PETUNIA 



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Petunias are unsurpassed, for massing: in beds. 



Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 



easy culture will ahvays make them popular. 



The modern improved varieties are very choice, having 



been wonderfully brought up from the same species 



that vrere grown thirty years ago. 



The full, double petunias do not produce seeds. To 

 procure double flowers one must use the seeds saved 

 from single flowers which have been carefully fertil- 

 ized by hand with pollen from the double ones. The 

 seed we offer is the result of careful hybridiza- 

 tion and can be depended upon to give as large a pro- 

 portion of doable flowers as anj-. 



In some strains the flowers are very large, measur- 

 ing four or five inches across; in others, they are 

 deeply fringed; still others have star-like markings 

 radiating from the throat and extending nearly or 

 quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, 

 others have full, double flowers. The colors range 

 from white to deep red-purple and are variously 

 striped and baiTed, 



Plant in a warm, open, sunny place. Seeds may be sown 

 directly in the open ground or the plants may be 'started in 

 pots indooi-s for early results. The plants 'are tender and 

 should not be trusted in the open until settled weather. Thin 

 to eighteen inches apart. When well started they grow almost 

 as easilj' as weeds. The plants begin to bloo'm when very 

 small and continue imtil cut off by frost. Tender perennial, 

 blooming the first year. 



Petunias'are easily grown under glass in winter. The best 

 method is to sow seeds in late summer or earlj" fall and grow 

 stocky plants in pots, but old plants can be lifted on the 

 approach of cold weather, cut back and taken inside for winter 

 bloom. 



Single Dwarf Compact. (Inimitable Dwarf) Bushy plants only 

 about eight inches high, covered with small flowers, generally 

 striped or blotched. In many the markings are as beautifully 

 star shaped as in the strain offered as '•Star" petunia Pkt. loc. 



Countess of Ellesmere. Deep rose, white throat; very small " 5c. 



Nyctaginiflora. Pure white, very fragrant: very floriferous " 5c. 



Finest Striped and Blotched .' " oc. 



Fine Mixed. Flowers in excellent variety of markings " 5c. 



Double xMixed. A good percentage of double flowers " SOc. 



LARGE FLOWF-RING PETUNIAS 



Large Flowered Mixed. Very large; some striped — Pkt. 10c. 



Choicest Large Flowered Mixed 



Fringed and Stained Mixed. Very attractive 



SHperbissima Mixed. Flowers of immense size, superbly colored with throats 

 beautifuUv veined. We have carefullv compared other strains sold as "Giants 

 of California", etc. and have found none superior and many of them not equal 

 to our strain of this magnificent varietj' Pkt. 25c. 



Brilliant Rose. Large flowers of verv bright, yet delicate and exceptionally 

 attractive rose color. One of the finest varieties in cultivation and cornes 

 true from seed = P^'** ^^c. 



General Dodds. This is a strain of petunia producing large, single flowers 

 that are noticeable because of their exceedingly rich, dark purple color 

 which is really one of the most striking among petunias. A vigorous and very 

 persistent bloomer and there are few garden plants that will make so satis- 

 factory' a display P^t. 10c. 



Grandiflora Robusta, fl. pi. Dwarf, of robust grovs-th. forming a cortipact. up- 

 right, branched bush about ten inches in height and fourteen inches m 

 width, with large flowei^s. many double and in all shades of colors existing_in 

 petunias. The latest variety 'to bloom Pkt. 25c. 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose. Large, exceedingly double and fringed flowers 

 of most brilhant rose color. Very desirable Pkt. 26c. 



Extra Double Fringed. Many colors; beautifully fringed Pkt. 35c. 



15c. 

 30c. 



