« SWEET WILLIAM 
Our Sweet Williams are of the choicest, double and single 
blooms, rede, whites, lavenders, pinks, maroons and most ev¬ 
ery combination that one can imagine, large flowers, excel¬ 
lent husky plants. 10c per plant, $1.00 a dozen. 
We saved seeds from these Sweet Williams, have tested it and 
found it to be excellent. Plants are very easy to grow from 
seed, but unless planted quite early may net bloom the first 
season. Sweet Williams are excellent late May and June 
flowering plants, very fragrant and very pretty and attractive, 
and are unsurpassed for their good keeping qualities as a cut 
flower. The plants live over winter. Generous packets cf seeds 
10c each. 
DAHLIA SEEDS 
This seed is specially selected from large flowering decor¬ 
ative varieties. Any seedling may produce a better dahlia than 
any now known, and it is very thrilling to watch each bud 
develop, hoping that it may be the best dahlia yet produced. 
Of course many seeds produce only single flowers, but when 
one dees grew a fine dahlia of superior merit, it surely repays 
one for all their anxious waiting. We can give no guarantee 
as to fertility of the seeds, or whether they will grow, but we 
have taken great care to gather only fully mature seeds and 
shall plant many of them ourselves. Price 10 seeds 15c; $1.25 
per 100. 
SHIRLEY POPPY SEEDS 
We grew many fine shirley poppies last season. The dainty 
blooms that look like crepe paper flowers are very beautiful, 
while a bloom lasts only a short time, it seems as though there 
are two more to take its place. Colors are white, reds, pinks, 
lavenders, and many flowers are edged with contrasted shades. 
Seme are double and others single. Plants grow about a foot 
high and bear dozens of blooms. Easy to grow. Seeds, mixed 
colors only, generous packets 10c. 
PORTULACA SEED 
Our portulaca was unsurpassed last season so we saved much 
seed from it. There were double, little rose like flowers also 
single lily like ones, red ones, yellow, pink, rose and many 
intermediate colored ones. These plants creep on the ground 
and make a solid row a foot or more wide in good soil, and 
on bright days are just covered with the bright glistening flow¬ 
ers. Very easy to grow, although the seed is as fine as powd¬ 
er. Packets 10c. 
FOUR O’CLOCK SEED 
This excellent flower is very unusual, the flowers opening 
during the late afternoon and night, closing again in the late 
morning, except on cloudy days, when they stay open all day. 
They are very sweet scented, and lovely. The plants are strong 
and spreading, growing about two feet tall and about as wide. 
Very easy to grow. Seeds should be planted quite thick and 
the small plants thinned out or transplanted. Generous packets 
of seeds 10c; three for 25c. 
The Second Annual Mid West Dahlia Show will be held in 
Cleveland, Ohio, September 14-15, 1935. 
We are members of the American Dahlia Society; and sug¬ 
gest that if you do not belong, that you will be many times re¬ 
paid for sending the membership fee of $2.00 to Mrs. Mabel 
Rathgeber, Treasurer; 196 Norton Street, New Haven, Conn. 
Their publication, the Bulletin, is worth many times the mem¬ 
bership fee and is sent to all members. 
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