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75 Years. Dear Mr. Park: I am again 
ordering a few seeds, not many as I am now 75 years 
old and cannot care for so many as formerly. I can¬ 
not find words to express the happiness and satisfac¬ 
tion I have had with your seeds, and with the Floral 
Magazine you used to publish, copies of which I have 
to enjoy back as far as to the ’80s. You surely have 
been a blessing and a benefactor to mankind, and I 
trust your last days will be peaceful, pleasant ones. 
Augusta Lockwood, Mercer Co., Ill., May 25, 1934. 
Like a Letter. Dear Mr. Park: When your Flower 
Book arrives it is like a letter from a friend and is 
even more lasting, for one does not read a letter for a 
whole year, and that is what I do with your catalog. 
My Pansies and Asters from your seeds were won¬ 
derful. Some of my things have not bloomed yet and 
some I lost, but on the whole my seeds pay me a rich 
dividend, not in money, but better. Mrs. E. Rhoads, 
Berks Co., Pa., Feb. 16, 1934. 
Wonderful. Dear Mr. Park: Your seeds have been 
wonderful this season. The Centaurea, Picotee Zin¬ 
nias and Scabiosa-flowered Zinnias are a revelation. 
The Zinnia shows a formation that is new to me, and 
has been much admired. W. H. Ford, Lake Co., O. 
About Dahlias. Dear Mr. Park: I want to thank 
you for the nice Dahlia tubers I received a few days 
ago from you. They were ^ 
packed the nicest of any- , 
thing I ever sent for, not 
a sprout broken. I shall 
enjoy watching them un¬ 
fold later on. Mrs. Frank 
Howard, Kennebec Co., 
Me., June 11, 1934. 
More Dahlias. Dear 
Mr. Park: I have received 
the Dahlia tubers and am 
more than pleased with 
the size and condition of 
them, I got Thos A. Edison 
from you for 60ets., but 
paid $1.00 for it from an¬ 
other company. You may 
be sure of receiving a much 
larger order from me next 
Dahlia season. Mrs. Mary 
Valickes, Middlesex, Mass. 
Dependable. Dear Mr. Park: You will be interest¬ 
ed in this report: I have 70 plants of Bodger’s Giant 
Aster all about 3 feet tall, and all budded, ready to 
bloom in about 10 days. I also have 62 Hufeld Giant 
Daisies, 42 Salmon Queen Pinks, 37 Bismarck Giant 
Stocks, and 40 Cheiranthus Allioni plants, 6 of which 
are in bloom, lovely orange blossoms. The Golden 
Gleam Nasturtiums are beautiful; I shall always have 
a few of them. My Dahlia-flowered Golden Zinnias 
were beauties, perfectly double to the center. I shall 
always send you my orders. C. Leyda, Calhoun, Mich. 
Park Gets the Order. Dear Mr. Park: As plant¬ 
ing time approaches we study the seed catalogues to 
select our seeds for the new season. Some are very 
fancy, some less so; but after going through some 20 
or more times we get down to real thinking, and send 
our order to Geo. W. Park, Greenwood, S. C., whose 
offers, descriptions, wood engravings, and prices are 
really the most attractive. At my advice some friends 
ordered seeds of you last year and I hope more will 
do so this year. Mrs. R. Miller, Stutsman Co., N. D. 
Passiflora Edulis. Dear Mr. Park: I raised a num¬ 
ber of plants from the Passiflora Edulis, and they are 
now growing in large pots. How should they be cared 
for in Winter? Miss M. Loew, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. 
Answer. Started early in Spring and given a rich 
sunny bed, this Passiflora will bloom the 1st year. It 
is a true perennial, however, and the plants grown in 
pots can be set in a cool room or an airy cellar and 
watered sparingly, to be planted out in Spring, when 
they will produce their showy flowers. 
A Splendid Annua! 
Here is the rare and charming Obelisk Flower. 
The showy velvety brown Obelisk with a circle 
of red petals drooping from it sbase, each petals 
margined with a distinct broad gold band; strik¬ 
ingly attractive. These odd and beautiful firs, 
are borne on long strong stems and are fine for 
cutting, as well as for beds. Anyone can grow 
it and I wish every one of my patrons to have it. 
Do add it to your order. 30 s Sets. See page 42. 
A Good Letter. Dear Mr. Park. We have 
something like twenty different kinds of your seeds 
planted or seedlings j ust started, and will say that 
we are very much pleased with your seeds which we 
have now used for the second year and find that they 
are just what you represented them to be. 
Petunia. Our Giant Ruffled Petunias are exceed* 
ingly nice. We potted in three and four-inch pots a- 
bout forty plants from our first planting of seed, they 
made a wonderful growth, some of the plants are now 
24 inches high. I had read of Petunias grown in pots 
that made six-inch flowers and could not be satisfied 
until I tried it. We have succeeded in getting flowers 
more than six inches in diameter. One in particular, 
an old rose color with almost black throat, very 
heavily veined, and was six and one half inches across 
this was admired by every one who saw it. We now 
have more than 140 plants growing out in the open 
garden that are very nice, some of the plants are more 
than one-half inch in diameter of stem, and about 
one foot high with great big broad, thick leaves and 
are showing many buds now. These were from 3 
later sowing of seed than the potted plants spoken of. 
Pansy. Our Pansy bed of Mette’s Ruffled Giants is 
sure a thing of beauty, most of the plants have from 
ten to fifteen open flowers all of the time. We keep 
them cut pretty often and 
they just keep coming; 
some of the flowers are three 
inches or more across. They 
are the first ruffled ones that 
any one around here has 
seen; hence, they are quite 
an attraction. See page 43. 
Violet. And the Eureka 
Violets, my what beauties, 
and how people do marvel 
at them, they being some¬ 
thing entirely new here. Our 
seed came fairly true, there 
being only a few rogues to 
appear, and they are pretty, 
so we are well pleased. Pg 49 
Dianthus. Our bed of a- 
bout one hundred plants 
of the Japanese Dianthus is 
a riot of color with its hun¬ 
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dreds and hundreds of Sowers, no two plants have 
flowers alike. One can spend hours looking at them 
and studying the different color combinations and 
the wonderful markings of the different flowers; some 
of them are very double, almost like a Carnation. P 34 
Tithonia. I must tell you about our Tithonias. We 
planted the seeds April 16th; the first flower was fully 
open on July 5th - just 80 days from planting. My 
what growth they made; they were 8 feet high with 
branches 4 to 5 ft. long and covered with hundreds of 
blooms all Winter, and are still full of blooms at this 
writing. They are a fine flower for this section. Pg, 47. 
Zinnia. The Zinnias we bought from you surely 
did well; we had our first bloom about the first of 
May; cut one bunch of twelve blooms, the smaller of 
which was more than six inches across. The County 
Demonstration Agent here held a flower show the 
first of July. We entered 36 different containers of 
flowers in all, most of them Zinnias. We exhibited 15 
different named varieties from Bodger’s seeds, the 
Early Wonder and the Baby Zinnias. Our exhibit 
looked more like a table of blue flowers than anything 
else after the judges got through attaching blue rib¬ 
bons. Strange as it may seem to you, there has not 
been a day since the first of May that we have not 
had one or more Zinnia blooms in our garden; up to 
the present day, and we could cut a fine bouquet to¬ 
day. They come up from seeds from the older plants 
and grow nicely and bloom freely. Of course, we have 
had no killing frost here this Winter so far. Page 50. 
M. J. Stout, Osceola Co., Fla., Mar. 10, 1934. 
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