really Ultra. Ne Plus FD4. Chiefly valuable because cashing in as the nuts sell for a very high of its attractive outside appearance and gen- figure. erally large size. The nuts are large and long with a soft corky shell. Plant with Jordanolo. Nuts are borne only on the female trees and at least one male to each 10 trees or less is necessary for pollination. We have two ex- Eastern Black Walnuts cellent nut bearing varieties, Aleppo FD96 and Bronte FD97, and the pollinizer, Kaz FD98. Thomas. FD106. nut has ever surpassed No Large balled trees, $3.75 each, $35.00 per 10. the old Eastern Black Walnut for flavor, but the kernels were very difficult to pick out of Shipping weigh* o-\ Pisti-ehios (with ball ol those hard shells. This new selected strain earth on roots), 60 lbs. each. of the Black Walnut grows easily into a beautiful big tree in California. The nuts have all the old delicious rich flavor but are comparatively thin-shelled and crack easily. Something New in Nuts We picked a big crop last summer in our own orchards from young trees. $4.00 each, McAllister Hiccan. FD42. An interesting hy- $37.50 per 10. brid of the Pecan and the Hickory. The nuts Stabler. FD105. This variety has the largest on this tree are so big that you have to back nut of all the selected strains of Eastern Black away a couple of feet to get a good look at Walnut. A medium sized tree with thin-shelled them. They are fairly thin-shelled and good Black (Note Thin Shell) Thomas Walnut nuts from which the meats are easily removed quality. Young trees are growing in California when cracked. Often starts to bear the second and we picked several nuts this year from a year after planting. $4.00 each, $37.50 per 10. 3-year-old tree. Do not expect it to be a heavy bearer, but it will produce nuts here, and Filberts you'll be surprised at the beauty of the big, glossy leaves and the enormous vigor of the Filberts (Hazelnuts) make large bushes and Shipping Weights tree which make it well worthwhile as an thrive cool See shipping weight in moist areas. In regions of hot ornamental shade tree alone. $4.50 each. summers they do not bear well. Two (or bet- of all fruit trees under ter yet three) varieties must be planted to- each heading. See gether to insure cross-pollination. We have shipping weights on page 41 to determine Barcelona FD39 (the best variety), also Du Big Brown Marron Combale Chestnuts Chilly FD40 and White Aveline FD41. $1.50 whether your ship- each. ment should go by mail, express or Shipping weight on Filberts: 4 lbs. for first tree, freight and what the 2V2 lbs. for each additional tree. shipping cost will be.

Big Plump Brown Chestnuts The Chestnut does particularly well in California, producing very- heavy crops of nuts even while young and making beautiful ornamental shade trees with dense, dark green foliage and symmetrical tops. Heavier crops will be secured by planting two varieties. Shipping weight on Chestnut trees: First tree 5 lbs., each added tree 3 lbs.

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. $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. Marron Quercy. FD30. A splendid Chestnut with fine big dark colored 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. $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. Colossal. FD23A. The biggest nut of all, very sweet and of excellent quality. The tree makes a beautiful rounded head with handsome big foliage. $3.50 each. 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. $2.75 each, $25.00 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. Mahan is the outstanding variety for commercial orchard planting. All of the Pecans make excellent shade trees, and you harvest a delicious, profitable crop each year—profitable whether you consume 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 exception, bears well quite near the coast. Pecans must be well irrigated throughout the dry season. All of our Pecan trees are pruned back severely (24 to 30 inches) when dug for planting. This is necessary in order to get good results.

Prices on all varieties except Mahan The World's Finest Each Per 10 Pecan—Mahan 1-year, up to % in. caliper..$2.75 $25.00 Prices on Mahan Trees 2-yr., % m . caliper and up 4.00 35.00 Each Write for prices on or trees. 50 more 1-yr., up to % in. caliper.... $4. 50 2-yr., 34 in. caliper and up.. 6.00 Burkett. FD73. A valuable Pecan for California and Arizona, producing ex- Mahan. FD75. The sensation ceptionally heavy crops. The nut is Pecan world is the gigantic new Ma- large, round, very thin-shelled, the han. The nuts of the Mahan are enor- Mahan Pecan, natural size. whole meat coming out very readily. mous, averaging 21/2 inches in length For the hot inland valleys this is the and the paper thin shells cracking al- heaviest producer, next to Mahan. most as easily as a peanut, are completely filled with richly flavored ker- When to Plant Fruit and Nut Trees Caloro. FD74. The nut is very large, nels. They average 31 nuts to the long and tapering and cracks and sep- pound—an amazing figure. All of the nut and deciduous fruit trees listed on pages 9, 10. arates from the shell easily and per- 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, can be planted only during the The Mahan is a strong growing tree, fectly. Next to Mahan, this is the months of January, February and March, as shown below bearing at a younger age than most most beautiful of the pecan trees that Pecans, and producing heavy crops. we offer, growing tall and slender In the Yuma Pecan District it has with beautiful large, luxuriant, shade- Month JFMAMJ JASOND largely superseded other varieties, and giving foliage. It bears well only in Bare Root while trees in other sections of Cali- the hot interior valleys where the fornia are still young and compara- growing season is long. tively untried, we have had excellent reports from these young trees from all DP over the State. Mahan is a magnifi- Superb Persimmons Best for Coast cent, luxuriantly foliaged, fast growing shade tree for the home, in addition Every year in California more people are enjoying in Nellis. FD76. If you live in the coastal to its amazingly large nuts. November and December ripe Hachiya Persimmons as a counties of California, you'll be safest Mahan is a copyrighted Pecan and is salad fruit, out of hand, or in persimmon pudding. If you in planting this variety because from grown for planting in California ex- like your Persimmons soft to be eaten as a salad fruit, you actual experience it produces excellent clusively by Armstrong Nurseries. Every will probably want to plant the popular Hachiya. If you crops in coastal areas where other va- genuine Mahan tree sold in California prefer to eat your Persimmon out of hand, you will want rieties are not entirely successful be- carries an Armstrong tag. the popular non-astringent Fuyu or the new large fruited cause of the lack of summer heat. The Jumbu. Persimmons are quite ornamental trees because the long, thin-shelled nuts shell out easily Success. FD77. This has been the most leaves turn bright colors in the fall, and the richly colored and are of excellent quality. For 12 widely planted of all Pecans in South- orange-red fruits are beautiful either on the tree or as table straight years Nellis pecans have won ern California and the finest and old- decorations. First Prize for Pecans at the big L. A. est bearing trees are of this variety. County Fair (not held this year). On You'll be almost certain of a good Price on all varieties of Persimmons: $2.00 each, $18.50 both Nellis and Mahan there is never a crop no matter where you plant this trace of the bitter corky placenta which kind, for it is a remarkably sure all- per 10. sometimes sticks to the nut portion of climate pecan. A beautiful big tree other pecans. Nellis does well inland too. Nuts large, oblong, with medium Hachiya. FD79. This has long been the most commonly 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 flesh. Astringent until fully ripe and then very fine indeed. Jumbu Persimmon, the "giant" non-puckery kind 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 quantities. 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 characteristics, 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 haTd or after it has become soft.

Pomegranate

Wonderful Pomegranate. FD95. One of the most ornamental of all fruit trees with its bright scarlet hibiscus-like flowers 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 excellent flavor. $1.25 each, $11.00 per 10.

— 13 — Armstrong Plums

Most varieties of Plums will bear heavier crops if certain other varieties are planted nearby as pollinizers. Santa Rosa, Beauty and Wickson all successfully pollinate 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. Mari- posa, Inca and Hollywood are the best eating.

Price on All Plums, except Hollywood, Inca and Mari- posa: S1.35 each, S12.00 per 10.

Price on Hollywood, Inca and Mariposa: S1.75 each, S16.00 per 10.

Listed in approximate order of ripening. Beauty. FD81. Fruit large and beautiful, deep crimson with amber-crimson flesh. A never-failing bearer every place always. 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 yellow color. Flesh is golden yellow, richly flavored. Late June. 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 home use. Not only is it a good pollinizer to increase the crop on other varieties of Plums, but it is resistant to delayed 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 beauty. Mariposa Plum. No plum makes better eating than this big. blood-red prized for preserves. Large, almost round, deep red outside Preserves hold their color and are a rich blood-plum red. and in, firm, juicy, and of fine flavor. Must be planted with other varieties to secure good crops. July. Wickson. FD93. A popular plum for many years. Very- large, heart-shaped fruits, straw-yellow in color, blushed Mariposa with cherry-red; flesh amber, crisp, juicy and luscious. July. Hollywood Plum Red Rcsa. FD90. A new Plum which is very similar to the The New Blood Plum FD85A. It must have been Santa Rosa in appearance, having the same bright colored Hollywood. because of the ultra purplish-red fruit and amber colored flesh, but which ripens called Hollywood our opinion, there Everything Mariposa. FD89. In fully one month later, long after Santa Rosa is gone. The modern job of makeup. is no finer Plum for eating than the fruit is firm and crisp, keeping a long time. A splendid about it is colorful from the blood-red, big maroon-red fruits of the Mariposa, home and market Plum. Late July. juicy, sweet plums, borne early in the a new Plum variety which we intro- ' season, to the purple-red fcliage and its Green Gage. FD85. An old favorite, with medium sized, duced several seasons ago. The gigan- cloud of lovely light pink flowers in the oval, greenish-yellow fruits; rich, sweet, and juicy. Suitable purple-red fruits are overlaid with a spring. Like most of the other Holly- tic only for northern districts or the higher altitudes. Late Aug. glowing lilac bloom, and the blood-red wood belles, it is beautiful to look at. flesh has a honey-like sweetness, abun- Kelsey. FD87. Big, greenish yellow, heart-shaped Plum And that's not all, because the fruit is dant juice and a surpassing flavor blushed with red. Flesh yellow, firm and of fine guality. delicious to eat, reminding us of an dsscribe in One of the finest of late eating and market Plums. Late Aug. enormous sweet black cherry when which is impossible to worc's. The skin, while tender in the Late Satsuma. FD88. Everybody likes those delicious, sweet, fully ripe. Late June. eating, is quite thick and the fl?sh is juicy Satsumas with the blood-red flesh, but they are all firm so that the Plum keeps remarkably gone long before September and so is Mariposa, the finest bitterness to the of all blood plums. However, we have discovered a late well. There is no Inca Cold is ripening variety of Satsuma which isn't ready to use until skin or pit, for this magnificent Plum the September. It makes delicious eating when other plums are sweet and full of flavor all way Inca. FD85B. The ancient Incas never scarce. An exclusive Armstrong introduction. through. Mariposa should have a tree valued their gold more highly than of Satsuma, Beauty, Santa Rosa or Inca Damson. FD84. Famous old Plum for jam and preserves, will value this fine new yellow you planted nearby for pollination purposes, producing enormous crops of little oval, purplish-blue fruits with red. plum, beautifully blushed usually does not bear a large tart, juicy, yellow flesh. September. for it with One of the finest yellow eating plums crop if planted alone. Yucaipa-Beau- Becky Smith. FD82. Not only one of the most beautiful that can be grown. Its firm, sweet, mont Mariposas topped the Los An- appearing after yellow flesh is very juicy and richly Plums grown, but the very latest to ripen, geles plum market in price last summer. others are gone. Big, round, bright red fruits, with flavored, and the tree bears heavy all the Plant Pat. No." 111. Late July. crisp sweet amber flesh, of splendid quality for eating and crops every year. Late July. shipping. Late September.

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

Price on Prunes: S1.35 each, S12.00 per 10. Sugcr. FD93C. Very large, dark purple fruit, the sweetest of all; particularly fine for home planting in Southern California, where the tree is exceedingly productive in all sections. July. S'andard. 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 rch blue bloom, and the flesh is amber colored, 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 rugary flesh, produced in great quantities. September. We can mail your trees to you. Plums, Peaches, Aprico's and Prunes average 3 lbs. for the first ree, V/% lbs. for each additional tree. See shipping ccsts on page 41.

— 14 — Armstrong Cherries

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

Month JFMAMJ JASOND Bare Root MjppDDDQDDn

In the coas. and valley regions of Southern California the Sweet Cherries do not bear, but they are entirely satisfactory in ! he 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.

Prices on Cherries Several varieties of sweet Cher- Strong trees, SI. 35 each, S12.00 ries should be planted together per 10. Ten trees of one variety for cross-pollination. However, sold at the 10-rate. the "pie" Cherries Morello and Shipping weight on Cherries: 3 Richmond will bear alone and lbs. for first tree, lVz lbs. for give you big crops anywhere. each added tree.

English Morello. The "Pie" Cher- Sweet Cherries Sure to Bear Kinds ry That Always Bears. Tartarian. FD22. The very finest cherry to Morello. FD24. Fruits very large, handsome, eat fresh. Sweet, rich, and juicy, with a rich, dark wine-red, with a sprightly aromatic flavor; flesh tender and melting. small round- tempting, purplish-black color. The robust erect A headed tree, bearing heavy crops no matter Chinese jujubes trees are heavy bearers. A good pollinizer for where planted. We highly recommend Mo- Bing and other sweet cherries. Early June. rello as the very finest cherry for planting in those coastal The Jujube is a small deciduous tree which and valley sections of Southern California where sweet bears, often the first year after planting, great Bing. FD21. A very large, dark red sweet cherries do not bear. June. quantities of small dark brown fruits which cherry of extremely handsome appearance, fresh, which are sweet and crisp when eaten and since it has the firmest flesh of all cher- Richmond. FD25. Excellent early "pie" cher- makes an excellent jam cooked, but are when ries, it is splendid for canning and shipping. ry, similar to Morello, but ripening two weeks most often used as delicious candied fruits. Plant Tartarian with it as a pollinizer. June. earlier. Richmond and Morello are the cherries with but bears The tree grows anywhere ease that we recommend planting in the Southern best in the warmer interior valleys. Hardy Royal Ann. FD26. A magnificent cherry of California coastal and valley districts. They and will stand zero temperatures without in- the largest size; pale yellow with bright red both make beautiful little trees which do not October. jury. Fruit ripens September and cheek; flesh firm and sweet; tree an enor- take very much room on the home place, and worthless Seedling Jujubes bear very small mous bearer. The leading commercial can- they are beautiful when they are loaded with giant-fruited, selected types fruit, but these are ning cherry- Late June. their red fruits in spring. Early June. grafted from parent trees selected from thousands 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 Gods" 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 the rich, aromatic flesh has a flavor and character all its own. The name means "the like small handsome willow tree. something a fruits of the Gods," and the Gods surely did know their fruits. Price on both varieties of Jujubes: Strong trees, S2.00 each. Price on Nectarines Gold Mine. FD47. These great red and yel- Strong trees SI. 25 each, S11.00 per 10. Ten low fruits, with juicy white flesh, exceptional Shipping weight on Jujubes: 2 lbs. for first trees of one variety sold at the 10-rate. in flavor and quality, are among the most tree, IV2 lbs. for each added tree. beautiful of all Nectarines. Also this variety Shipping weight on Nectarines: 3 lbs. for the is more resistant to delayed foliation than Lang. FD43. Large, pear-shaped fruit, IV2 to first tree, lYz lcs - f° r each additional tree. any other kind except Dixie, and it is much 2 inches long, shown in photograph below. larger than that variety. These two are the Produces a gTeat abundance of fruit and best bearers in Southern California. Early Aug. often bears the first year after planting. Hooray for Dixie Dixie. FD4S. Plant this variety if you want to Stanwick. FD48. For many years has been Li. FD44. This variety has the largest fruit be sure of getting lots of fruit on your nectar- California's leading Nectarine. Extremely large of all, often 2 inches in diameter, round in ine tree every year no matter where you plant fruit, the skin pale green, shaded purplish shape. Has a very small pit and is deli- it. That's because it's the most resistant to red; the flesh white and juicy, with a most ciously sweet and crisp. delayed foliation of any nectarine that we delicate aromatic flavor. Early August. grow. It's the first one to ripen too, and the first ones always taste the best. Medium sized, Boston. FD45. Immense bright yellow fruit, light greenish yellow fruits, mottled with red, with a red cheek and rich yellow flesh. The white-fleshed, firm, sweet, just that delicious Shipping Information yellow fleshed Nectarines while not quite sc aromatic flavor expect to find in a good you spicy and piquant as the white fleshed vari- nectarine. See page 41 for shipping rates and data. In July. eties have a sweeter and richer flavor which much of Southern California we deliver by many people prefer. Late August. truck; elsewhere we ship by mail, express or freight. See page 41 to determine the best Quince Trees method for your shipment. The Quince is a splendid fruit for Gold Mine Nectarine preserves, the flesh becoming a beautiful dark red when cooked. Fruit of Lang Jujube, Reduced One-fourth. The trees thrive and bear well almost anywhere. No fruit has a more delightful fragrance when picked from the tree. Price on both varieties of Quince: SI. 60 each, S14.50 per 10. Shipping weight on Quinces: 3 lbs. each. 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. Oot. 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. Note: We recommend pruning Fig trees back severely when you plant them. You'll get far better and quicker results. Take off at least one-half of the top.

Prices on Figs 2-year trees $2.00 each, $18.50 per 10 1-year trees 1.35 each, 12.00 per 10 Trojano, 1-year trees only $2.00 each Shipping Weight on Figs: 2-year trees 5 lbs. each, each additional tree 3 lbs.; 1-year trees, first tree 3 lbs., each additional tree IV2 lbs.

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 Washington, Jersey, Long Island similar Oregon, New and areas. Luscious Big Brown Turkey Figs (Natural Size) Leave unpruned in California.

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- Price on Pears, except Large Fruited fornia. It's the nearest thing to a black Winter Nelis, S1.35 each, S12.00 per 10. Dwarf Pears Take Little Room al- Kadota, with sweet, amber flesh, Ten trees of one variety sold at the most no seeds to gef under your plates, 10-rate. If you have a limited amount of space and still would like and the fruits are self-sealed with a to have a lot of fine pears for your family to eat, you'll drop of honey to keep out insects. Shipping weight on Pears: 3 lbs. for want to plant these dwarf trees that we have grown espe- Bears enormous crops, and that rich, first tree, IV2 lbs. for each added tree. cially for such situations. The trees seldom become more tender, sweet flesh is something to en- than about 8 feet high, begin to bear almost immediately thuse about. Trojano and Kadota are Bartlett. FD65. The most widely culti- after you plant them, and bear immense crops. so sweet that you need little sugar in vated Pear in California, large, buttery making jams, which is something in and melting, with rich flavor; tree a Dwarf Pears will bear well almost anywhere in Southern these days of sugar rationing. 1-year vigorous grower, bears abundantly. California or elsewhere. They require little care, and there trees only, $2.00 each. Bartlett has every quality needed for is never any waste with pears because you can pick them as soon Kadota. FD34. This is the finest white a perfect home and market Pear. Bears as they have attained size, set them away in a cool place let Fig for most of California and one of better if Beurre d'Aniou or Winter Nelis and them ripen, eating them as they get ready, and, of course, the finest Figs for all purposes, since it is planted with it. August. they are splendid to can. will can, dry, pickle or ship fresh and Price on Dwarf Pears: $2.50 each. give excellent results in every case. Seckel. FD68. Fruit small, but well col- Shipping Weight on Dwarf Pears: 3 lbs. for first tree, Many people prefer it to any other fig ored, and there is no other variety IV2 lbs. for for eating fresh. Of medium size, with which possesses such exquisitely fla- each added tree. waxy, smooth, yellow-white skin and vored fragrant juicy flesh, even the Dwarf Barrett. FD70. It's the world's finest pear. pale amber flesh. Extremely sweet and skin being spicy. The little russeted Dwarf Beurre d'Anjou. rich, making just about the best fig beauties are just about the most de- FD71. Better plant one of these with your Bartlett in jam ever tasted. Bears extremely heavy licious pears that we have ever tasted. order to make sure of increasing the crop. crops all fall. September. through the summer and Dwarf Large Fruited Win'er Nelis. FD72. The new giant It in the interior valley where does best fruited strain of this fine late-ripening fall pear. the summers are warmer. Do not prune Beurre d'Anjou. FD66. Large, yellow, Kadota trees back heavily in the win- marked with russet and crimson. Ten- ter, for heavy pruning decreases quan- der, sweet and juicy. An excellent pol- The New Large Fruited Winter Nelis Pear tity without increasing the size. linizer for Bartlett. October. Large Fruited Winter Nelis. FD67. The lission Fig old Winter Nelis was one of the finest Mission. FD35. The well-known Cali- late fall ripening pears for Southern (or else). fornia Black Fig brought to California California anywhere This new not in by the Mission Fathers. The fruit is one was discovered long ago tested it in medium to large, with a long neck, Washington. We have mahogany-violet in color, with brown- Southern California and have found it of fine, ish-red flesh. Thrives in all sections, that bears heavy crops very beautiful big pears, russeted, with a coast to desert, and the tree is enormously productive even under adverse ruddy pink cheek and a most delect- able, rich, aromatic flavor. The fruit conditions where little water is available. Leave tree unpruned. keeps for a long time after picking, and you'll find that the tree will bear heavy White Adriatic. FD37. Very large, elon- crops almost anywhere in California. gated, yellowish-green fruit with a $1.60 each. short neck; flesh a bright strawberry- red, somewhat coarse but of excellent Winter Bartlett. FD69. This late fall quality. One of the very finest of white ripening pear is similar to Bartlett in Figs. Heavy pruning will increase size shape, color and flavor, but a little of fruit, decrease quantity. 2 yr. only. smaller and ripening much later. The White Genoa. FD38. If you live near tree is remarkably productive and the the seacoast and want a big fine white fruit keeps very well, indeed. You can fig, this is the one for you to plant keep it down cellar for weeks after because it is one of the few white figs picking, and in Southern California it that bear well under such conditions. will probably bear the heaviest and Large, pear-shaped, with a waxy yel- most regular crops of any pear, even low skin and sweet amber pulp, similar in the desert regions of low altitude, to Kadota but much larger. Fine in- where other pears do not bear at all. land, too. Prune like Adriatic. 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 raspberry. Both are sitting on a silver quarter dollar. Place a quarter on the illustration and you will notice it is actual

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. Plan: now and prevent a fresh berry shortage at your house. A New Purple Raspberry Red Raspberries

Sodus Purple Raspberry. FB12. Here is Washington Raspberry. FB13A. When we something new! A berry that was first of- first tasted this fine big new red raspberry fered by us in California and which we we opened our eyes and smacked our lips in amazement, because the flavor was so have found to be exceedingly well adapted rich, sweet and delicious. We thought may- to our conditions. Great, large, rich purple be it was just because it had been a lone berries, four times as large as the ordinary time since breakfast, so we tried them black Raspberry, borne in enormous sprays. again next day and got the same reaction. Juicy, sweet, rich flavored, with the good We tried them out on our friends, and each old raspberry aroma and flavor. The berries one looked pleasantly surprised and said: Boysenberries (Natural Size) are most delicious to eat with sugar and "That's the best raspberry I've ever eaten." cream and are unexcelled for jams. Young Frankly, we think that if a raspberry iasted plants put out in the spring grow amazingly any better than Washington, it would be "out of this world." it likes our fast and will produce berries the same sea- And The Gigantic Boysenberry Southern California climate. The vines are son if well cared for, this readiness to bear exceedingly Boysenberry. FB4. Since the Boysenberry was vigorous here, they ripen big being one of its finest characteristics. A crops, and keep producing ripe berries introduced we have claimed that it was the very cross between the black Raspberry and the morning after morning for weeks. each, finest berry that could be grown in California. 35c red Raspberry, one of the most satisfying S3.00 per 10, S20.00 per 100. Not only has this proved to be true, but it seems and delicious berries that you have ever to do just as well in many other sections of the Sunrise Raspberry. FBI 3. The earliest red United States. ' tasted. 30c each, S2.50 per 10, S17.50 per 100. raspberry to ripen with us, and a mighty good one, sweet and full flavored. The The Boysenberry is the largest of all berries, vines are hung with many clusters of de- averaging IVi to 2 inches in length and 1 inch in licious bright red berries over a long period diameter. The berries are jet-black, highly fla- The Finest "Blackcap" before there raspberries the vored, and they pick, keep and ship in a way are any on market. Sunrise Washington make a that brings delight to the heart of a berry grow- and Evans Black Raspberry. FB10. The red, the splendid pair, one early, one late. 30c each, er. Housewives know that they make the very purple and the black Raspberries are S2.50 per 10, S17.50 per 100. finest pies, jams and preserves. each guite distinctive. You will want the best of Boysenberries produce exceptionally heavy crops. each if space permits. The finest Blackcap The big, vigorous vines are simply loaded with Thornless Loganberries Raspberry is Evans best it the big fruit clusters which start to ripen early, — because does Thcrnless Loganberry. FB8. Loganberries just when berries are most in demand. Boysen so extremely well in our climate and pro- have long been a favorite on the entire Pa- has been remarkably hardy and adaptable in a duces guantities of jet-black berries of finest cific Coast, these vigorous, hardy, trailing wide range of climatic conditions, having safely quality. The berries are always juicy and vines producing enormous crops of very stood below zero temperatures. full-flavored never dry and crumbly. They — large, dark wine-red berries with a rich For home planting, 6 by 6 feet is a good dis- are sweet enough so that most people eat sub-acid flavor which have long been famous tance. Arrange for irrigation. Trellis the second them without sugar, and they have a rich for their excellent jams, jellies and juice. season, and when the fruit is all picked, cut out aromatic flavor you will look forward to en- The new Thornless Loganberry has fruit all of the canes which bore fruit. joying each year. Commercial growers have even better than the old kind, and the canes Each Per 10 Per 100 found that it bears 15 per cent to 20 per are absolutely thornless, making picking a One-year transplants S .35 S3. 00 S20.00 cent more fruit than others. Plant 6 feet by pleasure. Why plant the thorny type when Strong rooted tips 20 1.75 10.00 6 feet. Should be trellised. 35c each, S3. 00 you can enjoy this? Plant Pat. No. 82. 35c per 10, S20.00 per 100. each, S3. 00 per 10, S25.00 per 100. The Finest Flavored Blackberry Blakemore, California's Finest Strawberry

John Innes Blackberry. FB2A. A fine new Blackberry from the famous John Innes Institution at Merton, England, one of the world's foremost agricultural experiment stations. We think it is the finest late blackberry for Southern California. We are sure that you'll like it because of the extraordinarily fine, full-bodied, rich sweet flavor of the big, glossy, coal- black berries. They need almost no sugar—they are so sweet and rich. No matter what other berries you have in your garden, you'll enjoy John Innes because it ripens in Sep- tember—weeks after all other blackberries, boysenberries and youngberries are gone. An extremely heavy bearer. 50c each, 3 for S1.35, 10 for S4.00, 100 for S30.00.

Crandall's Early Blackberry. FBI. One of the earliest to ripen, producing great quantities of medium 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 5 feet apart in rows 8 feet apart. 25c each, $2.00 per 10, S12.00 per 100.

Texas Wonder Blackberry. FB3. The berries on the vigorous vine are large and coal black. They keep and handle exceptionally well. The plants bear so heavily that in June 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. 30c each, $2.50 per 10, $15.00 per 100.

Berry Shipping Calendar (We ship all over the U. S. A.) Month JFMAMJ JASOND Bare Root HmMODDEDEDn January, February, March and April—Plant then New Evans Black Rasp- and make sure your family will have berries berry. The flavor of black raspberries has al ways been one of those things you dream about and long Luscious Strawberries Youngberry for, whether you get it in the fresh fruit sprinkled Below is our selection for California Youngberry. FB20. The Youngberry with cream and sugar, in conditions made from the many hun- and the Thornless Loganberry are ripe luscious pies, in jams or dreds of strawberry varieties available. in May, two weeks ahead of the Boy- ice cream. Evans will give Prices on All Strawberry varieties be- senberry. Youngberries are remarkable you more and finer black low (except Gem and Rockhill): 25 for keepers and shippers, the berries are raspberries than any other S1.00, 100 for S3.00, 1,000 for $20.00. deep wine color, changing to jet black, kind you can plant in Fifty at the 100-rate; 500 at the 1,000- with an exquisite piquant flavor. The Southern California. rate. seeds are so few and soft that they may be considered as practically seedless, and make splendid jams and jel- The Reddest lies. Extremely vigorous and heavy Armstrong's producers. Plant on wire trellises 6 to Blakemore. FB15. In color, earliness, 7 feet apart. Rooted tins, 20c each, Victory Berry Collection quality of berry, and size of crop, it is $1.50 per 10, $10.00 per 100. a great advance in Strawberries. Pos- sibly its biggest advantage is the beau- Each year you can treat all the family to a wide assortment tiful bright red color which does not Gooseberries of fresh picked berries from early spring to late summer and change after the berries are picked or then enjoy berry pies, jellies, jams and preserves the rest Oregon Champion. FB6. Large round after they are canned or made into of the year. It doesn't take a farm either. Look what this jam. Most strawberry varieties turn transparent, pale green fruit of excel- Collection includes: Bright red, luscious, sweet strawberries; brownish right away after they have lent quality. Gooseberries are a de- huge boysenberries; three brand-new, improved raspberries, been cooked, but not Blakemore. Be- light where they can be successfully red, purple and black; richly flavored loganberries on cause of the firmness of the berries, grown, but they do not bear well in thornless vines; and a fine new late blackberry, ripening they keep and ship extremely well and the lowlands of Southern California. when other berries are gone. Armstrong plants often have per 10. are easy to pick. The foliage is very- 35c each, $3.00 fruit the first year and start bearing heavy crops the next. large, shielding the berries from the Order "Victory Berry Collection No. Ill" (c $7.60 value) for birds and sun and giving them a lovely $5.60 plus 14c sales tax in California, postpaid for 20c in Currants - color. the United States.. Shipped December 1st to April 15th. Perfection. FB5. A good quality bright Dorsett. FB16. The big, firm, bright red Currant, with a rich mild sub-acid 2 Crandall's Early Blackberry. As much as IV2 quarts of red berries are extremely handsome in flavor. The plants bear heavy crops early berries per picking from two vines. appearance, and the quality is excep- wherever conditions are suitable. 35c tionally 2 John Innes Blackberry. The new, richly flavored, late fine, sweet and juicy, with each, $3.00 per 10. plenty of real Strawberry flavor. The berry from England. plants produce even larger crops Jhan 3 Boysenberry. Quart after quart of gigantic, richly fla- the heaviest bearers among the other vored berries to eat fresh, in pies or as jam. varieties, producing two big crops per Perennial season, one in the spring and another 2 Thornless Loganberry. Thornless vines, juicy fruit with al- in the early summer, with a few scat- Vegetables most no seeds which make the finest flavored of all jams. 2 Evans Black Raspberry. Heaviest bearing and best fla- tered berries almost any time during These delicious vegetables do not have the year. Only Blakemore can com- vored of all black raspberries. to be planted again each year. A few pete with it commercial berry. raspberry, with as a plants of each will supply you with 2 Sodus Purple Raspberry. A new purple in it will give you And the home garden much tasty garden-fresh produce. juicy, full flavored fruit the size of a quarter. wonderful fruit from April until July. 5 Sunrise Raspberry. This new red kind is the earliest and French Artichokes longest bearing. Longest Season 25 Blakemore Strawberry. Enormous crops of berries which French Green Globe. FM1. The finest make the best bright red jam. Artichoke for market or home use. Gem Everbearing. FB17. One of the 25 Banner Strawberry. Tops in quality and flavor. Excel- Large, fine flavored buds. It is easy to ever-bearing varieties with big, fine lent with sugar and cream—none better for shortcakes. looking berries, not as high in quality grow artichokes, and they thrive almost in California. Just plant as Rockhill, but the plants are less ex- anywhere Shipping Weights: 10 plants of Raspberry, Blackberry, them 6 feet apart, irrigate them occa- pensive because they produce more Loganberry, etc., weigh 3 lbs. packed for shipment. Other sionally in the summer-time. Cut back runners. It bears well in the fall after quantities in proportion. 25 Strawberry plants weigh 1 lb. to the ground in September and water all the spring kinds are finished and is See table of shipping costs page 41. Most berry orders, un- particularly good as a commercial and fertilize them for winter and early accompanied by heavier material, go forward by mail. No crops. will surorised at berry. 25 for $1.50, 100 for $4.00, 1,000 spring You be mail orders totaling less than S2.00 are filled. for $30.00. the fine crops you will get. 35c each, $3.00 per 10. Weight IV2 lbs. each. Big dark red Thornless Loganberries. Not a scratch in an No Runners Asparagus acre-full but plenty of enjoyment. Rockhill. FB19. The best of the so- Price on Asparagus: 25 for SI. 25, 100 called Everbearing type. The berries for $3.00. 25 Asparagus plants weigh are astonishingly large and beautiful, 4 lbs. extremely plants fine in flavor, and the Paradise. FM3. Heavy production, early bear much earlier and later in the maturity and exceptionally fine quality season than other types. Rockhill characterize this new Asparagus, with makes no runners, and if you have the big, stalky green stems (as thick ever grown Strawberries, know you as your thumb). Plants look beautiful that after several years the bed gets in the garden. so full of runners that little fruit is produced. Mary Washington. FM2. Has long been a popular kind, ripening early with This is not true of Rockhill, and you many tender, crisp green tips. Plant will not wear yourself out chopping Asparagus 1 foot apart in rows 4 feet off runners to make the plants bear. apart. The lack of runners makes the plants expensive, but certainly it is worth it to get more and better berries with less Crisp Rhubarb work. 25 for $4.50, 50 for $7.50, 100 Cherry. FM4. The large stalks of this for $12.50. brightest colored kind are crisp and fresh Carolina (Missionary). FB18. One of juicy when picked from your own the best berries for hot interior sections, garden. You will be enthusiastic about the flavor quality wheth- particularly in sandy, poorer soils. A improved and er use it in or in rhubarb heavy producer of good quality fruit. you sauce Fine not only for the market but for pies. The large-leaved plants are quite the home as well. ornamental in the garden. Plant 4 feet apart. It is a winter crop, hence doubly valuable. 35c each, $3.00 per Finest Quality 10. Weight 1 lb. each. Banner. FB14. (New Oregon) If you Climbing Potato want exceptional flavor and quality in your strawberries and want to get ber- Chayote. FSS. Big, pear - shaped, ries that just melt away in your mouth greenish fruits, crisp like a potato but and are sweet enough to eat without not starchy. More delicately flavored sugar, this is the one you'll want. It than squash. A fruit of many uses does its best in cooler sections, where borne on a perennial, climbing, orna- it is almost everbearing. For home mental vine which will grow cs much and for market, from the standpoint of as 50 feet in one season. Full sun. quality, there is no better berry grown. Fruits for planting. 40c each.

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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 apart 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. We list these American Grapes separately on the opposite page. 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 California Counties of Los Angeles, San Ber- nardino, Orange, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Bar- bara, Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo County and western Riverside County (including Beaumont, Banning and Hemet).

Prices on all varieties except where noted

Each Per 10 Per 100 1-year Rooted Vines $ .35 S3. 00 S20.00 Ten or more of one variety sold at the 10-rate, 50 or more of one variety sold at the 100-rate. Varieties in both California and American groups listed in approximate order of ripening. At end of each description we indicate whether variety should Armstrong grapes give big returns in a small space. be grown as bush or on fence or trellis.

The Earliest Crape to Ripen California's Famous Western Grapes 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 greenish-amber unlike many early fruit varieties it is a high guality Grape, son Seedless, except that the berries seedless Grape so popular the country almost seedless, with pronounced Muscat flavor, delicate a 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. loose bunches borne in great profu- season, include Pearl in your planting. Bush type. June. Bears enormously, producing very large sion. A splendid early eating Grape bunches of the delicious sweet, mild ripening 10 days before Thompson. If berries. Bush or trellis. Early August. we had to pick out three or four vari- This is an Armstrong-grown Pearl of Csaba Grape-Vine eties only for our own enjoyment, this Sultanina Rosea. FG27. Exactly like planted by Mr. F. Cid at Guadalajara, Mexico, in January. one would have to be included. Trellis. the Thompson Seedless, but colored a This photograph was taken in May, 16 months later. Early August. beautiful blush pink, deepening to red in the sun, ripening several weeks later Armstrong Vines get results. than Thompson. Giant Everbearing Trellis. Giant Everbearing. FG12. An extraordinary hybrid, which is the most Delicious Muscats vigorous grower that we have ever Black Muscat. FG4. These large black seen in a grape vine, young vines berries have decidedly the richest fla- sending out 10 or 15-foot canes almost vor of any Grape that grow, ex- immediately after planting, and for cov- we ceeding even the of Alexandria ering an arbor or similar structure, Muscat described below. It is a great favorite there is nothing finer. It ripens its with everyone, and it's a great bearer, fruit not in one crop but continuously too, producing extremely heavy crops over a period of three months, and the which ripen early. Bush type. Early little bunches of reddish-black berries, August. while not exceptional in eating quality, make the most beautiful and delicately Muscat. FG20. The famous Muscat of flavored grape jelly and juice that we Alexandria. The favorite white, highly have ever tasted. July to October. flavored table and raisin Grape of Trellis. 50c each; $4.50 per 10. California. The big, oval, green berries have a rich, sweet flavor which Malaga any connoisseur of fresh Grapes will tell you is the very finest there is. Malaga. FG17. A leading shipping Bears just as well under coastal con- variety and one of the finest table ditions as it does in the warm inland Grapes. Bunches very large and loose; sections. Bush type. September. berries large, oval, yellowish green, with a thick skin and firm, sweet, rich Flame Muscat. FG10. Exactly like Mus- flesh. Does best in hot climates, but cat, with the same rich flavor and is one of the most dependable bearers large berries of that famous variety anywhere. Bush type. August. but bright red in color. Ripens three weeks later than Muscat. September. Ribier. FG25. This is the great big blue-black Grape that you see in the Bush type. markets, one of the largest and most handsome GraDes grown in California. (Sometimes sold as Serbian Beauty.) The Sultan's Favorite Extremely large, round, almost black berries in medium size bunches, very Dottier. FG8. A big bunch of long, sweet and rich. Bush type. August. amber, exquisitely flavored Dattiers We have grafted vines only at 85c will give more sheer enjoyment in the each; $7.50 per 10. eating of them than any other Grape bunches and ber- Rose of Peru (Black Prince). FG26. Has that we grow. Both with sweet mild large loose bunches of big round black ries are very large, a will wager berries, crisp, sweet, and richly fla- flavor and melting flesh. We caliphs of Persia vored. A grape that you can plant any- that the kings and to them when where, coast, valley or desert, and al- had this variety served royal ways get exceedingly heavy crops. they wanted the best from the type. September. Bush or trellis. September. vineyards. Bush

— 19 — Grape Vines When to Plant Crape Vines A black square under any month means that grape vines are available tor planting only during those months. Month JFMAMJJASOND Bare Root The New Golden Muscat Golden Muscat. FG13. Here is a new Grape -which we can enthusiastically recommend. Some 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. This is one grape that does well almost all over the country, and you'll find it advertised in many magazines as a new variety at $1.00 or more each. This is the third year in which we have offered it and we are able to keep the price low. Bush or trellis. August. 50c each, $4 50 per 10, $35.00 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 extremely 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. We have grafted vines only at 85c each, $7.50 per 10. 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 Golden Muscat. The new hybrid Black Hamburg. FG1. One of the famous table Grapes of the world, between the Eastern American with large bunches of coal-black, round berries, very firm, juicy, Grape and the California vini- sweet and rich. Bush or trellis. Late Sept. fera Grape, with an exquisite *Flame Tokay. FG11. One of the leading shipping and table Grapes Muscat flavor. A Grape for all of California. Berries rich red with lilac bloom; flesh firm, crisp and climates. Shown here two-thirds sweet, and the bunches keep for a long time after packing. One of natural size. Imagine a fence the finest and best liked of the late fall Grapes. Bush. 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- For planters who wish older and larger vines giving. Bush type. October. 50c each, $4.50 per 10. which will give immediate results in covering wall, fence or arbor, we have grown and trained into 6 to 7 foot heavy columns, some Hardy American Crapes large 3-year plants taken up with a large ball of earth on the roots. They will start to bear This type of Grape, of which the Concord is a typical example, is quite hardy and is immediately, in fact, have already borne fruit. extensively grown in the eastern and middle western states. They are sometimes known Varieties available: Black Hamburg, Black as "slipskins," are usually strong growing vines, are all suitable for arbor and trellis, Monukka, Black Muscat, Concord, Christmas, Giant Everbearing, Golden Muscat, Maraville and do well anywhere on the Pacific Coast, with the exception of desert sections. They de Malaga, Pierce, Ribier, Rose of Peru, require more frequent irrigation in summer. Thompson Seedless. Some varieties are available in limited quantity only so please name Each Per 10 Cood Old Concord an alternate kind if we do not have your Price ..$ .50 $4.50 first choice. Price: $7.50 each. Concord. FG7. The most widely known and Ontario. FG22. Not only the earliest Eastern popular of all American Grapes. Produces Husky Crafted Grapes 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 (Can be shiDped only into certain counties of sized bunches which ripen early and hang finest flavor of any Eastern variety. For grape California. See top of the preceding page.) on the vines for a long time if you want to juice and jelly, nothing excels it, and it ripens There are several reasons for planting grapes leave them. Deliciously sweet and rich fla- large crops in California. August. grafted on vigorous disease-resistant roots. vored and the vines are exceedingly vigorous. Catawba. FG5. This has long been the stan- First, they are much more vigorous and make July. dard red Eastern Grape, with a vigorous pro- larger and, therefore, more heavy bearing ductive vine and splendid high quality fruit. vines; second, they are entirely resistant to Delaware. FG9. The little red berries of this Deep maroon-red in color and rich in flavor. Phylloxera and partially resistant to Nema- variety, sweet and juicy, have just about the Late August. todes, small soil parasites which sometimes finest quality of any Eastern Grape, and it bother grapes. They bear sooner too, usually Isabella. FG15. fine large, glossy black bears heavily every place. Early August. A the first year after planting. Grape, with a thick skin and a musk flavor, Vines grafted on resistant roots available ir which people prefer to It is many Concord. a the varieties named below: Pierce (California Concord). FG24. Similar much more vigorous vine than Concord, with Price on Grafted Grapes: 85c ea.; $7.50 per 10. to Concord, but the berries and bunches are big leaves and bigger bunches. September. larger and the vine is a strong grower. It is Black Hamburg Maraville de Malaga one of the finest of the American Grapes for Black Monukka Muscat California, and if you are just going to plant A Fine Arbor Crape Black Muscat Ribier this Dottier Pearl of Csaba one black Eastern Grape, we suggest one. Christmas. FG6. If you want to cover an You'll get a bigger crop from it than you will Flame Tokay Thompson Seedless arbor or fence quickly and get many fine Malaga from Concord. August. Grapes every year, there is no finer variety that you can plant than this origination of Niagara. FG21. The standard American green Luther Burbank. An enormous grower, cov- Shipping Weights Grape, holding the same rank among green ering great spaces, with fruit similar to Con- Packed for shipment, the first grape vine kinds that Concord holds in the blacks. Ber- cord in color and flavor but ripening two weighs 1 lb., and each added vine Vz lb- ries large, pale-yellow, tender, sweet and months later. One vine will produce five times each. To estimate shipping costs, use table juicy. August. as much as a Concord vine. 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 because 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 transitional 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 ma- turing. 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 FA13, 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 ior the past 29 years, is the most successful Avocado Belt. Since there is little difference between them as far as fruit and tree will fill propagator in the State. Here he is admiring a cluster of Ryan on one are concerned, we 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 food almost in California. Avocados are now a much enjoyed every day in every home sized, black, thin-skinned fruit, very hand- Not only do you get a large quantity of healthful, useful fruits from an avocado tree on some in appearance, pear-shaped, which we are offering again because of the high qual- the home place, but you get a beautiful ornamental shade tree as well. Avocados can ity of the fruit and the very regulcrr and consistently large crops which it bears. It ranks in part of California except the high mountains and desert, and be grown almost any with Mexicola in being the most resistant to cold of variety that you can pick out kinds that will give you fruit during the entire year if you wish. any we grow, and the tree is exceedingly vigorous and wind-resist- See bottom of page. ant. It will grow and bear almost anywhere. 19°. September to November.

We take great pride in Armstrong Avocado Trees. We don't see how any better trees About Avocado Types could be grown for your planting, and when For Interior Valleys you see them, we think you'll agree. They Avocado varieties vary greatly in characteris- Duke. FA4. One of the finest of all Avocados are all grown upon selected seedlings, and tics of fruit and tree. The varieties Edranol, for home planting in the colder interior dis- we use the utmost care in the selection of the Hazzard, Hellen and Queen have thick shell- tricts. It is an oval, green fruit which looks buds. Our annual block of Avocado trees, like a small Fuerte and is much larger than grown by Mr. L. E. Nigh, is always a beautiful like skins and the trees are comparatively the average thin-skinned variety. It will be sight. tender. The varieties Fuerte and Ryan have enjoyed in the home as much as any Avocado The ripening date given for each variety is thinner leathery skins and are slightly hardier. that we grow. Any surplus sells well in the only approximate, since the exact time of These two groups include the finest kinds for local markets, for it is a fine appearing fruit. Duke will grow almost anywhere in the ripening varies with the location. The mini- marketing and long distance shipping. The mum temperatures given after each variety valleys of California from the northern end of are approximate only, since damage from varieties Blackbird, Duke, Jalna, Mexicola and the Sacramento Valley to the Mex'can border, frost varies greatly according to the condition Zutano have thin skins, small or medium sized and the tree is large, vigorous and beautifully of tree, time of year, and location. foliaged. We have had as many as 3,000 fruit, and are more resistant to cold. much fruits from one 10-year-old tree. Best in the They are best for planting in the colder sec- Interior and Transitional areas. 20°. Septem- Shipping Weights tions and may safely be grown wherever ber-October. Most avocado trees are delivered with balls oranges succeed. If suggestions con- of earth on the roots. They will average 55 you follow the simple lbs. each packed for shipment. - For long dis- tained in the planting instruction sheet that tance shipment we often dig the trees with Prices on Avocados bare roots and ship them pecked in moss with we send out with your Avocado trees, you tops pruned back. The average weight of Each Per 10 will get quicker and better results from such bare root trees packed for shipment is 3 lbs. Use these weights and the tables on Strong trees $4.50 $42.50 your trees. Be sure to look for these in- page 41 to estimate ycur shioping costs if material is to reach you by rail. Ten trees of one variety sold at the 10-rate. structions.

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 whichare best for your location and to enable you to have fruit throuahout the year, we have made up the table below. Under each month are lis led 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 Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Ryan Leucadia Jalna Jalna Queen Queen Queen Queen Queen Hellen Hellen Hellen

The Transitional Belt, including Monrovia, La Habra Heights, Whittier, Tustin, FuUerton, 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 Duke Duke Zutano Zutano Jalna Queen Queen Queen Mexicola Mexicola Mexicola Jalna Jalna

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 — Green Summer Fruit

Edranol. FA5. Although comparatively new, fav- orable reports on this variety continue to pile up so rapidly that it can now be regarded as having a permanent place among the top Avocados. The exceptionally delicious, pleasant flavor 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 beautiful, 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 advantage. 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.

A Big Producer

Hellen. FA7. The extra "1" in this name stands for "lots of fruit" because this new variety certainly 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, medium size, dark green, with a pebbled, leathery skin which peels off perfectly. It is of very 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 all Avocados. This combination of enormous vigor and heavy bearing habit should make this new variety a great success. Originated in the coastal area where it does very well indeed. Not tested Edranol is almost a perfect summer-ripening avocado, being fully in other areas. 25°. to July October. just the right size, of exceptionally fine quality, with smooth buttery flesh. A Beautiful Tree A Purplish Black Beauty Ryan Bears Heavily Jalna. FA8. A new Mexican variety with green Leucadia. FA9. This new thin-skinned Avo- Ryan. FA15. Commercial growers ha*e been pear-shaped fruits of splendid quality. Wherever looking for a medium sized pear-shaped cado promises to be one of the best of the observed the trees have borne very heavy crops, green fruit to ripen after the Fuerte, season hardier varieties. It is a beautiful appear- and in addition it is one of the most beautiful is over, and this variety answers this de- ing fruit, with a thin, smooth, purplish-black Avocado trees in appearance spreading, sym- scription so well that the fruit often brings — skin. It has displaced the old Puebla since metrical, with handsome luxuriant foliage. We've almost twice as much per acre as have it resembles that kind but has much better seen many 2 and 3-year-old trees literally Avocados. It is of the hang- eating qualities, larger crops and larger other summer one ing full of big clusters of beautiful fruit. It has heaviest and most consistent bearers yet fruit. The tree is exceptionally strong, vig- little competition in the early winter-ripening sea- discovered in Avocados. The trees are big, orous and fast growing. We recommend it son. 22°. November-December. spreading, vigorous growers and hove borne very highly for home planting in the Coastal crops wherever planted. The qual- and Transitional areas. Not fully tested in enormous ity of the fruit is good. Its period of sum- Interior yet. 23°. October-December. The Old mer ripening, its heavy bearing habit and Dependable its unusual resistance to frost, are other ad- vantages. Coastal and Transitional areas Mexicola. FAIL The hardiest Avocado One of Biggest and Best on our best. 25°. May to October. list and one which can be counted upon to bear Queen. FA14. This is not only the largest consistently, nearly always fruiting the second fruited avocado on our list, but for eating year after planting. The fruit is small, A Promising Fruit dark we think it is one of the best. The big, purple, of excellent Zutano. FA16. There are few good green guality and fine for home purplish maroon, pear-shaped fruits weigh use. A large, vigorous Avocados ripening in the late fall which tree which will stand IV2 to 2 lbs., and not only are they of ex- plenty of heat, cold and wind. Bears enormously tremely high quality but they ship exceed- look like Fuerte. Zutano does, and this is a in all areas. 19° August-September. distinct advantage in marketing the fruit. ingly well. It is a splendid home fruit, and The light green, 8-ounce, pear-shaped fruit there should be a few trees in every com- comparatively thin skin, is much mercial planting, particularly in the Coastal has a hardier than Fuerte and has an excellent Please include on your order sheet both the and Coastal foothill districts. A spreading flavor. Bears excellently in the Transitional large-leaved tree of beautiful appearance. name and code number of each variety ordered. area, not tested elsewhere. Probably good 28°. May to October. in all areas. 26°. NovemberJanuary.

When to Plant Avocados How would you like to have a Duke Avocado tree full of fruit like this? 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

Three Big Salesyards There are now three Armstrong Sales and Display Yards (no other branches or agents) at which you may select from a full supply of Armstrong products. In addition to our home display yards at Ontario, our North Hollywood Branch on Magnolia Blvd., at Coldwater Canyon Ave., serves all of the San Fernando Val'ey and adjacent territory, while our new Culver City Branch on Sepulveda Blvd., four blocks south of Culver Blvd., is convenient for all of Los Angeles and the beach ci'.ies.

It's Easy to Order by Mail If it is not convenient for you to visit our Display Yards in Ontario, North Hollywood or Culver City, just put your order in the mail, and no matter where you live, well get it to you by the best and most economical means, whether it be mail, express, freight or our own trucks. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping information.

— 22 — Colorful Armstrong Perennials

Everblooming Daisy Blue Dianella Arctotis acaulis hybrid. P4. 10°. The Dianella tasmanica. P22. 10°. We en- most popular perennial we have ever thusiastically recommend this perma- offered is this bushy South African nent little perennial for a shady or plant, 1 to 2 feet high and as much semi-shady spot. The 2-foot clump of across, which frequently carries 40 or grassy foliage is beautiful the year 50 magnificent 3-inch flowers at one around, and in spring appear spikes of time in brilliant shades of orange, yel- the most brilliant sky-blue flowers low, lavender, pink, white or purple. which turn later in the summer into Each plant is different in color, and we big, 11/2-inch, oval berries, a lovely and can't guarantee to furnish any exact fascinating shade of turquoise-blue. We shade. They are at their best in late are unable to decide whether the fall, early winter and early spring, and flowers or the berries are the loveliest usually produce some blooms the entire but the berries are beautiful for bowl year. Full sun. 70c. arrangements. SI. 00. Wonder of Staefa Fairy Wands Aster frikarti. P6. 20°. Many consider Dierama pendula. P23. 15°. A de- it to be the country's finest perennial lightful clump of grass-like foliage, 2 plant. It will provide a mass of lav- feet high, which carries in the spring ender-blue flowers, 2 to 21/2 inches 3-foot stems, slender, wiry, swaying in across, from June 1 to December 1, No perennial gives more color and flowers with less trouble the breeze, from which hang the lovely without a break. Not only a splendid than the Daylilies (Hemerocallis). Flowers 6 to 8 inches pink, bell-shaped flowers. Excellent for show in the garden, but excellent for long, 4 to 6 inches across. cut material and beautiful in the gar- cutting. Grows easily anywhere. Full den. Sun or semi-shade. 80c. sun or part shade. SI. 00. Bergenia cordifolia. P7. 15°. Big broad Perennials are Permanent thick leaves, making a dense clump Pride of Madeira after year in the garden. They are about 15 inches high, with quantities Perennials bloom year Echium fastuosum. P25. 15°. From the than annuals, which have to be re- of 12-inch spikes of pink flowers all much easier to grow Island of Madeira in the South Atlantic. every year. Some perennials have evergreen tops, through the winter. Shade. 80c. planted Each plant makes a large clump 4 to 6 to the ground every winter and come while some die down feet high and 4 feet across made up of At our three Salesyards you'll up again in the spring. enormous blue flower spikes, blooming listed here, as well as a complete Serbian Bellflower find others than those in June. Likes open warm sunny loca- supply of annual flowering plants. (See color illustration on page 35) tion where drainage is good. 70c. C:_«. Unless another size is specifically mentioned, the Camapanula poscharskyana. Pll. 10°. prices indicated for the plants listed below are For bordering a lawn or to place in for plants in gallon containers. the foreground of a group of shrubs, Beauty in Blue and Gold we know of no finer small plant than Qiianfritu When you* Hpurchase 10 or more of Felicia aethiopica Compact. P25A. 15°. uantity Discount.nicrmint this lovely little Bellflower one kind of perennial deduct 10% which makes You will be amazed at the brilliant a beautiful little clump of evergreen, frcm the listed each price. For instance, Angelonia grandi- display of blue and gold this 12-inch, violet-like foliage about 4 to 6 inches flora is listed at 80c each in gal. tins. If you order 10 of compact gem of a plant will provide all high and 12 to 18 inches across. For them, deduct 10% of this price, or 8c, which would make through the spring, summer and fall. many weeks in early summer it is them cost you 72c each. This discount applies to 10 of one The dainty, 1-inch, daisy-like blooms covered with hundreds of little starry, variety of plant and does not cover an assortment of 10 almost hide the plant, they are so num- bell - shaped lavender - blue flowers different kinds. erous. This is a cutting grown strain about 11,4 inches across, borne on 6 that we have selected ourselves. 80c. Shipping weight of gal. tins is 10 lbs. each; 4-inch pots, to 8 inch stems. Grows easily in shade or 3 lbs.; flats, 50 lbs. semi-shade in any soil. The cheeriest little plant imaginable with all of Transvaal Daisies those little blue faces looking up at Gerbera Jamesoni Hybrids. P26. All Fragrance you. It comes from the Dalmatian Apple Gerberas are lovely cut flowers and Mountains in Jugo-Slavia, where all of Angelonia grandiflora. P4A. 2 ft. 30°. During the summer those who attend flower shows have those Serbian patriots have resisted the months it is a showy clump full of many spikes of unique enthusiastically acclaimed our selected, Nazis so fiercely. 75c. violet-blue flowers like medium-sized snapdragons which large-flowered, long-stemmed strain. have a delightful apple fragrance. 80c. Showy Carinas The colors range from straw through Agapanthus africanus Blue. PI. "Lily of the Nile." 15°. pink, yellow, orange to brilliant scarlet 8-inch heads of sparkling blue flowers on 2-ft. stems, rising Cannas. 15°. Handsome, big foliage and crimson. We sell mixed colors only. from a clump of deep green strap-like leaves. 80c. and large showy flowers, blooming Full sun. Bare root divisions, S2.05 per 12. Anemone japonica. "Windflower." 0°. Delicate, 2-inch, from early summer until frost. Full Geum Prince of Orange. P27. 0°. A tall 2-foot stems over large, handsome sun. Root divisions, 30c each, S2.50 per waxy blooms on beautiful clump of big, strawberry-like Plant in or half-shade. have two vari- 10 of one kind. foliage. shade We foliage surmounted in the spring with Crested Pink (P2) and Whirlwind (P3), white, both of City of Portland. P13. 31/2 ft. Deep eties. 2-foot flower spikes carrying magnifi- are semi-double. Nothing finer for September and pink with peach throat markings. which cent double 2-inch blooms of brilliant October bloom. 80c. Eureka. P14. 3 ft. White, yellow center. Mrs. Pierre S. duPont. P16. Clear pink. orange. Sun. Plenty of moisture. 70c. President. P17. 5 ft. Orange-scarlet. Razzle Arctotis acaulis. Dazzle. P18. 3V2 ft. Orange, Perennial Sunflower vellow spots. 0°. Blooms all the year. Wyoming. P19. 5 ft. Orange blooms, Helianthus angustifolius. P27A. bronze leaves. Hundreds of brilliant dark-centered, golden yellow flowers, 3 inches across Dainty Dwarf Blue on a 6-foot plant. Do not confuse these with the coarse sunflowers. Of the Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. S37. Black-eyed Susan type of bloom, these (Plumbago larpentae.) "Dwarf Blue are the best there are, and they make Plumbago." 15°. The deep rich blue September a glorious month in the flowers of this dwarf spreading plant garden. Full sun. 80c. (6 to 8 inches) are welcome all over the garden. Such cooling color is especially appreciated during this plant's summer Heliotrope and fall blooming season. Semi-shade Heliotrope. There is no more delightful or sun. 60c. fragrance than that of the Heliotrope In the garden they make a delightful Yellow Cypella spot of color, and they are beautiful cut flowers too. Usually bloom all through Cypella herberti. P20. 15°. beau- A late summer and fall. We have the tiful little bulbous herb, 2 to 3 feet high, Queen Margaret (P23), rich purple, and carrying on long stems in May and Snow Wreath (P30), snowy white. 80c. June lovely orchid-like flowers with three broad petals, richly colored in cream, gold, purple and brown. Each "Red Hot Poker'" spike carries 10 to 12 buds, which open Kniphofia. "Red Hot Poker." 0°. Long up one at a time every day so they upright stems at their ends have a last for a long time. Shade or semi- fiery 5 or 6-inch long cone made up shade. 80c. of brilliant firecracker shaped blooms Dimorphotheca ecklonis. P24. "Star of tightly packed together. We have the Veldt." Large, spreading plant be- Goldtower (P40) (brilliant golden yel- coming 4 feet high and more across, low tipped with scarlet, 4-5 ft.) and with large, 3-inch, pale blue flowers in Royal Standard (P39) (brilliant orange- late winter and spring. 60c. scarlet, 3-4 ft.). 60c. — 23 — Everblooming Day Lilies Colorful Penstemons Hemerocallis. "Day Lilies." 2-4 ft. 10°. The Penstemon heterophyllus. P56. "Blue Gem." 0°. Dwarf. 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. 80c. narrow leaves. Many are very fragrant and they'll provide color as freely all through Penstemon Sensation. P57. 2-3 ft. Giant flower spikes, the summer and fall as anything you can many colors, white to deep crimson, mostly rose-pink. plant. Easily grown in any soil. Sun or Blooms almost entire year. Sun. 80c. half shade. 60c. Reinwardtia indica. P66. 15°. 2-4 ft. A brilliant, flashy Calypso. P31. Fragrant, 5 to 6-inch yellow spot of sunshiny yellow in the middle of winter, 2-inch, flowers. bell-shaped flowers in great quantities. Sun or shade. 70c. Gypsy. P34. Rich deep gold-orange color, Scilla peruviana. P69. "Blue Cuban Lily." 20°. Low with deeper golden brown basal markings. grassy plant with big, showy, 12-inch flower spikes of J. A. Crawford. P32. Apricot-yellow. bright sky-blue, borne in June. Part shade. 70c. Kwanso Floreplena. P35. Double bronze. Mahogany Red. P35A. Rich deep bronzy red. Very large flowers. Mrs. H. W. Wyman. P36. A luminous light New Shasta Daisies pale yellow with 4-foot stems. The improved kinds listed below are becoming tremend- Marguerite. Popular, free blooming, fast ously popular. They grow just as easily as old kinds, growing, winter and spring blooming plant. bloom as much and make wonderful cut flowers. 15°. We have Single Yellow (P44) and Single Esther Reed. P71. 2 ft. A symmetrical, pure white, White (P43). 3-4 ft. high. Full sun. 60c. medium-sized double Shasta Daisy with a full, white, double center, 21/2 to 3 inches across. Cut blooms of this Morea iridioides. P46. Iris-like plant, white variety brought price on the cut flower flowers marked with yellow and blue. a tremendous market last year, so you know fine they are for Blooms from spring to late fall. Full sun. how cutting. 80c. Morea bicolor (P45A) has creamy yellow flowers with brown markings. 70c. Chiffon. P70. 12 inches. Small flowers with daintily frilled petals. 60c. Blue Cup-Flowers Nierembergia frutescens. P47. "Blue Cup- Flower." 2-3 ft. 15°. A low, fast-growing Lasting Lavender Sprays sub-shrub, bushy and much branched, which Statice perezi. P73. (Limonium.) "Sea Lavender." Tufts starts blooming in late spring and keeps it of bread, 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 blue flowers, one inch across. Full sun. coast. 70c. Not too much water. 60c. Make September colorful with P48. 15°. The Nierembergia hippomanica. Perennial Sunflower (6 ft.). plant is similar to the above variety, but Frilled Blue Moon gets only 12 inches high and about 18 rounded inches across, becoming a solid, Stokesia Blue Moon. P73A. A flower of mass of deep violet-blue flowers throughout Fragrant Violets startling size and beauty with immense light the entire summer. It has so many flowers equal the fresh, sweet and blooms for so long it will amaze you. blue disc-like flowers. 4 to 6 inches across, Violets. What plant can water. 60c. of the Violet and the delightful love- Likes plenty sun and not too much borne on stiff 12 to 18 inch stems, the entire fragrance is, ' none. liness of its coloring? The answer plant becoming 2 to 3 feet high. It grows longest stems We offer Princess of Wales (P87), the Geraniums quickly, blooms with great freedom. The indi- and finest fragrance. Also President Hemck (P86), flowers and finest foliage. Also Viola Geraniums bloom almost the year around vidual flowers last for 10 days on the plant the biggest (P88) "Pink Violet." Flats of 100 their best in odorata rosina in California, and often are at or cut and no insects bother it. Full sun. 80c. plants, $6.00. the middle of winter. Fine for the open garden or for pot plants for wall, patio or terrace. Botanically, Geraniums are all Pe- largoniums, so don't be confused if you see Fragrant Herbs Calla Lilies the name Pelargonium on the label. 23°. Green (P76) All Geraniums listed below: 70c. Thyme and Thyme Variegated Zantedeschia aethiopica. P90. "White Calla Lily. (P76B). 8 inches. 10°. It's nice to have one of this E. G. Hill. P49A. Clear live pink. The best and most free-blooming form of these fragrant foliaged, Marguerite de Layre. P51. Dbl. pure white. dwarf clumps favorite white flower. Splendid for a shady spot. tucked in some corner. Both have lavender- Maxine Kovaleski. P52. Copper-scarlet. $1.00. blue flowers. Radio Red. P53. Brilliant single scarlet. 70c. elliottiana. P91. "Golden Calla Lily." Ivy Geraniums. Your choice of Red (G19), Zantedeschia Thymus nitidus. P75. "Pink Thyme." 18 flowers are a rich golden yellow and the lavender, and Pink (G20). 4-inch pots, 60c. The inches. 10°. A very lovely pink-flowered large green leaves are marked with silver. $1.00. Thyme with gray fragrant foliage. 70c. Zantedeschia aethiopica Baby White. P89. Dainty, Pelargoniums Salvia officinalis. P67. "Green Sage." 10°. miniature white blooms, only 12 inches hign. The kitchen favorites. 70c. Also Variegated pots, 70c. - For coastal regions there is nothing finer than 4-inch _ Sage (P68). 70c. the brilliant - hued Pelargoniums (Martha Washington Geraniums). 3-4 ft. Both sun Mentha spicata. P45. Mint to you. For mint of these blue 70c. Nierembergia (18 inches). Hundreds and half-shade. All following varieties, sauce, mint jelly and mint juleps. 80c. cup flowers all summer long. Edith North. P49. Rose-pink, darker pink center. Lavender Queen. P50. Clear lavender. Springtime. P54. Ruffled pink petals, bor- Lavender Surprise dered white. Tulbaghia cepacea. P78. 10°. You'll have Sue Jarrett. P55. Salmon-pink, shaded rose. a pleasant surprise in July when you see the lovely lavender-mauve flower heads of Perennial Phlox this little bulbous plant, borne on the end of 18-inch stems. You'll be more surprised Phlox decussata. For great masses of bloom when it keeps right on flowering up until in summer and fall in the richest and love- November. Makes an evergreen clump a liest of colors, for cut flowers, too, there is foot across and a foot high. Sun near coast. nothing better than these easily grown, Part shade inland. 80c. gloriously hued Phlox, which are never-failing in their profusion of big, bright colored Trachelium caeruleum. P76A. 2 ft. Great flower heads. 0°. Weight: 12 plants, 2 lbs. spreading panicles of bright blue flowers. 60c.

Strong root divisions: 1 for 35c; 3 for 90c; 12 for $2.85. Trollius Golden Wave Daily Sketch. P60. Pink with rose eye. Trollius Golden Wave. P77. 0°. A beauti- Schlageter. P61. Orange-scarlet. Leo ful 18-inch yellow flowering plant for the Lillian. P61A. Rose-red. shade. The golden flowers shine out in Morgenrood. P61B. Rose-pink, scarlet eye. spring and early summer. 80c. Salmon Glow. P65. Flame pink and salmon. Beacon. P58. Brilliant cherry-red. Please include on your order sheet both Dixie. P60A. Orange-pink. Mrs. Chas. Door. P62. Pale lavender. the name and code number of each vari- Pure white. Mrs. Jenkins. P63. ety ordered. This will help us to avoid Rijnstroom. P64. Rose-pink. Von Hockberg. P65B. Brilliant red. erors in filling your order. — 24 — Armstrong Deciduous

They Crow Anywhere Flowering Quince Blue Stars You can enjoy the hardy spring Hydrangea villosa. DS4A. "Blue flowering shrubs listed on these Place one or two branches of Star Hydrangea." 4-6 ft. 10° two pages no matter where you Quince informally in Flowering You really have a thrill com- live because they are not par- a vase and you will have a ing when you glimpse the first ticular as to climate. They pro- long-lasting natural flower ar- magnificently colored duce almost immediately after flower rangement which everybody head of this new Hydrangea, planting thousands of gay thinks is perfect. The plants which was only discovered spring and summer flowers in have handsome glossy foliage remote China a few years ago. which make colorful cut sprays. like throughout the summer and Six-inch flat heads of big, U/2- a location with plenty of sun- Discount inch blooms in the most de- Quantity shine. 0°. lightful and dainty shade of If you order 10 or more of one porcelain-blue that have variety, take 10% off the listed you Chaenomeles lagenaria Apple ever each price. This discount ap- seen. Much daintier than Blossom. DF1. 6 ft. Bring "Apple the ordinary Hydrangea plies on 10 of one kind only and Blossom Time" into your garden with handsome big summer and not on 10 or more assorted and with the 1 34- your home foliage, too. Likes plenty of plants. inch rose-pink white blos- and moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5- soms of our favorite Cydonia. to Plant gal. tins, $2.75. When Each winter the sturdy twigs are Most deciduous shrubs are full of lemon-white buds shipped with bare roots from which suddenly burst open Wistaria Bush January 1 to April 15 only. aglow with rose-pink shadings. Indigofera gerardiana. DS4C. Those varieties listed in tins or 2-3 ft., $1.50; 3-4 ft., $2.00. "Wistaria Bush." 6 ft. 15°. as balled plants may be plant- A handsomely foliaged spreading ed any time. C. lag. rosea. DF3. (Cydonia.) shrub with rich dark green 6 ft. The earliest deciduous Shipping Weights acacia-like foliage, carrying in shrub to flower, its leafless the middle of 6- The packing weight of decidu- summer many branches displaying the brilliant inch clusters of rose-colored ous shrubs averages 3 lbs. for rosy-red flowers in January, flowers which look like Wis- the first plant and 2 lbs. for and if cut before that time and each additional plant. Gal. tins taria blossoms. The combina- placed in water in the house tion of lacy foliage bright weigh 10 lbs., S-gal. tins weigh and they will often open up even in colored blooms picture 50 lbs. See page 41 for shipping makes a December. 2-3 ft, $1.50; 3-4 ft., hard to beat. costs. Easy to grow. $2.00. Full sun or part shade. Gal. Desert Willow tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; 2-3 ft., $2.25. Chilopsis linearis. DS1. "Desert Willow." 10-15 ft. 5°. A sur- Blood Red Quince prising native California plant Beautybush from the hottest, sandiest parts C. lag. rubra grandiflora. DF4. Kolkwitzia amabilis. DS5. "Beau- of the California des- ft. Southern 6 Immense great blood-red tybush." 6 ft. 0°. A fine ert. Looks like a small Willow blooms, borne in great profu- hardy flowering shrub from but breaks out in the summer- sion over the entire plant. Also Central China, forming a beau- time with the most lovely, or- blooms with the very earliest tifully foliaged bush, fountain- chid-like, trumpet-shaped flow- in January and February. Cut like in habit, every branch in ers, 2 inches long, in delicate in the bud stage, they will open the spring becoming a plume but brilliant shades of lilac, lav- in beautiful shades of pink in of lovely bell-shaped pink blos- ender and yellow. Easily grown the house. 2-3 ft., $1.50; 3-5 ft., Every twig of the Snowdrop Tree is soms, mottled with orange. A anywhere. Full sun. Dry soil. $2.00. lined with blossoms like this in May shrub that will thrive almost Gal. tins, S1.00; 2-3 ft., $2.50. (natural size). everywhere in sun or shade. C. lag. Candida. DF2. 6 ft. Its Extremes of heat, cold and wind Smoke Tree sprays of large snowy-white do not bother it. Requires little Wintersweet Cotinus coggygria. DS2. "Smoke flowers are very lovely and attention but provides much when cut for the house, make Chimonanthus praecox. DF5. "Winter- Tree." 8-10 ft. Below 0°. A beauty. Gal. tins, $1.00; bare handsome large shrub with good exquisite table decorations, root, 2-3 ft., $2.00. sweet." 6 ft. 0°. This handsomely looking summer foliage, sur- keeping for many days. Often foliaged shrub covers itself before win- mounted from July to October sets two crops of blooms, one ter is over with lovely, waxy, pale Crepe Myrtle with loose, feathery pani- in early winter and the other in yellow blooms like miniature star-like many cles of minute, purplish-grey the late soring. 2-3 ft., $1.50; Lagerstroemia indica. During magnolia blooms which scent the air flowers which give the effect of 3-5 ft., $2.00. the hot summer days of July, for yards around with a most delicious dense cloud of richly col- August and September the fragrance like a mixture of Jonquils a ored smoke. The leaves turn Crepe Myrtles are masses of and Violets. The lovely fragrant brilliant color. not vivid golds and yellows in fall. They do blooms, each 1 inch across, are pro- Golden Bells Grows easily anywhere. Full bloom so well directly on the duced in great profusion. The luxuri- coast, but in the inland valleys sun. 4-5 ft., $2.25; 5-6 ft., $2.50; ant foliage is very handsome all Forsythia fortune:. DF6A. "Gold- of California their crinkled 6-8 ft., $3.50. through the summer and fall. It grows en Bells." 8 ft. Below 0°. crepe-like flowers are produced Cercis occidentalis. "West- easily anywhere. Sun or part shade. DSC. Showy yellow flowers borne in in great profusion. The larger ern Redbud." 8-12 ft. 5°. Rich Gal. tins, SI. 00. great profusion along the slen- kinds become almost tree-like. rosy purple pea-shaped flowers der branches in late winter and 12°. appear just before the leaves in early spring. One of the first Prices on all Crepe Myrtles ex- the spring. Full sun or part soring flowering shrubs to cept White. Gal tins, $1.00; 5- 3-4 ft., $1.25. shade. bloom. 3-5 ft, $1.75. qal. tins, $2.75. Pink Crepe Myrtle. DF9. 10-20 Flowers of Desert Willow (one-half ft. Lovely pastel pink. natural size). Lovely lavender and Red Crepe Myrtle. DF10. 10-15 yellow orchids of the desert. Snowdrop Tree ft. Rich watermelon-red. Halesia Carolina. DS4. "Snowdrop Tree" White Crepe Myrtle. DF11. Big, or "Silver Bells." 8-20 ft. 5°. One of the snowy white blossoms. Rarely most beautiful sights seen in any garden. seen because it is difficult to Every horizontal branch in the spring propagate. Ours are grafted hangs full of little pendulous white, bell- plants. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. shaped flowers, like little silver bells. You tins, $3.00. can almost imagine them tinkl'ng as you Dwarf Red Crepe Myrtle. DF8. gently shake a branch. Likes shelter from Watermelon-red. Reaches 8 feet. the hottest sun and plenty of mois+ure. Dwarf Blue Crepe Myrtle. DF7. Splendid for the edge of the lawn. Noth- 8-10 ft. A beautiful dwarf lav- ing finer for cut flower material. 3-5 ft.. ender-blue. $2.25; 5-7 ft, $3.00. Star Magnolia Magnolia stellata. DS12. "Star Three Big Salesyards Magnolia." 5-8 ft. 10°. The first of the Chinese Magnolias To save rubber, visit the Armstrong Dis- to open its blooms in the spring and possibly the most charm- Dis- play Yard nearest you. Our home ing. Star-shaped, snowy white with play Yard is at Ontario, 408 North blossoms, 3 inches across, about 15 narrow petals. They Euclid Ave.; North Hollywood Branch at cover the entire bush and every plant that we sell should have Blvd.; Culver 12908 Magnolia and our blooms during the next flower- City Branch at 4440 Sepulveda Blvd. No ing season. Sweetly fragrant, too. 5-gal. tins, $4.00; balled, other branches or agents. 11/2-2 ft, $5.00; 2-3 ft., $7.50. — 25 — —

Spring Flowering Shrubs

Chinese Magnolias Spirea Magnolia liliflora nigra. DS7. 8-10 ft. Spirea vanhouttei. DS18. "Bridal 10°. In gardens the world over the de- Wreath." Below 0°. 6 ft. A ciduous spring flowering Magnolias are charming shrub of moderate siz much loved and admired for their great which almost everybody know, This par- lily-like blooms in the Spring. and wants to enjoy in their gar- ticular kind does not get too large for den. Fountaining branches are with the average garden, and it blooms loaded with their white flowers great profusion. The plants are covered in spring. 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., in April for almost three months March, $1.50. and May with the beautiful flowers which become 5 !/2 inches across when Spirea cantoniensis. DS17. "Dou- fully open, rich reddish purple on the ble Bridal Wreath." 5 ft. Below outside and creamy white inside. Sun. 0°. Like the above, but slightly Plenty of moisture. The larger plants smaller and the flowers are listed will have flower buds in the win- double, borne in great pro ter. 5-gal tins, $4.00; balled, 2-3 ft., $6.00; 2-3 ft., $1.25; 3-4 ft., $1.50. 3-4 ft., $10.00. Spirea bumalda Anthony Waterer. DS16. Magnolia salicifolia fastigiata. DS8A. "Dwarf Red Spirea." 2 ft. Below 0°. "Anise Magnolia." 15-20 ft. A much Makes a compact little clump entirely each spring branched, upright tree which covered with light rosy red flower heads gracefully displays lavish show of pure a in the spring. Gal. tins, 80c. white, fragrant informal 6-petalled star flowers, 4 inches across. The big leaves don't come out on any of these Mag- Persian Lilac nolias until the month-long flower show Syringa persica laciniata. DS21. "Feath- is over, and then they guickly clothe 0°. the bare twigs. When you rub the ered Persian Lilac." 6 ft. Below This twigs of this one you release the fra- is the finest Lilac for Southern California grance of anise and lemon verbena. 3-4 because it likes our dry summers and winters and can always be count- ft., $6.00; 4-6 ft., $7.50; 6-8 ft., $12.50. warm ed upon to display innumerable panicles soulangeana White. DS11. Magnolia of bright lavender flowers over the en- "Giant White Saucer Magnolia." 8-10 tire plant in the early spring. It has ft. 10°. magnificent big bloom, often A long arching branches, dainty fern-like inches across, pure white inside, 7 or 8 foliage, and you can cut great quanti- tinted lightly with pinkish lavender on ties of sweetly fragrant lavender blooms the outside of the petals. The huge cup- from it in the flowering season. See illus- shaped flowers cover the entire plant, tration in color on page 34. Gal. tins, which is most spectacular when in full 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; 4-5 ft., $2.75. bloom. Balled, 2-3 ft., $6.00; 3-4 ft., The scarlet blooms of Flowering Quince in $10.00; 4-5 ft., $12.50. deep appear Eastern Lilacs California in the middle of winter.

Syringa. The old-fashioned Lilac with its Sweet Fragrance sweet-scented, delicately colored flow- The Blue Chaste Tree ers does well in the colder winter cli- Philadelphus lemoinei Belle Etoile. DS14. Vitex agnuscastus latifolia. DS27. "Blue Chaste Tree." mates of California, but does not bloom 0°. 8 ft. 0°. Good blue flowering plants are scarce. This "Purple Spot Mock Orange." 6 ft. as freely in the lower coastal valleys. this hardy one is covered in June with 8-inch spikes of A new Philadelphus, quite rare in 0°. All varieties, 2-year plants, $1.75. country. Its big, white, saucer-shaped bright lavender-blue flowers. Cut the faded blooms and Armstrong Lilacs aie cutting grown and flowers, IV2 inches across, have purple you get more m August. It will be one of the finest do not sucker from the root. Beware of spots at the base of each snowy white flowering plants in your garden during that period Lilacs grafted on California Privet which petal, lending a touch of bright color never fails to bloom. Grows easily anywhere in any are often sold, but which will always to the snowy white. Also this variety soil, but prefers a sunny position. 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., cause you trouble by sending up Privet has a powerful and exceedingly enchant- $2.50; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. shoots from below the ground. ing fruity scent. Easy to grow anywhere Mme. Lemoine. DS20. Double white. and always a mass of flowers in the Free Flowering Weigelas late spring. Sun or part shade. Phila- Michael Buchner. DS19. Double blooms delphus are often incorrectly called Sy- a rare shade of rich violet-pink. Weigela florida. DS29. "Old-Fashioned Pink Weigela." ringas. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Pascal. DS20A. Clear pastel lilac. Single. 6 ft. 0°. The large clusters of trumpet-shaped, bright pink flowers make a wonderful display in the spring Philadelphus virginalis. DS1S. 6-8 ft. 0°. Single Purple. DS23. Old-fashioned kind. nestled in the bright green foliage. A greatly improved form of Philadelphus Single White. DS22A. Like the old-fash- and early summer, (the old-fashioned flower often incor- ioned purple, but pure white. 3-4 ft., $1.50; 4-6 ft., $2.25. rectly called Syringa) with enormous Vauban. DS22. Double, purplish lilac. Weigela Eva Rathke. DS28. "Red Weigela." 4 ft. 0°. snowy white flowers, 3 inches across, so Rich ruby-red flowers all summer and fall on a more surpassingly fragrant that they perfume bushy plant. 2-3 ft., $1.25. the air for many feet around the plant. Pink Tamarix Weigela Ideal. DS30. "Dark Pink Weigela." 0°. Simi- It is one of the most delightful spring Tamarix parviflora. DS24. "Feathery lar to Weigela florida but with larger flowers in a flowering shrubs and the cut sprays of pink. 2-3 ft., $1.50. Pink Tamarix." 15 ft. 5°. large shrub deeper, richer shade make wonderful indoor decorations. A with reddish bark slender, spread- Easily grown anywhere. Sun or part and ing branches, covered in spring and Flower heads of Korean Spice Viburnum (2 in. across shade. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; early summer with feathery, pink flow- 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., $2.50. ers. Thrives even in alkali, dry desert locations, or where hit by ocean spray. 4-6 6-8 Manchu Cherry ft., $1.50; ft., $2.25. Prunus tomentosa. DF19. "Manchu Cher- Korean Spice ry." 5 ft. 5°. This shrub to us typifies the virtues possessed by the ancient Viburnum carlesi. DS25. "Koreanspice country of its birth, China. Fruitful: The Viburnum." 5 ft. 0°. Many of our cus- delicious little red cherries crowd each tomers rate Viburnum carlesi as one of other all up and down the many their fen favorite fragrant shrubs. The branches. Beautiful: In the spring many delicate coral-pink blooms, which be- white blooms lay tight against twigs come pearl-white as they open, possess amply provided with large, interestingly a most intense yet delightfully refresh- textured, green foliage, and in June the ing perfume. A native of the stern cli- crimson fruit shines out like rubies. mate of Korea, it is hardy everywhere. Stands adversities: Wind, cold, heat, lack The dwarf bushy plants are without their of rich soil don't keep it from fruiting. greyish-green foliage for only a few You will enjoy the fruit fresh-picked from fleeting weeks in winter, the leaves turn- the bush, in cherry pies and preserves. ing briH-'ant red before they fall. Gal. This Armstrong strain was selected from tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. three superior types which in turn were selected from thousands of seedlings by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The Old-Time Snowball only Bush Cherry which has been suc- Viburnum opulus s'erile. DS26. "Old- cessful in Southern California, even Fashioned Snowball." 8 to 10 ft. Be- though other kinds have been much ad- low 0°. The favorite old-fashioned shrub, vertised and sold. These plants are cut- producing an abundance of white glo- ting grown so you are sure to get a bular flower clusters in May and June. sure - bearing, large fruited specimen. Grows anywhere, in anv s^l "nder all Bare root or 5-gal. tins, $2.75. climatic conditions. 1-2 ft., $1.50. 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 reguest.

Quantity Discount. Whe n ^ ' purchaseu 10 Chinese Flame Tree or more of one kind of deciduous shade Koelreuteria bipinnata. DT10. "Chinese tree, deduct 10% from the listed each Flame Tree." 20-30 ft. 0°. Here is the price. For instance, California Sycamore finest new deciduous shade tree intro- is listed at S2.00 in the 6-8 ft. size. If duced recently. It forms a rounded, you order 10 of them, deduct 10% of compact head, with great long, pinnate, this price, or 20c, which would make deep OTeen leaves, exceedingly hand- them cost you SI. 80 each. This discount some. The large, bladder-like seed-pods, applies to 10 of one variety and does not born in late summer and early fall, cover an assortment of 10 different kinds. are brilliant orange-red. Gal. tins, $1.00; bare root or 5-gal. tins, 4-6 ft., $2.75. B e roo de" Shippingrr Weights. \ ° ° ciduous7 trees Sweet Cum weigh, packed for shipment, as follows: Liquidambar styraciflua. DT11. "Sweet 4-6 ft., 5 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 7 lbs.; 8-10 ft., Gum." 30 ft. 20° below zero. This is one 10 lbs.; 10-12 ft., 16 lbs. These weights tree which provides just as much color are for one tree. Each additional tree in the fall in California as it does in the will weigh about less. 20% 5-gal. tins East, and in November and December weigh 50 lbs. each. See shipping costs it is a solid pyramid of rich shades of and information page 41. gorgeous red. A splendid small parkway tree. Thrives anywhere from the ocean Please include both name and code front to desert valleys. Weeping Willow for graceful shade. See next page. 5-gal. tins or number of each variety ordered, on balled, 4-5 ft., $2.75; balled, 5-6 ft., $3.50. As indicated on the calendar below, most deciduous your order sheet. shade trees are available in the bare root form only Tulip Tree during the winter months. Some kinds are available in Liriodendron tulipifera. DT12. "Tulip tins during the summer. Maple Trees Tree." 75 ft. 20° below zero. A favorite because the tall, well formed, pyramidal Acer buergericmum. Month DTI. "Trident Ma- trees are deep rooted and well furnished J FMAMJ JASOND ple." 15 ft. If you want a small Maple with uniquely notched 5-inch leaves. tree with brilliant fall color, this it. is Tulip-like flowers of yellowish orange, in Bare Root It will fit into the average home garden the spring, shine out against the clear easily because of its small size, and it light bluish-green foliage, which assumes Tins has typical, beautifully shaped, 3-inch, its autumn color, a vivid shimmering maple leaves in a rounded compact head. [ yellow in early fall. Insects and decay Magnificent red and bronze shades in Montebello Ash stay away. 4-6 ft., $2.50; 6-8 ft., S3. 00; fall. Grows easily anywhere. Full sun. 8-10 ft., $4.00; 10-12 ft., $5.00. Fraxinus velutina coriacea. DT8. "Montebello Ash." Gal. tins, 80c. 25-30 ft. 5°. for all sections, coast, val- Our finest Ash Acer macrophyllum. DT2. "Bigleaf Ma- ley, and desert, with bigger, darker green foliage, a Umbrella Tree ple." 60 ft. 0°. Big deep green leaves, more dense, compact head, not attacked by that enemy Melia azedarach umbraculiformis. DT13. a foot across, and amazingly rapid in of the Ash, red spider. No bothersome seedpods to "Texas Umbrella." 30 ft. 0°. A splen- growth when young. It makes a beau- clean either. Just right in size for the average park- did fast growing tree for either coastal up tiful, big, spreading densely-foliaged tree way or small garden. Holds its foliage late in the fall regions or hot interior valleys. The in a very- short time. The best of the end comes out early in the spring. We have discontinued branches radiate from the trunk to form large growing Maples for the Pacific the Modesto Ash, a similar type, in favor of this im- a large, rounded umbrella, densely cov- Coast except that it has little autumn variety. 6-8 ft., S2.50; 8-10 ft., $3.00; 10-12 ft., $4.00. ered with fern-like leaves and in sum- proved color. 5-gal. tins, $2.50. mer large panicles of lavender flowers. Fraxinus velutina. DT7. "Arizona Ash." 30 ft. 0°. One Acer saccharinum. DT3. "Silver Maple." 6-8 ft., 8-10 ft., 10-12 ft., of the finest trees for planting in the arid desert sec- $2.25; $2.75; 60 ft. 10° below zero. This Maple grows $4.00; 12-14 ft., S8.50. tions of the Southwest, although it makes a splendid readily anywhere on the Pacific Coast tree near the coast as well. It requires little water and and makes a beautiful, fast growing thrives in alkaline soil, growing with great rapidity. Mulberries shade tree. Displays every fall leaves 4-5 ft.. $1 50; 6-8 ft., $2.00. nigra. "Persian Mulberry." of the glorious autumn shades. 6-8 ft., Moras DT16. 10-15 0°. If SI. 75; 8-10 ft., $2.50; 10-12 ft., $3.00; 12-14 ft. you are planting a Mul- Clump of Young California Sycamores. ft., $4.50. berry primarily for the fruit, then this is the variety you want, for it has the Acer palmatum atropurpureum. DT2A. largest and finest fruit of all, two inches "Red Leaved Japanese Maple." 6-10 ft. long, juicy and aromatic, splendid for 10° below zero. A beautiful small tree juice or preserves. The tree is smaller or large shrub, with graceful, elegant, than the other Mulberries. 2-3 ft., $1.75; deeply cut maple leaves, rich red in 3-4 ft., $2.00; 4-5 ft., $2.50. color all through the season. A rich spot Morus rubra. DT17. "Hicks Mulberry." of color wherever planted. Best in part 40 ft. 20° below zero. A strong, upright, shade, with plenty of moisture. Grafted fast-growing tree with dense foliage, plants with the most handsome type of thriving anywhere and furnishing excel- foliage. Balled or 5-gal. tins, 3-4 ft., $7.50. lent shade. Bears good sized delicious black berries. A tree for the bird-lover, Birch whether it be robins or only White Leg- White horns. Splendid for chicken runs. 10-12 Betula alba. DT4. "European White ft., $2.50; 14-16 ft., $4.00. Birch." 30 ft. 20° below zero. Its picfur- Morus Kingan Fruitless. DT15. 30 ft. esgue white bark, dancing, shimmering 5° below zero. One of the finest shade foliage and slender, graceful shape make trees for any region, particularly the the White Birch a favorite everywhere. desert sections, for it gives dense shade It is particularly desirable near streams in an amazingly short time and stands or pools. 4-6 ft., $1.50; 6-8 ft., $2.25; 8-10 any amount of heat, drought, cold and ft., $3.00. alkali. For street and many garden loca- Betula pendula laciniata. DT4A. "Cut- tions, fruit on a Mulberry is undesirable, and this variety is absolutely fruitless. leaf Weeping Birch." 20 ft. 20° below with zero. The beautiful weeping Birch with Only the Chinese Elm can compete desirability a straight, snowy-white trunk from which it for vigor and all-around 8-10 the bark peels, deeply cut leaves, and in the hot climates. 6-8 ft., S2.00; slender pendulous branches. Bare root ft., $2.50; 10-12 ft., $3.50. or 5-gal. tins, $4.00. Weeping Mulberry Morus alba pendula. DT14. "Weeping Hackberry Mulbeiry." 8 ft. 5° below zero. From Celtis occidentalis. DT5. "Hackberry." a height of eight feet the branches of little tree curve 60-80 ft. 0°. A fine shade tree for the this beautiful weeping a hot, dry southwestern country, forming a gracefully right to the ground, forming large, widespreading head of light green dense umbrella-shaped head which may beautiful foliage. Is not affected by any insects be left to grow naturally as a out or fungi, and grows in any soil and lawn specimen or may be trained to make under all conditions. We recommend it horizontally over a frame-work any- highly for Imperial Valley and Arizona. a wide roof of living green. Grows 7-8 $3.50. 6-8 ft., $2.00; 8-10 ft., $2.50. where. 2-yT., ft., — 27 — Plane Tree Platanus acerifolia. DT19. "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 anywhere. Makes a dense shade and may be heavily pruned if desired. An all-purpose tree

for summer shade. 6-8 ft., $2.00; 8-10 ft., $2.50. We have a few larger specimen trees, priced individually.

California Sycamore 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 picturesgue green foliage and irregular mottled white trunk. Grows easily anywhere and is indifferent to soil or moisture, making a particularly fine tree for lawn specimen. 6-8 ft., $2.00; 8-10 ft., $2.50. For those who want immediate 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. Flowering Cherry Daybreak—Thousands of lovely pink blooms (twice as large as above).

Chinese Pistachio Pistacia chinensis. DT18. "Chinese Pistachio." Spring Flowering Trees 20-40 ft. 5°. A handsome round-headed tree with attractive pinnate foliage. Before the leaves drop they turn brilliant glowing hues Flowering Cherries Flowering Crab Apples of scarlet and crimson. In the fall of the year it is one of the most beautiful trees that can Even one Flowering in Flowering Cherry Daybreak. DF16. 10-15 ft. Crab a garden will be found, and even in Southern California it 0°. Flowering Cherries have an exguisite love- provide a delicate spot of color so delightful has magnificent autumn colors. The Pistachio liness all their own. Every California garden and picturesque that its blooming period will Is always a mass of brilliant glowing yellow, should have at least one to spring, be one of the important events of the year. scarlet and crimson. Grows well anywhere welcome and there is none better for Southern Cali- Below zero. from seacoast to desert. This is not the tree fornia than this beautiful kind. We guaran- that bears the Pistachio nuts. See page 12 Malus purpurea Aldenham. DF14. "Aldenham tee that it will provide a profusion of beau- for the nut bearing Pistachio. 6-8 ft., $2.50; Crab." 8-15 ft. Its richly colored, semi-double tiful blooms for many days every spring. The 8-10 ft., $3.00. blood-red flowers are the loveliest of all the very large, single, pink flowers appear be- Crabs and are borne against purplish bronze for the leaves in such profusion that the tree foliage, which in itself is very beautiful. The is a foamy mass of pink. Give it a reasonable flowers are followed by purplish red, 1-inch amount of water in the summer and a west Lombardy Poplars fruits. 4-6 ft., $1.50; 6-7 ft., $1.75. or east exposure and you will have a mag- Populus nigra italica. DT21. "Lombardy Pop- nificent show every year. 2-3 ft., $1.50. Malus arnoldiana. DF12. "Arnold Crab." 8-10 lar." 50-75 ft. 20° below zero. The tall, slenv ft. Dwarf and bushy with very large rose der, narrow Poplar so valuable for lining colored flowers, turning white as they age. 4-6 ft., $1.50. driveways, tall border planting, or for accen- Flowering Apricot tuating certain types of architecture. Grows M. ioensis Bechtel. DF13. "Bechtel's Double very rapidly. 6-8 ft., $1.50; 8-10 ft., $2.00. Rose Flowering Crab." 8-12 ft. Covered in Flowering Apricot. DF17. 8-10 ft. "Dawn." early spring, just after the foliage appears, 0°. This is of the beautiful spring one most with large, beautifully, fully double flowers flowering deciduous trees that can be imag- like small roses in a soft, delicate pink color, Corronless Cottonwood ined. The to 2 inch, fully double flowers IV2 deliciously violet-scented. Exceedingly free are borne thickly along the reddish brown Populus fremonti Thornber. DT22. flowering. 2-3 ft., $1.50; 3-4 ft., $2.00. "Thornber branches before the leaves appear, the color Cottonwood." 50-75 ft. 0°. splendid fast A is deep rose-pink. One of the most delightful growing large shade tree for Arizona and the things about this lovely tree is the spicy Flowering inland arid sections. large Peaches Very size, vigor- fragrance of the blooms which perfume the ous growth, clean white bark and handsome atmosphere for many yards around the tree. For spring color nothing excels the Flowering foliage of the Cottonwood but with none of Peaches, which It carries its blooms for a number of weeks grow with the greatest ease the bothersome "cotton" so objectionable on anywhere fail to and is a good looking little tree the rest of and never produce a great many Cottonwoods. 6-8 ft., $1.50; 8-10 ft., $2. profusion of bloom. trees the year too. Sun or part shade. 4-6 ft., $1.50. The are not only a source of great admiration in the garden but they enjoy having their branches cut for Weeping Willow indoor use. 0°. The price on all varieties Purple-Leaved Plum below, 4-6 ft., $1.25. Salix babylonica. DT23. 40 ft. 0° The well- Early Rose Pink. DF14A. The earliest of all. known picturesgue "Weeping Willow." Large, Prunus pissardi. DF17A. 5°. An excellent spreading top and long pendulous branches. flowering Plum with deep purple foliage, the Early Red. DF14B. A magnificent ruby-red. rap- Thrives in dry or wet soils and grows entire tree absolutely covered with small, Pure White. DF14C. Immense snow-white idly. 6-8 ft., $1.75. pale pink blooms in the spring. Because of its blooms. unusual color and handsome flowers, it has long been one of the most popular of the Peppermint. DF14D. Striped pink, red and Chinese Elm flowering fruit trees. Provides excellent mate- white. Very showy. rial for cut sprays in the house. 4-6 ft., $1.50. 40-60 Ulmus pumila. DT23A. "Chinese Elm." The showy spring blooms of Flowering Peach. ft. 0°. No tree in our entire list will exceed this one for rapidity of growth, and it is Bechtel's Double Rose Flowering Crab. Violet being very widely planted all over the coun- Scented. (Reduced two-thirds. try, particularly in dry interior sections, because 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 A good-looking tree, too, giving plenty of shade. 6-8 ft., $1.75; 8-10 ft., $2.25. Large specimens priced on reguest.

If you live in Los Angeles or the beach cities, visit our new Culver City Display Yards at 4440 Sepulveda Blvd.. four blocks below Culver Blvd. — 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 lew. 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. Quantity Discount. ™Lea y°« P"r- ^ -. ' chase 10 01 Prostrate Junipers more of one kind of conifer, deduct 10% from the listed each price. For instance, Sizes Determined by Spread, Not Height. Juniperus conferta. Cupressus forbesi is listed at 70c each in C15. "Shore Juniper." 5° gal. tins. If you order 10 of them, deduct below zero. Never more than 1 foot 10% of this price, or 7c, which would make high and spreading to 7 or 8 feet, this them cost you 63c each. This discount Creeping Juniper does well anywhere in applies to 10 of one variety of plant and California, except in the deserts. The does not cover an assortment of 10 dif- dense dark green foliage is very attrac- ferent kinds. tive. Gal. tins, $1.00. sabina Tamarix. C18. (tamariscifolia.) Mo.. CO=ifersare J. Shipping Weights. "Spreading Savin Juniper." 5° below zero. p A dense, compact mound of gray-green ball of earth on the roots. The average foliage, spreading to 5 or 6 feet but never weights, packed for shipment, are: 2-3 more than 18 inches high. The foliage ft., 25 lbs.; 3-4 ft., 35 lbs.; 4-5 ft., 45 lbs.; never changes color, and there is nothing 5-6 ft., 60 lbs.; 6-8 ft., 75 lbs. Plants in finer for a corner where a low, spreading gallon tins weigh 10 lbs. and in 5-gallon plant is wanted. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins 50 lbs. See page 41 for costs. tins or balled, W2-2 ft., $2.75; balled, 2-3 Blue Spanish Fir ft., $3.25; 3-4 ft., $4.00. chinensis San Jose. Cll. "San Jose Abies pinsapo J. glauca. Cb. "Blue Span- Creeping Juniper." 5° below zero. Never ish Fir." 20-60 ft. 5° below zero. trim, A more than about a foot high, it makes a symmetrical, tree conical with many stiff spreading 4 to 5 foot low mound of beau- branchlets, soft blue-green in color. It is tiful grey-green foliage, richer in color than much more adapted to the drier parts of the Spreading Savin Juniper and some- the Southwest than most other conifers what lower in growth. It grows with the and stands dry heat better too. Easy to greatest of ease in almost any climate, grow. Balled, ll/ -2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 ft., $5.00. 2 hot or cold. It's guite new and we think it is one of the very best low spreading Blue Lawson Cypress Junipers that we have ever grown. Gal. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Scarab. C4. tins, $1.00; balled, 1 1/2 -2 ft., $2.75; 2-3 ft., (alumi.) "Blue Lawson Cypress." 6-12 ft. $3.50. Hedge of quick growing Tecate Cypress photographed 0°. Popular because of the beautiful meat the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, where its tallic silvery-blue color and the symmetri- merits were first demonstrated. These plants are 12 cal pyramidal habit of growth. Thrives Semi- Prostrate Junipers the West except in desert sec- feet high and are about 21/2 years old. anywhere in Juniperus chinensis Pfitzer. C12. "Pfitzer tions. Slow grower. Balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00; Juniper." 6-8 ft. 10° below zero. Has Live Christmas Trees 3-4 ft., $4.00. bushy, wide-spread, horizontal branches, and forms an immense flat, irregular head Cedrus deodara. C2. "Deodar." 25-75 ft. 0°. This Fast Crowing Hedge of bluish-green foliage, graceful in out- famous Cedar from the Himalaya Mountains has sil- Cupressus forbesi. C6. "Tecate Cypress." line, 6-8 feet in height and the same across. very blue-green foliage and is especially adapted to 15-20 ft. 10°. little native Cali- Heat or cold, sun or shade, seacoast or our Southwestern climate. The ordinary seedling A known fornia Cypress, the great value of which desert, it does egually well under all con- type grows very large and takes plenty of room. For first demonstrated in the Rancho San- ditions. 5-gal. tins or balled, 2-3 ft., $2.75; most planters we recommend the smaller, more sym- was It almost balled, 3-4 ft., $3.50; 4-5 ft., $5.00. metrical Armstrong Compact Deodar below. Gal. ta Ana Botanic Garden. has entirely displaced the Monterey Cypress "Armstrong tins, $1.00; large specimens, boxed, $25.00 up. J. chinensis Armstrong. C9. since that variety is very short-lived due Spreading Juniper." 10° below zero. One Cedrus deodara compacta. C3. "Armstrong Compact to attacks of fungus and borers. There are of the finest dwarf evergreens is this Deodar." This selected Armstrong strain of the many strains of Cupressus forbesi, but the hybrid Juniper, which makes a dense Deodar, which we grow as grafted trees, is much Armstrong strain is the fastest growing mass of soft gray-green foliage about 2 more suited to the average home planting than the and best shaped tree of all that we have feet high and becoming about 5 feet across. very large, more irregular seedling Deodar. It is observed. The plants grow with extreme Splendid for the foreground of any plant- dense, compact, trim and symmetrical; also grows rapidity, and we have observed trees ing, thriving egually well in sun or shade more slowly and seldom exceeds 25 or 30 feet in planted 6 feet apart when only 6 inches and adapting itself to any climate. Gal. height. They make beautiful outdoor Christmas high which in 30 months were from 11 tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins or balled, 1 1/2-2 trees to decorate. Gal. tins, $1.25; balled, 3-4 ft., to 13 feet high and had completely filled ft., $2.75; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00. $4.50; 4-5 ft., $6.00; 5-6 ft., $8.50; 6-8 ft., $10.00. in as a solid hedge. The beautiful silvery Cedrus atlantica glauca. CI. "Blue Atlas Cedar." green foliage fills in thickly and does not 20-40 ft. 0°. Beautiful, symmetrical with foliage of die out in the center. It makes a beautiful Upright Junipers intense silvery blue. It straight central trunk has a specimen tree also, forming a tall, com- with rather stiff semi-upright side branches, Columnar. C10. many pact column of silvery green foliage in a Juniperus chinensis Blue its beautiful blue color it stand out. Gal. tall, col- and makes very short time. For windbreak plant 6 to 10 ft. 10° below zero. A narrow tins, $1.25; balled, 4-5 ft., $6.00; 8-10 ft., $25.00; large blue-green dense foliage. 8 feet apart. Flats of 100 small plants, umn with bright specimens priced on reguest. thriving in $5.50 per 100; gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, Long-lived and handsome, any 4-6 6-8 ft., $8.50. $2.25. climate. Balled, ft., $4.00; (torulosa.) 6-8 Italian Cypress Cupressus arizonica. C5. "Arizona Cy- J. chinensis Twisted. C13. 10°. bluish- ft. 5° zero. semi-dwarfed, pic- Cupressus sempervirens. C7. "Italian Cypress." 20-60 press." 20-40 ft. A beautiful below A cypress of narrow pyramidal form turesgue plant with densely crowded, ft. 5°. Tall, slender, green spires, invaluable as green North- tufted, twisted branches which looks as accent points in the landscape planting. Our trees from the mountains of Arizona and for desert if it had been trained artificially. For are the true narrow type, holding their slender shape ern Mexico. A handsome tree planted in hedge form picturesgue beauty it is without egual. permanently. Gal. tins, 80c; 6-8 ft., $5.00; 8-10 ft., sections, and when Flats of or half shade, 5-gal. tins, $3.00; $7.50; large specimens in 20-inch boxes, $20.00. makes an excellent windbreak. Sun 100 small plants, $4.50; gal. tins, 70c; 5- balled, 2-3 ft., $3.50. Stately, long-lived Incense Cedar. gal. tins, $2.25. Narrow Irish Juniper 5° Juniperus communis hibernica. C14. "Narrow Irish Juniper." 6-8 ft. below zero. 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 ft. in height. about IV2 ft. to 2 ft. in diameter, but seldom exceeds 6 or 8 See illustration opposite page. Full sun or semi-shade. Balled, 2-3 ft., $2.50; 3-4 ft., $3.50; 4-6 ft., $5.00. 20° Juniperus occidentalis. C16. "Columnar Sierra Juniper." 10-20 ft. below zero. A magnificent tall, slender form of the beautiful Sierra tall, Juniper which is native to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It makes a slender, compact column without any pruning whatsoever and grows easily in any Southwestern climate. Balled, 2-3 ft., $2.75; 3-4 ft., $3.75. 0°. Juniperus pachyphlaea. Silver. C-17. "Silver Alligator Juniper." 8 ft. A beautiful dwarf form of the Alligator Juniper, native to Arizona and intense bril- New Mexico. It makes a loose, round-topped shrub, with most liant silvery blue foliage, more brilliant than any other conifer that we grow. Hardy anywhere in western United States. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.75; 4-6 ft., $4.00; 6-8 ft., $6.00. — 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 IHHI^IH

Armstrong Arborvitaes

Thuja orientalis Beverly Hills. C31. (beverleyensis.) "Golden Column Arborvitae." 15 to 20 it. The tallest and stateliest of the Chinese Arborvitaes, growing into a narrow column of golden-green foliage, particularly effective for specimen planting or for framing a doorway. Needs full sunshine to bring out the rich golden color. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.50; 4-5 ft., $4.00; 5-6 ft., $5.00.

Thuja orientalis Baker. C29. 10-12 ft. 5° below zero. A tall, narrow column of bright green foliage. A little broader at the base and not guite so fast growing as the Pyramidal below. Balled, 2-3 ft., $1.75; 3-4 ft., $2.50; 4-5 ft, $3.00. Thuja orientalis Pyramidal. C33. "Green Pyramid Arborvitae." 10-12 ft. 5° below zero. 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., $2.50; 4-5 ft., $3.00. Thuja orientalis Yellow Column. C34. (elegantissima.) "Golden Pyramid Arborvitae." 12-15 ft. 5° below zero. 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., $2.50; 4-5 ft., $4.00; 5-6 ft., $5.00; 6-7 ft, $7.50.

Thuja orientalis Compact. C32A. 6-8 ft. 0°. A dwarf compact cone of green all year regardless of cold, sun, wind or rain. Small growing enough to make a good long-lasting accent for Narrow Irish Juniper makes planting on either side of steps or to mark on entrance. Balled, a beautiful, dense, blue- 21/2-3 ft., $3.00; 3-4 ft, $4.00. green column.

Purple Pyramid Dwarf Golden Arborvitae luniperus virgin iana Purple Pyramid. C19A. Thuja orientalis Berckmanns. C30. (aurea nana.) "Dwarf Evergolden 8-15 ft. 20° below zero. Makes a tall, nar- Arborvitae." 6 ft. 0°. row column, 2 to 3 feet thick at the base and This is the most popular dwarf conifer gradually narrowing to a point at the top. grown in California and in the Southwestern Bluish green in spring and summer, purplish States. Dwarf, compact and broadly conical plum colored in fall and winter. Hardy and in form, the tips of all the branches are cov- easily grown any place. Balled, 3-4 ft., ered with bright gold throughout most of the year. See illustration at bottom of page. Gal. $3.00; 4-6 ft., $5.00. Giant Sequoia, permanent Christmas Tret tins, 80c; balled, 15-18 inches, $1.50; 11/2-2 ft, Beautiful at all ages from 1 to 3,000 yean $2.25; 2-21/2 ft., $3.00; 2l/2-3 ft, $4.00; 3-3l/2 ft., Incense Cedar $7.50. Libocedrus decurrens. C20. "Incense Cedar." Thuja orientalis Bonita. C32. 0°. The most The Giant Sequoia 25 to 50 ft. 5° below zero. A native of the perfect of the dwarf, cone-shaped green Ar- Sequoia gigantea. C25. "Giant Sequoia." 5° California mountains and one of our finest borvitae. Never exceeds 5 feet in height, below zero. Everyone knows about the famous ll/ evergreen trees. Makes a tall, dense, com- broad and compact. Balled, 2-2 ft., $2.25; "Big Tree" of the Sierras, oldest and largest 3-3l/ pact pyramid with deep green, lustrous foliage 2-21/2 ft., $2.75; 21/2-3 ft, $3.50; 2 ft, $5.00. of all living things, but do you know how which is delightfully fragrant and pungent. trim and beautiful they are when young, with It grows easily anywhere and is a magnifi- each sturdy little side branch doing its share cent tree anywhere in the Southwest. Gal. Pines to form a perfect cone of blue-green foliage? 3-4 tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins or balled, ft, $2.75; Pinus canariensis. C21. "Canary Island Pine." If you plant a small tree now (even in a balled, 4-5 ft., $4.00; 5-6 ft., $5.00; 6-8 ft, $10.00. 80 ft. 10°. One of the most beautiful and small yard) as your young son's outdoor Christ- permanent of all Pines for California, growing mas tree, it will still be small enough to decorate when his great-grandson is old The Fern Pine well anywhere in this state. Extremely long enough needles in large tufts. The new growth is to enjoy it. Thrives anywhere in California 10°. Podocarpus elongatus. C24. 15 ft. South silvery white. Tall and slender. Gal. tins, except in desert regions. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- African forest tree which in California gar- 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. gal. tins, $3.00; balled, 2-3 ft, $5.00; 3-4 ft, dens makes a beautiful medium-sized plant $7.50; 4-6 ft, $12.50. P. halepensis. C22. "Aleppo Pine." 50 ft. with soft, fine-cut green foliage, fern-like in 5°. A rapid growing Pine suitable for quick Sequoia sempervirens. C26. "Redwood." 150 appearance. It makes a dark green tracery effects, particularly in dry locations. ft. 0°. The well known California Redwoods against stucco walls and has become increas- Longer lived than the Pine are among the largest and most picturesque ingly popular over the past few years since Monterey and similar in appearance. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; trees known. They grow rapidly into beau- it has become better known. It fits beauti- tiful specimens thrive readily balled, bushy, 4-5 ft, $3.50; 5-6 ft., $4.50. and anywhere fully into the finest California plantings. Sun on the Pacific Coast except on the desert. P. radiata. C23. "Monterey Pine." 60 ft. 8°. or half-shade. 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. A well-known native of the California coast. Very bushy when young, with bright green Yew "The Aristocrat" foliage. Valuable for quick effects because Taxus baccata Irish. C27. (T. hibernica.) it is the fastest grower of all Pines. Although "Irish Yew." 5° below zero. This famous native to the coast, it grows readily inland, but is Yew is incomparable where a narrow, up- not long-lived there. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. right, perfect green column is desired for tins, $2.50. framing doors or in formal gardens. It is trim, In order sedate, formal, and has beautiful red berries. to avoid errors in filling your order, Golden Column please sure to include Very slow growing, the plants below are al- be on your order sheet Arborvitae, illus- both the name of the item and the number trated ready many years old. Balled, 2V2-3 ft., at extreme following the name. right. $10.00; 3-31/2 ft., $15.00; 31/2-4 ft, $17.50. Taxus baccata dovastoni. C26A. Dwarf Golden Arborvitae right) A spreading Yew with rich (shown at dark green foliage, becoming Juniperus sabina Tamarix (below) twice as broad as it is high. foreground planting. Balled, 2-3 ft., $5.00; 3-4 ft., $7.50. Order by Mail

If it is not convenient for you 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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Nothing improves the California landscape more than evergreen trees. We need all of the green foliage that we can get and we need summer shade. You'll find many magnificent trees here which are seen in California but rarely because planters simply do not know how lovely they are. These include Acacia elongata, Cape Chestnut, Shamel Ash, Golden- Flowered Dwarf Eucalyptus, Hymenosporum and Tricuspidaria.

Qu^n+it-uuantity Discount.hicrnnnf If you* order 10 or more of one variety,* ta] e 10% off the listed each price ^ F r instance, if you order 10 Acacia baileyana in gal. tins, take 8c off the each rate of 80c, making the plants 72c each. This discount applies only on one variety of plant and not to assorted lots.

Throeinree .jdiesyorua.*talocvar/lc There are now three Armstrong Sales and D i sp i ay yards {no other branches or agents) at which you may select from a full supply of Armstrong products. In addition to our home display yard at Ontario, our North Hollywood Branch on Magnolia Blvd., at Coldwater Canyon Ave., serves all of the San Fernando Valley and adjacent territory. Our new Culver City Branch on Sepulveda Blvd., four blocks south of Culver Blvd., is convenient for all of Los Angeles and the beach cities.

Shipping Weights. The average shipping weight of plants in gallon tins is 10 lbs. each, for plants in 5-gallon tins 50 lbs. each. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping costs and information.

Tile black squares under each month in the When tO Plant.* , calendar below indicate that you can plant evergreen shade trees during every month in the year.

Months J FMAMJ JASOND From Tins

Please include on your order sheet both the name and code num- Flowers of the Orchid Tree (pink, purple and yellow). The tree is full ber of each variety ordered. This will help us to avoid errors in of them in early summer. Note the handsome foliage too. filling your order.

Fast Crowing Acacias The Orchid Tree Lily of the Valley Tree Acacia baileyana. Tl. "Silver Wattle." 30 Bauhinia purpurea. T5. "Orchid Tree." 15 Clethra arborea. Til. "Lily of the Valley ft. 15°. Probably the most handsome of all ft. 22°. An exceedingly showy small tree Tree." 15-20 ft. 20°. This beautiful little Acacias, with beautiful fernlike, silvery blue- with two-lobed leaves and quantities of mag- evergreen tree from Madeira, with long, shiny green foliage. Completely enveloped from nificent large flowers, deep pinkish-lavender 4-inch leaves, is loaded in the late summer January to March with great sprays of lovely in color with brilliant markings of purple and and early fall with magnificent panicles of fragrant lemon-yellow flowers. Large spread- yellow, 3 inches or more across. It grows little, white, cup-shaped flowers which are ing and fast growing, it makes a beautiful easily anywhere except directly on the coast, extremely fragrant. Its handsome foliage garden tree. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. standing any amount of heat and a consider- dainty flowers and exquisite fragrance all A. longifolia. T3. (floribunda.) "Everblooming able amount of cold. It makes a good cut combine to make it one of the most valuable flower, and if you would like a whole tree small flowering trees. Best where protected Acacia." 25 ft. 18°. A fast growing upright tree, making a dense round head. Long, nar- full of orchids in your garden, just plant one from dry winds and hot reflected sun. Plenty row leaves, small creamy yellow flowers of these beautiful Bauhinias, which will cause of moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. blooming constantly during summer. Gal. tins, your neighbors to come from blocks around Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. in May or June to admire the sight. $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, 7-8 ft., $12.50. Shade for Patios

Ficus retusa. TT7. "Indian Laurel." 20 ft. Dwarf Pearl Acacia The Carob 25°. A compact, rounded head of thick, rub- Ceratonia siliqua. T8. "CaTob." 40 ft. 16°. bery leaves. Grows well in locations where Acacia podalyriaiolia. T4. "Pearl Acacia." Its symmetrical shape and dense, glossy, ever- there is very little room for roots. Fine for 15 ft. 18°. This dwarf spreading Acacia has green foliage, the same throughout the year, small parkways, patio corners and other loca- the showiest and most spectacular flowers; makes the Carob one of the most desirable tions where a trim little tree is wanted. Coas- immense clusters of brilliant big canary-yel- trees for street planting or all-year home or inland. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75: low flower balls borne in profusion right shade. It is long-lived, deep-rooted, does not tubbed, $7.50. through the middle of winter, from November become too large, and is a most satisfactory to February, and usually in full bloom at tree under all climatic conditions. Gal. tins, Christmas time. Beautiful, large, velvety blue- 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; large specimens in 16- foliage which makes a perfect back- Evergreen Mexican Ash gray inch boxes, $12.50. ground for the lovely fragrant flowers. Gal. Fraxinus uhdei. T22. "Shamel Ash." 25-30 ft. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Fruit and Shade, Too 15°. Mr. A. D. Shamel of the U. S. Dept. oi Acacia elongata. T2. 15 ft. 15°. A beautiful Agriculture was in Mexico several years age Avocado. If would like to have in your small Acacia, fine for the average garden be- you and admired this splendid evergreen Ash s* garden beautiful, luxuriantly foliaged, ever- cause of its small, compact, bushy shape and much that he brought back seeds for propa- trees which will also provide ex- the great quantities of bright yellow, fra- green shade gation in California. We like the beauty oi Duke, Jalna, Leu- grant, bullet-shaped blooms which line every cellent fruit, we suggest a the long, glossy, 18-inch pinnate leaves, its or Avocado tree. See pages branch in March and April. Excellent for cut cadia Zutano convenient medium size, and its clean, cool, 21-22. sprays. Gal. tins, 80c trim appearance. The young trees have grown very rapidly here. 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled The Lovely Cape Chestnut 10-12 ft., $7.50. Calodendrum capense. T6. "Cape Chestnut." The Camphor Tree 25-40 ft. 15°. The finest native flowering tree Cinnamomum camphora. T10. "Camphor Tree." of South Africa and just as fine here in Cali- Something Different 10°. often attains great fornia. Makes a medium sized rounded head 75 ft. The Camphor Calamondin. FC1. 10-15 ft. 15°. You migh- years, because of of foliage which in early summer is almost size, but not for many and think of this fruit bearing citrus tree solidly covered with great 6-inch panicles of never its moderate growth and regular form it is shade unless we called your beautiful rosy-lavender blooms. for ornament and often used as a parkway or garden tree. Al- unbelievably are doing that righ; difficult to attention to it, and we its bright green, See color illustration page 34. Not ways handsome with dense, Handsome all year foliage; tall, slen quite hardy (partially deciduous in now. ; glossy foliage tinged with rich bronze in grow, fragrant spring flowers; anc soil, little water. der, trim shape; Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; large colder areas). Full sun, light spring. best of all, quantities of beautiful little red- in 16-inch boxes, $15.00. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. on specimens orange fruits, not only good to look at the tree, but which make the best orange- get plants to you by the safest and It's easy to put your order in the mail, and we'll the colored limeade you ever tasted. One of the trucks. See 3. 5-gal most economical method whether it be mail, express, freight or our own hardiest of citrus fruits. See page $3.00. pages 40 and 41 for shipping information. tins,

— 31 — Broad-Leaved Evergreen Trees Flowering Eucalyptus Scarlet Eucalyptus These lovely new Dwarf Eucalyptus, with col- Eucalyptus ficiiolia. TT4. "Scarlet Flowering of ored blooms exceptional beauty, have re- Eucalyptus." 20-25 ft. 24°. One of the most cently been introduced from little explored por- glorious sights in California is one of these tions of Western Australia and because of their trees in full bloom, with its great clusters of small size are adapted to small gardens. Ex- brilliant scarlet flowers set in a background ceedingly valuable for the unique and color- of large, dark, glossy leaves. It is a rather ful cut flower sprays which they supply for the dwarf tree and does not take much room, house. They usually bloom in late summer and thriving best near the coast. Needs plenty of fall. Keep them staked and pinch back while water. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. young to keep them bushy.

Eucalyptus caesia. T12. "Gungurru." 15 ft. 20°. Lovely weeping sea-green foliage and The Best Windbreak long, drooping racemes of rose-pink flowers Eucalyptus globulus. T15. "Blue Gum." 150 18°. which make the most beautiful cut sprays for ft. One of the fastest growing trees in the house that you have ever seen. We don't the world and the most widely planted in Cali- fornia. used for know what "Gungurru" means, but it must be Much windbreaks and fuel; Australian bush lingo for "Wow, what beau- thrives anywhere except in very cold sections in tiful flowers." Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. or the desert. The young growth has a beautiful blue color. Flats of 100 small plants, $5.00; £. crucis. TT2. "Southern Cross Eucalyptus." gal. tins, 70c. 10 ft. 24°. At Christmas time the unique blue- gray foliage is capped with clusters of lovely E. globulus compacta. T16. "Bushy Blue Gum." blue-gray flower buds which make the most 20-30 ft. 18°. A variety of the Blue Gum which beautiful table decorations, later opening into has no main trunk but is very bushy and lovely primrose-yellow flowers. Gal. tins, $1.25; densely branched, forming a symmetrical, 5-gal. tins, $3.00. rough, compact head. A very small percentage of the plants from flats may be the regular E. erythrocorys. TT3. "Golden Flowered Euca- Blue Gum. We consider this one of our best lyptus." 15 ft. 24°. The big, brilliant red, plants for a quick growing screen. Flats of pointed flower caps on the flower buds are 100 small plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. gorgeously beautiful in themselves, and when tins, $2.25. they drop off they reveal beautiful fluffy golden yellow blooms. Both flowers and buds on E. polyanthemos. T18. "Redbox Gum." 40-75 their red stems are present together, and com- ft. 14°. Medium-sized, spreading tree, with bined with the lovely long bright green leaves, round leaves, thriving anywhere in California create a vivid picture. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. or Arizona, being resistant to extreme frosts, tins, $3.00. heat or drouth. Flats of 100 small plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. E. grossa. T17. 4-8 ft. 20°. Very dwarf, bushy, 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, $1.25. drouth. Widely planted for windbreak and shade in California and Arizona. Flats of 100 small plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25.

Lemon-Scented Cum The Olive makes a beautiful small pic- Eucalyptus citriodora has a slender, grace- Eucalyptus citriodora. T14. "Lemon-Scented turesgue tree in many California plant- ful, white trunk, and its leaves are pun- Gum." 40-80 ft. 20°. A picturesque tree ings. Somehow it lends a strictly Cali- gently lemon-scented. which sends a slender, straight white trunk fornian atmosphere wherever it is plant- towering high in the air, with a graceful crown ed, and you'll get some fruit to pickle of foliage at the top. Grows rapidly. The too. See sizes and prices bottom of page White Cum long, slender leaves are pungently lemon-scent- 7. The Mission is the best Olive variety T21. "White Gum." 125 ed. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. for ornamental planting. Eucalyptus viminalis. ft. 10°. One of the most beautiful of the Euca- its The Cape Chestnut is a glorious sight in June. Examine this photograph closely and you'll lypti, with a smooth white trunk, shedding pictur- see that the tree is literally covered with the beautiful 6-inch pink flower clusters shown bark in long ribbons. A wide-spreading nar- below. See color illustration on page 34. esque crown, long pendulous branchlets and row lance-shaped leaves. Almost as fast-growing as the Blue Gum and much hardier, thriving from the seacoast to the hottest desert. Flats of 100 small plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. 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, thriving in almost any climate. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5 gal. tins, $2.75. 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 resistant. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25.

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 advantage of being guite rare and unusual, we heartily recommend this beautiful tree from the South Sea Islands. The foliage is large, luxuriant 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- soicuous, but in the late fall, just in time for Christmas, the great brilliant red seedpods cover the tree, making it look like 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, $2.75.

We like to recommend shade trees that bear fruit. The White Sapo'e makes a fine medium sized shade tree with biq, handsome leaves, and you'll get all kinds of big, green, deliciously flavored fruits from it. It grows and bears easily anywhere where an orange tree thrives. See page 7.

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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 small tree 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, and in spring and early grant. Although a tree of compara- summer produces masses of long, tubu- tively slow growth, eventually it makes lar, creamy yellow blossoms, many one of the largest and noblest speci- times 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, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. cept in desert sections. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Dwarf Magnolia

Jacaranda Magnolia exoniensis. T26. "Dwarf Magnolia." 15-20 ft. 5°. those Jacaranda acutifolia. T25. 30 ft. 22°. To who One of the handsomest flowering trees want a Magnolia for a small yard we grown in Southern California. Forms a highly recommend this variety. It is round, symmetrical head of light green, a variety of the Southern Magnolia fern-like foliage, and in June the entire above, but much more dwarf and slow- er tree is a mass of light violet-blue tubu- growing, blooming when very young. lar flowers. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, 5-gal. tins, $3.00; balled, with large heads, 4-5 ft., $6.00; 5-6 ft., $7.50; $2.50; balled, 8-10 ft., $12.50; 10-12 ft., bushy $15.00; large specimens in 16-inch 6-7 ft., $10.00. boxes, $15.00.

The stately California Live Oak is our most beautiful Flame Tree native tree and grows rapidly into a handsome specimen. Shade—And Nuts Sterculia acerifolia. TT9. (Brachychiton Macadamia ternifolia. FS26. "Austra- acerifolius.) "Flame Tree." 30-50 ft. California Live Tree." 20-30 ft. 26°. Just Oaks lian Nut 24°. This unique tree, with large, shin- because this beautiful evergreen sub- Quercus agrifolia. T29. "California Live Oak." 50 ft. 10°. ing, maple-like leaves, is covered in of the most The most picturesque and beautiful native tree that graces tropical tree bears some the early summer with many cup- nuts in existence, there is no the landscape of California is this handsome evergreen Live delicious shaped blooms of rich red on scarlet reason should not recommend Oak. Its dark glossy green, medium sized leaves form a why we stems. In the southern coastal coun- it as well, and we do heart- dense handsome head, and the tree is fast growing and for shade ties is one of the showiest flowering tins, $4.50. does well almost everywhere except in the extreme desert ily. See page 8. 5-gal. trees that can be planted, a solid mass sections. We can enthusiastically recommend it for plant- of dazzling color, even more vivid than ing on home grounds, for parkways and any other location Parkinsonia the Scarlet Flowering Eucalyptus. where a good sized, fast growing, long-lived, evergreen Blooms in June. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. shade tree is wanted. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; tins, $2.50; large specimens in 18-inch Parkinsonia aculeata. T28. 15 ft. 18°. large specimens in 16-inch boxes, $15.00. boxes, $15.00. This beautiful native of the Colorado Desert thrives in dry soils almost any- Sterculia diversifolia. T34. (Brachychi- California Laurel where in the Southwest. During the ton populneus.) "Bottle Tree." 25 ft. early summer it is a great mass of 15°. Excellent for narrow parkways Umbellularia californica. T37. "California Laurel or Bay" small bright yellow flowers, a striking and dry soils because of its small, nar- 40-60 ft. 10°. native "Oregon Myrtle." One of the finest of contrast to the smooth, bright green row pyramidal shape and deep-rooted trees, compact, round-topped of Pacific Coast with a crown bark of the trunk and leaflet. 5-gal. habit. Excellent for the desert. Gal. dense, dark green foliage. The leaves, pungently fragrant tins, $2.50. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. when crushed, can be dried and used for flavoring in the kitchen. Grows slowly but easily anywhere with little care. The handsome Evergreen Elm. Gal tins, $1.00- 5-gal. tins, $2.75.

Pepper Tree A Flowering Oak 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, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; Does well anywhere except in ex- large specimens in 16-inch boxes, treme desert sections. Gal. tins, $1.00; $12.50. 5-gal. tins, $2.75. S. terebinthifolia. T31. "Brazil Pep- per." 15-30 ft. 22°. A much smaller tree than the above, having larger, The Evergreen Elm broader leaves and greater quanti- Ulmus parvifolia Evergreen (semper- ties of brilliant scarlet berries. Does virens). T36. "Evergreen Elm." 25 remarkably well under the hottest ft. Zero. A small tree with a spread- desert conditions, and also a splen- ing crown of slender drooping did tree on the seacoast. Gal. tins, branches and bright green leaves. 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; large specimens For a small home shade tree we in 16-inch boxes, $12.50. highly recommend it. Next to the Carob, the Evergreen Elm is probably Firewheel Tree the most popular evergreen street and garden tree planted in Southern Cali- Stenocarpus cunninghami. T33. "Fire- fornia at the present time. Drops its wheel Tree of New South Wales." leaves for short time in cold sections. 20-40 ft. 20°. This is such a spec- Many inferior seedlings of Ulmus tacular tree with its large, shining, parvifolia are often sold as Evergreen 8 to 12 inch maple-like leaves, and Elm. The Armstrong type is care- it explodes so colorfully into great fully selected for its evergreen habit, masses of crimson flowers, shaped beautiful foliage and handsome like the spokes of a wheel, that we shape, and they are grown from have grown some for trial here in cuttings to insure that every tree is California. A great big Fourth of the same. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, July celebration in the shape of a $2 75; balled, 6-8 ft., $12.50; 8-10 ft., tree. Probably best near coast or in $15.00; larae specimens in 16-inch foothills. Gal. tins, $1.00. boxes, $12.50. — 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 unbelieygbly beautiful, rosy lavender blooms. Easy 'to grow. Leafless in winter in colder areas: 1 Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. New Dwarf Pomegranate Punica granatum Dwarf. SI 98. "Carnation- Flowered Dwarf Pomegranate." 3-4 ft. 10°. Quantities of brilliant scarlet carnations, borne on bushes; that's what you'll get on this improved new dwarf Pomegranate, with its fresh bronzy-green summer foliage, bright colored 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, 80c; 5-gal. tins, Cutleaf Persian. A mass of delightful scent $2.50. ed lavender blooms in spring. Cutleaf Persian Lilac Syringa persica laciniata. DS2I. "Cutleaf Per- Above, the dainty winter flowers of Australian sian Lilac." 5-6 ft. Below zero. The finest All winter long you can cut big sprays o 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). Showi flowers on long, arching branches in spring, others 48 Berries of Graber's Firethorn, shown here two- here is Cameo Rose. See on page and, of course, they're sweetly fragrant. thirds Natural Size. Biggest and reddest of all. Dainty, fern-like foliage in summer. It grows in any climate, hot or cold. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. Australian Fuchsia Correa pulchella. S61. 22°. One of the finest foreground shrubs for California gardens, making 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 April. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. 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, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; large trellised specimens, $6. 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 attractive, 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, $3.00. — 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, $1.00; 5-gal. climate (it likes almost any climate). You'll tins, $2.75. not only get plenty of berries but you get the biggest and reddest, all borne against big, deep green foliage, so glossy that it See the Birdies looks as though it had been varnished. The berries hold on the plant almost seven Crotalaria agatiflora. ST4. "Canary Bird Flower." 6-10 ft. 25°. When this East Afri- months, and most of the plants we sell in it will be have either green or red berries on them can plant blooms your garden the most spectacular object there. It has no matter when you buy them. Gets to its luxuriant, tropical appearing leaves and ultimate height slowly. Gal. tins, $1.00; racemes of large, 3-inch, green and gold 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, 2-3 ft., $5.00. flowers in sprays as much as 3 feet long. The boughs look as though they were full A Startling Flower of gorgeous canary birds, and cut, make splendid table decorations. Sun. Plenty Bauhinia galpini. SI 1. "Red Bauhinia." moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. 5-8 ft. 22°. Take a showy red orchid, cross it with the most beautiful big scarlet nasturtium you ever saw, and you can Serbian Bellflower imagine what a magnificent flower you Campanula poscharskyana. Pll. 10°. For would get. No matter how much you let bordering a lawn or to place in front of your imagination run riot, you'll not ex- larger shrubs, of no finer small aggerate the startling and vivid beauty of we know plant than this beauty from Jugo-Slavia. this rare Bauhinia. It is unique in the A beautiful clump of evergreen violet-like way it grows too, because although it is foliage, 4 to 6 inches high and 12 to 18 really a shrub, it likes to clamber up a inches across. For many weeks in early fence and lie along the top, displaying its hundreds of little, starry, bell- marvelously beautiful flowers to better ad- summer shaped lavender-blue flowers, about IV-i vantage. With a little help, it will climb you. Grows easi- right up a wall or pillar. Blooms from inches across, look up at in soil. Shade or semi-shade. Gal. early spring to late fall. Sun or partly any Trinidad Flame Bush. The gorgeous flower of shade. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. tins, 75c.

Puzzle: Look at the pictvre 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 luxuriant clump of violets mcst of the year, but in the spring it becomes a cheery mass of beautiful little blue flowers which last for at least two months. Easy to grow anywhere.

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TOPICAL INDEX TO ARMSTRONG'S 1944 CATALOG

Coronilla 48 Princess Flower 58 Privets 54 Corrects 34, 49 Ilex 35, 53 Prunus 26, 28, 56 Ornamentals Cotinus 25 Incense Cedar 30 Fruits Punica 34, 56 Cotoneasters 49 Indigofera 25 Pyracanthas 34, 56 A A Cottonwood 28 Itea 52 Crab, Flowering 28 Pyrostegia 62 Almonds 12 Abelias 45 Ivy 37,61,62 Crepe Myrtles 25 Pyrus 56 Apples 9 Abies - 29 Crotalaria 35, 49 Apricots 11 J Q Abutilon 45 of Gold 62 Artichokes 18 Cup Jacaranda 33 Quercus 33 Acacias 31 Cupressus 29 Jasmines 54, 61, 62 Asparagus 18 Quince, Flowering .... 25 Acer 27 Cymbidiums 50 Jasminum 54, 61, 62 Avocados 2 1 , 22 , 3 Adenocarpus 45 Cypella 23 Junipers 29 R Cypress _ 29 Juniperus 29, 30 Raphiolepis 56 B Agapanthus _.. 23 Cytisus — 49 Redbud _ 25 Berries 17, 18 Ajuga 37 K Redwood _ 30 Blackberries 17 Ampelopsis — 60 D Kniphofia 23 Reinwardtia 24 Boysenberry 17 Anemone 23 Daboecia 50 Koelreuteria 27 Rhamnus 57 c Angelonia _ 23 Daphnes 49 Kolkwitzia 25 Rhus 57 60 Deciduous Shade Ribes _ 57 Calamondin 3, 31 Antigonon Trees 27, 28 L Rockroses 48 Carissa 6 Apricot, Flowering .... 28 Deciduous Shrubs....25, 26 Lagerstroemia 25 Romneya 57, 58 Carob, Bolser 8 Arborvitaes 30 Deodars 29 Lantanas 37, 53 57 Chayote 18 Rondeletia Arbutus 45 Dianella _ 23 Lavandula 54 Rosa Montana 60 Cherimoyas 7 de Arctotis 23 Dierama 23 Lavatera 53 Rose-Apple 6 Cherries 15 45 Dimorphothera 23 Leptospermum 54 Roses 63 to 76 Chestnuts 12 Arctostaphylos Arecostrum 59 Distictis 61 Leucophyllum 54 Rosmarinus 56 Citrus, Dwarf 5 Libocedrus 30 27,31 Doxantha _ 61 Ruellia 57 Currants 18 Ash Ligustrums 54 23,45 Dracaenas 59 Asters Duranta 50 Lilacs 26, 34, 47 s E Aster Frikarti _ 23 Dyschoriste 51 Lily of Valley Tree.... 31 Salix 28 Espaliers 11,20 Aucuba — 45 Lippia 37, 54 Salvias 24, 57 Schinus Eugenias 6 Azaleas _ 42 E Liquidambar 27 33 Liriodendron Scilla _ 24 Azara 45 Echium 23 27 Lonicera Sequoia 30 F -C Elaeagnus 51 61 8 Shasta Daisy .„ 24 Feijoas .._ - Elms 28, 33 B M Silverberry _ _ 51 Figs 16 Epidendrum 50 Bamboos 59 — Macadamia 33 Smoke Tree 25 Filberts 12 Eranthemum 51 Barberries 46 Magnolias 25, 26, 33 Snowball 26, 58 Gooseberries 18 Ericas _ 50 20 Mahonia 54 Solandra 62 Grapes 19, Bauhinias 31, 35, 45 Escallonias 51 Malpighia 54 Solanum 6, 57 Grapefruit 3 Beauty Bush 25 Espaliers 11,20 Malus 28 Sollya 57 Guavas 8 46 Eucalyptus 32 Beloperone Malvaviscus 54 Spartium 57 Eugenias 6, 51 Berberis 46 Maples 27,45 Sphaeralcea 57 H to K Euonymus 37, 51 Bergenia _ 23 Marguerite _ 24 Spirea 26 Hiccan 12 Eupatorium 51 Betula 27 Matilija Poppy 57, 58 Star Bush 58 Jujubes 15 Euryops 50, 51 Mascagnia 62 Statice 24 Birch 27 Evergreen Grape 60 Melia _ 27 Stenocarpus 33 L Bird-of-Paradise 58 Evergreen Shrubs 45 to 59 Bletilla 50 Mesembryanthemum.. 37 Stenolobium 58 Lemons 3, 4, 5 Evergreen Trees 31, 32, 33 Bomarea _ _ 60 Mint 24 Stephanotis 62 3 Limes Boston Ivy 62 Michelia 55 Sterculia 33 Limequat 5 F Bougainvilleas _ 60 Mondo 59 Stokesia 24 Loganberries 17 Fatshedera 51 Bouvardias 46 _ Morea _ 24 Stranvaesia 58 Loquats 6 Felicia 23 Boxwood 46, 55 Morus 27 Strelitzia 58 59 Breath-of-Heaven 48 Ferns Mulberries 27 Streptosolen 58 Ficus 31,61 M Bridal Wreath 26 Murraya _ 55 Strophanthus 58 Macadamia 8 Brooms 49,51,57 Firethorn 34, 56 Myrsine 55 Sun Roses 52 Tree 27 Mandarin - 5 Brunfelsia 46 Flame Myrtus _ 55 Sweet Gum 27 — Forsythia 25 Mangos 8 Buddleias 46 Sweet Olive 55, 56 Fragaria 37 Buxus _ 46 N Sweetspire 52 Fraxinus 27, 31 N - Nandina 55 Sycamores 28 Fremontia 51 Syringa 26, 34, 56 Natal Plum 6 Natal Plum 6, 46 c Fuchsias 51 Nectarines 15 Nerium 55 Syzigium 6 31 Nut Trees 12, 13 Calamondin 3, Nierembergia 24 Callas 24 G T Olives 7 Tamarix 26 Calliandra 35, 46 Galvezia 51 Oranges 1,2,3,5 o Taxus 30 Callistemon 47 Gardenias 51, 52 Oaks 33 Tea Plant 47 Calodendron 31, 34 Gaudichaudia 61 P Oleanders 55 Tea Tree 54 Camellias 43, 44 Gazania 37 Papayas 6 Orchids 50 Tecomaria 58, 62 Campanula 23, 35 Gelsemium 61 Passion Fruit 7, 62 Orchid Tree 31 Teucrium 58 Camphor 31 Genistas 51 Peaches 10, 11 Oregon Grapes 54 Thryallis 57,58 Campsis 60 Geraldton Wax 16 Osmanthus 55, 56 Thuja 30 Pears Candollea 46 Flowers 48 Dwarf 16 Oxera 62 Thunbergia 58, 62 Pears, Cannas 23 Geraniums 24 Pecans 13 Thyme 24 Cape Chestnut 31 Gerberas 23 Pepino - 6 P Tibouchina 58 — Carob 31 Geum 23 Persimmons 13 Palms 59 Trachelium 24 Carpenteria 46 Ginger Lily 52 Pineapple Guavas 8 Pampas Grass 59 Trachelospermum 62 Carissa 6, 46 Grapes 19, 20 Pistachio Nut 12 Parkinsonia 33 Trachycarpus 59 Cassias 47 Grasses, Ornamental.. 37 Planting Distances .... 37 Parthenocissus 62 Tree Roses 66 Ceanothus 47 Grevilleas • 32, 52 14 Passiflora 7, 62 Tricuspidaria 33 Plums Cedrus 29 Ground Covers 37 13 Flowering.... 28 Trollius 24 Pomegranates Celtis 27 Peaches, 14 Evergreen 56 Trumpet Vines 61, 62 Prunes Ceratonia 31 H Pear, 47 Pelargoniums 24 Tulbaghia 24 Ceratostigma 23, Hackberry 27 QtoZ 25 Pennisetum 59 Tulip Tree 27 Cercis Halesia 25 Nut 8 Pepper Trees 33 Turraea 58 Queensland Cestrum ., . 47 Halimium 52 24 Quinces 15 ....(see Murraya) Pentstemon Chalcas Hardenbergia 61 Raspberries 17 Chamaecyparis 29 Perennials 23 u Harpullia 32 Phaedranthus 60, 62 Ulmus 28, 38 Rhubarb 18 Chamaelauciums ....34, 4S Heathers 50 ....26, 56, 62 Umbellularia 33 Rose-apple 6 Cherries, Flowering.... 28 Philadelphus Tree 27 Sapotes 7 Chaenomeles 25 Hedera 37, 61 Phlox 24 Umbrella „ Strawberries 18 Chimonanthus 25 Hedychium 52 Phormium 59 56 V Sub-Tropicals 6, 7, 8 Chilopsis 25 Helianthus 23 Photinias 55, Viburnums 26, 58, 59 Surinam Cherry 6 Choisya 47 Phyllostachys 59 Heliotrope 23 30 Vines 60, 61, 62 Tangelos 4 Chorizema 47, 48 Pinus Hemerocallis 23, 24 24 Tangerines 5 Cienfuegosia 47 Pistacia 12, 28 Violets 24 56 Vitex 26 Walnuts 12 Cissus 60 Herbs Pittosporums 55, 61 Guide 37, 38 Vitis 62 Youngberries 18 Cistus 48 Hibbertia 60, Planting 28 Clematis 61 Hibiscus 53 Platanus 55 WtoZ Clerodendron 48, 50 Hollies 35, 53, 55 Plumbago Podocarpus 30 Weigela .... 26 Clethra 31 52 Supplies Holmskioldia 51 Willows 28 Clytostoma 61 Poinsettias Honeysuckles ....60, 61, 62 Polygonum 62 Wintersweet 25 Cocos ....(see Arecastrum) Lawn Seeds 37 Hydrangeas 25, 52 Pomegranate Wistaria 62 39 Coleonema 48 Peat Moss Hymenosporum 33 Flowering 34, 56 Xylosma 59 Tree Protectors 37 Conifers 29,30 53 Populus 28 Yews 30 Tree White 37 Convolvulus 37 Hypericum — 36 — Armstrong Grass Seed & Ground Covers When you purchase Armstrong Grass Seed, you ere making the very best kind of a start Cool Green—Easily Crown—No Mowing toward a perfect lawn. Armstrong Grass Seed Flats 18 Inches square in most cases plant about 200 square feet is the very best that can be obtained, in keeping with the Armstrong policy of offering reptans. "Blue Carpet." Mesembryanthemums (Ice Plants). Their our customers nothing but the finest in qual- Ajuga Gl. Makes blaze a beautiful solid carpet of shiny, deep green of color near the coast put the most colorful ity. Grass seed can be purchased in many foliage. It stays uniform and neat through- products of the looms to shame. They are eas- different grades which vary in percentage of germination, freedom from weed seed and out the yecr, and in the spring and summer ily grown, like full sun, and require only a sends up little flower spikes with dainty blue reasonable amount of water. have Bronze other factors. We flowers shaped like tiny bugles. Must have others for cer- (G15), Red (G16), Pink (G17). $3.00 per flat. Some grasses are better than shade and plenty of moisture. $3.50 per flat. tain locations, and if you are in doubt regard- Hypericum calycinum. GUB. "Golden Mat ing the best grass to use for a certain loca- Convolvulus mauritanicus. G4. "Blue Morocco Hypericum." A fine low ground cover espe- tion, write us and we will be glad to advise. Creeper." An easily grown trailer, covered cially for semi-shaded positions, with plenty Prices quoted below are subject to change throughout the spring and summer with many of big yellow flowers in spring and summer. without notice. Write tor prices on larger bright violet-blue flowers. It is very good for Flats of 100 plants, $6.00. quantities. planting in narrow places or along borders where it is impossible to mow. 21/i-inch pots, Protect Armstrong Lawn Seed $10.00 per 100. Your Trees Euonymus fortunei radicans. G5. "Red Win- Proper Tree Protectors. All young deciduous Armstrong's "Sunny Lawn" Mixture. GS2. The ter Creeper." A dense flat ma: of large, deep fruit trees and deciduous shade trees should be very finest lawn mixture for most lawns which green foliage all spring and summer, turning protected for the first season at least by the receive plenty of sunshine. Composed largely bright red in the winter but never dropping. use of Tree Protectors or Tree White in order of Blue Grass and Clover with several other Stands desert heat, hardy to zero, grows in to prevent sunburn which may lead to serious species which help to maks up a perfect lawn. any soil. Will grow under trees. Sun or injury from borers. Tree protectors also offer One pound plants 200 square feet (20 by 10 shade. Flats of 100, $6.00. the finest protection from rabbits and squir- feet.) SI. 10 per lb.; 3 lbs. for S3.00; 10 lbs. rels which may gnaw the bark of trees. Eas- Fragaria californica. G8. "California Wood ily attached. Use 30-inch for Walnuts and for $9.00. Strawberry." A native strawberry which Pecans; 24-inch for Peaches, Apples, Apricots Armstrong "Shady Lawn" Mixture. GS1. A "ground covers" large spots with handsome and most deciduous trees; 18-inch for Cirrus. special mixture of various grasses which are deep green foliage, white flowers and little Avocados and Figs. particularly adaptable for places largely shad- bright red berries that are delicious to eat. ed. This mixture will provide luxuriant green Good in sun near coast and in shade or part- Each Per 100 Per 1000 lawn under trees or similar locations where shade anywhere. Needs little moisture. Has 30-inch $0.05 $3.50 $30.00 growing a good lawn is sometimes difficult. no top runners, spreads from underground 24-inch _ .05 3.00 25.00 One pound covers 150 square feet. $1.15 per roots, will not interfere with other shrubs. 18-inch _ _ .05 2.50 20.00 $9.50. lb.; 3 lbs. for $3.00; 10 lbs. for $4.00 per flat. Tree White. The very finest material for mak- Kentucky Blue Grass. GS4. The basis for Gazania aurantiacum. G8. A splendid ground ing a preparation to paint tree trunks to pre- California lawns is Blue vent the with most of the finest cover for sunny places, making a dense mat sunburn. Simply mix powder are a number of grades water to the desired consistency. 5-lb. pack- Grass. Although there of soft grey-green foliage. Covered with my- sold, we carry only 1-lb. 30c. of Blue Grass 'commonly riads of large, 'showy, bright orange flowers. age, 90c; package, the best. One pound covers 150 square feet. Also Gazania splendens (G10) with yellow $2.10; 10 lbs. for $6.50. SOc per lb.; 3 lbs. for flowers. Flats of 100, $4.50. Planting Distances White Clover. GS9. Particularly fine for win- Gazania pavonia. G9. This new strain is the ter sowing in Bermuda Grass. It gives quick Variety Ft Apart family pride—has more brilliant 3-inch flow- results and will make a brilliant green lawn 18 to 25 ers of fiery orange-red, the foliage is larger Oranges, Lemons itself. However, it is mere often combined by green. Flats of 100, S4.50. Avocados 25 to 35 covers 200 square and a deeper with Blue Grass. One pound Pecches, Apricots _ 20 to 25 lb.; 3 lbs. for S4.90; 10 lbs. The Ivy - Leafed Geraniums are excellent feet. $1.85 per Pears, Apples, Figs _ 20 to 35 $15.00. ground covers. We have the following vari- for Walnuts and Pecans 40 to 60 eties: Flesh-Pink (G20), Red (G19), all in 4- Red Top. GS6. Useful for a quick durable to 35 10. Olives 30 foi ;'nch pots at 60c each, $5.50 per turf. 45c per lb.; 3 lbs. for $1.15; 10 lbs. lujubes, Low-Pruned Figs 12 to 16 favorite ground cover S3.70. English Ivy. V20A. A Grape Vines _ 6 to 8 shade. Flats of 100, $3.50. for sun or Blackberries, Boysenberries 6 by 8 Perfect Lawn Crass Raspberries 3 by 5 Resistant Lippia Strawberries lVzby 3 Seaside Bent. GS7. The most luxuriant, vel- Drouth- Eucalyptus for Windbreck _ 4 to 8 lawns in California are of Seaside vety green pic canescens. G4. A creeping, fast grow- gardener who takes a real pride Lip Bent. The ing ground cover which soon established itself in his lawn will be rewarded for the extra Acre into a dense olive-green turf. It thrives under Number Plants to An care, wctering and mowing that it requires. adverse conditions in hot locations, poor soil; Apart No. Plants Dees oariicularly well in particl shade. One Distance requires little water and will stand much 300 square feet. $1.50 per lb.; 8 feet - 680 pound* covers abuse, including trampling. Does not require 8 feet by 3 lbs. for S3.90; 10 lbs. for $12.00. feet 10 feet 545 mowing. $3.50 per flat. 8 by Western Perennial Rye. GS8. A good hardy 16 feet by 16 feet „ — 170 "Trailing Lantana." lawn for hot dry climates and exceptionally Lantana sellowiana. G3. 18 feet by 18 feet 134 creeper, ideal for covering good for intersowing with and freshening up A fast growing 20 feet by 20 feet 108 sunny banks, rock walls or can be used as Bermuda lawns in the wintertime. It does 22 feet by 22 feet - 90 rapidly and will a ground cover. Its good looking foliage and well in shady places, grows 25 feet by 25 feet. 69 splendid lawn in a short time. One clouds of lavender blooms throughout most of make a 40 feet by 40 feet - 27 feet. 50c per lb.; the vear form a oleasing contrast to green, cound covers 100 squaTe - - 17 tins, 60c; flats of 100, $5. 50 feet by 50 feet 3 lbs. for $1.30; 10 lbs. for $4.00. well-kept lawns. Gal.

A Guide to Successful Planting

Privet (54) Broom (51) Geraldton V/ax Flower (34, 48) Plants for Arizona Bridal Veil Bridal Wreaths (26) Geraniums (24) Red Winter Creeper (37, 51) Here is a list of shrubs, trees and Buddleias (46) Italian Cypress (29) Rockroses (48) vines suited to Arizona and the Burford Holly (35, 53) Japanese Boxwood (46) Rosemary (56) dry desert sections of California. California Holly (55) Jasmines (54, 61, 62) San Diego Fremontia (51) If you are in the northern part of Callistemon Red Chico (47) Lantana (37, 53) Scarlet Bottle Brush (47) this area or at a high altitude, Canary Island Lupins (45) Laurustinus (59) Shasta Daisy (24) check minimum temperatures giv- Cassias (47) Lemonade Berry (57) Silver Alligator Juniper (29) en in each description. Page Coffee Berry (57) Lippia (37) Silver and Blue Germander (58) numbers given below. Cotoneasters (49) Mexican Mallow (57) Silver and Gold Bush (51) Crepe Myrtles (25) Lemon (4, 5) South African Daisy Bush (50) Abelia grandiflora (45). Mever Mulberries (27) (29) African Boxwood (55) Desert Willow (25) Spreading Savin Juniper MyT'Jes (55) Arbcrvitaes (30) European Smoke Tree (25) Strawberry Trees (45) Arctotis (23) Evergreen Euonymus (51) Nandina (55) Sugar Bush (57) Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Evergreen Pear (56) Natal Plum (6, 45) Sumac (57) Australian Fuchsia (34, 49) Feathery Pink Tamarix (26) Oleanders (55) Sun-Roses (52) Fertile Chinese Holly (53) Grass (53) Beautybush (25) Pampas Syringas (26, 34, 56) Firethorn (34, 56) Photinia (55, 56) Big Yellow Spanish Broom (57) Tea Tree (54) Flowering Crab Apple (28) Pineapple Guavas (8) Blue Chaste Tree (26) Cypress (29) Flowering Quince (25) Tecate Elue Morocco Creeper (37) Pittosponim (56) Plumbago (55) Thyme (24) Bottle Brush (47) Gazanias (37) 46) Poinsettias (51) Trinidad Flame Bush (35, Brazilian Sour Orange (3) Giant Matilija Poppy (57, 58) — 37 — Planting Guide (Continued) What and Where to Plant

For Arizona (continued) Fragrant Trees Seashore Plants For the Mountains Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Trees Acacias (31) and Colder Areas Bougainvilleas (60) Flowering Apricot (28) Aleppo Pine (30) (Minimum temperatures given in Flowering Crab Apples (28) Brazil Skyflower (50) Arizona Cypress (29) Honeysuckle (62) descriptions) Hymenosporum (33) Cape Ash (27, 31) Peruvian Lily (60) Magnolias (26, 33) Climbing Abelias (45) Bottle Tree (33) Cud of Gold (62) Arborvitaes (30) Carob (31) Distictus (61) Babywhite Calla (24) Cottonwood (28) Plants for Shady Places Escallonias (51) Barberries (46) Eugenias 51) Desert Willow (25) (6, Bearberry (45) Abelias (45) Flame Vine (62) Beautybush (25) Elm (28, 33) African Boxwood (55) Fragrant Corsage Plant (62) Blueberry Climber (60) Eucalyptus (32) Agapanthus, Blue African (23) Fuchsias (51) Blue Carpet (37) European Sycamore (28) Australian Bluebell Creeper (57) Gczanias (37) Blue Chaste (26) Hackberry (27) Fuchsia (34, 49) Australian Geraniums (24) Blue Lawson Cypress (29) Italian Cypress (29) Azaleas (42) Hibiscus (53) Blue Star Hydrangea (25) Mulberry (27) Barberry (46) Ice Plants (37) Boston Ivy (62) Olive Tree (7) Bergenia cordifolia (23) Lantana (37, 53) Bridal Wreath (26) Orchid Tree (31) Bird of Paradise (58) Lippia (37) Buckthorn (57) Palms (59) Blue Carpet (37) Myrtle (55) California Holly (55) Parkinsonia (33) Blueberry Climber (60) Natal Plum (6, 46) Ceanothus (47) Pepper Tree (33) (47) Boston Ivy (62) Night Blooming Jessamine Chinese Photinias (55, 56) Pistachio (12, 23) Boxleaf Azara (45) Oleanders (55) Chinese Plumbagos (47) Poplars (28) Boxwood (46, 55) Orange Clock Vine (58, 62) Clematis (61) Umbrella (27) Callas (24) Pittosporum (56) Coffeeberry (57) Honeysuckle (58, 62.) Vines Cape Plumbago (55) Cotoneasters (49) Catalina Currant (57) of Madeira (23) Pride Day Lilies (24) Climber (60) Snowball (58) Elueberry Chinese Giant Privets (54) Dwarf Blue Ceratostigma (23) Ivy (62) Plumbago (47) Lantern Plant (54) Boston Chinese Red Dwarf Roses (66) Bougainvilleas (60) Creeping Fig (61) Rockrose (48) Evergreen Pear (56) Cape Honeysuckle (62) Daphnes (49) Rosemary (56) Ferns (59) Carolina Jessamine (61) Dianellq (23) Scarlet Bottle Brush (47) Flowering Crab Apple (28) Catclaw Yellow Trumpet (61) Dwarf Elue Ceratostigma (23) Shore Juniper (29) Flowering Quince (25) Climbing Syringa (56, 62) English Laurel (55) Sky Flower (62) Golden Giant Honeysuckle (61) Evergreen Grape (60) Eranthemum (51) Sun Roses (52) Hall's Honeysuckle (61) Fig Vine (61) Escallonia (51) Tea Trees (54) Hollies (35, 53) Flame Vine (62) Eugenias (6, 51) Trumpet Vines (60-62) Cherry (56) Gilded Fairyvine (61) Evergreen Pear (56) Holly Leaf Hydrangeas (25, 52) Gloryvine Grape (B"2) Fatshedera (51) Winter Flowering Green-Gold Vine (62) Fern Pine (30) Hypericums (53) Honeysuckles (60, 61, 62) Ferns (59) Azaleas (42) Italian Cypress (29) Ivies (37, 61) Fragrant Carpenteria (46) Australian Fuchsias (34, 49) Japanese Anemone (23) Jasmines (61, 62) Fragrant Corsage Plant (62) Bearberry (45) Junipers (29) Orange Red Trumpet (60) Fuchsias (51) Bergenia (23) Kniphofia (23) Rosa de Montana (60) Gardenias (51, 52) Bird of Paradise (58) Korean Boxwood (46) Roses, Climbing (63-6S) Ginger Lily (52) Blue and Gold Daisy (23) Lemonade Berry (57) Scarlet Woodbine (61) Glossy Leaved Creeper (60) Blue Winter Eranthemum (51) Lilacs (26, 34, 47) Silver Lace Vine (62) Gold Dust Plant (45) Bougainvilleas (60) Lilyturf (59) Star Jasmine (62) Graber's Firethorn (34, 56) Bouvardias (46) Manchu Cherry (26) Syringa (62) Grand Duke Jasmine (54) Breath of Heaven (48) Old Fashioned Lavender (54) Trumpet Vine (60-62) Ground Orchid (50) California Strawberry (37) Orange-red Trumpet Vine (60) Wistaria (62) Hemerocallis (23, 24) Cape Honeysuckle (58, 62) Oregon Grape (54) 53) Cape Plumbago (551 Holly (35, Perennial Sunflower (23) Holly Malpighia (54) Catalina Currant (57) Fragrant- Plants Phlox (24) Hollyleaf Sweetspire (52) Chinese Hat Plant (52) Privets (54) Azaleas (42) Hydrangea (25, 52) Cymbidiums (50) Pyracanthas (34, 56) Azara (45) Hypericum (53) Daphnes (49) Creeper (37, 51) Banana Shrub (55) Iris Moraea (24) Dwarf Roses (66) Red Winter Climbing (63, 66) Bechtels Double Flow. Crab. (28) Ivy (37, 61, 62) Everblooming Daisy (23) Roses, Bouvardias (46) Japanese Anemone (23) Feathery Cassia (47) Serbian Bell Flower (23, 35) Brazilian Sour Orange (3) Junipers (29) Flame Pea (47) Shasta Daisy (24) Bridal Veil Broom (51) Lilac (26, 34) Flame Vine (62) Silver Lace Vine (62) Buddleias (46) Lilyturf (59) Flowering Crab Apple (28) Spirea Anthony Waterer (26) Calamondin (3, 31) Maidenhair Fern (59) Flowering Quince (25) Stranvaesia (58) Carolina Jessamine (61) Mexiccn Orange (47) Geraldton Wax Flower (48) Purple Spot Mock Orange (26) Ceanothus (47) Myrtle (55) Geraniums (24) Star Magnolia (25) Cassias (47) Nandina (55) Gilded Fairyvine (61) Strawberries, Ground Cover (37) Chinese Dwarf Lemon (4, 5) Natal Plum (6, 46) Golden Wonder (47) Strawberry Madrone (45) Climbing Syringa (56, 62) Necklace Cotoneaster (49) Ground Orchid (50) Sugar Bush (57) Blooming Jessamine (47) (61) Daphnes (49) Night Hardenbergia Viburnums (26) Daylilies (24) Orange Jessamine (55) Hardy Yellow Trumpet (58) Mulberry (27) Deciduous Magnolia (26) Oregon Grape (54) Heather (50) Weeping 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 (48) Wintersweet (25) Gardenias (51, 52) Pittosporum (55, 56) Korean Spice Viburnum (26) Gingerlilies (52) Plumbago (55) Lantanas (37, 53) Glorybower (48) Princess Flower (58) Magnolias (25, 26, 33) Fruiting Ornamentals Heliotropes (23) Privet (54) Mexican Mallow (57) Avocados (21-22) Honey Coronilla (48) Red-Leaved Maple (27) Oleanders (55) Honeysuckles (60, 61, 62) Reinwardtia indica (24) Orange Clockvine (58, 62) Calamondin (3) Lemon Verbena (54) Rondeletia (42) Osmanthus (55, 56) Cherimoya (7) Lilacs (26, 34) Rosy Glorybower (48) Pelargoniums (24) Chestnuts (12) Natal Plum (6, 46) Serbian Bellflower (23) Poinsettias (51) Fruit Espaliers (11, 20) Mexican Orange (47) Shrimp Plant (46) Princess Flower (58) Glossy Leaved Creeper (60) Mock Orange (26) Skyflower (62) Red Flowering Maple (45) Gloryvine Grape (62) Nepal Privet (54) Star Jasmine (62) Red Lantern Plant (54) Night Blooming Jessamine (47) Star Magnolia (25) Red Winter Creeper (37, 51) Loquat (6) Orange Jessamine (55) Strawberry Tree (45) Reinwardtia (24) Manchu Bush Cherry (26) Osmanthus (55, 56) Syringa (26, 34, 56) Royal Trumpet (61) Meyer Lemon (4) Passion Fruit (7, 62) Terestrial Orchid (50) Salvia (57) Mulberries (27) Pink Fleshed Lemon (4) Trollius Golden Wave (24) San Clemente Snapdragon (51) Myrtle-Leaved Orange (5) Pittosporums (55, 56) Trumpet Vine (60-62) Shrimp Plant (46) Natal Plum (6) Royal Trumpet Vine (61) Tulbaghia (24) Skyflower (62) Roses—many varieties (63-76) Viburnum (26, 58, 59) South African Daisy Bush (50) Olives (7) Silver Lace Vine (62) Violets (24) Star Magnolia (25) Passion Fruit (7) Spanish Jasmine (61) Weigela (26) Streptosolen (58) Pink-Fleshed Lemon (4) 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 (37) Trailing Lantana (37, 53) Queensland Nut (8) Wintersweet (25) Xylosma (59) Trumpet Vine (61, 62) Wistarias (62) Yellow Cypella (23) Weigela (26) Rose-Apple (6) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (46) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (46) Wintersweet (25) Strawberry Guava (8) Viburnums (26, 58, 59) Yew (30) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (46) Surinam Cherry (6) — 38 — Genuine Armstrong Products at Three Salesyards

Main Display Yards at Ontario North Hollywood Branch 408 North Euclid Ave. Ontario, California 12908 Magnolia Blvd. North Hollywood, Calif. \SUnset 11522 Telephone Ontario 61 1-44 TelephoneT«l»nl.«-« } STanley 723 94 Our main offices and display yards are located on famous Euclid Our North Hollywood Branch is located between Van Nuys and North Avenue at Ontario, 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Two main east Hollywood at the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Coldwater Canyon Ave., only a short distance north of Ventura Blvd. This and west boulevards, the Foothill Blvd. (U. S. 66) and the Valley is a convenient location for all of the San Fernando Valley, Bur- Blvd. (U. S. cress the beautiful 99) double drive Euclid Avenue with- bank, Glendale, Pasadena and adjacent territory. Truck delivery in a few blocks of our display yards. See map on opposite page. service to all points in the San Fernando Valley (including Bur- bank), insofar as wartime regulations and equipment will permit. This is a cash Branch only. No mail, express or freight orders are Address All Correspondence to Ontario shipped from this location.

All mail orders are handled at our Ontario office. All mail, express and freight shipments are made from there. Truck deliveries are made from Ontario to all of the unshaded area on the map on opposite page. All mail requests for information or quotations should be sent to our Ontario office.

Culver City Branch 4440 Sepulveda Blvd. Culver City, California Phone: ARdmore 82-665

Our newest Branch is located on Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, four blocks south of Culver Blvd., and is easily reached from any Map showing location of North Hollywood Branch part of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, and any of the You Will Enjoy a Visit Los Angeles County beach cities. This is a cash and carry Branch At all three of our Display Yards you'll find. a great wealth of only, with no deliveries being made from this location. beautiful plant material on display for you to look at and enjoy. It is a continuous fruit and flower show at all three places. Cour- teous salesmen are there to give you the planting information you may need. All of our Display Yards, with salesmen in attendance, are open every day, including Sunday, all through the year except that one or more Yards may be closed on Sundays during July, August and September. All Yards are closed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Easter Sunday, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christ- mas Day. We can always give you better service if you visit us

on a week-day. ,

Send All Orders to Ontario

Please forward all mail orders to our Ontario office since all mail, express and freight shipments are handled from there and all Map showing location of Culver City Branch Southern California truck deliveries originate there except those placed in person at our North Hollywood Branch. All correspondence should be sent to Ontario also since there are no facilities to Read Your Catalog handle mail at either of our Branches.

This catalog is designed to be your helpful guide. Now, more Planting Instructions With Every Order than ever, you will need to rely on the valuable information which With each order we send out goes a set of planting instructions for the various kinds of plant material, both fruiting and ornamen- it contains. The services of our skilled landscape men are no tal. Please look for these instructions when you get your plants. longer available to you since they are all either in the Armed Read them carefully and follow them. They have been carefully Forces or in more essential nursery work. drawn up to help you get the best results from your Armstrong trees and plants. We are just as eager as you are to have your plants The catalog descriptions for each fruiting or ornamental variety do as much or more than you expect them to do, and we have help to the proper kinds contain information which will you select given plenty of thought to these planting instructions. For your for your location. They tell how large each plant grows, whether own benefit, please follow them. they prefer sun or shade, and the minimum temperatures which Better Plants With Peat Moss they will stand. Peat Moss. This finely ground, centuries old moss is Just the thing The "Guide to Successful Planting" on pages 37 and 38 will give to lighten heavy clay soils and to mix with sandy soils so that they you further help in selecting for certain climates and locations. will retain moisture better. It is almost necessary to use it tn Southern California in order to provide an acid soil for Azalea If it is convenient for you to visit one of our three Display Yards, and Camellias. will find there, you ready to serve you, trained salesmen and Each bale contains 20 bushels of humus and will cover at least 300 salesladies who can give you the information you need. They can square feet one inch deep. Fifteen to twenty pounds of peat moss will tell you what fruits and ornamentals are best suited to your par- mixed with the soil around each newly planted shrub or tree pay big dividends and in light sandy soils will save enough water ticular area, and if you can bring along a rough sketch of your to pay for itself many times over. Be sure to soak the peat in home place, they will assist you to select your plant material for water before mixing with the soil. Large bales, $5.50 each; one- the locations about which you are in doubt. half bale, $3.00 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 $2.50 or more can usually be delivered safely to your door on one of our covered trucks for the small delivery charge of 50c. Small, light weight orders con- sisting of berry plants, grape vines, up to 15 rose bushes, up to 10 deciduous fruit trees, etc., can be more economic- ally shipped into this area by mail. See next page. No delivery charge to San Fernando Valley points on orders placed at our North Hollywood Branch. By careful conservation of rubber and truck equipment we are able to continue this service for our customers. Please note that because of the neces- sity 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 from one to two weeks to get delivery on your order, and no spe- Culver City cific date of delivery can be promised. Branch . , e ulv&da. £ | vd- , 4440 S p San Diego, Santa Barbara Our covered trucks deliver to these two cities, nearby areas and locations near through highways, as often as we have full loads. Delivery charges are rea- We deliver from Ontario by truck to the unshaded area on this map for 50c per order (any size sonable. If in hurry for your order, a order over $2.50). Unforeseen conditions may make it necessary for us to ship any order by better give us the option of shipping by express or freight. mail, express or freight.

Please Observe When Ordering A Word to Our Friends

all business firms in these days, the Armstrong Nurseries TERMS. Cash with order. Send postoffice or express money order, As with bank draft or check. No orders sent C.O.D. No shipping orders must meet and solve new wartime problems each day in order accepted for less than $2.50. All purchasers whose orders are to continue to grow and supply plant materials to you, our custom- being shipped to California points will please add California ers. We appreciate the patronage that our friends have given us Sales Tax of 2 J/2%. during the past year. We have not qt all times been able to give PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Unforeseen conditions may make the same service that it has been our habit to give in the past. it necessary for us to change the prices quoted in this catalog at At the time this catalog is issued, 30 of our valued Armstrong em- any time, without notice, and we reserve the right to make such or rest changes. All quotations made by us prior to the issuance of this ployees are serving in the Army, Navy Coast Guard. The catalog are hereby canceled. All orders are accepted subject only of our organization is doing its utmost to grow and deliver the to at the stock being available time of delivery. quality trees and plants that you need while doing what little we

INSPECTION. We guarantee all shipments to pass inspection can to help win the war. wherever shipped. In most California counties plants must be In addition to growing nursery stock, the Armstrong Nurseries pro- inspected upon arrival. Lock for directions on inspection tag at- duces needed food in rather a large way, operating more than tached to order. For information concerning inspection, telephone your local inspector or the office of your County Agricultural Com- 280 acres of orange, lemon, grapefruit and peach orchards and missioner. growing a considerable acreage of vegetables. PACKING CHARGE. On mail, express and freight shipments we Our Landscape Planting Service is a war casualty since all of make a packing charge on balled fruit trees (citrus, avocados, sub- our landscape men are now in military service or doing more tropicals), balled ornamentals, and all plants in tins, pots or other essential nursery work. containers (except Camellias), this to partially defray the cost of the expensive packing materials used. Figure the charge this way: The problem of getting your orders to you is not always a simple Add together the cost of these kinds of plants on your order. Take one in wartime, but we will use every effort to see that your order 10% of it. That is the packing charge to include in your remit- is delivered as promptly as possible. If those of our customers who tance. Do not add in items not mentioned like berries, deciduous live close enough to visit one of our three convenient Salesyards, fruit trees, roses, etc. No packing charge on orders delivered by our truck. will take with them in their cars as much as they can conveniently

carry, we will greatly appreciate it, since we must make our GUARANTEE. Our reputation depends upon your having good results with Armstrong plants. We handle them carefully to get them available trucks and tires last for the duration. to you in excellent condition—give you planting instructions based In the meantime, you can count upon Armstrong plant materials on our experience. Plants are subject to the whims of Nature and man, and no one can guarantee that a certain one will thrive. being of the same high quality and giving you the same depend- When our instructions are followed, however, only very rarely able results as they have in the past 54 years. should you lose a plant. Tell us immediately if any shipment on arrival is in any way unsatisfactory. At any time please feel free to ask our salesman to help you find why a certain plant failed so Armstrong Nurseries that the next planting will do well. It is our desire to make fair adjuBtments and help you get the best results possible. 408 North Euclid Avenue Ontario, California — 40 — Order By Parcel Post— Express or Freight

For 54 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 experience to pack live plants so that they will reach you in good condition and at a minimum cost. Wartime conditions and government regulations may cause unforeseen delays in handling shipping orders, but you may be assured that we will use every effort to get your order to you safely, ecoomically and promptly. Zones

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What Method to Use Express Shipments Freight Shipments

1. Determine the Weight. On the back of the shipments (50 lbs. or over) freight Express is one of the most practical methods For heavy order blank opposite and throughout this cata- is the most eonomical method of delivery. of shipping plant materials. The fastest pass- log, you will find the shipping weights given We use either fast "through rail service," or enger trains carry express shipments to all for each type of plant. For example, see page dependable hi-way truck line, whichever parts of the country. Wartime transportation 1 for citrus, 9 for deciduous trees, 68 for rose serves you best. If you live within the limits bushes, etc. The total weight usually deter- delays have not affected express shipments of your city or town, delivery will in most mines the best method of shipment. as much as freight. There are no size or cases be made right to your door. limitations. usually is the 2. Parcel Post. If your order consists of berry weight The minimum freight charge the greatest sav- plants, up to 25 grape vines, up to 15 rose Each express shipment valued at $50.00 or rate for 100 lbs. You make you build your order up bushes, up to 10 deciduous fruit trees or bare less is automatically insured against damage ing, therefore, when 100 lbs. or more. Charges on shipments root shrubs or trees or root divisions or one or loss and perishable shipments are given to weighing over 100 lbs. are based on the plant in a tin, parcel post is the most eco- special careful handling, all at no extra cost. nomical method of transportation. actual weight at the per 100 lb. rate. If you live in town, delivery will be made freight charges unless you If you live outside of Southern California and Send no money for right to your door; otherwise, your express prepaid. You wish to cut shipping costs, citrus, avocados especially want the shipment will telephone or mail notice of ar- table and cherimoyas can be bare rooted and sent agent a pay them when delivery is made. The rival figure approximately by parcel post except in July, August and Sept. immediately. below will help you will be. for express charges. Unless how much the freight on your order 3. Express. Packages weighing to 70 lbs. Send no money up in the table nearest you you wish to make special arrangements, they Figure from the town can be sent by parcel post, but usually ship- and make necssary allowances. ments of 20 lbs. or over can be handled best will be collected when delivery is made. by express. Express is much quicker and more The table below will help you estimate ex- certain than freight under wartime conditions. press charges on your order. Example: If Table for Freight Rates Certain large but relatively light items, such your order weighs 30 lbs. and you live 200 Lbs. as tree roses and larger deciduous ornamental From Ontario to: Per 100 miles from Ontario, charges will be about 76c. trees, must be sent by express or cut back Bakersfield, Calif -$ -65 very severely. Fresno, Calif. - — - 85 4. Freight. Heavy shipments, 50 lbs. or more, Table for Express Rates San Francisco, Calif 1-17 are usually best shipped by freight. El Centro, Calif - - 67 Miles from Ontario Redding, Calif - 1-33 If Using Parcel Post 100 200 400 600 1000 1500 2000 Portland, Oregon 1-70 1. Approximate shipping weights for each 15 lbs. .41 .47 .59 .71 .94 1.24 1.42 Seattle, Washington 1-82 item are indicated in the catalog, also in " table on back of order blank. To determine 20 .49 .57 .73 .88 1.19 1.60 1.83 Phoenix, Arizona 107 " the total weight of the shipment, just add the 25 .56 .67 .86 1.06 1.44 1.96 2.24 Yuma, Arizona _ 81 shipping weights of each item on your order. " 30 .64 .76 1.00 1.24 1.69 2.31 2.65 Tucson, Arizona - — 1-21 2. Determine your Postal Zone from the Zone " 35 .72 .86 1.14 1.41 1.94 2.66 3.07 Prescott, Arizona 1-21 Map above or miles from Ontario in the table. " 40 .79 .96 1.27 1.59 2.20 3.01 3.48 Las Vegas, Nevada — 1-07 3. From the table at the right of the Zone " 1.41 1.76 2.44 3.37 3.89 1-95 Map it is easy to figure how much postage 45 .87 1.06 Albuquerque, New Mexico " to include with your order. For example, if 50 .94 1.15 1.54 1.93 2.70 3.73 5.30 Deming, New Mexico 1-95 you ordered 3 fruit trees weighing 6 lbs. and ' 60 1.10 1.35 1.81 2.29 3.20 4.43 5.12 Salt Lake City, Utah _ - 1-89 live in the 3rd Zone, the correct amount would " 2.09 3.70 5.14 5.95 3.12 be 19c. 70 1.25 1.54 2.64 Denver, Colorado — " 80 1.41 1.74 2.36 2.99 4.21 5.85 6.77 El Paso, Texas - 195 4. Be sure to include enough extra for post- " 90 1.56 1.84 2.63 3.34 4.71 6.56 7.60 Houston, Texas _ - 3-35 age with your remittance, as we hare to " 100 1.63 2.05 2.83 3.61 5.14 7.19 8.34 Oklahoma City, Okla 3.59 pay postage in advance. We make no New Orleans, Louisiana 4.17 C.O.D. mail shipments. Shipping weights vary In of Southern California (see page 40) Atlanta, 4.52 slightly, but those indicated will provide a most Georgia fairly accurate basis for figuring. The amount we get your order to you, usually by our Miami, Florida - — 4.64 may be smaller or greater, but you are charg- truck, for a 50c packing and delivery charge. St. Louis, Missouri - 4.17 ed only what postage is actually needed to Outside of our delivery zone we use our Judg- Chicago, Illinois _ _ - 4.28 ship your order. All extra will be promptly refunded. ment unless you specify method oi shipment. New York, New York 4.64 — 41 —

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The Armstrong Nurseries will exercise care to have all stock true to name, nevertheless it is Packing Charge understood and agreed that should any stock prove untrue to name, the Armstrong Nurseries shall be liable only for the sum paid for the stock which may prove untrue, and shall not be liable for Delivery Charge any greater amount. The Armstrong Nurseries book all orders with the understanding that same shall be void should injury befall the stock from flood, drouth, frost or other causes beyond their control. All orders travel at risk and cost of purchaser. TOTAL

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Be sure to include cost of items on this side in toted on front side.

EXPLANATION OF PACKING CHARGE PACKING CHARGE. On mail, express and freight shipments we make a packing charge on FOR BILLING DEPT. ONLY balled fruit trees (citrus, avocados, subtropicals) and all plants in tins, pots or other containers (except Camellias), this to partially defray the cost of the expensive packing materials used. Mdse. Total Figure the charge this way: Add together the cost of these kinds of plants on 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, bare root deciduous fruit trees, roses, etc. No packing charge on orders Sales Tax delivered by our truck. Packing Charge. USE THIS TABLE TO ESTIMATE WEIGHT OF YOUR ORDER

Berries (except Strawberries). 10 plants weigh Avocados, Loquats, Cherimoyas, Sapotes. Ball- 3 lbs. Other quantities in proportion. ed. Average 50 lbs. each. Strawberries. 25 plants weigh 1 lb. Avocados, Cherimoyas. Bare Root. Average, first tree 3 lbs., each added 2 lbs. Grapes. First plant 1 lb., each additional plant 1/2 lb. Roses, Bush and Climbing. First plant 2 lbs., each added 1 lb. Deciduous Fruit Trees: Peaches, Apricots, Cher- ries, Plums, Almonds, Prunes, Pears, Nectar- Tree Roses, Bare Root. First plant 7 lbs., ines, Quinces. First tree 3 lbs., each addi- more, 2 lbs. each. tional tree ly&lbs. All plants in 4-inch pots. 3 lbs. Deciduous Fruit Trees: Apples, Figs, Persim- All plants in gal. tins. 10 lbs. (Except Ca- mons, Chestnuts. First tree 5 lbs., each addi- mellias which lbs.) weigh 4 c/s tional tree IV2 lbs. a/c All plants in 5-gal. tins. 50 lbs. (Except Ca- Pecans, Walnuts, Hiccans. First tree 6 lbs., mellias which weigh 30 lbs.) each added tree 3 lbs. Ornamentals. Balled. Average, 50 lbs. PAID. Citrus Trees. Bare Root. I-yr. First tree 2 Deciduous Shrubs. Bare Root. Average, first lbs., each added tree 1 lb. you tree 3 lbs., each added 2 lbs. Citrus Trees. Bare Root. 2 yr. First tree 4 Due Deciduous Shade Trees. Bare Root. 4-6 ft., 5 lbs., each added tree 2 lbs. lbs.; 6-8 ft., 7 lbs.; 8-10 ft., 10 lbs.; 10-12 ft., Citrus Trees. Balled. 1-yr. 40 lbs. each. 14 lbs. Citrus Trees. Balled. 2-yr. 60 lbs. each. Azaleas. 6-inch pots. 3 lbs. each.

Armstrong Nurseries 408 North Euclid Avenue MAIN OFFICES AND SALESYARDS Ontario, California Telephone Ontario 611-44 Address All Correspondence and Mail Orders to Ontario Armstrong Azaleas

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 freguent 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. Our three Display Yards are brilliant during late winter and spring with thousands 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.; tubs, 50 lbs.

Azalea L. J. Bobink Purity. One of the Rutherfordiana Azaleas. Very fragrant.

Colorful Kurume Azaleas The New Rose-Flowered Azalea Kurume Azaleas will always be popular be- Azalea roseaflora. (Balsam) SA30. A rare cause they so heavily. Rutherfordiana bloom During their Azalea dwarf gem with 2-inch, very double blooms brief early winter nap they lose some of their of deep pink with a salmon undertone. They leaves but early, burst into These new hybrids combine all of the finest awake and flower look like small, many-petaled, open rose before winter is over. the height characteristics of other types of Azaleas. The At of their blooms to some, but like miniature camellia blooming season they are indescribably lovely flowers are very large, usually double, and blooms to us. 2-3 ft. 6-inch pots, $2.25; 9-inch clouds of small flowers. All are borne in clusters. The handsome foliage pastel colored pots, $3.50. the colors blend well together and massed is evergreen and large. Anywhere along the plantings are very effective. The plants reach Pacific Coast or the Southern States the plants 2 to 6 ft. in height, are hardy down to zero are smothered in blooms every spring. The and grow easily. plants themselves are hardy down to zero, but A Tropical Queen All varieties, blooming sizes, 6-inch pots, $1.50, the most tender flower buds may be damaged 9-inch pots, $3.00; large specimens in tubs, by temperatures below 25°. 2 to 5 ft. Rondeletia cordata. ST22B. "Heart-leaf Ronde- $7.50. Flowers single unless noted. All varieties, blooming sizes, 6-in. pots, $2.25; letia." 6-8 ft. 22°. Bring Old Mexico into your garden a bit of that part down next to the Bells of Arcady. SA31. Deep lavender, very 9-inch pots, $3.50; specimens in tubs, $7.50. — Guatemalan border, where flowers are large large bell-shaped flowers. Alaska. SA1. A garden blizzard of semi- and colors are vivid. The large, glossy foli- double snow-white blooms. Early bloomer. Botticelli. SA32. Apple blossom pink and age has the fresh green look of perpetual cream. Semi-double (two rows of petals). Albion. SA2. A most fragrant, pure white, spring. The great clusters of dainty blooms Cherry Ripe. SA33 Bright cherry red. semi-double kind, blooming late. have vividly blended shades of pink and yellow. This will Coral Bells. SA34. The beautiful semi-double Constance. SA3. Deep lavender-pink, paling Jungle Queen make herself at home in any sunny or semi-shaded position in flowers have several shades of coral and pink. to creamy white in the center. Single. your garden where moisture is plentiful. Gal. Coralie. Dorothy Gish. SA5. Brick-red with rich red SA3S. Glowing salmon. Semi-double. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. markings in the throat. Firebird. SA36. Scarlet shaded orange. Firelight. SA7. Glowing light crimson. Semi- Laughing Water. SA37. Very large, pure double. An early bloomer. Flowers of Rondeletia. white, 21/2 inches across. Most fragrant. L. Bobbink. SA8. Very free-flowering, fra- Santoi. SA41. Creamy light pink. J. grant, soft orchid-lavender. Semi-double. Snowbank. SA42. Large fragrant white. Mary Corcoran. SA9. Best single, apple blos- Snowflake Double. SA.43. Semi-double pure som-pink, flecked deep rose in the throat. white blooms in thick masses. Pink Ruffles. SA12. Uniform deep bright pink, Sunstar. SA44. Large deep pink. with two rows of ruffled petals. Vivid. SA45. Brilliant orange-red. Semi-doubls. Pinky. SA13. There is also a little rich sal- Wood Dove. SA46. Deep mauve-lavender. mon tone in Pinky's double blooms. Purity. SAM. Large, pure white blooms, guite Indian fragrant, two rows of petals. See above. Azaleas Red Cloud. SA15. Deep briaht red with ma- These ere the evergreen Indian Azaleas for roon dots in center. Best of dark red Azaleas. which many of the famous Azalea gardens in Rose Queen. SA16. Large, double, deep rose- our Southern States are noted. Indian Aza- pink. The best of the pink Azaleas. leas in much of California are just as gor- Sunset. brick-red geous as in the Old South. The huge blooms, SA1S. Showy, semi-double. 3 and 4 inches across, show off well against Yuletide. SA19. Semi-double, vivid cherry- the verdant evergreen foliage. They grow 3 red which blooms early. to 5 feet high. 26°. Price: 6-inch pots, $2.25; 9-inch pots, $3.50. Albert and Elizabeth. SA20. Very large flow- For Late Azalea Blooms ered, pink and white, striped and blotched. Mme. Petrick. SA24. Striped white and rose. The two beautiful Azaleas below have no competition whatever in their season because Mme. Van Der Cruysen. SA28. Three-inch they bloom six weeks after all other kinds are flowers of clear salmon-pink dot with crimson gone (May and June). markings in the throat. 3-foot grower. Paul Schame. SA22. Deep salmon orange. Sakuraga'a. SA26. Medium sized saucer shaped blooms, very bright pink, lightening to Pride of Mobile. SA25. large, single, water- A white in the center. melon-pink with deep crimson markings. 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 ft. Plants in 6-inch pots, $2.00 each. — 42 — ,

elegantissima (4 to 6 inches) Colonel Firey, a perfect red Herme, sweetly fragrant Princess Bacciochi, a peony type flower Candida

Armstrong Camellias

They have Armstrong Quality. It makes a

big difference. Visit our Display Yards, see

them in bloom (December through March)

and see for yourself why Armstrong Camel-

lias are the best.

Rosita, perfectly formed Purity, exquisite white The exquisite flowers of Camellia japonica, waxy and delicate in texture and beautifully tinted, are the most admired winter and early spring blooms Special New Novelties of the Pacific Coast and Southern States. And the plant itself is handsome, Prices on the five New Novelty varieties below: 5-gal. tins, its all-year foliage forming perfect setting with glossy a for the bright- 1 1/2-2 ft., S10.00; 2-3 ft., S15.00. colored blooms. Anita. SC2. Probably ihe most spectacular and beautiful striped Camellia. The medium-sized, high-centered flower Where to Plant Them. Camellias grow- Check the Prices. We'll stack our has four rows of petals. The color background is light pink, with bold, heavy stripes of deep pink or carmine. It's very easily everywhere on the Pacific Coast prices up against others any time. rare and our stock is limited. except on the desert. They are hardy You'll find them low. down to 10°, requiring only a good Enrico Bettoni. SC19A. One of the largest and most beauti- Shipping Weight on Camellias. Gal. well drained soil and a sheltered, ful of pink Camellias. Big 5-inch blooms something like partly shaded location. Complete plant- tins, 4 lbs., 5-gal. tins, 30 lbs., tubs, 50 Marchioness of Exeter, pictured on opposite page, but larger ing instructions with every order. lbs. See shipping costs on page 41. and deeper in color. Many very large petals, interspersed Soil Preparation. The addition of some Note. Solid colored Camellias occasion- with many smaller ones in the center. A strong, upright plant. peat moss or leaf mold to most soils ally show slight markings or may even growing insures better results. Camellias begin throw a flower of an entirely different Fimbriata. SC21. A rare and beautiful white Camellia, to flower as soon as they are a foot color and shape. This does not neces- larger than average, with double, high-centered, many- or two in height so you will not have sarily mean that it is incorrectly named petalled flowers, each snowy white petal delicately frilled to wait for blooms. or described. or fimbriated around the edges. The plant is somewhat dwarf, and blooms with great freedom. Very scarce. l'/2-2 ft. only. Julia Drayton, the Ruby Glow. SC60A. A new red that is certain to be ex- largest of red tremely popular because of the perfection of the 4-inch, dark Camellias. red blooms, which have the deepest red color of any kind that we grow. Two to three rows of very large petals with a tufted center. Very strong growing.

Select Camellias Size Each Gal. tins $ 3.00 5-gal. tins, U/2-2 feet 7.00 5-gal. tins, 2-3 feet 12.50 .5-gal. tins, 3-4 feet... 15.00 Large specimens priced on request.

Alba plena. SCI. So lovely is its form, so fragile and delicate its beauty, that you can see at a glance why it is the most sought after white Camellia. The very large flowers, 5 or 6 inches across, fully double, with many imbricated petals, open beautifully and never show the stamens. Brought from the Orient to England in 1792, has been rare ever since. Gal. and 3 to 4 ft. sizes only. C. M. Hovey. SC8. Exactly like Julia Drayton, with the same enormous flowers and big petals, but usually has little flecks of white against the brilliant red. Just as good as the famous Julia. Candida Elegantissima. SC4B. (Nagasaki) A very large, 4 to 6 inch, 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 One of the most beautiful of all variegated Camellias. No 3-4 foot size. Pink Beauty. SC49. A very large-flowered, large-petalled, fully double flower often 6 inches across, and a clear uniform light pink, without other shadings. The plant is exceedingly vigorous, with large glossy foliage, blooming late. Best in a moist coastal climate. -43 — Select Camellias Distinctive Kinds

(Continued) (Continued) See prices bottom opposite page Jarvis Red. SC33. A small to medium red flower with a row of large, Colonel Firey. SC9. Right at the top crisp petals around the outside and in red Camellias because of the a tufted center of smaller petals. glowing rich crimson color and the Rather dwarf. Flowers young and beautifully shaped flowers, 5 or 6 blooms heavily. No 3-4 foot. inches across. The many petals open out into a full, broad, imbri- Lady Vansittart. SC39. If we had cated bloom, similar to Pink Perfec- to choose one deep pink Camellia, tion in form but much larger. Very this would probably be it. The lovely under artificial light. Fairly large 4 I/2-inch, vivid deep pink dwarf in growth. blooms have three rows of broad, wavy-edged petals, symmetrically Elegans. (Chandleri.) SC14A. One arranged around a ring of golden the most spectacular of all Ca- of stamens. The glossy, wavy foliage mellias, the great 7-inch rose-pink is more beautiful than that of any flowers, lightly splashed with white, other Camellia, in our opinion. astonishing the beholder with their size and beauty. The plant is Melody. SC43A. Like Lady Vansit- comparatively dwarf but produces tart, but with attractive white marb- its gigantic high-centered, beauti- ling. 5-gal. sizes only. fully colored blooms in great profu- Marchioness of Exeter. SC41. In sion. You will never complain about size, brilliancy of coloring and per- any shortage of flowers because fection of form, this beautiful pink this one sets an amazing number variety, salmon-pink with a few oc- of buds even on very small plants. casional white markings, is possi- We also have tubbed specimens at bly the finest Camellia in its color. $17.50 each. Amazing in size, the gigantic flow- Julia Drayton. SC34. By far the ers are crowded with petals, grace- largest red Camellia that we grow. fully arranged. Dwarf spreading The huge flowers, often 6 inches habit. across, are a uniform shade of bril- Mardi Gras. SC41A. Like H. A. liant scarlet and the very large Downing, with white markings. 5- petals are beautifully veined and gal. sizes only. textured. Very double, with a high- Mrs. John Laing. SC45. A splendid center. Its clear bright color pointed symmetrical, fully double flower of size make it one of and enormous clear rose-pink, 31/2 inches across, spectacular magnifi- Standard Varieties the most and darker than Pink Perfection but Camellias. good strong cent of all A lighter than Rosita. grower, too. We also have tubbed (Continued) specimens at $17.50 each. Mrs. Waters. SC46. Medium sized, deep pink flowers, with one row of Covina. SC10A. Kumasaka. SC36. Giant flowered, (Lady Campbell) A compact grower and tremend- large petals surrounding a dense ous producer of medium sized, double, clear rose-pink flowers over rose-pink bloom of informal, irregu- tuft of small petals. Gal. size only. a long period. Fine for tubbed specimen. lar form with a few very large petals and a varying number of small- Professor C. S. Sargent. SC53. A Czarina. SC11. Like Emperor of Russia, but variegated with white. er petaloids in the center. The flow- most unusual deep scarlet flower, The contrast between the brilliant red and the pure white is quite ers have a characeristic delicate, 3 inches across, with a very full, startling. 5-gal. sizes only. round, peony type center, the flow- sweet fragrance. A strong growing, Fanny Bolis. SC20. Big red flowers, blotched with white, with er often carrying more than 200 tall plant. enormous petals loosely arranged. Six inches across, it is one of petals. It usually has one row of Princess Bacciochi. SC52. A flower the largest and most beautiful of the variegated Camellias. very large round petals around the of startling peony type, rich velvery outside of the bloom. A semi-dwarf Nightingale. SC46A. A large, informal, semi-double flower of bright carmine-red, without other shad- plant, very free in bloom. pink with white markings, opening to show a center of contrasting ings, contrasting brilliantly with the yellow stamens. golden stamens which show among Purity. SC54. (Neige d'Or.) Its Pink Perfection. SC50. Probably the most popular Camellia the petals in the slowly opening name describes it. Symmetrical, grown in California. Its double, flower. 5-gal. sizes only. exquisitely formed, double snowy very medium-sized flowers of delicate white flowers of large size, often 5 light pink are very charming indeed. Never fails to display large Emperor of Russia. SC18. The flow- quantities of perfect or 6 inches across. It outsells all flowers from Thanksgiving time on through ers are very large, 5 or 6 inches the winter. One of the vigorous other whites we grow. No 3-4 ft. most Camellias in growth. We across, with very large petals also have 3-4 foot specimens in tubs at $10.00 each. around the outside of the flowers Red Beauty. SC55. A very double Rosita. SC59. Very double, size flowers bright and with smaller recurved petals flower, 31/2 inches across, glowing medium of rose- pink, the petals delicately veined and arranged in a symmetrical in the center. The color is a bril- red with an underlying orange rosette-like form. The very latest to in liant scarlet. Plant somewhat dwarf sheen, keeping exceptionally well Camellia bloom winter. A fast, vigorous grower, with every flower a perfect one. in habit. One of the finest reds. when cut. 5-gal. sizes only. Gal. and IV2 to 2 ft. sizes only. Camellia sasanqua Judith. SC63. Tall, compact, beautifully foliaged The giant pink flower of Marchioness of Exeter plant, literally covered, in the late Distinctive Kinds fall before other kinds bloom, with beautiful, small, single, light red Size Each blooms. Gal. and 2-3 ft. sizes only. Gal. tins $ 2.25 5-gal. tins, 11/2-2 feet 5.00 Camellia sasanqua Mine-No-Yuki. 5-gal. tins, 2-3 feet 7.50 SC64. Hundreds of double white 5-gal. tins, 3-4 feet 10. CO flowers with wheatstraw fragrance. Blooms in fall. Spreading growth. Larger specimens priced on reguest. 11/2-2 ft. size only. Belle Romana. SC4. This striking variegated kind is an ideal corsage Tricolor (Siebold). SC64B. (Waka- Camellia, blending with all fabrics nouri variegata.) Very bizarre look- regardless of color. The big, double, ing large flowers, many broad large-petalled flowers are light stripes of deep pink and rose-red, pink, profusely striped and splashed emphasized by narrow white with crimson. stripes. It's so different that it will startle you. Daikagura. SC12. Its large, double, deep rose flowers (sometimes streaked with white) would be beautiful at any season, but it is doubly Standard Varieties valuable because it is the earliest Camellia to bloom, flowers appear- Size Each ing in early November. No 3-4 ft. Gal. tins $1.25 H. A. Downing. SC30. Beautiful 5-gal. tins, 1 1/2-2 feet 3.50 large flowers, deep rose-pink m 5-gal. tins, 2-3 feet ...... 5.00 color, almost red. Three rows of tins, 3-4 feet 7.00 very large petals, with a center of 5-gal. beautifully contrasting yellow sta- Larger specimens priced on request. mens. The 5-inch flower is one of the loveliest of its color. Alba superba. SC1A. A magnificent, semi-double, pure white Ca- Herme. SC32. Huge, 5 to 6 inch, across, semi-double flowers of light rose- mellia. 4 to 5 inches with pink with a broad, irregular bor- enormous petals. More informal der of white around each big petal. and less symmetrical than Purity. Occasional stripes of bright red. Cheerful. SC6. Clear, bright cher- This is one of the few- fragrant Ca- ry-red, medium size, very double, mellias, possessing a delightfully setting enormous quantities of sweet perfume. blooms. Blooms late. — 44 — Armstrong Evergreen Shrubs Quantity Discount Strawberry Madrone When you purchase 10 or more of one kind of evergreen shrub; deduct 10% from the Arbutus unedo. S5. "Strawberry Madrone." listed each price. For instance, Abelia 6-10 ft. or larger. 15°. A bushy spreading, grandiflora is listed at 70c each in gal. medium sized shrub with rich green foli- tins. If you order 10 of them, deduct 10% age very similar to California Holly. Has of this price or 7c, which would make many delightful little pearly white bell- them cost you 63c each. This discount ap- shaped flowers in summer, followed by plies to 10 of one variety of plant and does clusters of brilliant red strawberry-like not cover an assortment of 10 different fruits, ripening about Christmas time. kinds. Stands heat, cold and drouth. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50- Abelia balled, 2-3 ft., S3.00; 3-4 ft., 34.00. Abelia grandiflora. SI. "Glossy Abelia." Arbutus unedo Dwarf. S6. "Dwarf Straw- 6 ft. Zero. Its small, shiny, bronze-green berry Madrone." 6 ft. 15°. A lower, more foliage and arching stems clothed with compact and rounded form of this beautiful clusters of little fragrant rosy-white flow- shrub with the glossy, holly-like leaves, ers, borne almost continually, make it ex- dainty flowers and red fruits. Here's your ceedingly valuable for mass or foundation The Shrub Aster is a mass of flowers in spring. chances to enjoy all this beauty in a plant planting in either full sun or partial shade. which occupies less space. Grows any- Hardy anywhere. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. where. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, $1.00; tins, S2.25. 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Abelia schumanni. S2. "Pink Abelia." 5 ft. Zero. Somewhat similar to A. grandiflora, but the beautiful pinkish lilac blooms Important— Please Read with yellow throat are much larger and Cold Dust Plant We try to make this Catalog an accurate, thorough brighter and are produced in profusion all Aucuba japonica Gold Dust. S9. "Gold and interesting guide to the plants that we grow, through the spring and summer. Seldom Dust Plant." 15°. Splendid hardy ever- and in the limited space available we have crammed exceeds 3 or 4 feet in height. Perfectly green foliage plant for shady location and as much information as possible in order to make it hardy anywhere, and thrives in any soil excellent as a background for Azaleas. easy for you to select the right plant for the right in full sun or part shade. A most satisfac- Masses of big, glossy, shining green leaves, place in your garden. tory flowering shrub for all sections. Gal. 7 inches long, lightly dusted with gold. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, S2.25. Grows to 6 or 8 feet but easily kept down to 5 feet. If you have both male and fe- U/horownere rotn rianr.Plant In these descriptions you will find ^ ^,-0^^ aver- Flowering Maple male plants present, the Aucubas will bear height plant will grow, whether very beautiful, large, bright red berries, age to which each Abutilon vitifolium Vesuvius. ST1. "Red they prefer sun or shade, and other helpful informa- more than 1 inch long. 5-gal. tins $3.00; Flowering Maple." 5 ft. 24°. The showi- 3-4 tion. You'll find in each description the approximate balled. ft., $3.50; or 2 plants in one gal. est of the Flowering Maples is this variety temperatures at which each plant will be tin (one male and one female), $1.50 for minimum with the enormous 2-inch" bell-shaped damaged by frost (approximate only since the age the pair. flowers of brilliant orange-scarlet. A fast- plants during cold and condition of weather have growing shrub, blooming the year around. much to do with their resistance to frost). In Cali- Shade or part shade. Gal. tins, 80c. fornia, the plant would probably have its mature Vanilla-Scented twigs injured if the temperature reaches the figures Azara microphylla. S10A. "Boxleaf Azara." mentioned for several hours, but often the plant Canary Island Lupine 8 ft. 12°. Graceful arching pendulous would recover. In other States where the tempera- Adenocarpus foliolosus. S3. "Canary Is- branches and small, round, glossy leaves. ture may reach these figures many times in a sea- 8-10 15°. land Lupine." ft. The tip of Fine for tracery effect against or to hang son, usually such plants should not be planted. Also its every one of many bright gTeen over walls. Its little flowers have the fra- see the Planting Guide on pages 37 and 38. branches is a glowing mass of brilliant grance of vanilla. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. yellow flower spikes, like giant yellow Hns, $2.50. Three Big Display Yards. If you visit one of lupines, through April, May and June. our three Sales Splendid foliage throughout the entire and Display Yards (Ontario, North Hollywood and year. Full sun. Fairly dry soil. Gal. tins, Culver City), you will be able to see many plants not 80c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. Red Orchids listed in this catalog, hundreds of plants in bloom. Bauhinia galpinii. SI 1. "Red Bauhinia." Our experienced salesmen will be able to give you Bearberry 8 ft. 22°. Clusters of glorious, spidery, red helpful information regarding your planting. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. S6A. "Bearberry." orchid-like flowers, borne in clusters of Zero. A handsome little low-growing, from 6 to 10 from spring to late autumn. It's easy to order Easy to Order by Mail. creeping plant from the California coastal That's what you'll have if you plant this Armstrong plants mountains which makes a dense evergreen handsomely foliaged half-climbing shrub by mail and just as easy to get delivery on them. carpet of small, dark green leaves, hand- with roundish two-cleft leaves. There is See pages 40 and 41 for delivery and shipping in- some all through the year. Becomes 3 or 4 no lovelier plant to clamber over a low formation. feet across, but only 6 or 8 inches high. wall, fence or rocks in the garden. Will Grows easily anywhere in any soil. Sun or climb right up a post if you give it a Shipping Weights. Packed for shipment, plants shade, but prefers coastal conditions. little support. Best within 30 miles of the in gallon tins weigh 10 lbs. ^Pretty little red or dark pink berries in coast. Sun or half-shade. See illustration each; 5-gal. tins 50 lbs. each. Balled plants average summer- (that's what the bears eat). Gal. in color on page 35. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- 50 lbs. each. See page 41 for shipping costs. tins, $1.00. gal tins, $3.00.

Fruit, flowers, and foliage of the Strawberry Madrone. Two Shrubby 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 in April, May and June into great masses of deep lavender or rosy-mauve floweTS, completely covering the plant, each flower 1 to 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, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Aster filifolius elongatus. S7. "Early Flowering Shrub Aster." 3 ft. 15°. Similar in growth and flowers to the above kind but blooms two weeks earlier and has slightly more delicate flowers in a lighter shade of lavender. We like both of these Shrubby Asters because they stay small and do not overgrow their location, but caie must be taken not to give them too much water, for they like but a sparing amount of moisture and plenty of sunshine. Should be pruned back severely once a year, immediately after blooming. Gal. tins, 80c. You Can Plant Shrubs Anytime The black sguares under every month below indicate that you can plant evergreen shrubs during every month in the year.

Month J FMAMJ JASOND Tins or Balled

— 45 A Desert Beauty Bouvardia Beloperone californica. S12. "Chupe- Bouvardia humboldti Albatross. ST2. rosa." 4 ft. 15°. A low, spreading 2-3 ft. 25°. Few flowers are as fra- shrub from the water courses of the grant as the dainty, long, tubular, Colorado Desert. A beautiful sight snowy white blooms of this fast growing, informal little plant. The when in bloom in the spring, covered flowers are borne in clusters con- with racemes of rich scarlet flowers. tinuously throughout the year and Dry soil, full sun. Gal. tins, 80c. are intensely fragrant with a delicious jasmine scent. The tubes of the flowers are 3 or more inches in Dry Land Shrimps length, and the open face of the petals about IV2 inches across. You'll pay Beloperone tomentosa. S13. "Shrimp big money at the florist's for these not grow Plant." 2 ft. 23°. Handsome little flowers in a corsage. Why compact plant which bears all year them yourself? Prune the plants se- twice a year to keep odd but attractive flower spikes of verely once or them in bloom. Full sun or semi- coppery bronze bracts, enclosing shade near the coast; shade inland. small cream and purple flowers. Ex- Gal. tins, $1.00. cellent for cut flower arrangements. Sun, half-shade. Gal. tins, 70c. Colorful Buddleias Barberries Buddleia davidi. S20. "lie de France." 8 ft. 15°. The finest of the "Summer Berberis darwini. S14. "Darwin Bar- Lilac" type of Buddleia, with great berry." 6 ft. Zero. Small, glossy, long flower spikes 6 to 12 inches dark green, holly-like leaves with long, in color a brilliant rosy purple Yesterday violet, today lavender, tomorrow white, but always Deliciously fra- brilliant orange-yellow flowers in the tinted with violet. sweetly fragrant are Brunfelsias. grant. Perfectly hardy anywhere. spring, followed by plum-colored ber- Should be pruned back almost to the It has long been and still is ries. ground each winter. Full sun. Gal. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow one of the most popular Barberries tins, 60c. for the West. Sun or shade. Gal. Brunfelsia calycina floribunda. S17. "Yesterday, Today and tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Buddleia asiatica. SI 8. "White Sum- Tomorrow." 6 ft. 20°. Medium size shrub of compact habit mer Lilac." Similar to above but with rich dark green foliage, producing throughout most of the Berberis darwini nana. S14A. "Dwarf with white flowers, the most fragrant year many intensely fragrant flowers which open deep violet Darwin Barberry." (B. gracilis.) 2 of all the Buddleias. Gal. tins, 60c. and fade gradually to lavender and white, yesterday's flowers berries ft. 5°. Foliage, flowers and being a different color today. Tomorrow they will be a still 15°. like the above but makes a low, Buddleia "Charming." S19. 8 ft. different color. Few flowers are more sweet-scented than these, of all the pink Buddleias. rounded, dense mound of foliage. The finest and few plants bloom over a longer summer period. Plenty of the late Sun. Gal. tins, 80c. Bears all through summer moisture. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. and autumn beautiful long sprays of Berberis pruinosa. S15. "Hollygreen lavender-pink blooms, 12 to 16 inches Barberry." 6 ft. Zero. We think this in length, extremely fragrant and Boxwood for Hedges is one of the most beautiful of Bar- very dainty in coloring. Grows fast Buxus microphylla japonica. S22. "Japanese Box." 2 to 4 it. reasons: berries, and here are the and will start to bloom for you the 10°. For a 2 or 3 foot low evergreen trimmed hedge in most its arch- (1) The beauty and grace of first summer after planting. Gal. tins, of California, there is nothing better than this variety. Natur- ing branches which do not get too 60c. ally grows low, dense and compact, with glossy, bright green, big; (2) Long 2-inch, dark green, glos- small leaves. An occasional trimming will keep it any shape sy, spiny-toothed leaves which cover you desire. Also useful for trimmed pyramids or globes for become the plant; (3) A few of them Fragrant Carpenteria garden or tubs. Flats of 100 small plants, $5.00; 4-inch pots for brilliant red in the fall and winter hedge planting, $4.00 per 10, $35.00 per 100; trimmed globes, Bright yellow 12-18 (but do not drop); (4) Carpenteria californica. S29. "Fra- inches, $4.00; trimmed pyramids, 18-24 inches, $4.00; 24-30 flowers in late winter; (5) Followed inches, $5.50; 21/2-3 feet, $7.50. grant Carpenteria." 6 ft. 15°. A berries. by big, beautiful blue-back handsome California native flower- tins, 80c; Sun or half-shade. Gal. ing plant, with large, long leaves and For a Very Low Hedge 5-gal. tins, $2.50. single, white, exceedingly fragrant, Buxus harlandi. S21. "Harlands Boxwood." 2 ft. 5°. A new 2-2 B. thunbergi atropurpurea. S15A. 5-petalled flowers, Vz inches across, Boxwood which may displace the Japanese Boxwood for hedges "Red-leaved Japanese Barberry." 4 which look like single roses or single and trimmed plants in many places, particularly where a lower camellias. Exceedingly lovely in hedge is desired, since this variety does not naturally ft. Zero. Leaves brilliant purplish- grow red at all times, some of them drop- form and texture and borne in such much over 18 inches or 2 .feet and becomes very dense and ping off in winter. Perfectly hardy profusion as to make the plant look compact at that height, keeping its shape with almost no prun- under all conditions, and extremely like a mound of snow. Best in part ing. Grows quite rapidly to 18 inches, however. Flats of 100 plants, 4-inch colorful wherever planted, whether it shade under filtered sunlight, with small $5.00; pots for hedge planting, $4\00 per 10, be mountain, desert or coast. Gal. good drainage. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5- $35.00 per 100; balled, 12-15 inches, $2.00; 15-18 inches, $2.50; 18-24 $3.00. tins, 70c. gal. tins, $2.75. inches,

CaTpenteria, white flowers big as a dollar. The brilliant orange flowers of Darwin Barberry. Like a Wild Rose

Candollea cuneiformis. S28. 4 ft. 22°. A beautiful, compact, rounded plant, covered from March to June with many ll/2-inch bright yellow flowers almost like a free-blooming yellow wild rose. Full sun. Soil on the dry side. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Trinidad Flame Bush Calliandra guildingi. S23. "Trinidad Flame Bush." 8 ft. 15°. The large heads of vivid scarlet stamens, 3 inches long, each head shaped like a pompon, which cover the plant like a sheet of fire in the spring and summer make this a sparklingly vivid and colorful plant. Its feathery, fern-like foliage is handsome the year around and makes a beautiful background for the brilliant flowers. Comes from Trini- dad. See colored illustration on page 35. Full sun. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Carissa grandiflora. FS1. "Natal Plum." Beautiful ornamental fruiting shrub. See page 6. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. If you live in our Southern California delivery zone (see page 40), we can deliver your order to you in one of our covered trucks, subject always to wartime delivery regulations. Small, light weight orders of bare root material must be sent by mail or express. See page 41. — 46 — Armstrong Shrubs

Cascades of Crimson A Spot of Blue viminalis. S27. "Scarlet Callistemon Ceratostigma willmottianum. S-38. Bottle Brush." 15 ft. 15°. No plant "Chinese Plumbago." 3-4 ft. 10°. will provide a magnificent show of One of the finest blue flowering gar- brilliant scarlet color more easily den shrubs, of medium size. From than this tall, slender, semi-weeping, rapid growing shrub which covers June to December the handsome plant itself in the spring with great masses is covered with great masses of the of cascading scarlet blooms, 4 inches deepest, richest, most brilliant shade long. Grows easily anywhere, and of blue imaginable. It grows with you'll get plenty of spectacular color the greatest of ease anywhere in sun Gal. tins, fqr your money. Full sun. or shade and in any type of soil, $2.25. 70c; 5-gal. tins, never failing in its bounteous crop

of flowers. In colder sections it drops Firefall Bush its leaves, but it should be pruned Callistemon Red Chico. S26. "Firefall back once a year anyway wherever Bush." 6-8 ft. 15°. With this showy planted. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, plant in your garden you'll have one $2.50. color displays of the most dazzling Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. S37. that can imagine. real Fourth you A "Dwarf Blue Plumbago." 15°. Dwarf, of July display with 4-inch flowers in. blue flowering perennial, only one a brilliant, vivid shade of red, hang- foot high. Gal. tins, 60c. The briiilant yellow flowers of Golden Wonder. ing down from the arching branches like particles of glowing red fire. Keeps it up too, from April through Golden Wonder for Winter Color June. A new hybrid from the U. S. Night Blooming Cassia splendida. S31. "Golden Wonder." 20°. We are very Department of Agriculture, intro- Cestrum parqui. S40. "Night Bloom- us this year for the first enthusiastic over this large shrub, which is spreading, much duced by ing Jessamine." 5 ft. 21°. Just a time. Really a hot number! Full sun. branched, and becomes 6 to 8 feet in height and as much good - looking, inconspicuous ever- Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. across. Beginning in November and continuing through Decem- green shrub in the daytime, but mak- it bears spectacular guantities of big golden ber and January, ing itself known in the darkness by yellow flowers at a time when it is difficult to get bright color True Tea Plant the ravishing fragrance from its in the garden. Its low, compact shape fits it into almost any Camellia sinensis. (Thea.) 1 S27A. small greenish-white flowers—a fra- sunny spot. Thrives in the face of severe ocean winds. Full "Tea Plant." 4-6 ft. 12°. This is the grance of musk mingled with helio- sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. true Tea Plant, grown in Ceylon and trope. Flowering branches placed in Cassia artemesoides. S30. "Feathery Cassia." 8 ft. 15°. Finely China. You can use those "tender a room will emit perfume during the cut silvery-gray foliage and clear yellow, sweet scented flow- young leaves of the Tea Plant" to entire night but no longer. The pearl- ers which look like big yellow bumblebees perched all over make your own tea if you wish. white berries make splendid indoor the plant. Needs little water, likes plenty of sunshine, thriving Those same leaves become 5 inches decorations. Full sun. Gal. tins, 70c; in Arizona and other desert sections, as well as near the coast. long when mature and are very 5-gal. tins, $2.25. Full sun. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. beautiful. Entirely aside from the novelty of having a real tea plant in your garden, the plant is a beautiful Orange Cestrum of the pink blooms of Geraldton Wax Flower Sprays waxy, make ornamental. The large, fragrant, IV'2- Cestrum aurantiacum. S39. "Orange ideal flower arrangements, keeping for days. white flowers are real inch single Cestrum." 8-12 ft. 22°. Large, bright, the plant be- white camellias, and handsome, 4-inch leaves on a tall, comes covered with them. Grows slender, gracefully arching plant, easily in California. Part-shade. producing at the end of every branch Plenty of water. Gal. tins, $1.50; clusters of long, tubular, bright or- 5-gal. tins, $3.50. ange-colored flowers, deliciously fragrant. Very large, white berries as California Lilacs big as a small marble follow the In the springtime the California foot- flowers. Flowers, foliage and berries hills are glorious to behold because are splendid decorations in the gar- the landscape is massed with the den and on the table. Full sun or delicate blue flowers of the Califor- part shade. Gal. tins, 70c. nia Lilac and the air is scented with their sweet perfume. They grow rapidly in the garden, and thrive any- Mexican Orange where in well-drained soil. Full sun. Choisya ternata. S46. "Mexican Or- Ceanothus cyaneus. S32. "Lakeside ange." 5 ft. 15°. A dense, globu- Wild Lilac." 6-10 ft. 12°. The most lar shrub, with bright, glossy green prized of the Wild Lilacs, with 6- foliage profusely covered in spring inch spikes of the richest, most beau- with showy-white, sweetly scented tiful, deep indigo-blue flowers imag- blooms resembling orange blossoms. inable covering the plant from May Hardy anywhere in Southern Califor- to late fall. One of the showiest of nia. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, $1. all native California shrubs. After it is once established, be sparing with irrigation. A short-lived plant unless Flame Pea grafted. All Armstrong plants are Chorizema varium. S48. "Flame Pea." grafted. It makes a big difference. 2 ft. 20°. A low, dense mound of Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. glossy, holly-like leaves on slender, Ceanothus thyrisflorus griseus. S36. drooping branches, covered with "Deep Blue Wild Lilac." 6 ft. 10°. great quantities of brilliant, little, We consider this to be one of the pea-like flowers, bright orange-red very finest varieties of the California and reddish purple in color, borne Wild Lilac because of the magnifi- throughout the winter and spring. cent deep blue color of the fragrant For a spot of really briliant color in flowers, almost as intense as Lake- your garden you will find nothing side Lilac, and its medium size. An better than this easily grown shrub. easy to grow variety and a never- Sun or semi-shade. Gal. tins, 70c; failing source of delightful spring col- 5-gal. tins, $2.25. or. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Carpet of Blue Red, White and Blue Ceanothus gloriosus. S33. "Point Cienfuegosia hakeaefolia. S49. "Des- the Reyes Ceanothus." A low, dense, ert Rose." 4-8 ft. 18°. This is spreading mat of glossy evergreen only plant we know of that displays foliage, never becoming more than our national colors all in one flower. 6 or 8 inches high but covering the The big, bell-shaped blooms, IV2 to 2 ground for as much as 6 or 8 feet. inches across, have a cerise-red It covers itself in late spring with throat, then a band of white, while masses of rich, bright, blue-lavender the rest of the flower is rich laven- flowers (on red stems), fragrant and der-blue. The plant is fast-growing, lovely in coloring. Does best in par- with needle-like foliage, and starts to tial shade with occasional watering, wave the colors in April, continuing but along the coast and in most to produce the showy blooms until easily northern areas it will grow well in the middle of summer. Grows full sun. Gal. tins, $1.00. anywhere in full sun. Gal. tins, 80c. — 47 — Geraldton Wax Flower The Rockroses

Illustrated in color on page 34. Rockroses are exceedingly valuable evergreen shrubs for California Chamaelaucium ciliaium. "Geraldton because they grow so well in dry soils, like plenty Wax Flower." 6 ft. 22°. The most popu- of sunshine, are hardy alike to heat and lar and successful new shrub introduced cold, and because of the sheer beauty into Southern California in the past ten of the flowers and the great profusion years. It has attractive heath-like foli- of bloom. The plants require almost no age, a graceful open habit and sprays of pruning. Be sure that they get plenty lovely little waxy blooms which range of sunshine and not too much water. in color from white to various shades The blooming season lasts for many of pink and light lavender-red. The weeks in spring and early summer. blooms have a little waxy cup in the center which is green when it first opens, Cistus corbariensis. S50. "White Rock- soon changing to rich maroon. The flow- rose." 3 ft. 10°. A low bank of sage- ers start to open in January and never green foliage studded with 2-inch white stop until the middle of April when the flowers. A plant that stands dry soil, oldest blooms are still beautiful. One of sea sprays or hot sun, always looks the finest of cut flowers because the fresh and luxuriant and is never-failing sprays keep for days when taken into with its many beautiful blooms which the house, and are very dainty and appear for many weeks in spring and graceful in bowl arrangements. Prune early summer. Grows well almost any- back quite severely after the blooming where, and we find it to be one of the season. Chamaelauciums prefer an open most useful plants in California gardens sunny position and will grow in any soil because of its all-year foliage, small size but probably do best in a light soil kept and long blooming period. See illustra- fairly dry. The following exclusive Arm- tion below. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, strong varieties have been selected from $2.25. hundreds of fine seedlings, and you'll find them immensely better than ordi- Cistus cyprius. S51. "Brown-eyed Rock- nary plants on the market elsewhere. rose." 3 ft. 10°. Pure white flowers, 3 inches across, with golden Chamaelaucium Blush White. S41. This stamens in the center and a spot of maroon-crimson is a very fine, large flowered, heavy like a drop of blood at the blooming variety. Almost white, with base of each petal. Gal. tins, 80c. lavender to make just a blush of pinkish Orchid Rockrose. "Old Rose" color, maroon-spotted. it effective. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, Cistus purpureus. S53. "Orchid Rock- $2.50. rose." 10°. It makes a compact, hand- Chamaelaucium Cameo Pink. S42. Has some plant, 4 ftet high and 6 feet across, slightly smaller flowers in a much more covered with lovely flowers 3 to 4 inches The Clorybower pronounced shade of dainty pink tinged across, rich rosy-pink in color (it might be called "old rose") with lavender. A very profuse bloomer, with a deep ma- Clerodendron bungei. S54. "Rose Glorybower." 3-5 ft. hogany or with sprays unsurpassed for cutting. Gal. maroon spot at the base of 20°. Almost anywhere in California you can enjoy this each petal, and with tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. a center of yellow easily grown plant, because it is perfectly hardy, and stamens. It is certainly the most colorful Chamaelaucium Cameo Rose. S43. The although it may freeze down to the ground in cold sec- of all the Rockroses and a most satisfac- richest in color, deep rosy lavender. tions in winter, it grows right up again to 4 feet in the tory plant for a dry spot in full Blooms very freely. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- sun. Gal. course of a few weeks and starts producing again, over tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. gal. tins, $3.00. its big heart-shaped leaves, quantities of big rosy-red hydrangea like flower heads, 8 inches across. Deliciously Chamaelaucium Dwarf Pink. S44. An fragrant. It will grow almost any place, but prefers a unusual large-flowered type in a deep cool, semi-shady location. Gal. tins, 70c; 5 gal. tins, $2.25. shade of pinkish lavender. The plants Breath of Heaven grow to 4 ft. Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, Coleonema album. S56. (Diosma alba.) Clerodendron myricoides. S54A. "Blue Glorybower." 6 $3.50. "White Breath of Heaven." 4-8 ft. 20°. ft. 20°. Just imagine a slender 6-foot shrub with lots of Chamaelaucium DwaTf Rose. S44A. The This popular shrub with its sweet-scent- fine glossy foliage, hung from top to bottom with beau- lowest growing Wax Flower that we ed, heath-like foliage and its literally tiful little purple and blue flowers, IV2 inches across, have (3-4 ft.) and the deepest in color. thousands of little star-like white flow- which look like tiny orchids. Good looking foliage the Lavender-rose. Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. ers in late winter and spring is a great year around, and the vigorous plants do not have to be tins, $3.50. favorite. If the foliage is rubbed, a most nursed along. Blooms continuously from August until entrancing aromatic fragrance is releas- almost Christmas, the little orchid-like blue flowers reed. Full sun. Gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, newing themselves day after day. The sprays are fine Three Salesyards $2.00. for cutting, too. Sun or part-shade. Gal. tins, $1.00. Coleonema pulchrum. S57. "Pink Breath There are three Armstrong Sales and Dis- of Heaven." 3-5 ft. 20°. The plant is play Yards (no other branches or agents) very much like the White Breath of Hea- The Fragrant Coronilla at which you may select from a full ven above and it has the same sweet- supply of Armstrong products. In addi- scented foliage, but it grows a little more tion to our home display yard at Onta- compact, low and bushy, and the flow- Coronilla glauca. S58. "Honey Coronilla." 3 ft. 15°. rio, our North Hollywood Branch on ers are bright pink instead of white. Bushy, little, gray-foliaged plant smothered with quanti- Magnolia Blvd., at Coldwater Canyon Full sun. Gal. tins, 70c. ties of small, pea-shaped, brilliant yellow blooms in late Ave., serves all of the San Fernando winter. Extremely fragrant, particularly at night. It Valley, and our new Culver City Branch Please include both name and code grows with the greatest of ease almost anywhere in on Sepulveda Blvd., four blocks south of California. A much better source of yellow color than number of each variety on your order Culver Blvd., is convenient for all of Los most of the Brooms. Sun or half-shade. Gal. tins, 70c; Angeles and the beach cities. sheet. 5-gal. tins, $2.25.

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

The plant of Cistus corbariensis, 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.

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Berried Cotoneasters Pink Australian Fuchsia Indispensable in California gardens are Correa pulchella. S61. "Australian Fuch- ll/ the Cotoneasters, which are splendid foli- sia." 2 ft- 22°. This is one of the age plants, but their most valuable char- finest foreground shrubs for California gar- acteristics is the quantity of cheerfully col- dens. It stays small, only about 18 inches ored red berries that brighten the bushes high, and makes a dense mass of foliage in autumn and winter and which are ex- which may spread out for 4 or 5 feet. The cellent cut material for bowl arrangements little, waxy, bell-shaped flowers are a 1 in the house at the holiday season or any beautiful soft pink, and are borne in the other time. Hardy and fast growing any- winter from November to April. Extreme where. They all like a sunny position. heat does not bother it, and it rather likes We grow five excellent kinds to fit almost dry soil. A fine shrub to plant in front any position in the garden from the low, of Chamaelauciums offered at left. Sun or spreading Cranberry Cotoneaster up to the shade. See illustration on page 34. Gal. tall, large, Silverleaf Cotoneaster. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50.

Cotoneaster apiculata. S62. "Cranberry Correa alba. S59 . "White Correa." 4 ft. Cotoneaster." 2-4 ft. Zero. A very fine 20°. More upright than the above, becom- spreading, semi-prostrate variety with the ing about 4 feet high and as much across, biggest, reddest berries you ever saw on with handsome silvery grey foliage. Hang- a plant of this kind, almost as large as ing all over it in the summertime are many cranberries. Very handsome foliage as little bell-shaped white flowers about a well, and it thrives easily any place. Full half inch long. It will do well in any soil. sun. Gal. tins, 80c. The hottest sun does not bother it. Gal. C. conspicua decora. S63. "Necklace Cot- tins, 80c. oneaster." 3-4 ft. 10°. Taller than the Correa bicolor S59A. "Two-Toned Correa." above low kind but still a low, spreading 3 ft. 20°. Bushy little upright plant with shrub, with arching branches which are tubular, 1 1/2-inch flowers in two colors, always handsome throughout the year, pink and greenish yellow. Gal. tins, $1.00. particularly so in April every branch when Correa harrisi. S60. "Red Correa." 1-2 is strung with little white flowers like ft. 22°. Startling new Correa, with bell- sparkling just attractive in gems and as shaped flowers an inch or more in length fall winter, those flowers the and when in a bright shade of orange-scarlet. Grows turned to bright red berries. Gal. have very much like Correa pulchella in habit tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. but with much deeper and brighter col- C. horizontalis. S64. "Rock Cotoneaster." ored flowers. Quite rare as yet, and plants 2 ft. Zero. A prostrate, half deciduous are scarce. 5 gal. tins, $3.50. shrub, its angular branches hugging the ground. In the autumn it has spray upon spray of glowing crimson berries, which, The Fragrant Daphne combined with its deep red leaves, are a beautiful sight (red in fall only). Gal. tins, Daphne odora. S81. "White Daphne." 2-3 80c. ft. 10°. This is just about the most power- The big red berries of Parnays C. lactea. S65. (C. parnayi.) "Parnays fully fragrant plant in the world, and it Red Clusterberry (Cotoneaster Red Clusterberry." 5-6 ft. 10°. This is is difficult to realize that one small plant lactea) cover the plant at Christ- the best of the larger growing Cotoneast- can radiate such an intense, delightful and mas-time and for many weeks ers because of its large, luxuriant ever- deliciously sweet perfume. In the garden before and after Christmas. green foliage, which is dense and luxuri- you can inhale it many yards away, and Multiply this picture by three ant throughout the entire year and be- one little sprig of blooms will perfume the times and you get an idea of cause of the enormous clusters of brilliant entire room when cut. The small flower what the approximate size will red berries. It does not overgrow like so heads of creamy white are borne profusely be. It never fails to berry, and many of the larger growing Cotoneasters, all over the plant throughout the winter. the birds do not eat them. seldom exceeding 6 feet in height, and is The handsome plant with its shiny green well foliaged right down to the ground, foliage does best in partial shade with showing no bare stems. Gal. tins, 70c; plenty of moisture but good drainage. Gal. 5-gal. tins, $2.25. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50; balled, 18-24 Canary-Bird Flower C. pannosa. S66. "Silverleaf Cotoneaster." in., $5.00; 2-3 ft., $6.00. 8 ft. 15°. One of the best known and Daphne odora Yellowedge. S83. "Gold See colored illustration on page 35. most widely planted Cotoneasters. The edged Daphne." 2-3 ft. 10°. Leaves mar- Crotalaria agatiflora. ST4. "Canary - Bird Flower." leaves are a soft gray-green, silvery under- gined with gold, the flowers are pink. 6-10 ft. 25°. When you get this unusual fast grow- neath. White flowers in spring, followed Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50; balled. ing shrub from the mountain slopes of East Africa by great masses of silvery red berries, re- 18-24 in., $5.00; 2-3 ft., $6.00. in bloom in your garden it will be the most striking maining all fall and winter. A splendid Daphne odora Rose Queen. S82. "Large and most spectacular object there. It has luxuriant desert shrub but equally good on the coast. Pink-Flowered Daphne." 3-4 ft. 10°. A tropical-appearing leaves and racemes of large, 3- Gal. tins, 60c. beautiful strain with plain green leaves inch green and geld flowers in sprays as much as and deep pink flowers a little larger than 3 feet long. The boughs look as though they were the other varieties. The leaves are big- full of gorgeous canary birds, and cut, make splen- Orange-Red Broom ger, the plant is larger and it grows fast- did table decorations. Sun, plenty of moisture. Gal. Cytisus Pomona. S79B. 6 ft. 10°. A er. Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. showy hybrid Broom, its arching branches so covered with orange-apricot sweetpea- Packed for shipment, evergreen shrubs in like blooms in the spring that you cannot gal. tins weigh approximately 10 lbs. each. Balled plants Flowers of Rosy Christmas Heather see the stems. Best on the coast from 5-gal. tins, 50 lbs. each. Santa Barbara north. Full sun. Plenty of average 50 lbs. each. See page 41 for moisture. Gal. tins, 70c. shipping costs.

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

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Terrestrial Orchid Bletilla hyacinthina. ?9. "Terrestrial Or- chid." 20°. Another delightful, easily grown outdoor Orchid, with grassy foliage 1 to 2 feet high, bearing in spring months a profusion of 1 Winch lavender-pink flowers with orchid and purple markings, splendid for cut flowers. Full sun along coast, semi-shade elsewhere. Gal. tins, $1.

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 flowers, IVz- inch across. It does better in California 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, 80c. The flower heads on Rose Glorybower are 8 inches across, sweetly fragrant. Dwarf Duranta Duranta stenostachys. ST4A. "Brazil Sky- flower." 4-6 ft. 24°. If you want a lovely foliaged, graceful arching plant about 5 Garden Orchids feet high and as much across in a sunny or half-shady spot in your garden, bear- Cymbidiums. Ir. California we can grow ing beautiful little 4 to 6-inch sprays of Orchids some of the most beautiful hardy lovely lilac-purple blooms, each one a in gardens with ease. The outdoors our half inch across, borne almost all summer of which is illus- Cymbidiums, a bloom long and sometimes in other seasons, trated on this page, make clumps of grassy search no farther, here it is. Do not con- 2 to 4 feet high, and in the winter foliage, fuse this with the old tall, weedy, thorny early spring carry great sprays, from and Duranta plumieri. One of the finest of long, of the most beautiful Or- 1 to 3 feet small garden shrubs in habit, foliage and chids imaginable in a wide range of col- flower. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. ors. As many as 30 blossoms may be found on a single spray, while 10 to 20 sprays are not uncommon for a mature plant. Heathers Cymbidiums will grow well along the Erica blanda. S91. "Red Everblooming coast from San Diego to San Luis Obispo Heather." 3 ft. 15°. Low, rounded, it and in all inland valleys except the hot- bears clusters of tubular red flowers test desert valleys. They like a location throughout the entire year. What other where they have light shade or are pro- flowering shrub will do more? Full sun. tected from the hottest sun during the day. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. While they like a fibrous soil with plenty E. canaliculata rosea. S92. (E. melanthera or peat mixed of coarse leaf mold moss rosea.) "Rosy Christmas Heather." 6 ft. in, they must have good drainage. They 15°. This is the best known and most thrive under Oaks, Sycamores and other popular of all the Heathers in California, readily will stand minimum tem- trees and and certainly it is one of the most beau- 20°. peratures down to Once established tiful of winter flowering shrubs. From No- the plants are permanent. They come in vember to March the plants are a solid Flowers of Cymbidium, reduced one-third. As many many lovely shades of amber bronze, lu- mass of small rosy-lavender flowers dotted claret. as 40 on a 3-foot spray. Many beautiful colors. minous green, chartreuse, pink and with black stamens. It is sometimes called Strong clumps: S7.50, S10.00, S12.50, S15.00 "Scotch Heather" but it never saw Scot- and on up to S50.00 each. The sizes priced land, being a native of South Africa, and at S10.00 or less usually will not have is much showier and brighter than the African Daisy Bush flower sprays this season, but many of the real article. Full sun, good drainage. Gal. Euryops athanasiae. S103. "South African Daisy the cur- 2-3 larger clumps will bloom during tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; balled, Bush." 4 ft. 18°. On the tall slender evergreen plants rent winter blooming season. See them in ft., $2.50; 3-4 ft., $3.00. are borne large quantities of big, daisy-like bright Dis- bloom from January to April in our Erica chamissonis. S93. "Lavender Heath- yellow flowers, 3 inches across, borne on 12-inch play Yards and pick out the one you like er." 2 ft. 15°. A little, dwarf, compact stems. The flowers appear in the greatest profusion In most sizes we can usually supply plants Heather that we admire more than any in the middle of winter, giving plenty of January in shades of bronze, creamy yellow, or other kind that we have grown. Its soft, color. Plants somewhat awkward in appearance but pink. The other colors must be selected grey-green foliage is handsome all through well worth having in the garden for their value as while in bloom. the year, and in February and March it winter cut flowers alone. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c. is solidly covered with little cup-shaped See Euryops pectinatus on the next page. blooms of deep lavender-pink with black Ground-Orchids eyes, so soft and feathery and delightfully Flowers of African Daisy Bush rich in coloring that it gives you a thrill Epidendrum o'brienianum. S88. "Ever- every- time you look at it. Full sun, plenty blooming Ground-Orchid." 5-6 feet. A of moisture, good drainage. Gal. tins, $1. semi-reclining, leafy plant, sending up Erica cruenta. S94. "Dwarf Scarlet Heath- leafy stems from 3 to 6 feet tall on which er." 3 ft. 18°. Bushy, low grower, light- are borne big clusters of brilliantly col- ed up all through the late summer, the ored, bright scarlet flowers, the lip shaded fall and early winter months with 6 to 8 with orange-yellow. They are magnificent inch spikes of slender, tubular flowers in for cutting and you can easily have such a showy shade of flame-red. Gal. tins, flowers if you live in Southern California 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. where the temperature does not go below lusitanica. S95. "Spanish Heather." 4 25°. Once established, the plants will E. ft. 18°. So covered with snowy-white provide blooms almost every day in the flowers in late winter that it looks like a year and will grow into large clumps. snowdrift. Gal. tins, $1.00. Full sun along coast, semi-shade else young where. 6-inch pots, $2.00; 5-gal. tins, $5.00. E. Melanthera rubra. S97. "Fall Blooming ft. 5°. Compact and bushy, with stiff Epidendrum radicans. S89. "Orange Ground 4 stems and purplish-pink flowers from Mar. Orchid." 4-5 ft. A slightly smaller plant Gal. tins, 80c. than the above but with even more and to June. Hardy anywhere. brighter blooms. Its 1-inch flowers are a E. John McLaren. S95A. 2-3 ft. 15°. It brilliant cinnabar-red approaching orange. bears magnificent 6-inch spikes of brilliant 6-inch pots, S2.00. rose-pink flowers splendid for cutting. Best Epidendrum Orange-Buff. S87B. "Orange- along coast. Gal. tins, 80c. Buff Ground-Orchid." 5-6 ft. 20°. A new E. melanthera rubra. S97. "Fall Blooming hybrid from the Hawaiian Islands with Heather." 3-4 ft. 15°. Similar to the beautiful big clusters of orange and buff Christmas Heather, but a low growing flowers. A most delightful and unusual plant, deeper colored, rosy red flowers, shade and a wonderful cut flower, bloom- and a much earlier blooming period, from ing almost all the year. 6-inch pots, S2.00. Oct. to Dec. Gal. tins, $1.00.

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. — , — 50 filler*/ Colorful Armstrong Shrubs

Brilliant Winter Blue A Botanical Miracle

Eranthemum nervosum. ST4B. "Blue Fatshedera lizei. S105. 6 ft. 5°. One Winter Eranthemum." 4 ft. 24°. We of the rarest objects in nature, an ar- are always very much pleased when tificial hybrid between plants of dif- we can recommend a good, small, blue ferent genera, the giant leaved Fatsia flowering shrub because they are japonica and the ordinary English Ivy scarce, especially one which has such (Hedera). Makes a plant halfway be- luxuriant looking all-year foliage. This tween the two with extremely hand- plant from tropical India bears many some deep green glossy foliage. Splen- large clusters of the most brilliant blue did for training flat against or over a flowers throughout the late winter and wall. Its large, glossy, 6-inch leaves spring. Prefers a shady position with make a cool green covering in no plenty of moisture but is not particular time. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 80c; and will do as well in the sun, if not 5-gal. tins, $2.50. allowed to become too dry. Gal. tins, 80c. Golden Fremontia Fremontia mexicana. S10S. "San Diego Evergreen Euonymus Fremontia." 10 ft. 5°. A splendid Euonymus japonicus. S100. "Evergreen large native flowering shrub with Euonymus." Euonymus has long been small, fig-like, gray-green leaves and a most useful foliage ornamental in a marvelous profusion of coppery, or- the West and South, standing heat and ange-yellow flowers, 2 to 3 inches cold, easily grown anywhere in the across, in the later winter and spring. Southwestern States, and always with Full sun, good drainage and not too dense, glossy, handsome foliage. Often much water. Gal. tins, $1.50. used as trimmed specimen plants and makes splendid hedges which can be Freeblooming Fuchsias pruned to any desired height. Flats Gardenia Mystery, Armstrong Strain (One-half Natural Size). of 100 plants, $6.00; gal. tins, 60c; There is no other shade-loving shrub balled, 2-3 ft., $3.50; 3-4 ft., $4.50. We that will bloom so profusely and with also have the Giltedge (S100A) in flats so much color over such a long season Brilliant Violet-Blue of 100 plants at $6.00, and the Gold- as the Fuchsia. They like a cool, moist spot (S101) in flats of 100 plants, $6.00; situation, shady, thriving anywhere in Dyschoris»e thunbergiilora. S86. 3 ft. 24°. little hand- A gal. tins, 60c; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.50; 3-4 California. 18°. Price on all Fuchsias: foliaged which is fine for leaning against wall somely shrub ft., $4.50. gal. tins, 80c. or fence in a sunny or half-shady spot with plenty of mois- Euonymus fortunei radicans. G5. "Red ture. The trumpet-shaped blooms, 3 inches long, are rich Winter Creper." Zero. One of the Our Largest Flowering Fuchsias violet-blue, with deeper purple markings in the throat, such finest spreading, creeping foliage plants Gypsy Queen. ST14. Double giant with an intense color that you can hardly believe them r°al. for a ground cover. See page 37. rose-pink petals and flame colored Best near coast or in mild-wintered areas. Gal. tins, 80c. Flats of 100 plants, $6.00. sepals. 4-5 ft. Aviator. ST11. Single, pure white, with Silver-Bronze Leaves and Berries long, rose-red sepals curving outward Elaeagnus Fruitland. S87. "Fruitland Silverberry." 8 ft. Like Frosted Coral like wings. 2-4 ft. 10°. A large spreading shrub with 4-inch leaves and stems Eupatorium vernale. S102. "Coral Eu- Pride of Orion. ST17. Immense double covered with frosty shiny scales. Even the great silver- patorium." 4-5 ft. 23°. Just visualize flowers, with pure white petals, bril- bronze berries look as though they had been gilded. Thrives a handsomely foliaged 4 ft. plant, liant scarlet sepals. Our best white. anywhere, even in the ocean spray. Sun or part shade. glossy and bright green right down to 4-5 ft. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. the ground, carrying at the end of Elaegnus pungens macula*a. S87A. Similar to the above but every branch from January to April, Tubular-Flowered Fuchsias with foliage variegated gold and silver. Gal. tins, 80c. 5 or 6-inch heads of small, flesh-pink Corymbiflora. ST13. Spectacular, 4- blooms, soft and feathery, like a inch, crimson, tubular flowers in big of dainty piece pink coral. Blooms clusters. 4-8 ft. Escallonias for the Coast first winter after planting. Prune se- Souv. de Henry Henkel. ST18. Long, The Escallonias are particularly fine shrubs for the seacoast, verely after each blooming period. Gal. tubular, scarlet flowers and plum-col- since they like the salt air and their splendid foliage is tins, 60c. ored foliage. 2-4 ft. particularly luxuriant under coast conditions. Their sweetly fragrant spikes of delicately colored flowers appear over Poinsettias most of the year. Sun or part-shade. Plenty of water. Our Best Hanging Basket Fuchsias Cascade. ST12. Almost 4 inches long. Escallonia viscosa Apple Blossom. S99. "Apple Blossom Euphorbia pulcherrima. ST7. "Poinset- tia." well scarlet "Christ- Coral-rose sepals, bright rose petals. Escallonia." 5 ft. 15°. Dainty blush-pink; very free-bloom- The known for 1-2 ft. ing. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. mas Flower" so popular sunny positions in milder situations. Always be Aurora superba. ST10. Single, orange- Escallonia rubra. S98. "Red Escallonia." 6 ft. 15°. Beau- sure to plant Poinsettias in full sun. salmon. 2-4 ft. red. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. tiful flowers of deep Gal. tins, 80c. Euphorbia Henriette Ecke. ST8. "Double Our Best Low-Growing Fuchsias The Useful Eugenias Poinsettia." 28°. The big, brilliant red Little Beauty. ST15. Single, purple Eugenia paniculata austral ; s. ST6. (E. myrtifolia.) "Austra- flowers, enormous in size, are semi- petals, red sepals. The most compact 1-2 lian Brush Cherry." 24°. If unpruned, this splendid foliage double, with extra petals in the cen- plant and the heaviest bloomer. ft. plant will attain 12 or 15 feet in height, but is usually ter. Very unusual and spectacular, it Pasteur. ST16. Double, white petals, grown as a trained pillar or pyramid to any desired height, is about halfway between the improv- scarlet sepals. 1-2 ft. or as a hedge, and for either use it is exceedingly lovely ed, very double form below and the ordinary single type listed above. They because of its clean, glossy, Myrtle-like foliage which takes From a Lonely Isle on a cheerful bronze tint in the new growth. The big purple are all beautiful, and if you like the forms, this will to berries make excellent jelly too if there is any left after simpler one appeal Galvesia speciosa. S108. "San Cle- $1.00. the children get throuah eating them. (They won't hurt the you most. Gal. tins, mente Snapdragon." 3 ft. 20°. From children.) Gal. tins. 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; trimmed pyra- Euohorbia Henriette Ecke Improved. the channel island of San Clemente off mids, 5-gal., 5-6 ft., $5.00. ST9. "Giant Peony-Flowered Poinset- the California coast comes this hand- tia." 28°. is the most spectacu- some plant which performs the almost Eugenia hookeri. ST5. (E. paniculata.) 8-12 ft. 25°. Simi- Here lar of all Poinsettias, with an enor- unbelievable feat of producing lovely, lar to the above but with larger, darker foliage, more vig- carmine-red, snapdragon-like flowers, orous growth, and large, edible, violet-colored berries larger mous, brilliant red flower, fully double peony. Until have seen IV2 inches long, throughout the entire than Cherries. Gal. tins, 70c. like a you those gigantic, spectacular flowers year. A low, arching, spreading mound smithi. ST6A. (Acmena smi'hi.) "LillipiUi Tree." Eugenia which get to be 9, 10 or even 12 of handsome foliage, 3 feet high and shining bronzy-green foliaa= and 15 ft. 24°. Has beautiful inches across, you've no idea how 4 feet or more across, and you will big clus'ers of 1/2-inch is covered in the winter months with magnificent they are. Plants are scarce. find that there will be seldom a day delicate lavender in color. Cut sprays cf berries, a lovely Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. during the year when you cannot find table decorations. The plant these b?rries make beautiful beautiful blooms on it. Grows easily the grows tall and slender, but not nearly so raoidly as almost anywhere. Full sun or semi- other Eugenias. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Silver and Cold shade. Gal. tins, $1.00. 20°. Euoenia unifora. FS13. "Surinam Cherry." 6 ft. Euryops pectina'us. S104. "Silver and Handsome ornamen*al fruiting shrub. See page 6. Gal. tins, 2-3 18°. the Go'd Bush." ft. Where Swirling Snow $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. above variety is tall and slender, this is beautifully rounded and compact, Genista monosperma pendula. SI 12. It's Easy to Order by Mail with handsome silvery gray leaves 3 "Bridal Veil Broom." 10 ft. 10°. Tall On'orio. North inches long, covered in late winter and slender, with drooping greyish If not convenient to vi«it our Display Yards at and soring with beautiful bright gold- branchlets, completely clothed in the Hollywood or Culver Ci'y, just out your order in ihe mail and en yellow, IVi-inch flowers on 6-inch spring with a dense shower of dainty, matter where you live well get it to you bv the safest no plant, little, pure white, fragrant flowers like : stems. A beautiful low garden and most ec->nom cal means, whe'her it be truck, mail, ex- furnishing a spot cf brilliant color in a swirling snow. Full sun. Gal. tins, prers or freight. See Danes 40 and 41 for shipping and de- dry sunny spot. Gal. tins, 80c. 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. livery information. Address all mail orders to Ontario. — 51 — Fragrant Gardenias Orange Ginger-Lily

The Gardenia, or as it is often called. Hedychium gardnerianum. ST20B. "Or- Cape Jasmine, is unequalled for its rich, ange Ginger-Lily." 4-5 ft. 24°. For sweet perfume, and its snow-white something really startling in the way of blooms are produced in continuous exotic color and fragrance, try this succession throughout the year. They surprising Ginger-Lily from India. The grow 2 to 4 feet high and are hardy 8 to 12 inch flower spike is a compli- down to 18°. Gardenias are a little cated affair with long tubes of saffron- difficult to grow in the open where it yellow, contrasted with extraordinarily is hot and dry, doing best in partial long filaments which are orange, shad- shade or in filtered sunlight, with good ing to orange-scarlet at the tip, ex- drainage and a slightly acid soil con- ceedingly brilliant. And it has an in- dition, best obtained by the liberal use toxicating sweetness that fills the gar- of peat moss or leaf mold. Give the den with fragrance (or the house if plants plenty of moisture but do not you want to cut them). It blooms with keep them too wet, and since they root great freedom in spring and summer, near the surface, do not cultivate and even when out of bloom the big, around them. Gardenias should be glossy leaves, 18 inches long and 6 heavily fertilized. Give each plant a inches across, are beautiful. Plenty of handful of commercial fertilizer during moisture. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, each month from May to September. $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Gardenia jasminoides "Mystery." (Arm- Hedychium coronarium. ST20A. "White strong Strain.) S109. During the last Ginger-Lily." 6 ft. 24°. Similar to the several years this Gardenia has be- above, but with exceedingly fragrant variety come the most popular in 3-inch white blooms, used by the na- California largely because it Southern tives in the South Sea Islands for their the biggest, glossiest and most has leis. And let us emphasize that fra- luxuriant foliage and also has the big- grance again, for it is extremely pow- gest most spectacular blooms, the and erful. Sun or shade. Likes plenty of magnificent, fragrant, snowy white moisture. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, often measuring 4, 5 even blossoms and $2.75. 6 inches across. It makes a big, vigorous plant quickly and opens all its buds perfectly into magnificent flowers. There are several strains of Gardenia sold under the name Mystery, but we Chinese Hat Plant feel Armstrong Mystery Gar- that the Holmskioldia sanguinea. S122. "Chi- denia is much superior to any other nese Hat Plant." 8 ft. 22°. Planted type, having larger, more perfect in a warm, sunny spot, this unique blooms, with bigger, glossier foliage plant will produce great long clusters and a robust habit. Gal. tins, $1.00; of brick-red flower bracts during al- 5-gal. tins, $3.00. most the entire year, even through the Gardenia veitchi. SI 10. The foliage is middle of winter when you can use it not nearly as good as Mystery, but it for Christmas decorations. The flow- has the faculty of producing more ering branches, resembling clusters of blooms, though small ones, than any the richest colored Bougainvilleas, keep other Gardenia, and once established, well when cut and placed in the house. provides great quantities of medium A beautiful thing when trained flat Orange Ginger-Lily (Yellow, Orange and Scarlet). sized (2-inch), fragrant flowers. Gal. against building or wall facing south. tins, $1.00. It likes plenty of sunshine and plenty Gardenia radicans. Sill. "Dwarf Gar- of water. One of the most colorful Yunnan Sweetspire denia." A dainty and interesting little new ornamental shrubs for milder Cali- Itea yunnanensis. S140. "Yunnan Sweetspire." 5 ft. 15°. Gardenia, much like Mystery but much fornia. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. From the mountains of Yunnan in China comes one of the smaller in every respect. Small glossy finest all-year foliage plants that can be grown in California. foliage and miniature blooms only IV2 Big, bronze tinted, bright green leaves. Long, fragrant, inches across. Grows 12 to 18 inches white catkins in spring. Full sun or part shade but requires high. 4-inch pots, 70c. Hydrangeas plenty of moisture in the summertime. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. Old-Fashioned 15°. Australian Grevillea Everybody loves the big Itea ilicifolia. S139. "Holly Leaf Sweetspire." 8 ft. Hydrangea macrophylla described be- The big, toothed, polished, deep green leaves look more Grevillea banksi. SI 13. "Crimson Comb low, but you will enjoy these new lie Holly than Holly itself, and you will never find any- Flower." Dense fern-like foliage and colors hybrids with their richer, deeper thing better than its foliage to use for your Christmas deco- large, comb-like deep flowers crimson as well. Part shade. 10°. Price on all rations. One of the most magnificent foliage plants for any 4 inches long. It blooms almost every varieties except Rouget de Lisle and California garden. Sun or part shade along coast but only month in the year. or part Sun shade. villosa: Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. part shade inland. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Avalanche. S129. Immense, pure white. Cheerful Sun-Roses Matador. S125. Deep rich rose-red. very fine deep pink. Halimium ocymoides. SI 17. "Spanish Triomphe. S127. A Sun-Rose." 3 ft. 10°. For many weeks Rouget de Lisle. SI 26. Normally this m the spring and early summer this is a rich shade of deep carmine, but little rounded plant with "gray-green we have treated the soil to make them foliage is a glorious mass of briqht bloom a deep rich blue. The flowers yellow flowers, each bloom with a ma- will always be that way if you keep roon-red center. Plant it in a sunny the soil acid. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. spot where it will not get too much tins, $2.75. water and prune it back once a year Hydrangea macrophylla. S124. (H. after the flowering season. Grows eas- hortensis.) "Old-Fashioned Hydrangea." ily anywhere. Gal. tins, 70c. 5-8 ft. Long a favorite in California Halimium lasianthum. SI 15. "Portu- gardens, with its large bold foliage gese Sun-Rose." 2 ft. 10°. Grows low and immense heads of pink flowers, and spreading, becoming about 4 feet which turn blue in soils containing iron. across. Its soft down gray foliage is Hydrangea villosa. DS4A. "Blue Star beautiful at all times, and every morn- Hydrangea." 4-6 ft. 10°. Because this ing in the spring and early summer, lovely Hydrangea loses its leaves more it is profusely covered with its brilliant completely in the winter than the others canary-yellow flowers, blotched purple above, we list it with the Deciduous at the base. Wherever live you in Shrubs on page 25. It has the most California these plants are ideal for beautiful blue Hydrangea blooms that the sunniest, driest spots in your gar- you have ever seen. Gal. tins, $1.00; den. Gal. tins, 70c. 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Halimium lasianthum concolor. S115A. lust like the above, but the flowers are ordering, please include on bright canary-yellow without the pur- When of ple spots. If you prefer not to see your order sheet, both the name spots, try this one. Gal. tins, 70c. the variety wanted and the code Halimium libanotis. S116. "Rosemary number (the code number is given in Sun-Rose." 18 inches. 10°. Dainty description directly after the little compact plant with fine, gray- each green, rosemary-like foliage, covered botanical name). for many weeks in spring with quantities of little 34.i nch pure white flowers. Sun- We like it very much because it The plant of Rosemary stays small, gets quite compact, and Rose at the right is 18 inches grows with the greatest of ease almost high. Covered with little anywhere. See illustration at right, white flowers in early sum- rull sun. Gal. tins, 70c. mer. Likes a dry, warm spot. — 52 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

Chinese Hibiscus The Biggest Holly Leaves

Hibiscus are one of the showi- Ilex altaclarensis wilsoni. S132. "Broad est flowering shrubs for South- Leaved Holly." 6-8 ft. 5°. The long, ern California, with large glossy dark green 3-inch leaves are rich glossy leaves and immense bright-col- and ideally shaped, and they are the ored flowers. They all like biggest Holly leaves of any variety in plenty of sunshine and moisture our collection. Compact, beautifully filled and are hardy down to about in, it makes a magnificent shrub and 28°. Given these conditions the beautiful big red berries are on a they grow easily and bloom par with the handsome foliage. Gal. during the entire year. All sin- tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.50; 2-2V2 ft., $5. gle unless noted. English Hollies

Ilex aquifolium iertilis. SI33. "Fertile Standard Varieties English Holly." Ordinary English Hollies grown from seed will not all produce 5-gal. tins, $2.50. V Gal. tins, 80c; berries so we have grown these special Agnes Gait. SHI. Immense- grafted plants of a type bearing heavy crops of very large, red berries every i coral-pink. year if planted in a location suitable for Apricot. SH1A. Apricot, shaded English Holly. Most of the plants al- yellow. Gal. tins only. ready have berries on them in the larger sizes. Plant in shade or semi- ' • , Brilliant. SH2. Immense bril- shade in Southern California. Plenty of liant scarlet. moisture. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, Double Red. SH5. Rich dark $3.00; balled, 2-3 ft., $4.00; 3-4 ft., $6.00. Jp3 crimson. Ilex aquifolium Golden Queen. S133A. Foliage variegated green and gold. Muriel Evans. SH9C. Deep or- Balled, 1 -2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 ft., $5.00. ange flushed pink and yellow. 1/2 Ilex aquifolium Silver Queen. S134. "Sil- Sunshine. SH13. Big flowers of ver-Edged English Holly." The foliage is golden yellow, with a deep beautifully variegated with silver and pink throat. light green against the dark green. The beautiful red berries show up even better than on the dark foliage. Gal. tins, Unusual Hibiscus $1.25; balled, 11/2-2 ft., $4.00. Ilex aquifolium Van Tol. S137. "Dutch Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. The big coral-pink Hibiscus Agnes Gait. Holly." A form of the English Holly bear- Butterfly. SH3. A large, bronze yellow ing great big half-inch berries even flower with a rich red center. No tropi- when the plants are very small. You cal butterfly ever had richer colorings. will not have to wait for berries on this The Low Crowing Cold Flower Double Yellow. SH6. Beautiful, large one. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00; Hypericum moserianum. S130. 2 ft. 10°. A popular low many petalled flowers of clear yellow. balled, ll/2-2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 ft., $5.00. foreground shrub, covered with big, 2-inch golden yellow Prince Takamatsu. SH10. A very large blooms in the spring. Gal. tins, 70c. and lovely red Hibiscus, almost 7 inches Chinese Holly Hypericum patulum henryi. S131. 4 ft. 10°. Similar to across. It is a glowing orange-scarlet, Ilex cornuta Fertile. S136. "Fertile Chi- the above but the plant, foliage and flowers all larger. larger and with more orange in it than nese Holly." 6-10 ft. 5°. This is one of Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 70c. the variety Brilliant. the very best Hollies for Southern Cali- Arnottianus. SH1C. Snowy white, no fornia or anywhere in California because Hollyhocks on Bushes other shadings. Delightfully fragrant. it is better adapted to warmer climates can be Lavatera olbia. S148. 15°. A fast-growing Mallow which Sophisticate. SH12. Big white petals, than the English Hollies and planted right out in the sun in the has long been a favorite in English gardens and is rap- heavily blushed with deep pink. Very southern part of the State. Large, dark idly becoming just as popular in California. It grows lovely coloring. Got its name because green, toothed leaves forming a rapidly to about 6 feet and bears almost continuously the rouge is in just the right shade and many bushy, compact plant. These are cutting good sized bright pink flowers like single Hollyhocks. just the right amount. We'd call it a berry- perfect job of makeup. 5-gal. size only. grown plants of a special heavy We can safely recommend it for almost any soil and any producing type. Ordinary seedling Chi- nese Hollies will not usually produce berries profusely, but these we offer will Select New Hibiscus not fail to bear. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, 11/2-2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 ft., $5.00; 3-4 ft., $8.50. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Bronzino. SH2A. Here is a magnificent new Hibiscus of Hawaiian origin, extra- Burford Holly 34. ordinary in the richness of its color and See Illustration in Color on Page the beauty of its form. The entire flow- Ilex cornuta burfordi. S135. "Burford 5°. er, which is almost 6 inches across, is a Holly." 6-10 ft. A particularly fine brilliant orange-bronze with a little tinge foliaged and heavily berried type of the of red in the very center. The enormous Chinese Holly which does exceptionally petals overlap, forming a very full, large well in California. The foliage is large, bloom, and the petals are ruffled like so glossy that it looks as if it had been crepe paper, giving a most unusual ef- varnished, deep green in color. The fect. plant bears plenty of big, bright red berries like those illustrated on page 34. Fiery Furnace. SH7. A new variety with While it makes a large shrub in time, it an amazingly rich color scheme, glow- will not reach its ultimate height for a ing golden orange deepening toward number of years. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. the throat until it becomes flaming red tins, $2.75; balled, lV2-2 ft., $4.00; 2-3 in the center, from which protrudes the ft., $5.00. rich golden orange stamens. The petals are heavily ruffled and crinkled like thick crepe paper. Gal. tins only. Lantanas Orange Glow. SH9D. A 6-inch flower Lantanas. 22°. These popular ever- of rich apricot-orange with flame colored blooming shrubs grow very rapidly and throat. Gal. tins only. are a mass of bloom almost all the year. The dwarf varieties grow from 1 to 3 feet high and the tall varieties to 5 or 6 feet. All kinds: Gal. tins, 60c. just Over From Hawaii Orange-Red. S142. Dwarf. Pure White. S143. Dwarf. Fireside. SH8. Another new exclusive Clear Yellow. S144. Dwarf. Armstrong Hibiscus from Hawaii. The Light Pink. S145. Tall. magnificent 5-inch flower has very broad overlapping petals, ruffled and beauti- Orange-Red. S146. Tall. fully textured. It has a flaming, glowing Trailing Lantana. G13. (L. sellowiana.) red center, suffusing toward the outer 22°. Much used for trailing over sunny edges of the petals into rich deep chrome- banks and walls. A mass of lavender yellow. One of the richest color com- flowers during most of the year. Fast binations imaginable. Gal. tins, $1.50 growing. Flats of 100 plants, $5.00; gal. each; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. tins, 60c. — 53 — Grand Duke Jasmine

lasminum sambac Grand Duke. S 1 4 1 . 2-5 ft. 20°. A rare and beautiful, semi-reclining 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 intensity of their sweet perfume. Part shade. Gal. tins, $1.50.

Lemon Verbena Lippia citriodora. S158. "Lemon Verbena." 5 ft. 22°. The cool, delightful fragrance The sweet-scented Jasmine Grand Duke (natural size). of its foliage is unequalled, and the white flower spikes in summer are attractive. It is always found in the patios of old Span- ish gardens in Europe and America. Gal. Old Fashioned Lavender tins, 80c. 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 rosy-purple flower spikes, ex- The black squares under each month in the calendar be- ceedingly fragrant when rubbed. Gal. tins, low indicate that you can plant evergreen shrubs during 70c; balled, 12-18 inches, $2.00. every month in the year. Lavandula pedunculata. S149A. "Purple Plume Lavender." 15 inches. 0°. The long- Month J F M A M J J A s N D stemmed, deep purple flower spikes, each topped by 3-inch purple plumes, IV2 inches Tins or Balled m mm long, are much brighter but just as fragrant MM mm mm The red lantern of Malvaviscus. as the old type above. Gal. tins, 70c. Australian Tea Tree Leptospermum laevigatum. S150. "Austra- Privets for Hedges Red Lanterns lian Tea Tree." 8-10 ft. 15°. Large spread- Ligustrum henryi. S154. "Henry's Privet." ing shrub with graceful arching branches Malvaviscus grandiflorus. S163. "Red Lantern 3-8 ft. 5°. Small, glossy, pointed leaves. and grayish-green foliage, needing very Plant." 8-10 ft. 23°. Here is a shrub that really One of the finest for a low hedge or for a little water and thriving in any soil. Splen- gets out and goes to town as soon as you plant pruned specimen plant. Flats of 100 small did for cut sprays for house decoration be- it, for within a few months it will be a big mass plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 60c. cause of its handsome little foliage and its of handsome, evergreen foliage, decked with little white flowers. Easily trained in es- Ligustrum lucidum. S156. "Japanese Privet." large, bell-shaped, 21/2-inch, bright crimson flow- palier form against a sunny wall, but give 4 to 12 ft. 10°. Leathery dark-green glossy ers like miniature Chinese red lanterns, and we it plenty of room. Needs good drainage. leaves and white flowers. The best tall doubt if there will be a day in the year there- Full sun. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. hedge plant, making a fast, heavy, substan- after when you will not find plenty of flowers on tial growth. Hardy, drouth resistant. Excel- the plant. It is one of those shrubs you can plant Pink Sparkler lent for Arizona or other desert areas. Flats in almost any climate, any soil, any place, sun Leptospermum Sanders. S152. "Pink Spark- of. 100 small plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 60c. or semi-shade and get abounding beauty in foliage flower. Gal. tins, 70c. ler." 6 ft. 15°. One little spray will make and Ligustrum japonicum. S1SS. "Nepal Privet." you want it for cut flowers, and when you Please include on your order sheet both the name 3-8 ft. 10°. Large, glossy deep green leaves, have a 6-foot plant, its long, slender arching This hardy from seacoast to desert. Flats of 100 and code number of each variety ordered. branches covered all year with soft, feath- to filling plants, gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. will help us avoid errors in your order. ery, light green foliage and all spring with small $5.00; tins, $2.25. lovely little 3/4-inch lilac pink flowers, shaded crimson—well, you'll drag your friends Ligustrum ovalifolium. S157. "California Flowers of Rose-Flowered Tea Tree. The size and out in the to if garden see you do not Privet." 3-8 ft. 0°. A most popular hedge color of Cecile Brunner Roses. already have a vase full in the living room plant for severe climates. Strong growing, to show them. Full sun or half-shade. Gal. bright green foliage, makes a compact hedge tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. of any desired size when pruned. Partially loses leaves in winter. Flats of 100 small Rose-Flowered Tea Tree plants, $5.00; gal. tins, 60c. Leptospermum scoparium Rose Double. S151. "Dwarf Rose-Flowered Tea Tree." 4-6 ft. 15'°. Here is one of the most beautiful little flowering shrubs ever offered for California Oregon Crape gardens. It grows fairly erect but never Mahonia aquifolium. S-159. "Oregon Grape." gets very large, has soft, fine-cut, dainty 3 to 6 ft. 0°. Dark, lustrous, holly -like foliage which looks the same all the year. foliage and yellow flowers in dense clus- In March and April it produces great quan- ters in the early spring, followed by pur- tities of little double pink blooms which look plish berries. Thrives in almost any loca- like little Cecile Brunner Roses and are tion but partial shade and ample moisture about the same size. The plant grows easily result in brighter and glossier foliage. An anywhere, preferring reasonably dry soil all-climate plant. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, and full sun. It is a delightful and useful $2.25. plant from which to obtain material for bowl "Dwarf arrangements for the table. The little pink Mahonia aquifolium compacta. S159A. buds and flowers with their accompanying Oregon Grape." 2-4 ft. 0°. Quite similar foliage look well with many other bloom to the above, but with slightly smaller, nar- sprays. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. rower leaves. The main difference is in the lower, more spreading habit of growth. For A Texas Ranger a dense, compact, low bank of foliage, it is unexcelled, and it grows easily any- Leucophyllum frutescens floribundum. S153. almost where, always retaining its handsome ap- (texanum.) 5 ft. 10°. A beautiful plant from Like the regular Oregon Grape, Texas, with soft, silvery-gray foliage, and pearance. it does its best in half shade with plenty of pinkish lavender flowers, 1 inch across, Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; borne in great profusion in the later sum- moisture. ft., $3.00; 2-3 ft., $3.75. mer, and sometimes in the spring as well. balled, lVz-2 Prefers full sun and not much water. Gal. tins, 70c. Miniature Orchid Three Big Salesyards There are now three Armstrong Sales and Malpighia coccigera. ST21A. "Holly Malpig- Display Yards (no other branches or agents) hia." 2 ft. 26°. Dainty little dark green long. Cov- at which you may select from a full supply holly-like leaves V2 to 3/4 inch of Armstrong products. In addition to our ered in late summer and fall with little pink their home display yard at Ontario, our North and white frilled blooms which in Hollywood Branch on Magnolia Blvd., at delightfully dainty and bizarre form and beautiful Coldwater Canyon Ave., serves all of the rich colorings resemble the most San Fernando Valley, and our new Culver tiny orchids. Shade or semi-shade. Plenty City Branch on Sepulveda Blvd., four blocks moisture. Use peat moss or leaf mold. Easy Gal. tins, south of Culver Blvd., is convenient for all to grow under these conditions. of Los Angeles and the beach cities. $1.50. — 54 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

African Boxwood Sweet Olive Myrsine africana. SI 67. "African Box- Osmanthus fragrans. S181. "Sweet Olive." wood." 2-3 ft. 15°. Particularly valuable 10 ft. 10°. Large, handsome, dark green because it retains its small, compact form foliage and small, white, extremely fra- without pruning and because of its small, grant flowers in clusters, whose cloying glossy, dense foliage which keeps its sweetness, like gardenia and hyacinth beauty uniformly throughout the year. mixed, will betray their presence in the Splendid for small specimen plant or low garden before you see the plants. Plant hedge, in fact, it is one of the best low it to the windward and the breeze will foliage plants on our list. It does well in waft the perfume over the entire garden. almost any climate from coast to desert and A splendid large background shrub. See in any soil even where alkali is ^resent. illustration opposite page. Sun near coast, Full sun or part-shade. Flats of 100 small part shade inland. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. plants, $6.00; gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, tins, $2.50; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.25; 3-4 ft., $2.50. $4.00; 4-6 ft., $7.50. True Myrtle Note: Armstrong Myrtles are cutting-grown Holly Leaves—Fragrance and therefore uniform in size, compact in shape, with fine glossy foliage. Most Osmanthus fortunei. S180. 6 ft. 10°. Big, Myrtles bought elsewhere are grown from dark, 3-inch leaves that look like the glos- seed because it's cheaper, and vary great- siest, most beautiful English Holly leaves, ly in shape, foliage and rate of growth. and many white, very fragrant flowers, Myrtus communis. S168. "True Myrtle." even sweeter than those of the Sweet 4-8 ft. 15°. Valuable for either single Olive below. This combination of foliage specimens or small hedge. The foliage is and fragrance will make room for it in shining green and highly aromatic, with many gardens, and it is easily grown creamy-white flowers in spring and cur- almost anywhere. Best in part shade. rant-like black berries in summer. Easily Gal. tins, $1.00. kept pruned to almost any desired height. Thrives in hot, dry situations and cool Pittosporum rhombifolium may be grown as a small ones as well. Flats of 100 small plants, tree or as a large shrub. Either way it's beautiful. $6.00; gal. tins, 60c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. California Holly M. communis Compact. S169. "Dwarf Myrtle." 3-6 ft. 15°. One of the finest Photinia arbutifolia. S183. "California Hol- Banana Shrub low evergreen hedge plants for California ly" or "Toyon." 6-10 ft. 15°. One of the 18°. Michelia fuscata. S165. "Banana Shrub." 6 ft. or Arizona. Extremely dense and compact, finest California shrubs is the California A handsome but rarely seen shrub with 2-inch tulip- with small dark shining leaves; shapes it- Holly or Christmas Berry, which covers like flowers, brownish yellow in color, with a heady, self, can be pruned down to 2 or 3 feet itself with great handsome clusters of bril- pleasant banana-like fragrance. Connoisseurs of if desired. Plant 24 inches apart. Flats of liant red berries at the Christmas season. flower perfumes always go wild when this plant is in 100 small plants, $6.00; gal. tins, 60c; It makes a large, spreading, well-shaped bloom, and we feel a bit daffy ourselves when we 5-gal, tins, $2.25. bush and is an astonishing sight when take a whiff of its delicious scent. It has been a loaded with its handsome berries, which long time since we have had enough to offer, and the make splendid indoor decorations for first-comers get them. Sun, semi-shade or shade. Nandina Christmas. Ours are no ordinary Califor- 5-gal tins, $4.00. Nandina domestica. S170. "Heavenly Bam- nia Hollies but a specially selected, very boo." 5 ft. Zero. A favorite of California large-fruited strain found only in secluded Orange Jessamine gardens is this plant, densely clothed with canyons on Catalina Island. Full sun, good Murraya paniculata. S166. "Orange Jessamine." compound leaflets, bronzy red when young, drainage. 5-gal. tins, $3.50. 6- 10 ft. 20°. The foliage is that rich, luxuriant shade dark green at maturity, and with beauti- of green that everybody likes, always glossy and ful coppery red tones in winter. Topped fresh looking. And in the spring and summer the with great showy clusters of red berries plant has many panicles of white, exceedingly sweet- in winter, but more than one plant is ne- Chinese Photinia scented flowers like orange blossoms which frequently cessary to secure berries. Full sun or part time as the small, bright red shade. Flats of 100 small plants, $6.00; appear at the same Photinia serrulata. S185. "Chinese Pho- fruits which the plant bears as it gets older. It is gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. tinia." 8-10 ft. 5°. For all of California unquestionably one of the finest of fragrant flowering and Arizona there is no finer large ever- plants. Sun or part-shade. Gal tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, Oleander (Nerium) green shrub than this magnificent plant. $2.50. Nerium oleander. 15°. The Oleander, with At all times it is clothed with great dark, shining 8-inch leaves, which dotted its brilliant, showy blossoms, is a beauti- are Rogers Firethorn in bloom. Orange berries in great during fall winter with occasional ful shrub throughout all of California. It and profusion follow these white blooms. brilliant does particularly well in the desert regions red leaves, and in spring the and warm inland valleys. Grows and plant becomes a solid mass of great 6- blooms quickly wherever planted and inch heads of white flowers. See illustration at right. blooms almost all through the year. The Gal. tins, 70c. flowers are very sweet and fragrant. A good tub plant too. All varieties: Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50. Balled plants available as indicated A Beautiful Large Shrub after each variety. Double Salmon (Mrs. Roeding). S173. Photinia serrulata Nova. S186. "Compact Chinese Photinia." Balled, 3-4 ft., $3.00; 4-5 ft., $4.00. Like the above but Double Light Yellow. S172. much glossier foliage and bigger, lacier flower heads. Double Rose Pink. S174. Balled, 4-5 ft., The big, handsome foliage $4.00. is bronze, reddish green when it first Double White. S171. comes out, turning to bright glossy green as the leaves Single White. S176. Balled, 3-4 ft., $3.00; attain their full size. We like to it 4-5 ft., $4.00. recommend because it is not only one Single Cherry Red. S175. Balled, 3-4 ft., of the most beautiful of large shrubs but $3.00. it will grow almost anywhere with ease. Single Light Pink. S177. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Unbelievably Fragrant Osmanthus delavayi. S179. "Delavay Os- Blue Plumbago manthus." 5 ft. 10°. A compact, spreading plant with deep olive-green foliage Plumbago capensis. S193. "Blue Cape like dainty, miniature holly leaves. In the Plumbago." 5 ft. 20°. A clambering, semi- spring the plant is covered with innumer- climbing shrub covered all summer with able white bell-shaped flowers which re- lovely clear azure-blue flowers. Placed in lease the most amazing amount of sweet a corner or against a sunny wall, it will fraqrance. Any old-time English gardener fill the space quickly, so give it plenty of will tell you what a rare prize this plant room, and if you are in a hurry for results, is. Slow growing. Semi-shade or shade. Plumbago will fill the bill. Full sun. Gal. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50.

If if is not convenient lor you to visit one of our three Display Yards, mail your order in and no matter where you live we will see that it reaches you by the safest and most economical method, whether it be mail, express, freight or our own trucks. See delivery and shipping information on pages 40 and 41.

— 55 — Useful Pittosporums Carnation-Flowered Pittosporum rhombifolium. S189. 15 It. Punica granatum Dwarf. S198. "Car- 20°. Small tree or large shrub of com- nation-Flowered Pomegranate." 3-4 ft. 10°. pact habit, with very fragrant white Quantities of exceedingly brilliant scarlet flowers, followed by clusters of large carnations, full and double, orange berries in fall and winter. It borne on bushes; how would you like makes a beautiful little tree for walled to have plants that will provide such garden or parkway, never getting too blooms? It's easy—you'll have it in this large for its location. See opposite much improved new dwarf Pome- page. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. granate, with its fresh, bronzy-green summer foliage, bright colored flowers Pittosporum tobira. S190. 5 to 8 ft. and small showy crimson fruits borne 15°. A wide spreading, dense round in the fall and winter. In colder sec- headed shrub, with deep, glossy green tions loses most of its leaves for a very foliage, excellent for massing against short time in the middle of winter. This the house or wall, or for a fine large is not the old type Dwarf Pomegranate hedge. In the winter it is covered with usually sold, it's an entirely different small fragrant white flowers resemb- plant which we first offered several ling orange blossoms. It thrives any- years ago. Plant in full sun, coast or where in California and in Arizona as desert. See illustration in color on page well. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50; 34. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. balled, very bushy, 2-3 ft., $3.50. Pittosporum tobira variegata. S191. 4-8 ft. 15°. A beautifully variegated form of the above, with handsome silvery Berried Pyracanthas cream and green foliage. Gal. tins, 80c. The evergreen Hawthorns (or Fire- Pittosporum undulatum. S192. "Victor- thorns) are exceedingly valuable for Laurel." 8-20 ft. 22°. Large deep ian their great wealth of bright-colored glossy undulated leaves. Its green, berries in the fall and winter, which yellowish white flowers are very fra- remain on the plant for many months. grant, especially at night. Big orange Easily grown and hardy anywhere. berries follow the flowers. Excellent for There are many varieties of Pyracan- in parkways, for a planting narrow thas, but after testing many kinds, we foundation plantings tall hedge or for have selected the three varieties below large handsome mass of foli- where a as being the very best. Plant them all age is desired. Probably more widely in full sun. Foliage and flowers of the Sweet Olive (Osmanfhus fragrans). planted within 30 miles of the coast Pyracantha coccinea in California for a large foliage plant lalandi Fertile. S199. 0°. than any other plant. Gal. tins, 60c; "Orange Firethorn." 6-8 ft. The most popular orange berried 5-gal. tins, $2.25. vari- The Picturesque Evergreen Pear ety, growing more slender and erect than most others. On fire in the fall Pyrus kawakami. S202. "Evergreen Pear." 8-12 ft. 15°. Daphne Pittosporum and winter with great masses of bril- Only now has sufficient stock of this extremely unusual and Pittosporum daphniphylloides. S187. liant, lustrous, orange berries, larger lovely large shrub or small tree been available in California "Daphne Pittosporum." 8-10 ft. 22°. and showier than any other in its to offer generally. Fresh, luxuriant Pear foliage which Not only is it a beautiful large, hand- color. Hardier than other Pyracanthas, amazingly enough does not drop in the winter and is much some shrub with glossy, bright green, growing over a wide range. Ours is a better looking than any Pear foliage you ever saw. In the 6- inch, long, narrow leaves, but it car- selected, improved type, fruiting young- spring the foliage is almost obscured by masses of fragrant ries in spring and early summer 2-inch er and with bigger berries. Gal. tins, white flowers, making the plant one of the most beautiful clusters of creamy yellow flowers which 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25. sights imaginable. May be grown according to needs as a are delightfully fragrant with a mix- P. crenulata rogersiana. S201. "Rogers picturesque small tree, large shrub or espaliered against wall or fence. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, your choice bush ture of spice, lemon and orange blos- Firethorn." 6 ft. 5°. New and im- or tree shape, espaliered, 5-gal. tins, $5.00; and som fragrance which gives it the name proved variety, with quantities of shape $2.75; in tubs, 4-6 ft., $8.50. Daphne Pittosporum. You'll walk to- bright orange berries borne clear to ward it to inhale that fragrance many the tip of every willowy branch, thus times when it's in bloom. Full sun or making splendid cut sprays. When the part shade. Plenty moisture. Gal. plant is covered with its frosty, lacy, Pink Indian Hawthorn tins, $1.00. white bloom in (see illustration May at Raphiolepis indica rosea. S204. "Pink Indian Hawthorn." left), it is a magnificent sight and 3-5 ft. 15°. One of the finest of the medium sized flowering worth growing for that reason alone. Climbing Syringa shrubs for California, requiring no pruning, becoming as It also seems to be immune to pear- wide as it is high, and covered in early summer with the Philadelphia mexicanus. blight, which occasionally attacks other V37. "Climb- most magnificent large 6-inch panicles of half-inch pink ing Syringa." 12°. Pyracanthas. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, While often grown flowers like the loveliest of apple blossoms, sweetly fra- as a vine, this plant big, $2.25. makes a grant, lis foliage is extremely handsome and the flowers spreading, 6 or 8 foot shrub if desired are followed by interesting clusters of blue-black berries. and is well worthwhile growing as Plant it where close-up beauty will be appreciated. Ours such for its great quantities of creamy are cutting-grown plants from selected, large flowered, white, Graber's Giant Red double, 2-inch flowers, intensely deeply colored specimens. Ordinary seedlings, while they fragrant in spring. Sun or half-shade. Pyracantha crenato - serrata Graber. may be sold under this name, will never even approach Gal. tins, 85c. S200. "Graber's Firethorn." 8-10 ft. them in beauty. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. 5°. Of all the red berried Pyracanthas Hollyleaf Cherry that we have grown, this is the best, and it is superlative in almost every 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, 80c. allowed to grow freely or trained flat against building or wall, is a spectacular sight in the fall and winter, and Two Fine Laurels since the berries are at their best at Prunus laurocerasus. S196. "English Christmas-time, they make splendid Laurel." 5-8 ft. 5°. 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, $1.00; 5 gal. tins, $2.75; 5-gal. tins, shade. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, $2.25; espalier form, $6.00. balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00; 3-4 ft., $4.50. Prunus lusitanica. S193A. (Laurus lusitanica.) "Portuguese Laurel." 5-10 ft. Rosemary 5 . A slow growing, very dark green foliaged shrub, glossy, dense, compact Rosmarinus officinalis. S216. "Rose- and handsome. Spikes of fragrant mary." 3 ft. 0°. A delightful plant white flowers in the spring. Sun or for the garden, not only for its fra- part shade. Gal. tins, 80c. grance but for the soothing beauty of its gray-green foliage and little light Catalina lavender blooms. Gal. tins, 70c. Cherry Rosemarinus officinalis Prostrate. Prunus lyoni. S-197. (integrifolia.) "Cata- S216A. "Prostrate Rosemary." 0°. A lina Cherry." 15-25 ft. 10°. Large, delightful little, spreading, creeping form glossy, holly-like leaves, 3 to 5 inches of the Rosemary, with slightly smaller Jong, handsome the entire year. Popu- foliage, which becomes 2 or 3 feet lar and useful as large background across but never gets over 8 inches plant, large hedge or small street tree. high. It has the same delightful fra- Growing easily anywhere in full sun, grance, lavender blooms and cool gray- any soil. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. green foliage. Gal. tins, 70c. — 56 — Armstrong Flowering Shrubs

Lemonade Berry Jungle Queens

Rhus integrifolia. S209. "Lemonade Berry." Rondelata cordata. ST22B. 4-6 ft. 24°. 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 egual. 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 page 42. The buds berries make a delightful lemonade-like and flower tubes are deep reddish sal- drink. Gal. tins, 70c. mon, while the lovely flowers are flesh- pink with a yellow bearded throat. The Rhus laurina. S208. "Laurel Sumac." 4-6 plants we have are so beautiful and so ft. 25°. foliaged na- Another handsomely full of flower buds right now that we get tive California shrub with large, 5-inch a lot of pleasure out of sending them out, bright leaves white green and panicles of and you'll get far more pleasure out of flowers. Fine for dry, sunny, rocky spots them for many years to come. Gal. tins, since it stands any amount of heat and $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. drouth. Gal. tins, 80c; 5 gal. tins, $2.50. Rondeletia amoena. ST22A. 4-6 ft. 24°. Thryallis glauca shines out with hundreds of little Rhus ovata. S210. "Sugar-Bush." 6-10 ft. Another lovely foliaged, brilliant flowered golden star-like flowers for many months in summer 20°. A native California shrub with beauty from Central America, with slightly and fall. lovely all-year foliage. The 4-inch leaves larger leaves than the above and some- are thick and leathery, shiny green, and what smaller but even more vivid flowers. in late summer and fall when many other The flowers are rich pink with a yellow foliage plants look a bit rusty because of bearded throat. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. Coffee Berry the heat and dryness, the Sugar-Bush is tins, $2.75. Rhamnus californica crassifolia. S205. "Coffee Berry." fresher and brighter than ever. Small 4-6 ft. 10°. A native California shrub, medium sized, creamy flowers in April, followed by deep rounded, densely clothed right down to the ground red berries with a sugary covering. Grows The Showy Ruellia with dark green, 3-inch leaves. Has dull red coffee- anywhere. Full sun. Any soil. Gal. tins, like berries. A splendid plant for use in any soil in $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Ruellia macrantha. ST22C. 3-4 ft. 25°. almost location any where you want a thick, dense, One of the showiest and most everbloom- low background along property lines, or in out of ing of flowering shrubs for a mild cli- the way corners where you don't want to spend too Catalina mate, producing freely all over the spread- effort in looking after the plants, Currant much but where ing large foliaged plant big, dark laven- you'll have a good looking background all the time. Ribes viburnifolium. S212. Cur- der, funnel-shaped flowers almost the en- Sun or part Gal. tins, "Catalina shade. $1.00. tire year, even through the winter. Partial rant." 2-3 ft. 15°. A spreading half-trail- shade or sheltered position. Gal. tins, 80c. Rhamnus crocea ilicifolia. S206. 5-10 ft. 10°. A ing little shrub from Catalina Island, with larger shrub than the above, with bigger, holly-like, small, dark green, glossy leaves and more luxuriant foliage and bigger red berries. Full wine red stems, producing many small, sun. Gal. tins, $1.00. deep maroon colored flowers in the spring, Sea-Coast Beauty Rhamnus crocea pirifolia. S207A. "Holly-Leaved Buck- followed by red berries. Excellent for trailing on slopes or for over Solanum rantonneti. S219A. 6 ft. 25°. In thorn." 15-20 ft. 15°. Big, glossy, 4-inch leaves and hanging a the mild coastal regions this bushy, round- plenty of big, bright red fruits in summer. These wall. Grows anywhere in sun or shade ed, medium sized shrub is covered with berries are immensely beautiful and the birds do not near the coast, but prefers a slightly shel- its one-inch violet flowers almost every relish them. Easily grown anywhere. Gal. tins, $1.00. tered position in hot inland locations. Needs little water. Gal. tins, 80c. day in the year, and it is a splendid shrub for such locations. The crimson flowers of Mexican Mallow. We grow a special Ribes speciosum. S211. "Fuchsia-Flowered improved type of this splendid shrub with Gooseberry." 6-8 ft. 15°. California na- flowers almost twice as large as the nor- tive, with fine, glossy, gooseberry-like mal kind, a much deeper, richer blue in foliage, every branch strung in January color. Gal. tins, 80c. and February with pendulous, bright red flowers with long red stamens which turn into red gooseberries later on. In our Australian Bluebell opinion, it is one of the very finest of native shrubs. Full sun along coast, half- Sollya heterophylla. S220. "Australian shade inland. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, Bluebell Creeper.' 1 ft. 22°. A trailing $2.75. shrub with many slender twining stems. Splendid for covering banks, low fences, stumps and other objects. Brilliant blue, Giant Matilija Poppy small, bell-shaped flowers. Gal. tins, 70c. Romneya White Cloud. S213. "Improved Spanish Broom Matilija Poppy." 6 ft. 10°. The California Matilija Poppy long has been one of the Spartium junceum. S221. "Big Yellow most popular of native plants. This new Spanish Broom." 10 ft. 10°. Fast-growing hybrid is a great improvement over the with many slender, bright-green branches ordinary Romneya, larger and more beau- almost devoid of leaves. Bears almost con- tiful both in flower and foliage. 8- The tinually, large pea-like, bright yellow flow- inch blooms, snowy white, with the tex- ers, sweetly scented. Thrives equally well ture of crinkly white crepe paper, are in the salt spray of the seashore or the graceful in spite of their enormous size hot sun of the desert. Gal. tins, 60c. and are held on the ends of the 5 to 6 foot stems, which are thickly clothed with handsome, big, blue-grey, 5-inch leaves Mexican Mallow right down to the ground. Makes a widespreading, many-stemmed clump which is Sphaeralcea umbellata. S222. "Mexican quite hardy, and even if frozen down will Mallow." 4-6 ft. 19°. It grows fast, with come up quickly again in the spring. The big luxuriant leaves, and in February big blooms are magnificent when cut and starts producing many big, bright crim- placed in a big brass bowl. Grows any- son, cup-shaped flowers, 2 inches across, where in full sun. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. with a white splash at the tins, $3.00. base of the petals. Throughout the entire late winter, spring and summer it never stops blooming and in September is going as strong Colorful Salvias as ever. The hotter the weather the better it likes it, and since it is a native of the desert regions of Puebla, in Mexico, Salvia leucantha. S217. A 2-foot sub-shrub, you can go away and forget to water it for sending up in the late summer and fall six weeks and it doesn't mind it at all. many spikes of woolly, violet-purple and Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. white flowers. Colorful both in the garden and for bowl arrangements. Full sun. Cut Please include on your order sheet both back once a year in winter. Gal. tins, 60c. 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, 60c. avoid errors in filling your order. — 57 — Bright Yellow Trumpets Golden Star Shower Stenolobium stems angustatum. S223. "Hardy Thryallis glauca. ST26. "Goldshower Thry- 22°. Yellow Trumpet." 8 ft. Erect stems, allis." 4 ft. 24°. A plant that we consider heavily clothed with big, shiny cut leaves. just about perfect for the average California Clusters of big 2-inch trumpet-shaped, bril- garden because it grows easily under all liant yellow flowers in late winter and early conditions of soil and climate, stands the heat, spring which make a briliant splash of color. dry soil and several degrees of frost, is at- Fast growing. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tractive in appearance, with long, light green, tins, $2.50. 2-inch leaves, and from July to January is covered with little star-shaped bright yellow blooms in many flowered panicles, each flow- Autumn Color er one-fourth of an inch across. They look like the little golden stars Stranvaesia davidiana. S224. 6-12 ft. 0°. used by teachers to A splendid large Chinese shrub with glossy reward their pupils for attendance and good behavior. dark green, 4-inch leaves which assume in Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. the winter many brilliant hues from purple- bronze to red and orange, although they do not drop. Then follow great guantities of bril- Orange Ground Cover liant fruit like little red apples and in the spring a profusion of handsome white flow- Thunbergia gibsoni. V44. "Orange Clock Vine." ers. It presents a colorful and interesting It's a rambling shrub that just wanders off picture during every season of the year. from where you plant it, rambling along, and While it thrives almost anywhere in Califor- if it finds a stump, rock or fence in its path, nia, it is most luxuriant in cold-wintered sec- it'll just climb right over them. All through tions of California and other Pacific Coast the year it bears lovely golden orange trum- regions. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. pet-shaped flowers, IV?. to 2 inches across. Best near coast. Sun. Gal. tins, 80c. Bird-of- Paradise Strelitzia reginae. ST23. "Bird-of-Paradise." 2-4 ft. 24°. The exotic, showy flowers of this Star Bush striking plant, which resemble the crested head of a tropical bird, gorgeously hued in Turraea obtusifolia. ST28. 3 ft. 26°. We have brilliant orange bright and blue, are among found this new and still rare South African California's most magnificent blooms. The 3- introduction one of the most satisfactory small foot stems come from the base of the plant, flowering garden shrubs. It makes a com- which has wide, stiff, evergreen leaves some- pact, handsomely foliaged small plant, carry- like what small banana leaves. Blooms in ing most of the summer many star-shaped Jas- The Star Bush has flowers like this from July winter and spring. Full sun on coast, part mine-like pure white flowers, IVi to 2 inches to November all over the plant. shade inland. Gal. tins, 5-gal. $1.50; tins, $4.50. across. It stands plenty of heat and will grow in either full sun or part shade. A Giant Chinese Snowball Brilliant shrub which is just the right size to fit into Viburnum macrocephalum. S233. "Giant Chi- Orange most gardens. In the summer it is a mass of nese Snowball." 5-6 ft. 0°. A gorgeous July to November, every Streptosolen jamesoni. ST24. 3 ft. 28°. Few blooms from branch Oriental Snowball, with big flower heads, 6 looking like the illustrated at the right. plants will provide as much brilliant orange one to 9 inches across, snowy white, nestled color throughout most of the year. Likes the Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. against the dense 4-inch oval leaves in May sea coast, full sun, good drainage but plenty and June. Ordinary Snowballs lose their of moisture. Gal. tins, 80c. leaves in the winter. This one is evergreen It's Easy to Order by Mail except in the very coldest locations, where it may lose a part of its leaves. It is lavish South African Red Spurs with those great big snowballs and makes a If it is not convenient for you to visit our sight in the garden. Full sun Strophanthus speciosus. ST25. "South African Display Yards in Ontario, North Hollywood or spectacular inland. 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Red Spurs." 28°. An interesting clambering Culver City, just put your order in the mail, near coast, half-shade low shrub with very showy flowers, orange and no matter where you live, we will get it to Viburnum cinnamomifolium. S231. "Cinnamon spotted with red, each flower with a unique you by the best and most economical means, Viburnum." 6-8 ft. 18°. Large, handsome U/z-inch spur on it. Sun or semi-shade. Gal. whether it be mail, express, freight or our glossy green 5-inch leaves. Big 7-inch flower tins, $1.00. own trucks. See pages 40 and 41 for shipping heads in spring. Semi-shade. Gal. tins, $1.00; information. 5-gal. tins, $2.75.

Cape Honeysuckle The new Matilija Poppy "White Cloud" has giant white flowers 8 inches across, twice the size of this picture. Tecomaria capensis. V43. "Cape Honey- suckle." 22°. May be trained as a half-climber. A splendid mass of dark green foliage, dense and compact, with clusters of bright red, tubular flowers like scarlet honeysuckle in fall and winter when other flowers are scarce. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50.

Giraffes Browse On It 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, producing 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, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50.

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 climatic 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, 70c. 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 quantities of glorious 4-inch royal purple flowers, borne almost eight months in the year. Needs a sheltered location away from wind, and extremely good drainage. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50.

— 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 foliage plant for sunny positions in Southern California, for certainly nothing has sur- (continued) passed it in our experimental garden. Every Shrubs day in the year the shiny green foliage is handsome enough to draw admiration. Graceful, luxuriant, it needs no pruning to keep it in shape, is not particular about soil Sweet Viburnum or water and extreme temperatures of 110°, and 17°, affect it not in the least. What a 6-8 ft. 18°. Viburnum cylindricum. S232. plant! Gal tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, S2.50; Nothing makes a garden more successful tubs, $5.00. all-year foliage, than dependable, glossy, Xylosma heterophylla. S238. "Holly Xylos- and this fine new Chinese introduction sup- ma." 2 ft. 15°. It is difficult to find fine- plies that in perfection, the big green, waxy foliaged shrubs which stay small like this 6 or 7 inches long. Added leaves being one, 2 feet high and 3 feet across. A beau- attractions are small white blooms followed tiful little compact mound of handsome foli- 5-gal. tins, $2.75. by big black berries. age throughout the year. Shade or semi- Viburnum odoratissimum. S234. "Sweet Vi- shade. Gal. tins, 80c. burnum." 6-8 ft. 10°. If we were to select the one best permanent evergreen shrub for shade or semi-shade in California, we Hardy Ferns believe it would have to be this beautiful You can transform a cool, shady bed into its big, long, 6-inch plant from China, with a luxuriant fern glen by planting in it a 4- shining foliage and its fragrant, white, few easily grown, hardy ferns. Use leaf inch flower panicles, which possess a most mold or peat moss in planting. delightful fragrance. Following the flowers appear red berries. Best in shade or part All varieties below: Gal. tins, 80c. shade but grows in sun as well. Likes Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum). Fl. Well plenty of moisture. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, known delicate lacy favorites, 12-18 inches. white, pink-flushed flower cluster of The waxy S2.50; tubs, $4.00. Cyrtomium falcatum. F3. "Large-Leaved Gardenia-Scented Viburnum, each cluster three Viburnum suspensum. S236. 8 ft. 15°. A Holly Fern." Shiny dark green broad- inches across. luxuriant mass of shiny dark green leaves. leaved fronds 18 inches long. One of the most popular of foundation Dryopteris dentata. F4. "Downy Wood Fragrant, shrubs for California plantings. Fern." Fronds 3 feet long and 1 foot wide. white, rose-scented flowers in winter. Best Gardenia'Scented Viburnum Dryopteris hirtepes. F5. Long, feathery, 18- in l'ght shade. Gal. tins, 70c; 5-gal. tins, inch fronds, graceful and aTching. Viburnum burkwoodi. S230. "Gardenia-Scented $2.25. Pellaea viridis. F6. "Green Cliffbrake." Viburnum." 4 ft. Zero. In the very early spring Handsome, much divided fronds, 2 feet long. the end of every branch on this handsome shrub Polystichum adiantiforme. F7. Fronds tri- bears a large 3-inch head of the most delightful For a Sunny Hedge angular, 2 feet long 8 inches wide. wary white, pink-flushed flower clusters, intense- and ly sweet with Gardenia-like fragrance. Through- Viburnum tinus. S237. "Laurustinus." 6-8 Pteris cretica Wimsett. F9A. Narrow finger- like leaflets, 5 to 7 inches long. Eighteen out the summer it has exceedingly beautiful, ft. 10°. One of the finest large hedge plants shiny foliage which in colder climates turns a for a sunny situation. Also makes a beau- inches high. bright color in the fall. Becomes 4 or 5 feet across tiful large single specimen. The rounded Pteris tremula. F12. "Australian Brake Fern." when fully developed, and for the average small plant is covered with many fragrant, white, Long, feathery, slender, bright green fronds, garden in a semi-shady position with plenty of rose-tinted flower clusters in early winter. It 2 to 3 feet long. moisture, it is one of the finest shrubs that can be must have full sun all year long. Gal. tins, Woodwardia fimbriata. F13. Makes a big planted. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. 60c. clump of broad fronds from 3 to 6 feet long.

Armstrong Palms, Bamboos and Grasses Queen Palm Date Palm Pampas Grass Arecastrum romanzoffianum. Ml. (Cocos plumo- Phoenix canariensis. M4. "Ornamental Date Cortaderia selloana. M2. "Pampas Grass." sa.) "Queen Palm." 17°. Southern California's Palm." 10°. Its dense, immense crown of 6 ft. Handsome big clump of long, arching, favorite Palm is the Queen Palm, with a tall, beautiful curving leaves, each 15 feet long grass-like leaves, surmounted by great sil- slender, smooth trunk topped with plume-like green color, and its a and of a pleasing dark very white plumes. Ours is the superior, crown of feathery, graceful leaves. The roots all condi- stately and rapid growth under fluffy, silvery white plume, better than the accommodate themselves to surprisingly small it ideal Palm tions, combine to make an ordinary type. Gal. tins, 80c. spaces and when once established they need for street, park and lawn, from seacoast to very little water. For parkways, patios, and desert. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; Pennisetum ruppelii Crimson. M3A. "Foun- lawn plantings the Queen Palm lends an in- balled, 2-3 ft., $3.50. tain Grass." 3-4 ft. Beautiful dense tuft of formal yet dignified tropical appearance. Balled, handsome grassy leaves and lovely rosy 5-6 ft., $5.50; 6-8 ft., $8.50; 8-10 ft., $12.50; 10-12 crimson flower spikes on slender bending ft., $17.50. Windmill Palm stems. Full sun. Gal. tins, 70c. Trachycarpus fortunei. M4B. "Windmill Palm." 10-40 ft. Tall, slender, hairy trunk, Fan Palms with graceful head of 3-foot fan leaves on New Zealand Flax -top. Gal. tins, $1.00. Washingtonia filifera. M4A. "California Fan Palm." Phormium tenax Veitchi. M4C. "New Zea- 30-50 ft. 10°. Native to our California deserts, land Flax." 4-6 ft. Long, rigid, ribbonlike the Washingtonias are fitting permanent memo- Graceful Bamboos leaves, marked with creamy-white stripes rials to the father of our country. Hairy fan- on a green ground. The -reddish purple shooed leaves and a tall sturdy trunk. Gal. tins, The Bamboos grow easily in almost every flower stalks borne occasionally become 10 $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, 3-4 ft., $4.50; 4-5 location and their noble clumps of graceful feet high. The leaves are often used now ft., $6.00; 5-6 ft., $7.50. stems, their wealth of soft green foliage and in dainty bowl arrangements. Gal. tins, of make them Washingtonia robusta. M5. "Mexican Fan Palm." their informal lines symmetry $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. indispensable for certain landscape effects. 50-100 ft. 12°. Similar to W. filifera, but the Mondo jaburan Gold S'ripe. M3. "Lilyturf." trunk is much taller and more slender. Gal. tins, Bambusa nana. M1G. "S'riped Bamboo." lt/z-2 ft. Robust, graceful, low grass which $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75; balled, 3-4 ft., $4.50; 5-6 6 ft. A dwarf arching clumo, with slender makes a thick clump of narrow, handsome ft., $7.50; 6-8 ft., $10.00; 8-10 ft., $15.00. canes striped green and gold. 15°. 5-gal. green leaves, striped with gold, surmounted tins, $2.50. by spikes of beautiful blue flowers that look Butia capitata. M1B. "Pindo Palm." 10-15 ft. like 10°. Stout fan-like short-trunked, with arching Bambusa ventriosa. M1H. "Buddha Bam- the blooms of Grane Hyacinth. Very handsome. 4-inch pots, 60c; 6-inch pots, $1. graceful leaves of powdery blue. The fruit is boo." A dwarf Bamboo, never over 3 feet good to eat, something like a loguat. Gal. tins, high. 5-gal. tins, $2.50. $1.00; balled, 2-3 ft., $3.00; 3-4 ft., S6.50. Bambusa multiplex. M1J. "Dwarf Fern- Uracena Chamaerops hum'lis. MID. 6 ft. 15°. The short leaved Bamboo." 8 ft. A dwarf variety 15°. trunk is soon hidden in a mass of leafy suckers, with finely-divided fern-like leaves. Cordyline aus'ralis. M1E. "Giant Dracena." making a miniature thicket. 5-gal. tins, $2.75. 5-gal. tins, $2.50. 8-20 ft. Sword-shaped arching leaves borne in a cluster at the top of the tall, slender Erythea armata. M2A. "Blue Palm." 10-20 ft. Dendrocalamus latiflorus. M1F. "Giant Bam- trunk. Grows easily Gal. tins, 15°. Lovely steel-blue fan-like leaves. Gal. tins, boo." The very largest and tallest of all, anywhere. $1.00; balled, 4-6 ft., $6.00; 6-8 ft., $8.50. $1.00; S-gal., $2.75; balled, 2-3 ft., $4.50; 3-4 ft., reaching a height of 60 feet in time and $6.00. making an enormous clump with great rapidity when once established. 18°. 5-gal. Erythea edulis. M2B. "Guadalupe Palm." 25 ft. tins, bare root clumps, $1.00 each. Shipping Weights: 4-inch pots, 4 lbs.; 6- 15°. A sturdy small Fan Palm with large, lona- $2.50; lived rich green leaves. Stands ocean winds well, Phyllostachys nigra. MSB. "Black Bamboo." inch pots. 10 lbs.; gal. tins. 10 lbs.; 5-gal. thrives anywhere. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, 8 ft. 15°. Black stems headed with beau- tins, $2.75; balled, 3-4 ft. $7.50; 4-5 ft., $10.00. tiful feathery foliage. Gal. tins, 80c. 50 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 flowering 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. 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 any vine that we grow. Leafless in winter. Gal. tins, $1.00 each. Chinese Clematis Clematis armandi. V9. "Chinese Clematis." Zero. One of the loveliest evergreen flowering vines ever to come out of the Giant Burmese Honeysuckle (Lonicera hildebrandiana). The Magnificent Flowers, mountains of China. In April and May it hangs full of lovely Shown Here Less Than Half Size, Become 6 or 7 Inches Long. See Page 62. great clusters of 2-inch snowy white flowers. Doesn't like hot desert summers. See the more familiar large-flowered Clematis on next page. Gal. tins, $1.50 each. Beautiful Bomarea Orange-Red Trumpet Blood Red Trumpet Vine (Phaedranthus). See Page 62. 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 through 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. $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Rare and scarce. Sun near coast, half- shade elsewhere. Gal. tins, $1.50. Evergreen Crape Cissus capensis. V7A. "Evergreen Bougainvilleas Grape." 24°. One of the most luxuriant, picturesque and daintily foliaged of all vines Bougainvillea spectabilis. VTOA. "Pur- for rambling over a large space is this ple Bougainvillea." 20°. The hardiest wild grape vine, with its all-year foliage reddish of the Bougainvilleas, bearing a mass and black edible fruits in the of brilliant reddish-purple flowers summer which make some of the most delicious against a background of bright green jelly you have ever tasted. leaves. Easily grown, but needs sun. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Bougainvillea spectabilis Crimson Lake. Clossy Winter Foliage VT1. 26°. Just as vigorous in growth Cissus hypoglauca. V8. "Glossy Leaved as the above but immensely different in Creeper." 20°. An informal rambling the color of the flowers, which are creeper or climber which will spread brilliant crimson. Fairly tender, full over any kind of an object in a short sun. Particularly fine the on seacoast time. We like it because of its hand- in Southern California but splendid in some shiny evergreen foliage, which milder interior sections as well. Gal. looks as though it had been pol- tins, 5-gal. Rosa de Montana $1.00; tins, $2.75. ished and is just as beautiful in the middle of winter as in Antignon Bougainvillea spectabilis praetorius. the leptopus. V4. "Rosa de Montana." "Queen's spring. One of the most beau- Wreath." VT2. "Bronze Bougainvillea." 26°. The 10°. This magnificent flowering vine from Mexico tiful foliage vine that we thrives most unusual of the Bougainvilleas be- almost anywhere in Southern California, including grow. Gal. tins, 85c; cause of the beautiful color of its the milder desert sections, grows very rapidly to 20 or 30 5-gal. tins, $2.50. bronzy gold flowers which change at feet, and from early spring to late autumn is a mass of times to apricot or orange-yellow. Best 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, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2 75. Orange-Red Trumpet Vine Sky-Flower (See Page 62) Armstrong Flowering Vines

Clings to Any Surface The Fragrant Jasmines

Ficus pumila. V16. "Creeping Fig." Jasminum dichotomum. V22. "Goldcoast Jas- 15°. The best evergreen vine for cov- mine. 15° A real gem among the Jasmines is this lovely African species with the big, glossy, ering stone, brick or wood, making a handsome foliage, rapid growth and exceed- close of small heart-shaped mat dark ingly fragrant white blooms. The snowy white green leaves which cling closely to flowers at the end of their long tubes are any surface. Thrives anywhere in about one inch across. It has everything that California. Sun or part shade. Gal. you would expect a beautiful climbing Jas- tins, 85c. mine to have. Gal. tins, $1.00. Jasminum officinale grandiflorum. V24. "Span- ish Jasmine." 10°. Extremely vigorous, rapid Showers of Gold growing, resistant to heat and very hardy. large flowers are extremely Gaudichaudia mucronata. VT3. "Gild- The pure white fragrant, this variety producing the essence ed Fairy Vine." 28°. beautiful A which forms the basis of the world's finest per- and rare climber from the high fumes. Thrives from coast to coast. Gal. tins, Mexican mountains which has fasci- 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. nated us by its beauty and charm. Jasminum multiflorum. V23A. "Pinwheel Jas- Fast growing, with graceful, small mine." 15°. Slender twining stems and fra- foliage, it becomes covered in the grant white flowers, one inch across, shaped fall months with sprays of lovely like a little pinwheel and borne in clusters all little lV^-inch, brilliant yellow blooms over the plant during the entire summer. which cascade down over the plant Shade or sun. Perfectly hardy almost any- in rippling masses. When the sun where in California. Gal. tins, 85c. shines on the flowers they have a peculiar glittering effect as though Jasminum mesnyi. (J. primulinum.) V23. "Prim- rose Jasmine." Zero. fine winter they had been sprinkled with gold A blooming The flowers of the Flame Vine (Pyrosteqia yellow-flowered Jasmine with long pendulous dust. It does well under average ignea) are vivid orange-scarlet in color. See green branches which may be trained along a garden conditions here in Southern opposite page. fence, over a pergola or as a big shrub. Flow- California. Sun or semi-shade. Gal. ers almost 2 inches across, only slightly fra- tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. grant. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Large Flowered Clematis Clematis jackmani. V10. "Purple Clematis." Carolina Jessamine Zero. The showy, large-flowered Clematis with Gelsemium sempervire..s. V17. Carolina Jes- Honeysuckles the big, bright purple flowers which are so samine." 12°. A slender twining vine, rapid Lonicera japonica halliana. V28. "Hall's highly prized in the East and Middle West. growing and hardy, covered in spring with Honeysuckle." Zero. Delightfully fragrant, They do not thrive quite so well in California, golden-yellow, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers. white flowers, changing to yellow. It thrives but can easily be grown if desired. The top Splendid for framing a small arch, gateway or equally on coast or desert, in sun or shade. should be cut off at the ground during winter low fence, where moderate size is desired. For rapid growth, dense foliage, and quanti- and allowed to start over in the spring. Part Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. shade. Gal. tins, $1.50. ties of fragrant flowers this Honeysuckle Is unexcelled and it grows easily anywhere. Dainty Hardenbergias Gal. tins, 85c; flats of 100 small plants, $3.50.

Hardenbergia comptoniana. V18. ' Vinelilac." Violet Trumpet Vine Lonicera sempervirens Scarlet. V29. "Scarlet 22°. Among all blue flowering vines this is Clytos'oma cclHstegioir'es. V12. "Violet Trum- Woodbine." Zero. The large, showy, orange- our favorite. It sends its dainty, twining, slen- pet Vine." 18°. Lovely large glossy foliage, scarlet flowers have the brightest color in der leaflets over and around any kind of a covered with lovely big flowers of delicate Honeysuckles. Easily Does fence or other object, and even shoots up into grown anywhere. violet in late winter and early spring. The not in Hall's over-hanging shrubs or trees, and then in late get as dense growth as Honey- delicate beauty of its flowers and the luxuri- suckle. The brilliant scarlet flowers attract winter is a marvelously beautiful sight when ant, dark green foltoae makes it one of Cali- much attention everywhere. Gal. tins, 85c; covered with its myriad 6-inch racemes of fornia's most beautiful vines. It will clamber lovely violet-blue pea-shaped flowers. Among 5-gal. tins, $2.50. over fence, wall, building, or over a shrub or the few vines which will thrive on the north tree if you want it to. Sun or shade. Gal. Lonicera tellmanniana. V30. "Golden Giant side of house. No plants for sale until May, tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Honeysuckle." Zero. Here is something new . 1944. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. and unusual. A magnificent, vigorous, luxuri- Hardeabergia bimaculata. V17A. More bushy antly foliaged Honeysuckle with beautiful, A Lavender Beauty than H. comptoniana, with slightly broader large, intense golden yellow blooms, tipped beautiful red. col- Distictis 1-ctiflora. V13. "Vanil'a Sceited foliage but with the same dark with bronzy A mass of beautifully violet-blue flower spikes. Also hardier. Gal. ored blooms in late spring and perfectly hardy Trumoet Vine." 20°. This is one of th<= finest anywhere. Sun. Gal. tins, of all vines for the milder regions of California, tins, 85c. $1.00. makina a dense mass of deep green foliage, covered almost all spring, summer and fall Golden Hibbertia Vanilla Scented Trumpet Vine (Distictis lactiflora) with big trumpet-shaded flowers 3'/;> inches across, nurHe when they open, lightening to Hibbertia volubilis. V21. "Guinea various lovely shades of lavender as they age. Gold Vine." Its flexible twining B'ooms almost eight months in the year and branches grow rapidly to 8 or 10 the flowers are delightfully ""nilla-scented. feet, clothed quite densely with Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. handsome, heavy textured, dark green foliage against which are borne for many weeks in summer Royal Trumpet Vine quantities of brilliant yellow flow- Distic'is rivorsi. V14. "Royal Trumpet Vine." ers of the size shown on precedinq 20°. See illustration back c""°r. A more ram- page. Probably the best evergreen, pant climb?r than the Vanilla Sc=n*ed Trum- yellow-flowered climber that we pet Vine above. This new hybr'd has an offer. Sun or part-shade. Gal. tins, abundance of bia gloc=v leaves, handsome oil 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. through the year. Almost every day in the year you can s=e on it dusters of l~>ng. flaring trumoets, almost 6 inches in length the tube Evergreen Ivies of the trumcet a brilliant yellow, and the ooen face a aoraeous royal purale whtoh changes Hedera canariensis. V19. "Al- Ivy." 10°. it as the flowers age to rich shades of violet gerian We like and lilac, clwavs with a vivid orange color in better than English Ivy because faster and has bigger the throat. l!s brilliancy is breath-taking, and it grows leaves 6 it's fraqrant too. The size of the flower will and brighter green stortle you. Full sun. Plant Pat. No. 554. inches across. Gal. tins, 85c; $2.50. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. 5-gal. tins, Hedera canariensis Yellowedge. V20. 10°. Beautiful big leaves Yellow Trumpet Vine handsomely blotched with light Doxan'ht u-iauis-cti. V15. (Bianonia tweedi- green, dark green, and creamy ano.l "Ca'claw Yellow Trumpet." Zero. Large, yellow. Shade or semi-shade brilliant ye'low trumpet flowers 3 inches long, Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. 4 inches across. The long, slender shoots cling "English to any surface (that's the reason for the name), Hedera helix. V20A. making a dense mat of foliaae. E"cellent for Ivy." 10° . Excellent wall or the desert (or anywhere else). Best in sun. bank covering in sun or shade. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Gal. tins, 85c; flats of 100, $3.50. — 61 Giant1 Burmese Honeysuckle Lonicera hildebrandiana. V27. "Giant Burmese Honey- suckle." 20°. The giant of all the Honeysuckles, covering large spaces and with enormous flowers reaching the unbelievable dimensions of 7 inches, yellow, changing to orange, red and buff, most deliciously fragrant. Most plants offered of this rare Honeysuckle are grafted on other roots and will never be satisfactory because they "sucker" badly. Ours are cutting grown and will always remain true. Espe- cially fine right on seacoast. See colored illustration on page 60. Sun. Gal. tins, $1.50; 5-gal. tins, $3.25.

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- like foliage are borne all during the summer months sprays and clusters of brilliant, shining golden yellow flowers, about three-guarters of an inch across, followed by, and Left to Right Above: Flowers of Double Violet often side by side on the vine with, beautiful, big, 2-inch Wistaria, Long Cluster Wis- taria, White Chinese Wistaria seedpods which look like chartreuse colored (yellow green) and Blue Chinese Wistaria. The Flower Clus ters of the Long Cluster Wistaria butterflies of enormous size. These are lovely both on the Shown Above are Cut Short and are Actually About One-third Longer vine and as cut decorative sprays for the house. Of med- in Proportion to the Others. ium size, likes full sun, dry soil. Gal. tins, $1.25.

Ivory White Trumpets Cape Honeysuckle Gloryvine Grape Tecomaria capensis. V43. "Cape Hon- Vitis coignetiae. V47. Oxera pulchella. V33. "Ivory White Trumpet Vine." 25°. "Gloryvine eysuckle." 22°. May be grown as a Grape." Zero. A fast growing, Possibly the loveliest of all white flowering vines. In the heavy half climber or a large shrub. Has foliaged vine, with great plush-like fall of the year it is a solid sheet of ivory-white trumpet- thick bright green foliage and clusters leaves, 8 to 12 inches across, which shaped blooms, 2 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, so waxy of bright red flowers like scarlet Honey- turn brilliant shades of red and delicate in texture that you can hardly believe them and bronze suckle in the fall and winter when in autumn. Loses its leaves real as they shine out against the handsome, dark glossy for the other flowers are scarce. (But no fra- winter. It bears big clusters green foliage. Semi-shade. Best along coast or in sheltered of fine grance like Honeysuckle.) Gal. tins, blue-black grapes, excellent to foothill districts. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. eat or 85c each; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. for jelly. A much more beautiful vine than any of the fruiting grape varieties because of its summer Blue Sky Flower and fall foli- Boston Ivies The age Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. Parthenocissus tricuspidata veitchi. V34. (Ampelopsis Thunbergia grandiflora. V45. "Sky- veitchi.) "Small-Leaved Boston Ivy." Zero. A vine which Flower." 26°. Of extremely rapid Wistarias clings to any surface unaided, and closely covers walls, growth, with large heart-shaped leaves Wistarias grow so rapidly chimneys and stonework with a soft mantle of green in the which overlap to make a dense cover- everywhere and their long, pendulous flower summer, turning to gorgeous reds and yellows in autumn, ing, the individual 3-inch blossoms clusters are so beautiful that they dropping in winter. Sun or shade. Gal. tins, 85c. hanging in clusters over the plant, and are one of the with a color that is rare in vines, most popular of the spring flow- Passiflora edulis. FS34. "Passion Vine." Delicious fruiting ering vines, bright sky-blue. Even if frozen down, but give them plenty of vine. See page 7. room. They really it comes up and blooms the same sea- go places. Full sun. son. Usually blooms in fall, winter Leafless in winter. Prices on Wistarias: and spring. Semi-shade or morning 2-yr. bare root (from Dec. to April), Blood Red Trumpet Vine sun. See illustration in color on page $1.50; 3-yr. in 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Wistaria sinensis. V50. "Chinese Wis- Phaedranthus buccinatorius. V36. (Bignonia 60. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. cherere.) "Blood taria." Zero. Probably the most popu- Red Trumpet Vine." 24°. A splendid evergreen climbing Thunbergia gibsoni. V44. More of a lar of all the Wistarias is this variety, shrub which sends its heavy, dark green foliage every- ground cover than a vine. See page 58. covered with its giant blue flower clus- where, and all through the spring, summer and fall is cov- ters before the leaves appear in the ered with clusters of great blood-red, tubular flowers. It spring. Never fails to bloom. will climb over anything will Star and cover stone walls, fences, The Jasmine W. sinensis alba. V51. "White Chi- or buildings with a dense mantle of green in a short time. Trcchelospermum jasminoides. (Rhynco- nese Wistaria." Zero. Same as above Almost everblooming. Full sun. See illustration in color on spermum.) V46. "Star Jasmine." 15°. but with white flowers and a honey- page 60. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.50. From the Malay Peninsula comes this sweet fragrance. Philadelphus mexicanus. V37. "Climbing Syringa." 12°. splendid vine, which will absolutely W. violaceaplena. V52. "Double Chi- Easily trained over a fence, up a wall and along the eaves dominate the garden in spring and nese Wistaria." Zero. A beautiful or can be grown as a big, spreading, 6 to 8 foot shrub. early summer by the marvelous per- double flowering variety, with long, Either way it is worthwhile for its great quantities of fume which it wafts on the air from a violet-blue flower clusters. Fragrant. creamy white, double, 2-inch flowers, intensely fragrant in myriad little star-shaped white flowers W. floribunda macrobotrys. V48. "Long spring. Sun or half-shade. Gal. tins, 85c. like miniature pinwheels. Worth plant- Cluster Wistaria." Zero. Probably the ing for one whiff of its delicate, deli- most beautiful of all Wistarias because cious fragrance. The vine is strong of the extreme length of its lilac flow- Silver Lace Vine growing but not rampant, with big, er racemes, which often measure over leathery, glossy leaves which make a 2 feet. Blooms later than the Chinese Polygonum auberti. V38. "Silver Lace Vine." Zero. A dense mass, and it thrives equally well but not so profusely. hardy, fast-growing, twining, deciduous vine, smothered with in full sun, shade or semi-shade. Hardy W. floribunda macrobotrys rosea. V49. great clouds of small, white, fragrant flowers in panicles in almost anywhere in California. May "Rose Long Cluster Vistaria." Zero. late summer when flowers are scarce. Gal. tins, $1.00. also be grown as a large shrub if The long, slender racemes are light pruned. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, lavender-pink. $2.75; large trellised specimens, $5.00. Climbing Roses. See pages 67 to 76. The Flame Vine Pyrostegia ignea. V40. "Flame Vine." 26°. For brilliancy of color and abundance of bloom, this magnificent vine is The Fragrant, Snowy White, Waxy Flowers o£ Stephanotis. <0 excel I,s - handsome foliage is smothered with a k-u-brilliant mass of vivid flaming orange-scarlet flowers all through the winter. The top of the vine must be in full sun. Easily mown in the warmer sections of California. Gal. tins, $1.00.

Cup of Gold Solandra guttata. V41. "Cup of Gold." 26°. A tall, vigorous vine with big shiny leaves, and enormous trumpet- snapea, golden-yellow flowers 6 to 8 inches across and quite iragrant. A very showy, spectacular vine which needs Plenty of room. Sun. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $2.75.

Fragrant Corsage Vine Stephanotis floribunda. VT4. "Fragrant Corsage 30° nere Vine." is one of those rare and lovely vines you dream about, ° n Wy hi * e exc uis - I "e shaped blooms, waxy in tex- turo i ( o Y inches long, f,,i j and with a fragrance so delight- ™. Pleating that it will fill the entire garden. The \h-r-vmicK, 4-inch glossy i eaves are beautiful in themselves. Sun or shade Plenty of moisture. Best along coast. Gal. tins.

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No. 1 Pink Climber New Yellow Climbing Picture. RC24. (Armstrong Climbing Golden Rapture. RC16. (Arm- Nurseries.) For several years the strong Nurseries.) In our opinion, the Bush Rose, Picture, has been the most yellow rose with the most beautifully popular pink variety list. in our entire formed bud and open flower is Gold- that That's why we think the most en Rapture. The bush form of this outstanding new climbing rose is this rose has increased in popularity by big, strong, beautifully foliaged, leaps and bounds since it was intro- of the variety. climbing type same duced several years ago, and this is Where you get dozens of fine blooms a new Armstrong-originated climbing on the bush form, you'll get hundreds form of this glorious rich shining yel- beautiful, long-stemmed, perfectly of low rose. Not only will it produce formed buds on this climber every hundreds of magnificent blooms in spring, with every flower a "Perfect the spring to reflect the sunshine in Picture." Clear rose-pink with warm the garden, but it will provide many salmon undertones, enchantingly fra- long-stemmed, perfect buds for cut- grant. Plant Pat. No. 524. SI. 50 ea* ting. Plant Pat. No. 508. $1.50 ea* Climbing Mary Hart. RC20B. The Climbing McGredy's Ivory. RC20C. perfect buds of the Talisman Rose We have been looking for a beauti- exist in a velvety blood-red shade in ful new white climbing rose for a the Rose Mary Hart. Now Mary has time. have wanted produced a long-legged climbing long Maybe you perfect daughter with a complexion just as one too. This new one has lovely but with so much vigor that ivory-white buds, deliciously fra- she climbs every fence in sight. Every grant, produced in dozens all over every spring. Picture has been cur most popular pink bush rose (page 74), and long-stemmed, beautifully formed bud the big vigorous plant we expect its new climbing form to be the most popular pink is exquisitely fragrant. SI. 25 each. It is a real find. SI. 25 each. climber.

Climbing Mrs. Dark Red The new climbing cop- Sam Deep pery colored rose. Climbing Mrs. McGredy. RC22. Nur- Climbing Mrs. Sam Sam ClimbingNight. RC23. (Armstrong McGredy. (Western Rose Co.) For many years the series.) This new climbing rose of our bush form of this variety (see page 73) own introduction we believe to be the has been pleasing thousands of rose finest deep red climber. Large, full lovers with its beautifully formed, cop- flowers of deep crimson, shaded black pery orange buds and flowers. Now and maroon, opening out to beautifully we can have that beautiful, glossy, shaped blooms and saturated with the bronzy green foliage, the most luxuriant same delightful cinnamon-clove fra- and handsome in the rose world, grance which the Bush Rose Night pos- spread over fence or wall and get sesses. It is a vigorous climber and for dozens of those beautiful long-stemmed us has bloomed exceptionally well. A blooms instead of just one. We feel large plant covered with these velvety very happy about it, and you will too, textured, fragrant, deep dark red when you get one in your garden. blooms certainly is a delightful thing Plant Pat. No. 394. SI .25 each* 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.) duced by Armstrong.) Ever since the 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 buds and flowers which are produced climber, which produces great quanti- all over the 8-foot plant, their becuty ties of lovely, long, slender buds, gold- and brilliancy enhanced by a back- 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 on flowering right through the summer. their shape and color well under all - It has put us all in a gay mood, and conditions. Glossy, mildew resistant SI. we hope it will do the same for you. foliage. Hardy on East coast. 50 ea. SI. 00 each. Golden Star Climber Climbing Cecil. RC9. (Armstrong.) So Climbing Texas Centennial far as we know, there has been no Centennial. vig- bright yellow, single climbing rose un- Climbing Texas RC27A. (Weaver.) A big, orous grower, blooming profusely in the spring. The big, til our introduction of this new climb- brick-red with their rosy red flowers are even ing sport. Visualize these giant 4-inch, buds open larger, lovely borne longer stems than on the golden, star-like blooms shining out more and on bush form. It's new and it s very, very good. Plant Pat. against a background of large, glossy, No. 565. $1.50 each.* luxuriant foliage, in your garden. SI .50. An Orange for Coast to Coast Climbing Hinrich Gaede is described on page 65. See also Bush form on page 70. Rose Anne. RC38. (George C. Thomas, Jr.) A moderate grower, suitable for smaller spaces. The flowers are c 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 by American Rose Society. SI. 00 each. Blooms All Summer

Captain Thomas. RC5. (George C. Thomas, Jr.) A magnificent 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 handsome, 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. SI .00 each* 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 salmon-pink buds are also gigantic in size, often 3 and 4 inches in length. Do not expect

it to bloom the first year after planting because it is too busy growing, but thereafter be prepared to admire it, tor it is a mass of bloom from January to May in California, where it often starts to bloom in mid-winter. 85c each.

Billy Boiler

Billy Boiier. RC2. We think that this variety has the most perfect 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, guite double, beautifully shaped and deliciously fragrant. The color does not fade in the hottest sun. 85c 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. SI. 50 each. Climbing Countess Vandal Climbing Countess Vandal. RC11. The bush form of Coun- tess 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 magnificent vigorous climber, covered with beautiful blooms for garden decoration, and as a reservoir of magnificent long-stemmed buds for cutting. SI. 00 each.

For 50 Years a Favorite Climbing Cecile Brunner. RC10. (Polyantha.) This famous Climbing Rose, with its great guantities of perfect little miniature pink buds and flowers, has long been a favorite in California and will continue to be such. Exceedingly vigorous, with dense handsome foliage. You can cut a The Lovely Orange Climber, Rose Anne (See Opposite Page) bouguet of beautiful little buds from it almost any time of the year, for it is almost a oerpetual bloomer in mild climates. SI. 00 each. Climbing Dainty Bess

Climbing Dainty Bess. RC12. For years those rose lovers who admire so much the dainty, single, amber-pink flowers of Dainty Bess have been asking for this variety in a climbing form. It is available Climbing Night is the deepest, dark- now and comes up to all expectations. If ycu like this variety in a est red in Climbing Roses. See also bush, and almost everyone does, imagine having a large climbing Bush variety on page 73. plant of it covered with hundreds of blooms instead of a half a dozen. 85c each.

Climbing Etoile de Hollande. RC13. See description and illustration on next page. $1.25 each.

Climbing Golden Emblem. RC15. It produces great guantities of the same highly colored buds of golden yellow with brilliant red shadings, which are so much admired on the bush form of Golden Emblem. Extremely vigorous, rampant grower, with polished, glossy foliage. $1.00 each.

Climbing Rose, Reveil Dijonnais 64 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 the striking Rose is now found in a climber, and strongest growing, free blooming and most satis- what a climber! The color illustration on page factory of the white climbers. 85c each. 63 gives but a poor idea of the richness and Climbing Los Angeles. RC20A. The big full beauty of the flowers on this free blooming Rose, flowers of flame-pink, shaded gold and yellow, which does not stop with the spring blooming have long been popular in California both as a period but continues to produce occasional mag- bush and as a climber. This vigorous climbing nificently colored blooms all through the sum- form produces the flowers on long stems, and mer and fall. Plant Pat. No. 244. $1.50* lots of them. 85c each. Climbing Mrs. Erskine P. Thorn. RC21. Few will dispute the claim of Mrs. E. P. Thom to be one Favorite Climbers of the finest yellow bush Roses. The vigorous Two Red climber multiplies many times the number of Climbing Hadley. RC17. This vigorous climb- flawless yellow buds which can be produced ing sport will produce many times the number on a bush. See illustration in color on page of beautiful flowers in a season that can be 76. 85c each. produced on the bush Hadley. The beautifully shaped, double, velvety red blooms, sweet with the good old Hadley fragrance, have for years Climbing Hoover been admired everywhere, and few kinds can Climbing President Herbert Hoover. RC25. The beat them yet. 85c each. famous President Hoover, with its multi-colored pink, red, yellow, and buff flowers, is vigorous Climbing Hoosier Beauty. RC19. Rich velvety enough as a bush, but as a climber it grows all scarlet buds and flowers, long-stemmed and over the place, producing its beautiful flowers fragrant, borne on a vigorous climber. Hoosier in great profusion, each one on a long stem, Beauty and Hadley have built up such a fine every bloom perfect in color and symmetry. 85c. reputation as red bush Roses that we need Climbing Mrs. Sam McGredy. RC22. Popular only to mention these climbing counterparts to coppery orange. See page 63. $1.25 each.* establish the fact that they will be particularly Climbing Night. RC23. Darkest of all red climb- enjoyed in any garden. 85c each. ers. See page 63. $1.25 each.* Climbing Rose Marie. RC26. HT. The beautifully formed rose-pink flowers are borne in Climbing Golden Dawn great profusion all during the spring, summer and fall, each flower larger than on the bush, Climbing Golden Dawn. RC14. The big, sun- and what a grower this one is, 8 or 10 foot flower-yellow, fully double blooms of Golden canes in one season. 85c each. Dawn are exceedingly popular in the bush form, and this vigorous climbing sport of that variety, which will produce quantities of the fine large Climbing Talisman blooms on a climbing plant, we think is the best Climbing Talisman. RC27. It is difficult to climbing Rose in the lighter yellow shades. It imagine anything more striking than a fence or blooms profusely in the spring and has a good trellis covered with the lovely red and gold many flowers thereafter right up to late fall. flowers of the much admired Talisman. On a The foliage is plentiful and handsome, and it 4-year-old plant we counted 311 perfect, long- Dawn has just about everything that a yellow climb- stemmed buds and flowers at one time. How's ing Rose would be expected to have, including that for a marvelous garden show? 85c each. a splendid fragrance. Awarded Certificate of Climbing Texas Centennial. RC27A. For the Merit, American Rose Society. Plant Pat. No. first time this popular rosy red variety with the 243. $1.50 each* lovely buds is available as a climber. See page 63. Plant Pat. No. 565. $1.50 each* The Best Red Climber Shining Yellow Climbing Etoile de Hollande. RC13. A good Climbing Ville de Paris. RC28. In the bright strong grower with plentiful foliage, it produces shining yellow shades this has been the best Etoile de Hollan- some of the finest big red buds and open flow- of the Climbing Roses. We introduced it sev- de. Everyone ers that we have ever seen on any Rose, and eral years ago for the first time, and it origi- agrees that this the blooms are larger and on longer stems than nated in our fields. The glossy, large, hand- isoneofthe the bush Etoile de Hollande, possessing the same some foliage is not the least of its beauties, for three best red delicate fragrance. We rate it as the finest red it creates splendid background for the unfad- roses. You can climbing Rose that we grow. $1.25 each. ing brilliant yellow flowers. $1.00 each. get it as a climber, listed at right, or as a bush, see page The Dainty Cherokees 69. We like to recommend the old single-flowered Cherokee Roses lor 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 produced in great masses in the spring and to a lesser degree throughout 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, RC6; and Red Cherokee, RC7. $1.00 each..

Beautiful Pink Buds Ednah Thomas. RC29. Only Mme. Gregoire Staechelin will compete 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. 85c each.

Gay Mood. RC30. You'll capture it by planting this Rose. See page 63. $1.00 each.

Gold of Ophir. RC31. Some of the finest old Rose plants in Califor- nia 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 Kininmouth. RC32. The flowers of this beautiful Rose are supremely lovely Very large, ruffled, semi-double blooms of brilliant 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. 85c 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 most is room for it. It can be grown as a climber on Rose from Spain unexcelled. The plant outstanding climbers ever introduced. The wall or fence, as a pillar Rose, or just as a makes a vigorous growth, producing an ex- blooms are a brilliant cerise-pink with a big rambling bush, and in every case it makes traordinary abundance of good-sized delicate bright yellow center. The flowers are borne a great mass of beautiful glossy evergreen pink blooms, shaded carmine, which keep in great masses and each bloom is immense in foliage, just as handsome in winter as in sum- opening for several months in the spring. The size. One of the most spectacular of all mer. It blooms steadily throughout the season buds are long-pointed and the wavy petals climbers, so rich in coloring that you can hard- and produces quantities of exquisitely beautiful form a large, semi-double open flower which ly believe that the blooms are real. 85c each. great size, pale sulphury- radiates a delightful fragrance. 85c each. single flowers of Rcse Anne. RC38. Orange. See page 63. yellow with a gold center. In gal. tins during $1.00 each. summer months. 85c each. Famous Paul's Scarlet Sungold. RC39. Yellow. See page 63. $1.50 ea. Paul's Scarlet Climber. RC36. The flowers are Marechal Neil. RC33. Superb old lemon-yel- an intense vivid scarlet, semi-double, and are GET THE LOWEST PRICES globular, very freely produced in clusters of from 3 to low Noisette, with its large, highly See page E8 for quantity rates on roses. Ten still popular, although it 20 blooms on long much-branched canes, the perfumed blooms assorted bush or climbing roses sold at re- 1864. Exceedingly plant being a of flaming color from top was introduced in France in mass duced prices. Be sure to take advantage of not fade but main- vigorous and profuse in bloom, especially fine to bottom. The flowers do these reductions. The best rose buy in our States. each. tain their color until the petals fall. 85c each. in California and the Southern $1 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 (8 to 9 inches), bearing the plant, which grows easily either in a pot the tiniest white rose buds in the world, fully or in the open ground, seldom gets more than double, perfectly formed, and so small that almost con- 6 or 8 inches high and produces you can put a whole bouquet of them into a tinually great quantities of perfect little double vase but one inch high. When fully open, the flowers, deep pink in color, so small that 12 little flowers crowded with minute petals look buds occupy but one-half of a walnut shell. buttons. buds and open The open flowers are three-quarters of an inch like dainty white Both tints of add- across. 4-in. pots, 85c each, 3 for $2.25. flowers often show delicate pink, ing to their loveliness. The bushy little plants, Tom Thumb. RM5. Pretty little deep crimson which are easily grown anywhere in pots or blooms on a miniature 6 to 8 inch plant. It blooms almost continuously from early spring in the garden, have tiny lace-like leaves and 408. to late fall. Plant Pat. No. 169. 4-inch pots, 85c bloom almost continuously. Plant Pat. No. each, 3 for $2.25* 4-inch pots, 85c each, 3 for $2.25.*

Pixie, The Tiniest Rose Armstrong Tree Roses

An Armstrong Tree Rose. A large head oi Standard Hinrich Gaede. RT12. Rich vermilion-orange. or Tree-shaped Roses are grown by luxuriant foliage and lovely blooms on a stout budding the variety of Rose desired into a K. A. Victoria. RT14. The old favorite white. 36-inch stalk. tall, straight stalk at a height of 36 inches from the ground, forming a bushy head at the Lowell Thomas. RT14A. Enormous, large, long top of this straight stalk. Many Rose vari- buds and flowers of deep golden yellow. eties produce even more blooms when grown in this way than on an ordinary bush, and Mary Margaret McBride. RT15. A 1943 All- the individual flowers are frequently larger America rose. Deep coral-pink shaded gold and more brilliantly colored. For lining walks, at the base. emphasizing corners, or planting locations in McGredy's Ivory. RT16. Long, fragrant, ivory where height is desired, they are excellent. buds and fine big open flowers. We believe Armstrong Tree Roses to be the finest produced in this country. Tree Roses Miss Clipper. RT17. Lovely salmon-pink buds are shipped without earth on the roots in the and orange-pink flowers. The world's finest months of December, January and February. rose fragrance. point- Price: S3.00 each, S27.50 per 10 (al'er March 1 Mme. Chiang Kai Shek. RT17A. Great sold in 5-gal. tins at 50c per tree higher). ed buds and full flowers of primrose-yellow. Mme. Henri Guillot. RT18. Raspberry-pink to Shipping Weight: Bare root, 7 lbs. for first watermelon-pink, magnificent foliage. plant, 2 lbs. for each plant added; 5-gal. tins, 55 lbs. each. Mrs. E. P. Thom. RT19. Beautiful bright yellow buds, freely produced.

Picture. RT21. Sparkling, warm pink buds and Tree Rose Varieties open flowers in great profusion. Charlotte Armstrong. RT1. Long, blood red President Hoover. RT22. Big, multi-color buds buds and brilliant cerise flowers. of red, pink, buff on very long stems. Countess Vandal. RT4. Salmon-pink shaded Radiance. RT23. Favorite silvery pink. copper and gold. Red Radiance. RT24. Fragrant cherry-red. Crimson Glory. RT5. Velvety crimson shaded maroon; extremely fragrant flowers. Talisman. RT25. Lovely scarlet and gold buds. Eclipse. RT6. Long, slended, streamlined yel- Texas Centennial RT26. Rose-red form of low buds in profusion. President Hoover; beautiful buds. Etoile de Hollande. RT7. Probably the best No. I. RT27. va- red; exceedingly fragrant. Two-Color Combination Two rieties budded into the same head gives you Fred Edmunds. RT7A. Vivid glowing coppery a unique novelty. This one has Talisman, orange—a sensational color. yellow and scarlet, and Mary Hart, velvety Golden blood-red. $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10. Rapture. RT8. Bright shining yellow. Hadley. Combination No. 2. RT28. An ex- RT10. Long a popular red rose and Two-Color still free-flowering head is a good one. Old time fragrance. ceedingly vigorous and obtained with President Hoover, pink, orange Heart's Desire. RT11. Magnificent long red and buff, and Texas Centennial, rosy brick- Duds; amazingly fragrant. red. $3.50 each, $32.50 per 10.

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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 three 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 Sweet Sixteen mgm£n£ Charlotte Armstrong. Rll. (Lammens, Sweet Sixteen. R89A. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) This new Armstrong Rose for W^mflSW introduced by Armstrong.) The finest. 1944 rose grown or sold by the Armstrong will give you from early spring until late fall Nurseries in our 52 years of rose growing! That's a succession of long, slender buds in delicate what we think of this amazingly beautiful new shades of light pink with tints of rose, and a dash the only Rose, Charlotte Armstrong, which won of gold at the base of each petal. The long tight in 1941, the year of its All-America Rose Award buds, half unrolled blooms and the large-petalled introduction, and since then has been awarded flowers are magnificent in their perfection of form. the famous John Cook Medal for "The Best New American Rose since 1935," the Fuerstenburg They have that soft rose-petal complexion and Prize for "The Best New Rose of American Ori- soft rich daintiness of color that go with sparkling gin," the Gold Medal of the City of Portland, Goid youth and beauty, and they have a sweet fra- Medal of The American Rose Society and innumer- grance which makes them delightful cut flowers. able other awards. It is especially fine in coastal or cool weather regions. You'll be cutting its beautiful buds But most important, thousands of pleased planters ahead of most other roses in your gorden. Plant throughout the country are telling us and anybody Pat. applied for. $1.50 each.* who will listen how much they enjoy all those lovely long, streamlined buds and perfect open blooms of Charlotte Armstrong. It is a rose amazingly beautiful in all stages, from the long, slender, rich The Finest Rose Perfume carmine buds through the magnifi- Miss Clipper. R59. (Lammerts, introduced by cent, brilliantly colored spectrum-red Armstrong.) How would you like to have the flowers, to the still lovely full-blown world's richest, most "rose-like" rose fragrance blooms of rich cerise. These color in your garden? Miss Clipper will provide it for terms mean very little you have to — you—and that's not just our opinion. Scientific see the flowers to visualize their tests by one of the country's largest amazing richness. The long-stemmed chemical com- panies, blooms are produced in great quan- conducted in the summer of 1941 in order to tities throughout the season and are find the rose that would produce the finest ideal for cutting, and, of course, every- essential oil for rose perfume, showed conclusively body appreciates the strong, vigorous, that Miss Clipper has the finest rose fragrance. free-branching growth which clothes The long, slender buds and lovely cupped flowers the plants luxuriantly with handsome of pale salmon-pink shaded orange and yellow, foliage. It is a pleasure to have a are good for the eyes, and that intoxicating fra- variety like this in the garden which grance is good for the lungs. See color illustra- grows prodigiously without coddling tion on page 72. Plant Pat. No. 522. $1.25 each* and never stops blooming throughout the whole season. And reports from cold climates indicate that it is hardier than most roses Sierra too. From Maine to California, it has been a Clow great success. Plant Pat.. No. 455. $1.25 each.* Sierra Glow. R84. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) The long flaring buds open out into Times Square many-petalled, high-centered flowers, lovely at every stage, which last well on the plant and Times Square. R93A. (Lammerts, introduced by when cut. If you have ever seen that indescrib- If ever seen Armstrong.) you have New York able summer afterglow on the snowy peaks of the City's busiest comer before the dim-out, with its High Sierras, you will know where we secured kaleidoscopic, colorful bright lights, always chang- the name for this rose. In the center of the bloom ing but always brilliant, you know why this Rose and at the base of the petals is most unusual was called Times Square. Its big ovoid bud and a enormous, big-petalled flower come in prevailing tan shade never seen before in roses, while the shades of orange and apricot with dashes of bril- outer petals are a beautiful silvery sun-bathed liant yellow and rich red. Always redolent with pink. Richly scented with the good old attar of heavy rose fragrance. Long heavy stems and big, roses perfume with a hint of spice added. The glossy, polished leaves. The plant is large, tall plant is spreading, vigorous and highly disease- and free-branching. $1.00 each. resistant. Plant Pai. No. 521. $1.25 each.* Charlotte Armstrong (Above) Hail to the Chief The Chief Ihe Chief. R92. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) Exceedingly Fragrant This new rose has amazed observers with its gigantic, extremely 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 1940 All-America Rose Selection. Awarded Silver Medal, Portland Rose Test Gardens. 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 js low and bushy, heavily clothed with glossy foliage which is almost mildew-proof. Pint Pat. No. 454. $1.00 each* Little Copper Cems for the Garden Copper Nugget. R16. (Lammerts, introduced by Armstrong.) lusl 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. $1.00 each. 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 thousands of planters in the United States during the past 50 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 on 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. Shipping Time. Dormant, bare- Armstrong Rose Plants are rooted Plating Calendar available for shipments from De- cmber 15 to May 1 and are ship- A black square under any month means that plants safely cheaply ped anywhere and are available during that month. during this period. During the rest of the year most kinds are available as blooming plants in 5-gal. Month JFMAMJ JASOND tins (wt. 45 lbs. each). These are easily delivered to Southern Cali- saxe RootBBBcnnnnnnaa fornia points but are rather heavy and expensive to ship to more ,qa , distant areas. iiniiiiiiir

Boutonniere

Quantity Rates Shipping Costs & Weights

The each rate applies unless your order The transportation charges on rose bushes or any other plant material are totals 10 or more Bush or Climbing based on the table on page 41. Dor- Roses. For 10 or more, reduced rates mant, bare root rose plants weigh 2 lbs. are given below and apply on any as- for the first plant and 1/2 lb. for each 'sortment except as noted below- additional plant. 12 or less roses are usually shipped by mail, so be sure Less Thar. 10 10 or More to include postage based on the table Each Each on page 41, with this size order. More than 12 roses will usually be shipped S2.00 $1.75 by express and shipping charges will 1.50 1.25 be collected by the express company 1.25 1.10 at destination. We use our judgment as to method of shipment and refund 1.00 .90 any amount sent us for postage which .85 .75 is not used. .75 .65 Summer Price Change Note: The varieties marked with a * after the price are sold in quantities of The prices quoted in this Catalog are 3 or more of one kind at the 10-rate. for bare root dormant plants sold from December 15 to 1, 1944. Plants in At least 3 of such varieties must be May 5-gal. tins sold during the summer and included in any order to get the 10- fall months are usually priced higher rate on those particular kinds. because of the added costs of handling.

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, top All-America Winner for 1944

Sierra Glow

All-America Rose Offer tft^Sf^f - most of the finest new rose varieties not yet on *S market "jri are entered for official test and competition in 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 judges in America score these varieties on a uniform point basis, and at the end of a two-year period C0res are averaged and the top-scoring roses are then named as si? 5 All-America Roses. They are the best of each year's new varieties. You'll find the 1944 winners described on page 71. From the leading All-America Winners of the past four years, we have made up a special All-America Collection which includes the top winner for each year. Plant this group and you'll enjoy the elite of the modern rose world. Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek. RS0A. (1944 All-America.) Giant, perfectly formed buds of delightful primrose-yellow, opening to a great full ilower of creamy yellow. Spicy lemon scent. $2.00 each* Mary Margaret McBride. R54. (1943 All-America.) Clear deep coral- pmk suffused with rich gold at the base. $1.50 each* Grande Duchesse Charlotte. R38. (1943 All-America.) A new shade of rea m roses, rich claret or brick-red, changing to a begonia-rose. $1.50* S<1 Desire - R4°- (1942 All-America.) Magnificent, long, stream- linedr ?'u buds of bright luminous red; superbly fragrant. $1.50 each .* 8 Arms,ron RH. ^"s'lfa g- (1941 All-America Winner.) The finest of ? ""America Roses m our opinion. Long, slender, carmine buds and Brilliant open flowers of spectrum-red and cerise. $1.25 each.* Special All-America Rose Offer, one each of the above five All-America noses (regular single rate value S7.75) for S6.60. Ask for Collection wo. 112. Add 17 cents sales tax on California shipments. See page 41 -or postage charges (wt. 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 oi

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 Countess Vandal Countess Vandal. Crimson Glory. R18. We rate this com- R17. Countess Vandal paratively new variety as the Number One has established itself as one of the very finest pink Roses. Its long tapering Dark Red Rose. It has about everything buds that a good Rose needs, starring with beau- of salmon-pink, richly shaded with copper gold tones, tiful flaring urn-shaped buds which always and are richly perfumed, and Crimson Glory, Ihe finest dark red. open into a magnificent vivid flower of the Countess produces continuously many velvety crimson with black and maroon of these beautifully formed, long-stemmed, shadings. The glowing deep scarlet color lovely blooms. It is exceptionally fine for has a velvety sheen that catches either cutting because long-stemmed buds are nearly always available and they keep ex- The Best White sunlight or artificial light and glows like a red hot coal. The blooms have a pleasant ceptionally well after cutting. Buds and open flowers are always perfect no matter Alice Stern. HI. The perfection of form in bud and rich fragrance. The plant is vigorous and what the weather. Plant Pat. No. 38. open flower and its large size, combined with the well foliaged, low and spreading rather $1.00 each.* splendid, upright, strong growing plant, rates this than upright. U. S. Plant Pat. No. 105. one as the best white Rose. In cool weather there is SI. 00 each.* an ivory tone at the base of the buds, as well as an Two Beautiful Singles exguisite hint of pink at the tip. The open flower is Caledonia. R7. The purest white among Collette Clement. R13. The enormous, white at all times. SI. 00 each. Hybrid Tea Roses. The beautifully shaped, single, large-petalled, richly colored flow- long, snowy white buds are exquisite and ers are a beautiful rich salmon-flame (deep American Beauty. R2. An old-time Spring blooming their fragrance is delicious. In certain coral-pink in very hot weather), with an Hybrid Perpetual with large full blooms of rosy- weathers the buds "ball" and do not intensely yellow center. Exceedingly vig- carmine. Fine in Arizona, but of no value on the always open up properly, but it produces orous growth, large foliage, and spicy coast. Rich damask perfume. 85c each. its blooms so profusely and they are so fragrance, lead us to recommend it highly. very fine most of the time that we can for- $1.00 each. Apricot Queen. R3. Take the richest col- give it those few lapses. 75c each. Dainty Bess. R20. The delicate charm and ors from a perfect tree-ripened California elusive loveliness of this dainty single Rose apricot, instill them into one of the most have made it the most popular single rose beautifully formed rose buds that you have ever seen Giant Orange Buds grown. The five-petalled flowers are borne and you get seme idea of the beauty of this charm- in clusters of three or more, each flower ing Rose. The general color effect is rich deep sal- three inches across, delicate pink in color, California. R8. will mon-apricot, with lovely tints of orange-yellow at the ||H» You be with a brownish-red overcast and contrast- thrilled with the base of the petals. The magnificent buds are delight- unusual or- ing center of wine-red stamens. The flow- ange color found in the large fully fragrant. 1940 All-America. Plant Pat. No 464. ers are very lasting when cut, and the buds of this Rose. The flowers have about $1.25 each.* bush is strong and tall, blooming con- seventeen of the enormous petals, the buds tinuously. 85c each. are large, long and lovely, and the color, Austrian Copper. R4. Becomes a spreading bush 4 particularly in cool weather, is beautiful Dainty. R19. (Polyantha.) Has large heads or feet high, covered 5 in spring with brilliant 2-inch in its ruddy orange shades toned with of small, semi-double, salmon-pink blooms, copper-scarlet blooms, startling vivid. and Do not saffron-yellow. A strong grower. Deli- a bright and cheerful color. Plant low and prune. $1.25 each. flower cately scented. At its best in coastal or bushy, covered with big 6 to 8 inch cooler sections. 1940 All-America. Plant heads almost continually. A beautiful low Pat. No. 449. $1.50 each.* 15-inch border, and lovely for cutting too. Autumn Colors 75c each. Cecil. R9. Big, 4-inch, star-shaped, golden Dame Edith Helen. R21. Still remains popu- Autumn. R5. The full handsome buds are a superb yellow flowers borne freely on a low- lar. Big, full, double flowers of glowing shade of bumt-orange, and the opening flowers are branching, bushy plant, with handsome clear rose pink, produced on a tall, up- heavily suffused with russet-brown and bronzy red glossy foliage, blooming from early to late. right, long-stemmed bush. Its immense all over-laid on a background of rich yellow in a See new climbina sport of this variety on size, lovely clear color and delightful fra- color combination reminiscent of the most glorious page 63. $1.00 each. grance, combined with its unusual lasting autumnal foliage. It would difficult be to exaggerate qualities when cut, make it hard to dis- the colors. Deliciously fragrant. 75c each. place. 75c each. Cecile Brunner Boutonniere. R6. For lapel and corsage. See paqe A Sun-Tanned Beauty 67. $1.00 each.* Duquesa de Penaranda. R23. most in- Cecile Brunner. R10. The miniature flow- A triguing color of orange-apricot, with deep- ers of this favorite old Baby Rose, rose er coppery tones, the huge, pointed buds pink shaded salmon, fill a niche which being quite double, sweetly perfumed and Girona has pastel colors of dainty pink, yellow no other Rose can occupy. A strong grow- long lasting. A tall, strong grower with and carmine. Deliciously fragrant. er too, and always in bloom. 85c each. beautiful light green shiny foliage. One of the first varieties to bloom in the spring. Charlotte Armstrong. Rll. Finest Rose of in almost them all. See page 68. $1.25 each.* A dependable garden performer any area. 85c each. Christopher Stone. R12. Bright red. See Don Rose. R21A. A beautiful new coppery page 75. 85c each. pink. See page 71. $1.25 each* Eclipse. R24. Long, streamlined yellow Condesa de Sastago. R14. Yellow and buds. See page 72. $1.25 each* scarlet bi-colc r. See page 75. 75c each. E. G. Hill. R26. One of the outstanding Copper Nugget. R16. See page 67. $1.00 ea. reds. See page 75. 75c each. A Glorious Red Etoile de Hollande. R28. This magnifi- Contrast cent red Rose is ranked among the first Contrast. R15. A brilliant com- three of its color by everyone who knows bination of colors catches the Roses, and many will place it first. The eye at once in this exguisite bi- perfect buds are of medium size, opening colored rose. The upper face of beautifully and cleanly into glorious great the petals is a glowing orange- flowers with incomparable fraararce. hold- rose or china-pink in some ing its briliant color to the end. The bush V is strong, free branching, weathers, while the under side and healthy. A is a light straw color shaded Rose that actually has no serious fault. with bronze. Semi-double, beau- See illustration and description of climbing tifully shaped in the bud, borne sport also on page 65. Since it is one of of on long stems, it is a splendid the most outstanding red roses we, rose for cutting, and you will course, include it in the "Armstrong Big find the bush to be one of the Ten" listed on page 76. 85c each. largest and most vigorous plants Fantastique. R28A. A new type rose, dain- in your garden. Fragrance tily colored yellow and pink. See paae 71. slight but pleasant. $1.00 each. SI. 50 each.*

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Are Garden Favorites

Cirona Velvety Red Giiona. R31. A comparatively new- Hoosier Beauty. R41A. An intense rich rose which has had no great publicity, dazzling scarlet with darker shadings, but we think so highly of it that we and acknowledged to be one of the best 10" have placed it in our "Big Collec- and most highly colored red Roses. The tion in place of the old-timer President beautifully formed flowers have a tex- Hoover. It really takes a good rose to ture like velvet and possess a delicious shove Hoover aside. The full, double fragrance. The plants are never without flowers are magnificently formed and flowers in the blooming season. 75c ea. are beautifully colored in various tones of pink, carmine and yellow. You'll find fragrant roses you've it one of the most Surpassing Fragrance ever dipped your nose into, and it produces long-stemmed flowers very freely Imperial Potentate. R43. A clear shining rose-pink. Exceptional on a tall, strong, beautifully foliaged form and plant. Splendid for cutting because lasting qualities have made this vari- they keep so well. $1.00 each. ety one of the finest and best liked pink Roses. It is possibly the most highly Frau Karl Druschki. R30. (Hybrid Per- perfumed Rose grown. When you bury Autumn has gorgeous shades of yellow, bronze and red. petual.) Pure white, with immense long your nose in a bloom of Imperial Poten- buds and very double flowers, wax-like tate you are amazed at the concentrat- in texture. Hardy everywhere, with ed sweetness that one bloom can pos- long upright growth up to 6 feet. Put it sess. 85c each. Lovely Little Lulu where it has plenty of room to grow Irish Fireflame. R45. wonderfully because it will greatly exceed most Buds Lulu. R51. This dainty little Rose has always been a greai Rose bushes in size. 75c each. rich in coloring, deep rich orange favorite with us and with our friends because of the great splashed with crimson, opening to a quantities of dainty, long, slender buds of coral-apricot with Fiesta. R29. The only real striped rose, flower of satiny old gold. large, single which the bush is covered at all times. There is not g Rose vermilion and yellow. See page 72. The tall, willowy plant produces them more exquisitely formed in the bud stage than Lulu, and an each.* $1.50 in great profusion, and it is most use- astonishingly large number of Rose lovers will put Lulu at Fred Edmunds. R30A. Vivid glowing ful for cutting because the dainty flow- the very top of their list of roses. Plant low and bushy but coppery orange. See illustration and ers are lovely on the table. 85c each. very vigorous. 85c each. description on next page. $2.00 each.* Joanna from Indiana A Red Talisman Golden Dawn Joanna Hill. R46. A slender, daintily Mary Hart. R53. This striking red sport of Talisman has the orange-yellow bud, which is same handsome form of the Talisman buds but is maroon- Golden Dawn. R35. The large, oval colored, fragrant, and the colors, red, opening to open blossoms of velvety blood-red with buds are rich sunflower-yellow, heav- extremely while not brilliant, are dainty and an overglow of amber. The color varies "considerably with ily diffused with cerise before opening is no finer Rose of its weather conditions and is at its best in cool weather. Ex- and developing into high-centered, fully lovely. There for cutting, because the buds keep quisitely fragrant; growth medium, upright. Plant Pat. No. 8. double flowers of light lemon-yellow, color are borne on long, 85c each.* with the oriqinal old Tea Rose scent. a long time and 75c each. The luxuriantly foliaged, much-branch- upright stems. ed, strong growing plant is not the least Jonkheer Mr. G. Sandberg. R47. Yel- Perfection in Ivory of its fine qualities. 75c each. low. See page 75. $1.00 each. McGredy's Ivory. R55. The flowers are Golden Emblem. R36. The lovely long Katheleen Kennedy. R48A. Fragrant creamy ivory-white, which turns to a buds of golden yellow are beautifully new light pink. See page 71. $1.50 ea. clear white as it opens with occasionally tinted with crimson on the outer petals, R48B. Hand- Katherine T. Marshall. a faint pink flush in the center in cool offering a delightful contrast at all See page 72. some new glowing pink. weather. The buds are just about as per- times. The glossy green foliage is par- $2.00 each* fect as Roses can be, and the flowers ticularly fine and the buds are borne possess a delicate damask perfume. The on long, stiff stems. For 20 years Gold- purity, grace and beauty of a lovely en Emblem has held its popularity un- for Cutting bud of this varity just about takes your dimmed in California. $1.00 each. Splendid enthu- breath away. 85c each. Golden Rapture. R37. Shining rich yel- Korovo. R49. We continue to be lovely low. See illustration and description siastic about the beauty of this accu- page 75. 85c each. pink Rose, the color being more Countess Vandal, the perfect cutting rately described as old rose with peach rose. Gloria Mundi. R33. Little double flow- blossom shadings. The full buds are ers, like baby pompon chrysanthemums beautifully formed, extremely fra- —brilliant, luminous, orange-scarlet grant, and the plants are so strong borne in great clusters which cover prolific that when we go into the 2-foot plant. 75c each. and the fields to cut a few particularly Glowing Sunset. R34. A large, robust choice buds we find ourselves com- Rose in every way, with big, fully ing back many times with a lovely double, high-centered flowers, excellent- bouquet of glowing pink Korovo. ly formed, borne on a strong, vigorous 85c each. bush, with large, heavy, glossy foliage. Only the colorings are delicate, but lovely, a soft shade of orange with shadings of pink and apricot-yellow. A Favorite White Plenty of the real old sweet Tea fra- Victoria. R48. Pure ivory grance. Plant Pat. No. 104. $1.00 ea.* K. A. white, producing quantities of beau- Grande Duchesse Charlotte. R38. See tiful buds and full flowers. Long next page. $1.50 each.* considered one of the best white Hadley. R39. Everybody knows this old Roses for California because it favorite, which, with its brilliant rich blooms so freely and continuously, crimson color, vigorous growth, long no matter what the weather. If this stems, full blooms and rich fragrance, were a new Rose, we would be is close to the top in red Roses. It suf- 'writing a 2-inch description of it, fices to say that if you like red Roses but since it is more than 40 years you must not be without Hadley. 75c ea. old, we'll just tell you that you'll to beat any- Heart's Desire. R40. See next page. find it mighty hard $1.50 each.* where as a white Rose. 75c each.

Los Angeles. R50. A California Brilliant Gaede product, and in color emblematical of the Golden West, it has gained Hinrich Gaede. R41. We can tell you international recognition as one of that the general color effect in this The flower the finest roses ever produced. is orange-scarlet, copper-orange, flame-pink, or luminous color is a glorious rich vermilion, but no matter shaded gold and yellow. A very how much we juggle the color adjec- large, strong-growing, free-bloom- tives, you could not possibly get an bush, so give it plenty of room. idea of the magnificence ing of its bloom. 75c each. a rich honey j ? -sweet fragrance, and the quite double flowers are borne on long stems on a vigorous strong Lowell Thomas. R50A. Glorious bush with excellent foliage. See illus- new All-America yellow. See next tration in color on page 63. 85c each. page. $2.00 each.* The Best of the New

The five rose varieties below, designated with the AARS insignia, are the 1944 All-America Rose winners, so honored by twelve capable rose judges after two years trial in the twelve official trial gardens throughout the country, cf All-America Rose Selections, an organization formed for the specific purpose of picking the best new roses of each year.

1944 s Best Fred Edmunds Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek. Fred Edmunds. R30A. (Meil- H60A. (Howard & Smith) Jlia^j j ^Kfl land) This new orange-colored Named in QGy honor of the rose won an All-America Re- gracious First Lady of China, it gional Award for the Pacific Coast, and stands right at the top of the new that's good enough for us. It's the best roses of the year. The giant, per- orange-colored rose yet, in our opinion, fectly formed, long buds of soft with a color so rich it will startle you primrose-yellow open to great, when you see it. It is exceedingly vivid many-petalled spiral flowers of in the bud, slowly changing to a softer creamy ivory. Every lovely bloom apricot-orange shade in the older blooms. is borne on a long straight stem. Probably at its best in the cooler sec- The bushes are tall, slender and tions. The plants have been exceedingly strong and in our rose fields last vigorous with us, with glistening, glossy, summer they stood out in height large foliage, and the flowers have a de- above everything else. The flowers have licious fruity fragrance. Named in honor a spicy lemon scent. See the color illus- of the Curator of the International Rose tration on page 68. Plant Pat. applied Test Gardens at Portland, Oregon. Prop. for. $2.00 each* Rights Reserved. $2.00 each .* Heart's Desire, most fragrant oi red roses. Lowell Thomas Lowell Odine. R69B. (Ketten.) We picked some of the most beau- Thomas. R50A. (Mal- Fantastique lerin) tiful, long-pointed, snowy white buds from this new rose The more we see of this Fantastique. R28A. (Meilland) You've last summer, that can be imagined. Perfect white rose - splendid new yellow rose the better never seen anything like this rose before. buds are scarce, and this one has no lemon or ivory to we like to recommend it. Its long tightly Medium sized, very double flowers, open- mar its immaculate whiteness. A good grower, too. furled buds are a rich golden yel- ing up like camellia, every petal S2.00 each. low, deep and glowing, opening slowly a a beautiful light yellow, edged feath- into a large flower of a uniform lighter and ered with carmine-red. low, bushy, yellow shade. It has a large and robust A Fred Edmunds, the best orange-colored rose. beautifully foliaged plant which throws plant which keeps throwing out new flower stems incessantly. Every bloom out its novel, amazingly colored blooms in great profusion. Plant Pat. No. 574. is borne on a heavy stout stem. Visitors $1.50 gravitated to this variety all summer long each* m our fields. A very mild fragrance Fay. Plant Pat. No. 595. $2.00 each* Numa R69A. (Richard) Looks like one of the best light pink roses of recent Mme. Marie Curie years. The flower is very large, very full, quite fragrant, beautifully formed Mme. Marie Curie. BMlf^ R63A. and long lasting. The color is a soft (Gaujard) This EfltCT; fine new yel- orange-salmon, lightening to pale pink. ^ » low rose is named after the We like it particularly because of its big, lamous co-discoverer of radium. The vigorous bush, and its large, abundant flower is guite double, daffodil-yellow, foliage which covers the plant from the deeper in the center and paling at the ground right up to the long-stemmed flow- edges of the petals, of medium size. The ers. Those are good characteristics for bush makes a 3-foot plant guickly and is any rose to have. $1.50 each. very free with its sweetly fragrant bloom, producing great guantities of them all Don Rose. R21A. (Mallerin) Long tapered through the season on rather short stems buds of rich coppery salmon-pink, borne Plant Pat. applied for. $1.50 each.* on a somewhat spreading plant, opening JlSWfM^ Katherine T. Marshall. R48B. to a large full flower of the same color. The plant blooms freely all season, pro- v/aYlyT (Boerner) A lovely bloom of ducing large quantities of beautiful buds warm, glowing, clear pink, with no other shadings. Only for cutting. Prop. Rights Reserved. $1.25 a few each.* petals, but all big, heavy textured ones, forming a magnificent bud and half-open Kathleen Kennedy. R48A. (Dickson) Has bloom, with a rich fruity fragrance. It just the satiny fresh pink complexion that has the most luxuriant, biggest, and you would expect a lovely Irish lass to most handsome foliage of any of the new have, and sure, she's just over from the roses, and the plants are tall, strong "Old Sod." The flowers are large, many- and robust, with long, straight stems petalled and nicely formed. The fra- Named after the wife of Gen. George C grance is too rich to be Irish, it must be Marshall of the U. S. Army. Plant Pat. Frsnch. $1.50 each. applied for. $2.00 each.*

Grande Duchesse Charlotte (at right) has a shade of red new to roses. — —

Roses for 1943-44 Grande Duchesse A Sorrel Rose ttpc&n^F Grande Duchesse Charlotte. Pilar Landecho. R72A. (Campru- R38, Ke,ten) The interesting bi) You've heard of a sorrel WaStSr~1 < buds are a rich claret color horse, but have you ever heard of a sorrel rose? Here is one (you may call it brick-red), which changes as the flowers age to a lovely not a solid color but shading begonia-rose. The flowers are not per- from bronze to red to yellowish- brown with intermediate tones. fect in form, but they are always beau- color, never You really have to see it to tiful because of that pich visualize it. big, tall, seen in roses before. The plant is big, A strong plant with full, strong and free-branching. To us the big, cup-shaped fragrance is like that of ripe fruit. A blooms on long, straight stems. 1943 All-America Rose. Plant Pat. Pend- SI. 50 each. ing. $1.50 each.* Sunlit- Heart's Desire Sunlit. R89. (Alister Clqrk) One of the prettiest little roses you'll Heart's Desire. R40. (Howard ever see, about half the size Smith) The 1942 All-Amer- & of the usual Rose, and perfect long, pointed ica winner. Its in every detail. Both buds and open red, with- buds" of pure bright luminous flower are exquisite in form, high-cen- magnificent to out other shadings, are tered, fully double. You'll find your- are always borne on behold. They self putting a few buds in a little vase and keep longer than al- long stems, on your table or. mantelpiece every other rose in our fields after most any day. The color is apricot-pink, quite in the most outstanding they are cut. But tense in the bud, paling to a lighter its powerfully feature of the rose is shade in the open flower, but always superb fragrance. A few sweet and lovely. A beautiful little compact plant, blooms will perfume an entire room. handsomely foliaged, and practically display True, it will occasionally a thornless. $1.50 each. weak neck and in certain seasons a Fiesta makes a dazzling, two-toned display. few globular flowers, but we think these faults are far outweighed by its For Your Bud Vase good points. The plants are tall, vigor- Eclipse. R24. The outstanding charac- ous and free-branching. Plant Pat. No. teristic of this splendid rose (it's not 501. $1.50 each.* particularly new), is the exceptionally Sweet Sixteen. R89A. A new Arm- long stream-lined bud of pale yellow, strong rose for 1944. (See page 67.) often more than 2 inches long. The Lovely slender buds, delicate pink col- open blooms are somewhat uninterest- ors; fine for cutting. $1.50 each.* ing, but when you can go out almost

any morning and pick a bouquet of . Mary Margaret these exquisitely beautiful, long slender buds, each one on a long stem, it / Mary Margaret McBride. R54. is difficult to resist. The big, tall, strong (Nicolas) The top ranking All- bush keeps the mildly fragrant buds America Rose for last year coming along continuously. Plant Pat.' 1943. Lovely, long, flaring buds and No. 172. $1.25 each.* many-petalled flowers in a rich yet delicate coral-pink color with a shimmer- Spanish Fiesta Colors ing golden color at the base of the petals. It has a satisfying fragrance. Fiesta. R29. Dazzling is the only word You'll find that the plant starts going that describes this remarkable varie- places right away, as soon as you get gated Rose. The color scheme consists it in the ground, becoming tall and of stripes and flecks of bright yellow on rather slender, the canes beautifully a background of rich vermilion. The foliaged with big, broad, leathery flowers nestle in dark green, glossy leaves. Plant Pat. No. 537. $1.50 ea* foliage of large size and make a great Pinocchio. R74. (Kordes) Great clus- show on the plant, as well as providing ters of beautiful little blooms in the most unusual cut flowers. A modest brightest, cheeriest, daintiest shades of grower, requiring a little extra wafer salmon, and fertilizer to secure the finest blooms. flushed with gold, that you The "Streamlined Rose," Eclipse can imagine, and every little bud in Slightly fragrant. You and your friends the cluster is a perfect garden rose in will exclaim over this bizarre yet daintily colored Rose when it blooms in miniature. Lovely in the garden, per- The Fragrant Rose, Miss Clipper (below) Plant Pat. No. 389. $1.50 * fect for cutting. Blooms all season, 20 your garden. See page 67 to 24 inches tall. Plant Pat. No. 484. SI. 25 each*

Lowell Thomas, the new All-America Yellow.

72 Armstrong Bush Roses

Alphabetical List of Bush Rosss (Continued from Page 70) Buttercup Yellow A Solid Performer McGredy's Yellow. R58. The buds are Mrs. Pierre S. duPont. R67. Just visualize medium size but beautifully formed, with a bushy, 2-foot plant so thickly covered plenty of petals, and are a lovely uniform with luxuriant, glossy green foliage shade of light buttercup-yellow. One of that the finest things about the variety is the you cannot see the ground, surmounted fine bush, which is full of vigor and is with many stiff-stemmed, medium-sized, continually sending up good stout, straight golden yellow buds, heavy with fragrance. stems, each one surmounted by one of the That's what you'll have in your garden all beautiful buds, and clothed in extremely summer in this fine Rose. You can count handsome dark green Holly-like foliage. on it being a solid performer in the gar- Stands heat well and does not fade. 85c ea. den. 75c each. Mme. Butterfly. R60. Year after year this fine Rose remains a much loved favorite in the garden, with its deep shadings of apricot and gold on a background of bril- Mrs. Sam McGredy liant pink. The delicately modelled flowers are exquisite in both color and form, Mrs. Sam McGredy. R68. This wonderful delightful and since it also possesses a Rose is a beautiful copper-orange in col- Talisman. Favorite cut ilower in scarlet and gold, fragrance lovely foliage, it cannot be and or, heavily flushed with Lincoln-red. There every perfect bud full of exquisite fragrance. displaced by any of the newer Roses. is no other color in Roses like it. The buds 75c each. are long-pointed, high-centered and double, Chiang Kai-Shek. R60A. Giant new Mme. with a moderate fragrance. Growth low, yellow. The top All-America Rose for 1944. Sunset Colors robust and much branched with the most See page 68. $2.00 each* McGredy's Sunset. R57. Sunset colors are much in beautiful bronzy green foliage, glossy and evidence in this beautiful, high-centered flower, with luxuriant, ever seen on a rose bush. Tc its rich of shade yellow underlaid with deep chrome- Lots of Buds cap it all, the flowers possess a sweet fra- yellow, the outer petals lightly brushed with apricot. Mme. Edouard Estaunie. R62. like grance. See also the new climbing sport Exceedingly fragrant and exquisite in color though We roses that have lots of perfect buds for on page 63. 85c each. somewhat lacking in form and substance, the flow- cutting and we think most of our customers ers are produced in such large quantities that you do too. That's what you'll get from this can forgive its shortcomings. Plant Pat. No. 317. fine new rose. Long, flaring, urn-shaped, $1.25 each.* For Flower Arrangements symmetrical buds of creamy nankeen yel- Miss Clipper. R59. The new rose with the finest rose low with deeper flesh tones in the center Mrs. R. M. Finch. perfume. See page 72. $1.25 each.* of the bloom and on the under side of the R67A. (Polyantha.) petals. Every bud and half open flower You've seen this little Baby Rose in the is perfect in form, borne on long, straight florist shops because it's widely used as a Evergreen Shrub Rose stems for cutting on a tall, vigorous, free- cutflower. The dainty light pink color of blooming plant. A nice spicy scent too. the beautiful little 2-inch flowers, borne in Mrs. Dudley Fulton. R64. The bush is covered dur- $1.00 each. loose clusters, fit in with so many other ing the spring, summer and fall with good-sized, blooms perfectly. It makes a beautiful single, silvery-white flowers which make the plant garden plant, becoming 3 or 4 feet high in look like a small snow-storm. One of the most re- One of the Best time and blooming all through the markable things about this Rose is the splendid season Mme. Henri Guillot. R51. As the beautiful so that .evergreen foliage, which is always glossy as if var- you always have some of the tight bud begins to unfold its 25 large, nished, and in California the foliage is beautiful pink blooms to cut. 85c each. often just as crisp, heavy-textured petals of raspberry attractive in the middle of winter as in the summer. pink, the bloom becomes lovelier in every As we write these words, on November 15th, our succeeding stage, and the great full-blown plants are smothered in bloom. Growers in many flower is a thing of splendor. Luxuriant parts of the East Shades of Night and Middle West have made en- glossy foliage clothes the big spreading thusiastic reports on this rose. Grows to 3 feet. We plants to right down the ground. You'll Night. R69. One of the darkest of all recommend plant- find the flowers on of top those straight Roses, deep crimson shaded black and ma- ing it right in the stems unbelievably gorgeous. They're shrub roon. The buds and flowers are well border be- richly fragrant, too. Put this one near cause its shaped, quite double, and it the spicy hand- the top of your list because that's where has some foliage clove and it belongs. Mme. Henri Guillot is in our and cinnamon fragrance that you everblooming hab- "Big 10" this year. Plant Pat. No. 337. can imagine would be wafted on the it fit it better for $1.25 each.* balmy airs of a tropical night. We con- that location than sider this to be the best of the deep dark for the rose bed. reds, but like most dark Roses, the flowers Plant Pat. No. 122. "The Perfect Rose" are at their best in cooler weather. It's 1.00 each * Mme. Joseph Perraud. R63. The enormous a good vigorous grower. See also the new big-petalled, perfectly formed buds of nas- climbing sport turtium-buff, and with a glowing orange of this variety described heart, are always perfectly formed, and page 71. $1.50 each. the vigorous growth, heavy stems, big, broad glossy foliage and free-blooming Numa Fay. R69A. New light pink. See 71. qualities are all on a par with those per- page $1.50. fect buds. Loaded down with gold med- als, it came across from France a few years ago acclaimed as "The Perfect Rose," Mme. Joseph Perraud has big, perfect, apricot- and it has lived up to that glowing phrase. Texas Centennial, yellow sweetly fragrant buds with an orange heart. in its glorious The flowers are and long rosy red hues, is lasting. 85c each. available as a Mme. Marie Curie. R63A. New clear bush (see next golden yellow. A 1944 All-America page) or as a Rose. See page 71. $1.50 each.* climber (see page 63). Peaches and Cream Mrs. Oswald Lewis. R66. An English rose, introduced by us two years ago, with a true English "peaches and cream" complexion. Everything about the bud is dainty—its long, slender, aristocratic shape, the light buff and pink buds, fading to rich cream, flushed beautifully with pink as the flowers open. It is one of the most exquisite buds in form and color to cut that we have seen in a long time. If you like dainty soft coloring, there is nothing finer in roses than this variety. One of the long slender buds is a treasure that will be admired by all who see it. $1.25 each.

— 73 Picture Saturnia Saturnia. Picture. R72. We rate this as one of the R83. Long budded, large-petalled very finest pink Roses and so do our flowers of brilliant customers, because it is the best sell- cardinal-red, salmon-yel- ing pink rose on our list. The plant is low and copper on the reverse, strong and vigorous and produces one exceedingly fragrant. Fades and continuous burst of bloom after an- opens quickly in hot weather, other all through the season, every bud but in cool weather, the flow- of ers are glorious is perfectly formed and with plenty and simply petals so that the flowers are substan- knock your eye out. Along the it will tial and long-lasting without being too coast provide some of the heavy. The color is not a cold color most vividly colored roses that like so many pinks, but it has those can be grown. Plant Pat. No. warm undertones of salmon which 349. $1.00 each.* make the color cheerful and glowing. Signora. R85. The color is a The flowers have plenty of enchant- most intense shade of scarlet- ing sweet Tea fragrance too. One of orange with other lighter shades the "Armstrong Big Ten." The new of tangerine and cerise, and Climbing Picture described and illus- the flower, which has plenty of trated in color on page 63. It is the petals, is always most attrac- outstanding pink climber just as this tive in form from the bud stage is the outstanding rose of its color. 85c. to the wide open flower. The big strong plants produce their flowers on excellent long stems. Slight fragrance. Plant Pat. 201. Piccaninny $1.25 each.* Piccaninny. R71. A medium sized Sierra Glow. R84. See page 67. Mrs. Dudley Fulton, The Everblooming Shrub Rose single rose with five crisp, overlapping $1.25 each* petals in a rich deep dark red color with maroon shadings. The flowers are delightfully redolent of the rich Snowbird Biggest- of All spicy scent of cinnamon, and are continuously borne on long stems on the Snowbird. R87. A very fine, almost The Doctor. R93. Enormous, delicately colored, large-petalled tall, willowy, free-branching plant. The pure white rose which is not well pink blooms, which are so big sometimes you can hardly be- foliage is glossy, too. $1.25 each. known but we think it is one of the lieve them real— 6 inches across with buds in proportion. Odine. B69B. New snowy white. See prettiest little white roses that can be The plant is modest in growth, and you will have to give it flar- page 71. $2.00 each. grown. Long, beautifully shaped, a little extra attention, but it is worth doing that to get those ing white buds of small to medium size great, exquisite, silvery pink flowers, with the intensely Pinocchio. R74. New pink Baby rose. open into snowy white, high-centered sweet fragrance. One of those big, beautifully proportioned, See page 72. $1.25 each.* blooms crowded with small petals. richly colored, sweetly perfumed flowers is really an event Poinsettia. R73. Dazzling scarlet. See Very fragrant. It is lovely in all stages, in the garden. $1.00 each. next page. 85c each. and the plant is free-branching, free- better average in Pilar Landecho. R72A. A new one in blooming, and than Times Square. R93A. See page 67. $1.00 each. rich orange, bronze and yellow. See vigor. It will outbloom most white page 72. $1.50 each. roses two to one. $1.00 each. Clear Sunflower Yellow Southport President Hoover Ville de Paris. R95. Flowers of clear sunflower yellow which do not fade. Its shell-shaped petals (20 of them) be- President Herbert Hoover. R75. Cer- Southport. R88. This is one of the come lovely cups filled with delicious Tea fragrance. Vigor- tainly no Rose planting would be com- finest red garden Roses because of its ous, tall growing, glossy foliaged. See also the Climbing plete without this wonderful multi-col- exceedingly brilliant scarlet color and form on page 65. A handsome bush and an enormous num- lovely, long, ored Rose. It combines many shades the great quantity of ber of beautiful flowers. 85c each. of cerise-pink, flame, scarlet and yel- slender buds which it produces. The low, the long buds being beautifully flower opens guickly into a good sized, formed, opening slowly and possessing loose, open, perfumed bloom which plants a most delicious fragrance. One of the holds its brilliant color well. The President Hoover slender, finest characteristics is the magnificent are strong growing, tall and Pink, Yellow, and Buff Excel- growth of the bush, four feet in one with the blooms on long stems. season being only quite ordinary lent for cut flowers and exceedingly growth for lovely under artificial light. It's one of this variety, and it is not 10" a guestion of how long you wish the the "Armstrong Big offered on page stems to be but how long you wish to 76. 85c each. cut them. It is one of the most dependable of all roses. 75c each. Sunlit. R89. Perfect little apricot buds on thornless stems. See page 72. $1.50. Rose Marie. R81. This variety has for a long time been almost the ideal pink Sweet Sixteen. R89A. Lovely pink garden Rose and is indisputably one of buds. See page 67. $1.50 each.* the finest Roses of any color for cutting A perfectly formed flower, full and long-lasting, dark rose-pink in col- or, with beautifully veined petals and Talisman a rich sweet perfume. A good medium vividly colored Rose grower. 75c each. Talisman. R90. A which is probably better known as a cut flower than any other Rose grown. The brilliant coloring is a mixture of orange-scarlet and golden yellow in Radiance irregular proportions, but always pleasing. Very double, exquisitely shaped, Radiance. R77. This ever-popular Rose will borne on long stems, and exceedingly probably produce more first class sweet scented. Talisman is an indis- blooms to the plant than any other variety, pensable rose for every garden, and and it is exceedingly vigorous, after having one plant you usually hardy, and disease-resistant under all want more so that you can pick a conditions of soil and climate. The llowers larger bouquet of those beautiful buds. are a lovely light silvery-pink, It's an easy rose to grow because the suttused deeper pink, and carry a most delicious plant is vigorous, upright and free- damask perfume. Give it Plenty branching. 75c each. of room and be prepared to many cut long-stemmed flowers, for no Planter Texas Centennial. R91. A strong, tall, was ever disappointed in the vigorous 3 to 4 foot plant, with heavy performance of this famous Rose. 75c. strong stems and magnificent large full Red Radiance. the color is a R80. All we need to buds and blooms—but do is repeat the splendid recommenda- bright, glowing carmine-red which in tions blood- made for its sister variety Radi- cool weather becomes deeper Ve red. It has such a big, vigorous plant ' because this red Rose is exactly» ti u colored the same in everything except and is so lavish with its richly ower flowers that it has jumped up in popu- ' which is a rich cerise- rea.«i m S w Rose . since it became avail- wm excgl ( ^ f ran larity each year ^aniity-of blooms. You can able. See also new Climbing Texas plantl]nZ ?£ either Radiance or Red Radiance Centennial on page 63. Plant Pat. No. in almost any location in any climate 162. $1.00 each* gre at big Plant without any tro^f ? , roses. rouble, for they are rugged Reduced rates on 10 or more to enough thrive anywhere. 75c each. See price table on page 68.

— 74 — Armstrong Bush Roses World's Fair Unfading Yellow

«ngv^ World's Fair. R96. Big, lonkheer Mr. G. Sandberg. R47. One of WrikfX9 velvety textured, deep the most beautiful yellow roses that we % red flowers with black- grow, a clear, bright, shining shade which ish shadings, borne in clusters. does not fade in the sun. The ovoid buds It has been recommended chiefly are well shaped, with plenty of petals, for the mass of color which it pro- and unlike many other yellows, the flow- duces from spring to late fall, ers are produced on a vigorous, upright, but we like it also for the indi- bushy plant which keeps throwing out its vidual beauty of its lovely slen- flower stems continuously. $1.00 each. der buds and gorgeous clusters of open flowers. An All-America Rose Selection for 1940. Plant Most Popular Yellow Pat. No. 362. $1.00 each* Mrs. Erskine P. Thom. R65. Over the past several years this has probably been the You'll Like Chris Stone most valuable yellow Rose for the garden. Our customers think so too for it has out- Christopher Stone. R12. It has continued sold all other yellows almost every year. to grow in popularity each season and The nicely shaped buds and well shaped ranks as one of the very finest red Roses open flowers are a bright canary-yellow of recent years. Glowing, brilliant crim- without other tints, and the strong-grow- son-scarlet, with deeper, dusky shadings ing, vigorous bush is lavish with the as the flower ages, it never has a trace blooms. It has color, form, growth and of blue and does not fade in the hottest lovely foliage, so it is going to stay at the sun. While it sometimes lacks perfection top for some time to come. One of the of form, the blooms have long-lasting sub- "Armstrong Big 10" listed on the opposite stance, a delightfully spicy fragrance, an page. 75c each. unequalled richness of color, and it will Poinsettia, The Dazzling Red Rose out-bloom most red Roses two-to-one, because of the vigor of the plant. 85c each. Vivid Poinsettia Red Poinsettia. R73. For sheer dazzling bril- A Brilliant Bi-color liancy we do not think there is any red Rose that equals this comparatively new Condesa de Sastago. R14. This brilliantly kind. Its well shaped, high-centered buds bi-colored Spanish Rose is unsurpassed in are made up of velvety textured petals in brilliancy, and its startling color combina- such a bright and vivid shade of red that tion is undoubtedly unique. The large, to glow from within. The plant cup-shaped flowers, fairly double and yet they seem vigorous, produc- not too heavy, are glowing orange-scarlet is exceedingly tall and plentifully of the long-stemmed flow- on the inside of the petals and intensely ing somewhat in some bright yellow on the outside. The breath- ers. The blooms fade weathers but are nearly always very sat- taking beauty of its brilliant flowers is isfactory. In the fall you'll get from this not its only fine quality because the tall, variety some of the most gorgeous red bushy plants are satisfyingly robust, al- ever seen. 85c each. ways in bloom, and the flowers are sweet- roses that you have ly fragrant. One of the "Armstrong Big Ten." See illustration opposite page. 75c. Sister Therese Dazzling Scarlet Sister Therese. R8S. A remarkably strong, tall, vigorous, free-branching bush. The E. Hill. G. R26. Immense flowers of very long, tight, slender buds are always per- lasting dazzling scarlet, never fading or fect, never becoming misshapen, and they turning blue, but actually becomina deeD- keep well as a cut flower. The chrome- er red as they open. The flowers are yellow buds tinged with carmine and the borne on long stems, and are deliciously lighter yellow open blooms, spicily fra- fragrant. The foliage is abundant. Its grant, with deeper tones of apricot and brilliant color, extraordinary freedom of gold, are always beautiful to behold. bloom, and lasting qualities have made it You'll never have to coax this one to a popular Rose everywhere. See illustra- grow and bloom. 75c each. tion opposite page. 75c each. York and Lancaster. R97. A 300-year-old Golden Rapture rose with some petals entirely white, some entirely red, and sometimes half red and Golden Rapture. R37. This Rose has pro- half white. Named in commemoration of duced some of the most perfectly formed the end of the Wars of the Roses between bright yellow buds that we have ever the Houses of York (white) and Lancaster seen not a pale yellow, — but a glowing (red). Grows to 6 or 8 feet. Leave it un- Jonkheer Sandberg shining rich yellow without any shadings pruned to get the most flowers. $1.00 each. and the color seldom fades. Has a mild but pleasant fragrance. The growth is medium. In our opinion there is no finer yellow Rose in its color class and its perfection of form and richness of color make it popular with everyone who sees it. One of the "Armstrong Big 10." Also offered as a climber on page 63. 85c each.

Christopher Stone (At Left) Alluring spicy fragrance.

Golden Rapture (at right) is available as a bush offered above on this page or as a glorious free- blooming climber on page 63.

75 — Armstrong's Big A Champion 10 Rose Garden 10-plant If you said, "Pick out for me a well-balanced rose garden, every plant a strong grower, including only tested varieties which will be surest to succeed in my garden," we would pick out for you the kinds included in our Big 10. Each rose is outstanding in its color, and there is not a weak sister among them. The bushes are typical Armstrong rose plants, husky and heavy-rooted. Within a few weeks after planting, they will fill your garden with lovely blooms and rich rose fragrance.

1. Charlotte Armstrong. The No. 1 rose 6. Golden Rapture. Perfect buds of of them all, with long, slender, carmine glorious, shining, brilliant yellow. buds and magnificent open flowers cf brilliant cerise-pink. 7. Mrae. Henri Guillot. Gorgeous vel- 2. Christopher Stone. Glowing, brilliant, vety raspberry-pink, with luxuriant glos- crimson-scarlet, with deeper dusky shad- sy foliage. From the tight bud to the ings. last petal that drops, it is a perfect rose.

3. Condesa de Sastago. Petals vivid yellow on one side, bright orange-scarlet 8. Mrs. Erskine P. Thorn. Beautiful buds on the other. Big, full, high-centered and well-shaped open flowers of bright blooms, sweetly fragrant. canary -yellow without other tints. E. G. Hill

4. Etoile de Hollande. Brilliant non-fading red. One of the most fragrant of all 9. Picture. Lovely buds and flowers of roses. warm pink. Our favorite pink rose.

5. Girona. Lovely tones of pink, car- 10. Southport. Lovely long slender buds mine and yellow. Fully double, exceed- of vivid never-fading scarlet. ingly fragrant.

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 complete 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 (an $8.15 value), for only $6.45. Add 16c 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 Tempe, Ariz., Mar. 12, 1943: "The Charlotte Armstrong bushes you expressed to me came in perfect condition, all are putting out lovely strong foliage, and have given a number of people a lot of pleasure." Santa Ana, Calif., April 7, 1943; "Please allow me to express our complete satisfaction with the many plants received from you at various times. They have all proven a joy to us, especially the roses, which are truly gorgeous at this time. 'Picture' is my favorite— it is like an exquisite cameo." Glendale, Calif., April 9, 1943: "Just have to write you about the roses my wife purchased from you and presented me for Christmas, 1942. Planted same day after Christmas and here are the resul's on this day, April 7, 1943. Fiesta cut two full blooms and has ten other buds all coming fine and think this the finest colored rose I have seen. Miss Clipper cut the finest three buds of any rose and has seventeen more buds on the bush, and what a perfume. Charlotte Armstrong has fourteen buds on same not far enough for cutting at present bu,t all are perfect. Sierra Glow has ten buds all coming along fine."

Zephyr Hills, Florida, Mar. 23, 1943: "Roses are the finest I have ever received from any place. You should see the growth they have made since I put them out. They are wonderful!" Mrs. E. P. Thorn

Sister Therese (At Left)

Condesa de Sastago See description opposite page

— 76- The Royal Trumpet Vine

Distictis riversi. V14. 20°. This glorious new hybrid flowering vine carries many amazingly brilliant purple and yellow flowers, borne in clusters. Each long flaring trumpet is almost 6 inches in length. The tube of the trumpet is brilliant yellow and the open face a gorgeous royal purple which changes as the flowers age to rich shades of violet and lilac, vivid orange in the throat. The big, gorgeous vine is covered with handsome, glossy, evergreen leaves and blooms almost eight months out of the year. You'll be startled at the size and beauty of the flowers. Probably at its best within 30 miles of the coast in Southern California. Full sun. Plant Pat. No. 554. Gal. tins, SI. 25; 5-gal. tins, $3.00.

Sunlit Rose Sunlit. R89. One of the prettiest Sunlit has the most perfect little rose little roses that you'll ever see, about buds that you'll ever see on a rose. half the size of the usual rose and perfect in every detail. The color is apricot-pink, intense in the bud, lighter in the open flower, but always lovely. The plant is almost thomless. $1.50 each. Black Raspberries Evans Black Raspberry. FB10. Every- body likes the rich full flavor of Black Raspberries. They are delicious to eat with sugar and cream, and they make wonderful jam. This new kind seems to do better than others in our Southern California climate and bears big crops of the most beautiful, juicy, sweet, black raspberries that you can imagine. Our mouth waters just to write about them. 35c each, $3.00 per 10, $20.00 per 100. A New Hibiscus The Royal Trumpet Vine (reduced in size) Bronzino Hibiscus. SH2A. A magnificent new Hawaiian. Hibiscus with a big 6-inch flower in brilliant orange- Bronzino Hibiscus of red in the cen- bronze with a hint (about half size) ter. The petals are very large and ruffled like crepe paper, giving it a beautiful effect. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5- The new Evans Black Cap Raspberries gal. tins, S3.0K are the very finest for California. See See other Armstrong Hibiscus on other berries on pages 17 and 18. page 53.

Three Big Salesyards to Visit

Mam Display Yard in Ontario, 35 miles east of Los Angeles, can be reached over either of the two main east and west highways, Valley Boulevard (U. S. 99) or Foothill Boulevard (U. S. 66). See map page 40. Motor Transit bus leaves Sixth and Main Streets, Los Angeles, every hour.

North Hollywood Branch, 12908 Magnolia Blvd. (comer Magnolia Blvd. and Coldwater Canyon Ave.), has a complete display of Armstrong products. Cash only. Deliveries tc San Fernando Valley and adjacent territory.

Culver City Branch, 4440 Sepulveda Blvd. (four blocks south of Culver Blvd.), is conveniently located for the western and southern parts of Los Angeles and the beach cities. Cash only. No deliveries.

No Matter When you visit one of the three Armstrong Salesyards, you'll always see something interesting. They are veritable treasure houses of garden plants. Fruiting tree and plants are featured.

Delivery. Truck delivery service to most of Southern California from our Ontario yard, wartime regulations permitting. We ship safely to all of California and the United States by mail, express, freight. See pages 40-41.

Please address all mail orders and correspondence to our Ontario office.

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