RICHARD DIENER, OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. 
GERBERA JAMESONI 
(Diener's Hybrids) (Transvaal Daisy) 
The Gerbera seeds I am offering here are 
the acme of perfection and you could not 
get anything better anywhere. The colors 
are brought to the highest perfection and 
run from snow-white to many shades of 
light pinks, yellow, apricot, lavender to 
the highest scarlet, with stems from two to 
three feet long and very free flowering. 
They are the daintiest flowers for vase and 
decorations and have the best lasting 
qualities. Gerbera seeds will not germi¬ 
nate after they are four to six months 
old. I harvest the seeds all year and will 
send only freshly harvested seeds. Every 
seed should germinate. 
Few people know that Gerberas will 
stand zero weather in the open if they 
have been planted out in May and grown 
all summer in the open. They should be 
planted in cold frames so that if the tem¬ 
perature goes below zero they can be cov¬ 
ered with straw, leaves, manure, or pine 
branches to the thickness of a foot. I be¬ 
lieve many will find out that they can 
easily grow them where they thought it 
impossible to grow them before. Plant on 
well-drained land and do not fertilize in 
any way. Common ground is the best for 
them, although they like leaf mould if ob¬ 
tainable. If the plants appear to be poor 
use tobacco stems cut to 3- or 4-inch 
lengths and scatter on the ground around 
the plants. This will make a mulch and 
will be very beneficial to the plants. If 
the soil should be dry they will stand 
plenty of water. 
These Gerbera seeds can be had in 
separate shades of Red, White, Yellow 
and Pink as well as the mixture. 
Pkg. 25c 1/16 oz. (about 500 seeds) 75c 
Vs oz. $1.25 i/ 4 oz. $2.00 i/ 2 oz. $3.50 
1 oz. $7.00 
GERBERA JAMESONI 
(Diener's Hybrids) (Transvaal Daisy) 
DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING GERBERA JAMESONI 
In those parts of the country where only light frosts are 
liable to occur, it is all right to sow Gerbera directly in the 
open, in rows one foot apart. Smooth the soil, then press 
the surface over with a flat board. Then draw the rows 
with a pencil so that the furrow is not deeper than one- 
fourth inch. Drop the seeds into the furrows, about three 
seeds to an inch, and close the rows by pushing the soil 
over them sideways with a flat piece of board, the less 
soil over the seeds the better, for if they are too far under 
the surface they cannot come up. Water and cover with 
a frame made of cheesecloth shading. A light shade is 
necessary to bring the seeds up quickly. Keep the soil just 
moist, don't soak it, for they do not want much water. They 
should be kept in the place where sown without trans¬ 
planting for at least four months. Then they should be 
planted in four-inch pots in rich soil or in the open, fifteen 
inches apart. Care should be taken that just the root part 
is in the ground, the heart must be above the soil. Plant¬ 
ing in the open is best done in the fall. In cold climates it 
is best to sow them out in boxes filled with leaf mould soil 
in which some sand has been mixed and the soil must be 
at least four inches deep in the boxes. Here you may make 
the rows two inches apart and three seeds to the inch in 
the row. Leave the young plants in the boxes at least 
three months. Then either pot them or plant them in the 
open. They are semi-tropical and must be taken indoors 
where the ground freezes in the winter. When planted on 
benches in the greenhouse, they should be handled just like 
carnations and the temperature should be between 50 and 
60 degrees, not over. They need plenty of light and air 
under glass. Gerbera is a perennial and after two or three 
years the plants can be divided up. Always keep them free 
from weeds. 
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