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B URBAN ICS 1919 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
Helichrysum 
One of the very best of all the "everlastings." Beautiful double daisy-like flowers 
which make a fine display of color all Summer and for Winter decoration unsur- 
passed. Double, deepest crimson, rose, dark yellow, pink and lemon shades, also 
pure white. Give plenty of room. Height three feet. 
All colors mixed, packet, 10c; three, 25c. 
Gomphrena 
A first class "everlasting" and a fine bedding plant. The flowers resemble bril- 
liant clover heads; crimson, rose and white mixed. Packet, 10c; three, 25c. 
Geum — Mrs. Bradshaw 
This beautiful new perennial Geum produces a multitude of double orange- 
scarlet flowers two inches across throughout the season. Packet, 15c. 
A New Godetia 
Our native Godetias are among the most prized of annuals. This new Chilian 
trailing Godetia is of a wholly new form and color — lavender blue. Blooms all 
the Spring and early Summer. Seed, per packet, 20c; three, 50c. 
Cocoanut Geranium 
This new Geranium from West Australia in foliage much resembles the well- 
known fragrant Bose Geranium, but is low growing and compact, with unusually 
handsome crenate leaves. The whole plant has a most delicious, strong cocoanut 
fragrance. The best of its class and useful as single specimen or in borders. 
Packet, 20c; three, 50c. 
Gladiolus — Burbank's Hybrids 
These seeds have and will produce many new prize varieties of all sizes, shapes, 
and colors; saved from fully 100,000 varieties. Packet of 100 seeds, $1. 
Elora, the new giant white. Packet of 100 seeds, $2. 
Vincennes, Ind., June 6, 1918. It is an unusual experience for a grower to write 
the originator of a new variety of flower that the plants exceed his claims. Your 
new gladiolus "Elora" is now in bloom and is a beauty. You claim that it grows 
three and one-half feet tall and that the individual flowers are four and one-half 
inches in diameter. My plant is four feet tall and the blooms measure five and 
one-fourth inches in diameter. This kind of a flower from a bulblet I regard as 
remarkable. All of your seeds have made a remarkable record for germination. 
From twenty-three tomato seeds planted, twenty-three plants came up. It is a 
novel experience to me to have plants and seeds do more than is claimed for them. 
You richly deserve your success. M. O. 
Brunswick, Ga., May 24, 1917. Please send me twenty-five thousand choice 
gladiola seed. I regret that I did not order some of all your named gladioli. The 
"Elora" is one of the finest and most satisfactory gladiolas that I have ever grown. 
The stalks are five to five and a half feet, with flowers up to five inches across, with 
six flowers open at once. The top flower on one stalk had twenty-four petals and 
was five inches across. That was some flower. C. S. T. 
Salem, Ore., Sept. 30, 1918. In the Spring of 1917 I purchased of you several 
hundred gladioli seeds. These were planted in April, and in June, 1918, they began 
to bloom. Gladioli experts here say such a thing impossible. Many of these 
flowers were very fine and far excel any others produced in Salem or Portland, 
Oregon. j. H. F. 
