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EMERSON’S 1936 FLOWER SELECTIONS 
CMERSON is offering you this year one of the largest and most comprehensive lists of prac- 
* tical flower seeds for New England gardens that has ever been compiled. This list includes 
not only the deservedly popular standbys but all the newest and worthwhile achievements of the 
flower growers in this country and abroad. 
A unique feature in this catalogue is the listing of the period of bloom and the approximate 
height of plant, after each variety. Also for your convenience, the 112 annual varieties and the 67 
perennial varieties have been grouped in separate sections and arranged alphabetically. 
The *A11 America Garden Flower Seed Trials have resulted in such especially favorable results 
from the standpoint of distinctive color and prolific blooms that we have made a special rack for their 
presentation to our customers and the public this year. You will find it illustrated at the bottom 
of page 80 and it conveys to you the importance which we attach to their offer. 
Particularly interesting, and a point which we want you most to remember, is that these All 
America flower favorites will be grown and on display at Emerson’s Planned Gardens which are 
illustrated and mentioned throughout this catalogue. Your visit to these gardens and inspection 
of these flowers we know will go further to prove their desirability in your home garden than any 
other means of description or identification that we might try to give them. 
*Since 1932 leading flower seed growers and their associations have grown, in demonstra¬ 
tion plots from coast to coast, new and improved flower creations. Expert judges preside 
over these test plots each year and award the title of “All America” to those flowers most 
unusual in color, size and hardy growth. Emerson’s special selection of these new and rare 
flower seeds, we hope will tempt you to reproduce them in your own friendly garden plot. 
.R SON’S 
ED GARDE! 
Emerson’s Planned Garden at Tow Path Gardens, Hartford, Connecticut 
