DOUBLE BLOOMING 
The hybrid perennial Delphinium is urgent to repeat its early 
summer performance and bloom again later. This generosity 
on their part suggests that we give them a good feeding when 
the first display passes and not neglect watering. 
All Delphinium plants, except Small Seedlings, are one to 
two years old. No charge for packing or transportation. 
Fall shipments begin about the middle of September and 
continue into November. 
The Hoodacres method of preparing and packing plants for 
shipment fits them to stand long journeys in good condition. 
The Test of Seed Trueness: In a solid planting of seedlings, 
60 x 60 feet square, from seeds gathered in our regular white 
section and bloomed out in 1935 for the first time, 83% of all the 
plants were White. Such a record for a new Delphinium variety 
has probably never before been made. 
Seeds, from Seeds, from seeds that one time in the past came 
from some fine variety may now utterly lack the original's vir¬ 
tues and be like "The harp that once through Tara's halls * * *" 
The originator's true seeds may cost a little more but the effort 
is not wasted. Better get the genuine. 
Turning Delphinium seeds over to the regular florist to germi¬ 
nate is often risky. We give growers the benefit of over thirty 
years specializing with them, but the professional resents being 
told. As aristocrats the Delphinium race insists upon having its 
own way, too. 
LEANING OVER THE GATES IN NEW ZEALAND 
Auckland, N. Z.: "In all my life I have never seen such huge plants, huge 
flower spikes and huge bloomsl The plants were from five to seven feet in 
height and some of the flower spikes were over three feet in length—the 
blossoms ranging from 2y to 3 inches across. Of course we had numbers of 
people leaning over the gates and several nurserymen came to see them." 
LEADING GROWERS OF THE WORLD 
Robinston, Maine, September 1933: "I have great regard for your 
achievements, in fact am convinced that you are the best man in the Del¬ 
phinium field in America. Since I have plants of all the leading growers in 
the world, including all the distinguished English growers; my admiration 
for your work is based on experience." 
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