SUMMER AND FALL 1934 SEED AND BULB CATALOG 
ANNUAL SEEDS FOR THE LATE FALL PLANTING 
CALENDULA. Ball’s Gold or Orange. */ 2 oz. 40c; 3 pkts. for 25c; per pkt. 10c. 
CALENDULA DOUBLE ART SHADES (Novelty from England). Art shades 
contain many tones and shades not previously obtainable—delicate apricots, 
beautiful picotees, orange shades, creams, buffs and deep orange. Per pkt. 25c. 
CALENDULA CHRYSANTHA. Very fine novelty. Never been offered before. 
Remarkable for its great length of stem and the most striking resemblance 
the flower bears to a Chrysanthemum. The color is a clear buttercup yellow. 
See photograph on the inside of the back cover. Per pkt. 25c. 
CALENDULA RADIO. Orange “quilled” flowers of exquisite form. An ideal cut 
flower and border plant. / 2 oz. 50c; 3 pkts. 25c; per pkt. 15c. 
CALENDULA CAMPFIRE. Deep orange with a scarlet sheen. V 4 oz. 25c; per 
pkt. 10 c. 
CANDYTUFT. Giant white Hyacinth, flowered. Rose cardinal, best red. Finest 
mixed. Per pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 25c; l / 4 oz. 35c. 
CLARKIA. Ruby King, Salmon Queen (pink), Scarlet Queen, Enchantress (nov¬ 
elty)—the finest salmon-pink, very double; Firebrand (novelty)—a vivid cop¬ 
per scarlet. Best mixture. Per pkt. 10c; 3 for 25c; l / 4 oz. 35c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA or CALIFORNIA POPPY. In most wonderful colors. Rosy 
carmine. Orange Crimson, Intense Scarlet, Flame Color, Golden Bronze. Double 
Deep Butter-Yellow. Or in mixture. Priced on page 12. 
GODETIA. Crimson Glow, Carmine Rose, or in mixture. Per pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 25c. 
LARKSPUR. (See page 14.) White Spire, Pink, Rosy-Scarlet, Deep Carmine- 
Rose Blue, or in mixture. Per pkt. 10c; 3 for 25c; % oz. 25c; >/4 oz., 40c; 
x /i oz. 75c. 
LIMNANTHES DOUGLASI. The lovely California Cream-Cup; pure white with 
a yellow cup; 3 inches. A charming plant for the Alpine Garden. Per pkt. 15c; 
2 for 25c. 
NEMOPHILA. Baby’s Blue Eye or in mixture. Per pkt. 10c; 3 for 25c; *4 oz. 
30c; l / 2 oz. 50c. 
PANSY. Described and priced on page 16. Start your pansy seed in July and 
August, winter the plants in a cold frame; result, big husky plants to set out 
in early spring. 
POPPY. Annuals. Shirely mixture. Per pkt. 10c; 3 for 25c; Vs oz. 35c. New 
English Double Art Shades. Per pkt. 15c; 2 for 25c; Vs oz. 50c. Giant Double 
Cardinal (salmon pink), height 2 feet. Per pkt, 10c; 3 for 25c. 
WHY ALWAYS BLAME THE SEED? 
After you have sown your annual, perennial, and vegetable seeds, remember 
that the critical times in their lives is just after the seed has germinated. If the 
surface of the soil is dry, the tiny plantlets will die unless they are supplied with 
water. The amateur is inclined to blame the seedman and say the seeds were not 
good and would not germinate. Of course, this is seldom true, for reliable seeds¬ 
men test their seeds, and when we give them ideal conditions for growth, they 
do germinate no matter what we think. The common error is to think the seeds 
have not germinated, whereas, in reality, they started to grow, but the surface 
of the soil was too dry for them and hence their tiny rootlets perished before 
they reached the moist layers of soil beneath. 
Cover your seed beds with a newspaper or a cloth until the seeds have ger¬ 
minated and the little roots have reached the moist layers of soil.—From “Better 
Homes and Gardens.” 
The lesson brought home by the great losses of seedlings in open ground 
seed beds is that seeds of choice plants should be sown in boxes or frames where 
they can be kept under control as to moisture and shade without difficulty. This 
is the only certain way to save the plants, as the most favored positions for seed 
beds in the open ground have serious losses. 
PLEASE DO NOTE! 
As only such seeds as germinate well in our own establishment are supplied 
to customers, we will not and cannot accept responsibility for failure in the hands 
of others whose management, lack of equipment or lack of knowledge, may un¬ 
consciously be the cause of non-success. 
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