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Beckett's Seed Store 



Novelties and Specialties in Flower Seeds 



All America Committee Selections 



The All America Council of Judges is composed of a committee of the best informed flower seed experts in the 

 United States who each year perform valuable work in testing out hundreds of new and supposedly new strains and 

 varieties. These comprehensive tests are grown in 10 different sections of this country under a wide variance of soil 

 and weather and any variety receiving the Committee's recommendation can be assured of being a worth while and 

 meritorious novelty. 



On this and the next page we offer some of the All America Committee's outstanding selections for the year 

 1935, together with some of their meritorious selections of 1933 and 1934. 



Xew Rust Proof Antirrhinum 



Three New Rust Proof Antirrhinums 

 University of California Mixture 



Certificate of Honor Winner, All America Selections 1935 



2102 The development of the strain of Rust Proof Antirr- 

 hinum by the University of California Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, assisted by several California seedsmen, is one 

 of the most important recent achievements in plant breeding. 

 They have been rigidly tested and 75% of the plants are 

 absolutely rust proof. This mixture is similar to the Tall 

 Large Flowering type and contains a wonderful range of 

 popular colors. Pkt. 50 cts. 



Antirrhinum, Rust Proof Crimson 



2101 A magnificent Rust Proof Antirrhinum of the Mam- 

 moth Flowering type growing 2% to 3 feet in height with 

 huge individual flowers and flower spikes of fiery crimson 

 and clean dark green foliage. 75% of the plants are rust 

 proof. Pkt. 75 cts. 



Antirrhinum, Rust Proof Florist Pearl 



2100 A beautiful glistening white Rust Proof Antirrhinum, 

 identical in color and height with the greenhouse forcing 

 variety White Rock, but with superior individual flowers 

 and spikes. Pkt. 75 cts. 



The New Sunshine Calendula 



Gold Medal Winner, All America Selection 1934 



This lovely English newcomer bears large flowers of an 

 exquisite shade of clear buttercup-yellow with long loosely 

 arranged petals which droop to give the rounded appearance 

 found in some Chrysanthemums. Besides adding a bright 

 golden splash of cninr to th» garden. Chrysantha is a fine 

 cutting variety, with long stiff stems. Pkt. 25 cts.; % oz. Si.OO. 



New Semi-Double Nasturtium 

 Scarlet Gleam 



Gold Medal W T inner, All America Selections 1935 



3076 The introduction of Scarlet Gleam Semi-Double Nas- 

 turtium gives the first answer to the demand for colors in 

 the popular Gleam type. The flowers are a fiery orange- 

 scarlet, comparable to the brilliance of Scarlet Sage. The 

 individual ruffled blooms are almost 3 inches across, much 

 larger than any Nasturtium ever known and are delight- 

 fully fragrant. The plants are semi-dwarf, throwing short 

 runners from a free flowering bush; long wiry stems bear- 

 ing flowers well above the foliage. Pkt. 35 cts.; % oz. $1.50. 



Glorious Gleam Hybrid Nasturtium 



Award of Merit, All America Selections 1935 



3077 These Gleam Hybrid-Semi-Double Nasturtiums are 

 gorgeously colored, large well formed ruffled flowers of 

 dazzling beauty in a mixture of colors never before seen 

 in the double flowered Nasturtium. Their ease of culture, 

 combined with the brilliance of their colors, assures Gleam 

 Hybrids of universal popularity. Pkt. 25 cts.; % oz. §1-00. 



New Orange Cosmos 

 Klondyke Orange Flare 



Gold Medal Winner, All America Selections 1935 



2602 In this new orange Cosmos, the late flowering habit 

 of the Klondyke strain has been overcome, so that we may 

 grow this lovely orange colored Cosmos and be assured of 

 having flowers before frost. This early flowering strain 

 blooms in 4 months from seed, plants 2 to 3 feet tall with 

 Marigold-likp fo'iage and a profuse bloomer as far north 

 as Canada. Pkt. 33 cts. 



Jfew Klondyke Cosmos, Orange Flare 



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