CHOICEST OF 
VARIETIES INCLUDING 
MANY OF THE 
ALL AMERICA 
\ GOLD MEDAL 
AWARDS 
MERIT 
j 
HAVE always wanted you to 
have the best and newest flow¬ 
ers. And, now I’m ready to 
offer you these fine new selec¬ 
tions. I want every lover of flowers to plant at least 
ten of these colorful, fragrant all summer bloomers. 
The best is none too good for you to plant and here 
they are. 
All of these seeds are from selected strains, carefully 
tested. Complete planting instructions on each packet 
assures you an abundance of these glorious blooms in 
your home and garden. 
1 am also offering you plants of many of these fine 
varieties. They are stocky, well rooted plants, postpaid 
and satisfaction guaranteed. Send your order for plants 
right along with your seed order. I will ship the plants 
at the proper planting time. 
■ V-W'/Tv.- - : 
All Flower Seed Prices Are Postpaid 
PPITFQ. All packets Are 10 c Each; 3 for 
r KILtO: 25c, Postpaid, except as noted. 
Flowers for 
Rock Garden Page 
Sweet Alyssum .62 
Ice Plant .65 
Dwarf Marigold .66 
Dwarf Petunias . 66 
Rose Moss 
(Portulaca) .66-67 
Old Fashioned Pinks... 63 
freeping Zinnia .69 
Sand Verbena .67 
Cut Flowers Page 
Snapdragon .67 
Asters . 63 
Calendula . 64 
Calliopsis .64 
Cosmos .64 
Trumpet Flower . 69 
Sweet Peas .69 
Clarkia . ... 63 
Special Uses 
For Fragrance Page 
Candytuft .63 
Carnation .63-64-67 
Heliotrope . 65 
Mignonette . 65 
Petunia . 66-67 
Nicotiana .. 68 
Pin Cushion Flower... 67 
Sweet Peas . 69 
Semi-Shade Page 
Balsam . 61 
Canterbury Bell .. . 63 
Centaurea . 63 
Clarkia . 63 
Coleus . 65 
tiodetia . .... 65 
Linaria . . ..65 
Mignonette,'./,.65 
1052—BOUNCING BET (Saponaria). The light 
graceful flowers are white with shades of pink 
and red. Beautiful bouquets. 
1069—BUTTERFLY FLOWER (Schizanthus). 
Fern like foliage. The blooms are all colors 
shaped like many delicate butterflies. 
lOU—EVERLASTING DAISY (Acroclinium). Double 
Aixed. Grows about 15 inches tall. Buds can be dried 
and used for winter bouquets. White, pink and red 
mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
1018—.JOSEPH’S COAT (Amaranthus). A tall, vigorous, 
ornamental, foliaged plant with showy flower clusters 
which attain their finest coloring in a hot sunny location. 
Rich soil increases the size of the leaves and foliage at 
the cost of color. 
My Annual Flowers start bloom¬ 
ing th e first year from seed 
about July 1st and continue 
until heavy frost. 
1105—ANGEL’S TRUMPET (Datura). A large, strong 
plant with trumpet-shaped, fragrant, pearl-white flowers. 
3 ft. high. 
1127—BABY’S BREATH. This 
annual variety has larger flow¬ 
ers than the perennial and is 
a soft pink in color. 
1054—BALSAM. The old-fash- 
ioned Camelia - flowered 
“Touch-Me-Not” or “Lady’s 
Slipper.” Produces a great 
profusion of brilliantly colored 
blooms. 
See next page for Free 
Gifts 
1051—11ARTONIA. Here is a beautiful rock 
garden plant of gray foliage literally covered 
with bright golden yellow blooms. 
1119—BLUE LACEFLOWER (Didiscus Coeru- 
leus). An old-fashioned annual which has 
broad lacy clear blue heads on two foot stems. 
Seed Pkt., 10c; 3 for 25c. Plants 65c per doz. 
Earl E. May Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa—Page 61 
