BURBANK'S 1919 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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Poinciana Regia 
(Royal Peacock Flower — "Pride of Hawaii") 
This magnificent brilliant scarlet flowering shrub from Madagascar has unex- 
pectedly proved itself to be hardy at Santa Rosa. Packet, 25c. 
Sparmannia Af ricana 
Handsome, compact shrub bearing a profusion of white pea-like blossoms in 
early Summer. Packet, 15c. 
Bostonia, Cal., May 24, 1917. I wish to say that I have read the twelve volumes 
of your remarkable records with more keen pleasure than it has ever before been 
my good fortune to experience during a lifetime of somewhat varied reading. 
C. O. N. 
Offer Extraordinary 
The New Burbank Gladiolus 
One hundred thousand absolutely new varieties of every form and color ever 
produced from this wonderfully variable plant, including scarlet, crimson, yellow, 
blue, purple, lavender, orange, salmon, and pink, with infinitely varied combina- 
tions of all the rainbow colors. Such a mass of brilliant colors can not be produced 
at many times the cost of these in any other flower. Last season people came in 
multitudes to look over the fence in admiration of these very ones here offered. 
Not an old one in the whole lot. All Burbank productions. 
Bulbs, each, 25c; ten, $1; one hundred, $8; one thousand, $50. 
New Gladiolus — "Elora" 
Height, three and one-half feet; great bloomer, even from the smallest bulbs; 
slender blue green foliage; long, full truss; flowers produced in greatest abun- 
dance, four and a half to five inches across; WHITE suffused with pale violet; 
yellow throat with dainty crimson featherings; very striking. Multiplies with 
great rapidity. Unequaled in health and vigor. It is destined to be the forerunner 
of a new race. Bulbs, each, 50c; ten, $2; hundred, $15. 
Gladiolus bulbs can be planted at any time of the year, when most convenient to 
the planter, in all climates where the ground does not freeze over three inches in 
depth; in colder climates, all Spring and early Summer; and, if planted in suc- 
cession, will yield a wealth of blooms which no other flower can surpass in abun- 
dance, beauty, variety, or ease of culture. 
Plant six inches deep and two to six inches apart each way in beds, or two to 
six inches apart in rows, which may be one to four feet apart. 
A New Productive Pearl White Wheat— "Quality" 
After eleven years of very extensive and expensive work, this season I offer 
a superior, early, hard white wheat suited to all climates wherever wheat can be 
grown; a Spring wheat especially adapted also to short seasons, arid soils, and dry 
climates. A superior white milling wheat which makes the best light, sweet, nutri- 
tious bread and pastry. 
I have tested the best wheats, barleys, ryes and oats from all over the world 
side by side with my new grains and on averaging all these I find that my new 
wheats will generally yield nearly double those of most of the rest of the world. 
The best wheats of the world I find are raised in Australia, Italy and Canada; the 
most inferior wheats are raised in the Argentine Republic and in the United States, 
Mexico, China and Africa. The very poorest wheats by actual tests were received 
