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Ada (greenhouses

W. E. PITT, Proprietor

Ada, Oklahoma

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HOW TO ORDER

By Letter, Telephone or Telegraph
Phone 449, Day or Night

Address all letters or telegrams to —

Ada Greenhouse, Ada, Oklahoma

TERMS: All pot plants are strictly CASH.

HOW TO SEND MONEY

Draft, Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order. No
Personal Checks Accepted.

WE SHIP BY EXPRESS OR
PARCEL POST

All goods travel at purchaser’s risk. We deliver to Express
Company or Postoffice in good condition, after which
our responsibility ceases. If by Parcel Post, add 10 on
the $1.00 extra.

REMEMBER

That we are the largest growers of Carnations, Violets,
Lilies and other seasonable cut flowers in Central Ok¬
lahoma, and can fill an order on short notice with first-
class flowers.

OUR MOTTO IS: Prompt shipments. True to name.
Full Count, and a square deal always.

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ACHYRANTHUS

Thrive in any soil; are not easily killed by frost. They
make intensely bright beds, and show off splendidly in
borders to taller growing plants. 2 in. pots, 10c each;
$1.00 per dozen.

ALTHERNANTHERA

The well known foilage plant, red and yellow.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1:00 per dozen

Fine dwarf growing foilage plant for bordering flower
beds, yellow and red.

ASPARAGUS

Plumosus Nanus. The lace-like texture of its foilage
outclasses Maiden Hair Fern for grace and daintiness; the
long emerald sprays making a rich setting for cut flowers
of all descriptions.

Sprengeri. Mostly used for hanging baskets and boxes
where its long dense trails make a gleaming mass of
green. 15c and 25c each; $2.50 per dozen.

Four inch pot plants 35c; $3.50 per dozen.

ASTERS

Asters are among the most popular and easily grown of
all our annuals.

Early and late varities in separate colors. Our Asters
produced from exceptionally fine strain.

Two inch pots 10c each; 75c per dozen.

ANTIRRHINUM (Snapdragon)

Snapdragons are among the most popular bedding-
plants; the richness and diversity of their colors, their
great freedom and protracted blooming season giving them
great value for garden color masses, as well as for cutting.

Pink, white, red and yellow. These are the large cut
flowering varities.

Two inch pots 10c each; 75c per dozen.

BASKETS

Filled with growing and blooming plants that you can
hang upon the porch or in the house.

Small baskets $1.75; medium size $2.25; large $3.00

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The Godfrey Everblooming-
Calla (New)

Flowers as large as the largest and outbloom the others
three to one; pure white. Plant dwarf and compact.

Five inch pots $1.50; Small plants 25c each.

BEGONIAS

Few families of house plants are so entirely satisfactory
in every way as the Begonias. They are rich in color and
beautiful in design, and all classes are easily handled
under any condition.

Luminosa. Xmas red and pink. This variety blooms
the year around. 15c each; 25c and 50c large plants.

Rex Begonia. Broad leaves, high colorings, exquisite
markings of Rex Begonia, making them invaluable for
decorating plants and house culture. 50c each.

Two inch pots. 15c each; 3 inch pots 25c each; 4 inch pots
50c each.

GANNAS
The President

By a sweeping majority, this Canna won the honor of
being named “The President/’ for it is so surpassingly
fine that no other red Canna could be a competitor. In
color, it is a rich, glowing scarlet, and the immense, firm,
rounded flowers 7 inches across when open, are produced
on strong erect stalks well above the large, rich green
foliage. The President is superior to any other red va¬
riety in the quantity and also quality of bloom and the
firm flowers are able to resist drouth and heat to a re¬
markable degree. “This is one of the most marvelous
Cannas ever produced.”

Price, 10 cents; $1.00 per dozen.

King Humbert. (Both Bronze and Orchid Flowered).
The grandest Canna ever offered. Large, heart-shaped
leaves of purple madder brown or bronze, the dark ribs
sharply defined, crowned with immense heads of Orchid¬
like flowers. Individual petals are of the largest size;
velvety orange-scarlet flecked carmine; rose tinted at
margin and base. 4 to 4% feet.

Hungaria. A magnificent pink Canna widely used for
large solid beds. The petals are large and waxy, made
up into big round, full trusses. Its color forcibly suggests
the well known Paul Neyron Rose, and is unquestionably
one of the most popular pink Cannas ever produced. 3Vi
to 4 feet.

Wyoming. (Both Bronze and Orchid Flowered). A
beautiful new variety, with rich purplish bronze foilage.
Flowers are large as King Humbert, and of good sub-

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stance; bright orange slightly rimmed and flaked with
rose. 7 feet.

10c each; 75c per dozen.

CARNATIONS

Carnation plants should be re-potted whenever there is
indication of their becoming pot-bound. Trans-planted
into the garden after all danger of frost is over, and given
at least 12 inches of space, with good soil and cultivation,
these plants should furnish abundant bloom from July
until late Fall or may be kept “pinched back” to retard
bloom, potted up at approach of frost and brought inside
for winter blooming.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

MATCHLESS— White. ENCHANTRESS— Shell nink and
white, C. W. WARD— Dark pink. SPECTRUM— Red.
ENCHANTRUS SUPREME— Light Red.

CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Helen Frick. Color a beautiful clear pink, slightly deep¬
er at center. Midseason.

Helen Frick. White the same as pink only pure white.

Thanksgiving Pink. Late, beautiful large flowers, long
stem. »

Mistletoe. White, one of the best white, late.

Mistletoe. Yellow, the same as white, late.

Golden Climax. Midseason, yellow, Pompom.

White Pompom. Midseason, white, free bloomer.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

COLEUS

The well known foliage plant used extensively for sum¬
mer bedding. These plants are inexpensive and are very
decorative. I have five different colors.

Cecil Brown. (Trailing Queen). One of the most at¬
tractive for close bedding, boxes and hanging baskets ever
introduced. Rather small escalloped leaves of dark green,
evenly checked with curving maroon lines; the wedge-
shaped center gay with magenta and cream.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

CALADIUM ESCULENTUM

(Elephant’s Ear)

For obtaining tropical effects in lawn and garden plant¬
ing this beautiful plant takes a prominent place. Stands
six to seven feet high, with bright green leaves three to
four feet long and two and one-half feet wide. Should
have plenty of water and good rich soil.

Small bulbs, 25c each; large ones 35c and 50c each.

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DAHLIA

We are trying to keep our lists down to a reasonable
selection from the established varities we know, and what
we deem the best of the new introductions.

25c each; $2.50 per dozen.

Dreers White. White.

Lyndhurst. Red.

Geo. Walters. Salmon Pink.

Queen Mary. Rose Pink.

Vivian. White, tipped Violet.

F. Ac Walker. Lavender Pink.

Maude Adams. White, tipped Clear Pink.

Orange King. Orange.

Pride of California. Deep Red.

FERNS

No foliage plant that grows presents so many varied
charms, or is so practical for all general house, table,
floral or window decorations as the Fern. Most varieties
love the sun, and thrive to best advantage if located near
the sunniest window, and occasionally turned. A dutiful
attention to watering and general condition will be well
repaid.

— Boston 3 inch 25c; 4 inch 50c; 5 inch $1.00.

— Whitmani 3 inch 25c; 4 inch 50c; 5 inch $1.00.

FICUS— The Rubber Plants

Elastica. (India Rubber Tree). This is the old reliable
thick leaved, substantial house plant which has ever pati¬
ently served its purpose, under abuse and neglect; its
dark green, shiny foliage always handsome. $1.00 each.

GERANIUMS

Beauty Poitevine. Rosy salmon, nicely shaded and
tinted from deep orange to pure salmon.

La Favorite. Very large trusses; snow white.

Mad. Barney. A splendid bedding variety; extremely
large, double flowers of brilliant rose, unsurpassed for
solid beds of deep, showy pink.

Mad. Landry. Semi-double; rich salmon shaded orange,
edge of petals a brighter shade.

S. A. Nutt. “Old as the hills,” but the one variety
always dependable for a constant blaze of crimnson from
May until snowfall.

Mrs. E. G. Hill. Large single flowers, bright salmon,
with a light shading at center.

Alphonso Ricard. A beautiful shade of bright vermil¬
ion, large flowers; enormous trusses borne in the greatest
profusion on long, rigid stems held well above the ex¬
quisite deep green slightly zoned foliage.

Pamelia. A very distinct and pleasing combination of
color; white ground with charming gradation of shades,
from white throat through a beautiful shade of violet
crimson to an intense scarlet margin.

Small plants 15c each; $1.50 per dozen.

Large plants 25c each; $2.50 per dozen.

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GLADIOLI

This class of summer-flowering bulbs is doubly valuable
for the brave field show of bloom, and for its generous
supply of cut flowers. Gladiolus flowers last longer when
cut than most any other flowers, and develop in water to
a greater perfection than if left on the plant.

Francis King, scarlet red, American pink. Schwaben,
yellow, Chicago, white.

Large home grown bulbs, 5c each; 60c per dozen.

Imported bulbs 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

HARDY PHLOX

Perennial Phloxes can be used to advantage in the hardy
border, in large groups on the lawn, or planted in front of
belts of shrubbery, where, by judicious pinching back and
removing faded flowers, a constant succession of bloom
may be had until frost. Except the dwarf species, all
Hardy Phloxes are admirably adapted to cutting.

B. Comte. Brilliant, rich and highly pleasing to the eye;
French purple.

Bridesmaid. Beautiful trusses; white, crimson eye.

Mrs. Wm. Jenkins. An early and free bloomer, one of
the best tall varieties; very large, pure white.

15c each; 2 for 25c; $1.50 per dozen.

ICE PLANT

This is a very attractive plant for porch boxes or bask¬
ets. Small pink flowers.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

IMPATIENT SULTANA

Pink and Orange. This is a continuous bloomer — an
ideal plant for pot culture or yard plant.

Two inch pots 10c each; $1:00 per dozen.

LANTANAS

Showy bedding and basket plants that are used more ex¬
tensively than ever before. They are in bright, catchy
bloom continuously from spring until frost cuts them down
in the fall; at all times emitting a pleasant, pungent frag¬
rance. The flowers are small, bright eyed cups, set quite
closely together in rounded umbels two to four inches
across. Their colors run to brilliancy, and unite two or
more contrastive but harmonious shades.

Aurora. Large flowered; dark and light shades of pink
with yellow center.

Jacob Schultz. Rich, velvety crimson-wine; with a
varying center of blood-orange. This is the darkest and
showiest sort, and is a strong grower.

Weeping Lantana. A fine plant for winter flowering in
pots or small hanging baskets. Flowers delicate lavender
in compact umbels, borne freely all over the plant from the
base of each leaf stalk.

10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

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Moon Flowers. One of the most popular summer vines.
The foliage is graceful and serviceable, and the vine a
rapid climber, attaining a length of 40 feet in a season.
The flowers are borne abundantly throughout a long seas¬
on, opening at sundown, emitting a rich Jasamine odor at
night, and closing about noon the next day.

Grandiflora. Satiny white flowers, five to six inches in
diameter. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

PANSIES

Assorted colors. These plants have been growing out
in the open all winter and are hardy and free bloomers.
Place a nice pansy bed on the east side of your house.

75c per dozen.

Pitt’s Frost Proof Pansy Plants

Have a beautiful bed of pansies in early spring, planted
in March will bloom until late summer. Postpaid, $1.00
per dozen.

PETUNIAS

Double Flowered

They furnish an unlimited amount of bloom throughout
the summer, fragrant and dainty and altogether delight¬
ful. This double flowered class will profit wonderfully
from extra soil enrichment, frequent cultivation and plenty
of water; they are worth extra attention. White.

2 inch pots 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

3 inch pots 15c each; $1.50 per dozen.

PYRAMIDAL ARBOR VITAE

Pyramidalis. Most compact and erect of the entire
species, in form almost a counterpart of the Irish Juniper.
Foliage a deep green, retaining color. Perfectly hardy.

$2.00; 2 feeP, $2.50 each.

SHASTA DAISIES

Plants are extremely productive of bloom, making as
spectacular a field show and as profitable a cut flower
supply as any Hardy Perennial grown.

15c each; $1.50 per dozen.

SALVIA (Scarlet Sage)

Splendens. One of the finest of all bedding plants, be¬
ing completely covered in Autumn with long spikes of
dazzling scarlet flowers remaining in bloom until cut down
by frost.

10c each; 75c per dozen.

ROSES

SUNBURST— Copper yellow. MME. COCHET— White.
LADY HILLINGDON— Golden yellow. RHEA REID -
A cherry rose, never mildews. J. L. MOCK — A giant pink
rose. COCHET PINK — Free bloomer.

Three inch pots, 20c each; $2.25 per dozen. Everblooms.

2 year old plants $9.00 per dozen; 75c each.

THUNBERGIA

(Black-eyed Susan)

Beautiful, rapid growing annual climbers preferring a
warm, sunny situation; used extensively in hanging bask¬
ets, vases, low fences, etc., very pretty flowers in buff,
white, orange, etc., with dark eyes.

10c each; 75c per dozen.

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Tube Roses, Mexican

Everblooming, white star shaped flowers, sweet scented.

5c each; 50c per dozen.

VIOLETS

Of all delightful perfumes, that of the Sweet Violet is
the most delicate and pleasing. If grown in the house for
winter flowers, they should be kept at a low temperature;
they will not bloom freely where it is too warm. If left
in the open ground during the winter protect with a cover¬
ing of leaves.

Large flower with long stems, sweet scented.

5c each; 50c per dozen.

VERBENA

These are compact, showy flowering plants of consider¬
able value for outlining beds, or as entire 15 to 18 inch
high beds of solid or mixed colors. Beautiful, highly color¬
ed umbels borne very freely throughout the summer bed¬
ding season. Assorted colors in purple, scarlet, pink and
white.

10c each; 3 for 25c

VINCA

Major Variegata. More of this used for baskets and
vases than there is of any other two basket plants. Beauti¬
ful variegated green and white foliage; strong trailing
habit of growth.

10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

Periwinkle. Everblooming bedding plants, flowers Phlox
shaped. In separate colors, rose or white.

10c each; $1.00 per dozen.

UMBRELLA PLANT

A semi-aquatic plant, throwing up stems two to three
feet high, surmounted at the top with a whorl of slender
drooping leaves. The flowers are small, cream-colored, in
short clusters above these whorls. An excellent plant for
growing in water or damp soil; but if grown in pots a
plentiful supply of water must not be neglected.

15c each; $1.50 per dozen,.

WANDERING JEW

(Tradescantia Tricolor)

Most beautiful variegated purple and white striped.

5c each; 60c per dozen.

VEGETABLE PLANTS

CABBABE PLANTS — Frost proof, 10c per dozen; 35c
per 100.

TOMATO PLANTS — June Pink, Ponderosa, Sparks
Earliana, Stone, 10c per dozen; 50c per 100.

HOT PEPPERS — Long Red Cayenne, 15c per dozen;
$1.00 per 100.

SWEET PEPPERS — Chine’s Giant and Bullnose. Large,
15c per dozen; $1.00 per 100.

EGG PLANT — Black Beauty, large purple, 15c per doz¬
en; $1.00 per 100.

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W. E. PITT, Proprietor
Phone 449 Day or Night

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