274 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE JANUARY, 1907 
he Deadly Parallel in Seeds 
No. 1. HIGH-BRED vs. ORDINARY STOCKS 
THIS TS THE FLIRSL OF A SERIES OF CONTIDE NINA CLLATES 
ABOUT THE SEED BUSINESS WHICH WILL REVEAL SOME 
INTERESTING AND VALUABLE SECRETS THAT VOU OUGHT 
TO KNOW, IF YOU WANT THE BEST THERE [S TO BE HAD 
BAIHE STOCK (or gilliflower) is a flower that has a romantic history. It is valued for 
its fragrance and its extraordinary range of colors. For centuries it has received an 
extraordinary amount of breeding, culminating in about 250 varieties in 28 colors, 
grouped in 12 different classes. Stocks are valued primarily for their spicy, clove- 
like fragrance. In the daytime they are only faintly odorous, but at nightfall they 
seem to pour out their soul—suddenly perfuming the whole garden. ‘Their colors are also 
remarkably pure and clear cut. But the highest bred stocks must have something more than 
fragrance, color and size —they must be double. Yet double stocks never produce seeds, and 
the species is an annual. How then are the seeds produced which will give double flowers? 
Right here lies the romance of this flower. 
The seeds that you buy in an ordinary five-cent packet will produce scarcely any double 
flowers. The seeds that you get in a twenty-five-cent packet from us will produce an extraordinary 
percentage of doubles. ‘The reason for it is that our seed grower has devoted his life to the 
breeding of this flower until he can tell simply by the size and shape of pods whether the seeds 
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contained therein will produce a high percentage of double flowers the following year, or whether they will produce nothing but 
disappointment for the purchaser. Yet the amateur can never tell from the seeds themselves whether one packet is better than another. 
You have to trust your seedsman. 
Every year we sell these high-bred stocks to customers whom we could not drive away from our store with a club. They kyow 
that the mere difference of twenty cents in a packet of seeds is nothing compared with the satisfaction they are sure to get from growing 
our high-bred seeds They have tried the ordinary kind and are sick of them. ‘They know that high-bred seeds of any kind can 
never be produced without the expert personal care of a lifelong specialist, and nothing can persuade them to buy “ cheap ” seeds. 
This principle runs all through the work of Stumpp & Walter Co. Not all our seeds are high priced. In fact, we sell every kind 
of seed and bulb as cheaply as anyone else — or cheaper. But it is the element of high breeding in which we take pride. We ask 
you to send now for a package of our high-bred stocks and share the professional 
pride in the result that is one of the greatest pleasures in our life. You will have the 
best stocks ever seen in your neighborhood. They will be so much better than any- 
thing you have ever seen that nothing can ever persuade you to get seed of stocks 
from anybody but Stumpp & Walter Co. 
Order your stocks now or you will be sure to forget it. Send for our catalogue and you will 
see that everything we do is “on the square.” You had better send us your whole seed order this 
year. If you do, you will have a better garden, and you will have joined the ever increasing army 
of permanent customers whom we regard as our appreciative friends. 
Varieties of Flower Seed that Should be Planted during January 
Asters, High-Bred, mixed . f ; : 7 ‘ pkt. $0.20 
Begonia, ae Tuberous rooted, mixed . : ; oe 52S) 
Carnation, ‘* Scotch, mixed hardy . : : : ‘ie .25 
Cyclamen, ‘“‘ Giant, mixed . : 5 : : : a -5O 
Phlox, Be Dwarf, mixed . : : : ; : af .20 
Stocks, a 10 weeks, mixed . ; : ; : ee =25 
Stocks, ue collection, 6 colors, separate, 6 pkts. 1.00 
Stocks, a for cutting . : F : ; 6 . pkt- -25 
Stocks, e for cutting, 6 colors, separate, 6 pkts. 1.00 
STUMPP & WALTER 
50 Barclay Street, New York 
