WALTER S. SCHELLS QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET-GARDENERS 
Bachelor's Button 
Candytuft 
Delphinium 
Dianthus 
Petunia 
Schell's Quality Flower Seeds 
It is not difficult to grow flowers in abundance when Schell's Quality Seeds are sown. A house with 
no green grass around it, only cold hard bare earth, tias a very dead, unattractive appearance, but just change the 
bare earth into a lovely lawn and you have made it beautiful indeed. Now, by having flowers in bloom around 
the porch, along the fences, in the flower-beds, outside the windows where they can be seen from indoors, along 
the -garden borders, in fact, anj^vhere that they can be grown, will put a lot of joy in the hearts of all who look on 
them. A home without flowers blooming around it is not complete, while the one surrounded by an abundance 
of flowers and a well-kept lawn is the kind of a home where young folks and old folks like to stay. 
Grow an Abundance of Flowers — for your own pleasure and profit as well. Farmers, there is no more profit- 
able crop for you to grow and take to market than flowers — they sell quickly and at good prices and they cost very 
little. My Flower Seeds are the Best that Grow. 
How to Grow Flowers. Flowers are divided into three classes: Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials, and 
these three are each divided into two kinds: Hardy and Half-hardy, as follows: 
Hardy Annual?. Seeds of these may be sown in the open 
ground or garden early in the spring, last of April or during May, 
These will bloom abundantly the first year and die in the fall. 
Hall'hardy Annuals. These should be sown in boxes in- 
doors or in hotbeds in March or Ap:il. and the plants set out in 
the place they are to bloom in the garden, in May. They will 
bloo.r first season, then die. 
Hardy Biennials. Sow the seed of these outside during the 
last of April or during May; they will not bloom until the fol- 
lowing year, after which they die. 
HaU-hardy Biennials. Sow the seeds in the house in boxes 
or in hotbeds in March or April, set the plants out where they 
are to bloom in May. They will bloom thefollowingyear. thendie. 
Haidy Perennials. When once started these will bloom year 
after year and will not freeze out or die unless by some influence 
other than nature. Sow the seeds outdoors last of April or 
during May and they will begin blooming the next season and 
continue for years, or by starting indoors or in hotbeds and set- 
ting plants out in May, some of the hardy perennials will bloom 
the first year and thereafter each succeeding year. The seed 
may also be sown during .luly and August outside, and these 
plants will bloom the next season and thereafter. These are 
hardy and need no protection over winter, but a covering of 
straw>' manure or leaves will be very beneficial. 
Half-hardy Perennials. Sow the seed indoors in boxes or 
in hotbeds in Marcher April. Some of these are especially suited 
for pot culture; others may be set out in the garden in May but 
must be taken up in the fall before frost and grown in pots in 
the house during the winter. They will bloom during the winter 
or the next season and each succeeding year. 
It is Important to Have a Good Seed-Bed where the tiny new-born plants will be properly nursed. It is 
just as unreasonable to expect to grow successfully, strong, vigorous plants that will bloom abundantly in soil 
improperly prepared and lackmg plant food and proper moisture, as to expect a new-born babe to grow and develop 
without proper food and care. Have the soil worked very fine, work in manure — Wizard Brand Pulverized Sheep 
Manure is the very thing needed — we have it — cover the seeds lightly; after they have sprouted do not let the soil 
dry out or the tender sprouts will die and that will end it as far as that seed is concerned. When moistening the 
seed-bed do it with a very fine spray, never with a hose unless it can be made to make a very fine misty spray 
Sow seed m rows so the plants may be kept weeded and cultivated. Then transplant where you want them to 
bloom. In liftmg leave as much earth on the roots as possible. Use the hoe, but do not hoe too deep. Keep the 
surface broken always for plants get more nourishment from the air than they do from the soil. You will note I 
have marked which class each flower belongs to. 
AfNTIRRHIINUM (Snapdragon) 
See illustration on page 45 
Hardy Annual 
These form brilliant garden beds, flowering profusely and 
continuously the first season from seed. Unusually effective 
bedding displays are made from these noble plants; they grow 
about 2 feet high, are healthy and stocky, and completely 
enveloped with large Snapdragon flowers of splendid texture 
and substance, rendering them very durable under all condi- 
tions of weather. Their continuous-blooming quali ies. ease 
of culture and independence of heat and drought, and pure, 
bright colors, should entitle them to a permanent place in gar- 
dens. Although perennials, they do splendidly when grown as 
annuals; spring-sown seed produces flowering plants by July, 
which continue to bloom in increasing profusion until frost. 
TALL VARIETIES 
Giant Scarlet. Light scarlet, with white throat. In long spikes. 
Pkt. IS cts.. Koz. ii. 
Giant Orange. Large flowers. Golden orange, white throat. 
Pkt. IS cts.. Xoz. $1. 
Giant White. Large; pure white; fine for cutting. Pkt. is cts., 
Xoz. Si. 
Giant Yellow. Pure yellow. Pkt. is cts., Xoz. $i. 
Giant Pink. One of the best for cuttmg. Pkt. is cts., 
'Aoz. li. 
Giant, Mixed Colors. A. mixture of all the above. Pkt. is cts., 
Xoz- 3 1. 
DWARF VARIETIES 
Dwarf White. Pure white; i foot high. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. so cts. 
Dwarf Pink. Beautiful rose. Pkt. 5 cts., Xoz, so cts. 
DWARF ANTIRRHINUM, continued 
Dwarf Yellow. Yellow. Splendid spikes. Pkt. sc., Xoz. so cts. 
Dwarf Scarlet. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. so cts. 
Dwarf, Mixed Colors. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. so cts. 
AGERATUM (Floss Flower). Hardy Annual. Dwarf , compact- 
growing planis, 6 to 8 inches high, covered with a sheet of 
bloom throughout the season. Splendid for bedding, edg- 
ing or pot culture. 
Blue Perfection. Deep blue. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. 40 cts. 
Snowball. Pure while. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. 2S cts. 
Mixed. Blue and while. Pkt. 5 cts.. Xoz. 2S cts. 
SWEET ALYSSUM (Madwort). Hardy Annual. One of the 
easiest flowers to grow and it blooms all the time without 
attention. By occasional loosening of the soil and regularly 
trimming off the spent blooms the new blooms will be 
brighter and the whole plant richer. For plants to present 
a solid sheet of blooms, and for a border or mixing among 
other bedding plants or for baskets it is unequalcd. The 
Carpet of Snow grows but 2 or 3 inches high and makes a 
veritable carpet of snowy whiteness which is very beautiful. 
The Little Geni grows from 4 to 6 inches; hence, if wanted 
for culling, this variety would have longer stems. 
Carpet of Snow. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. 25 cts., oz. 75 cts. 
Little Gem. Pkt. s cts., Xoz, 2S cts., oz. 75 cts. 
AMARANTHUS (Joseph's Coat). Hardy Annual. Very showy 
plants. 3 to s feet high, desirable for backgrounds or mass- 
ings, or interspersed with other bedding plants. The foli- 
age is variegated; the upright plumes and pendant-like 
tassels are very interesting. The varieties are known as 
"Love-Lies-Bleeding." "Joseph's Coat of Many Colors," 
"Prince's Feather," etc. 
AU Varieties Mixed. Pkt. s cts., Xoz. 25 cca. 
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