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md Specialties for 1936 
lose of the raisers 
Balcony Petunia 
Dahlia, Unwin's Ideal Bedding Mixed 
Unwin’s Dwarf Bedding Dahlias are already firmly established in popular 
favor. The latest development will most certainly surpass previous strains in 
beauty of form and value in bedding. 
In most characteristics they closely resemble the older race of Unwin’s 
Hybrids. Reaching 24 inches in height, they are of pretty habit, exceedingly 
free-flowering, and carry their blooms stiffly erect on wiry stems, well above 
the foliage. The main difference lies in their petal formation, which is partly 
curled; they are perhaps more accurately described as semi-quilled. As can be 
well imagined, this most effectively enhances their great lightness and charm. 
The color range is exceedingly wide, and they come remarkably true-to-name 
and form. This strain of dwarfs is very precocious, blooming about 3]/ 2 months 
from the time of sowing; from late summer until the first severe frost, they 
give a truly wonderful display. Pkt., 25c. Special pkt., 75c. 
Gilia Liniflora 
WHITE SWAN. Snowy white. 
Pkt., 15c. Special pkt., 50c. 
BUNCH OF LILAC. Clear 
lavender-blue. 
Pkt., 15c. Special pkt., 50c. 
Gazania Splendens 
A very showy half hardy per¬ 
ennial which flowers the first 
year from an early sowing. The 
plants are low growing, with a 
goodly quantity of long stem¬ 
med, showy daisylike flowers in 
brilliant shades of orange and 
yellow, as well as cream and white. Each 
flower is marked at the base of the petals 
with black, brown, or green spots. It is fine 
for summer bedding or border work, doing 
best in a sunny location. Pkt., 20c. 
Many years have been spent to 
evolve a strain of mixed perennial 
Gaillardia which would produce from 
seed, plants that, in form and flower, 
would equal the quality to be found 
in the better-named varieties. This 
strain contains those characteristics and 
each and every flower is perfect in form and 
coloring, and the plants have a robustness 
seldom found in Gaillardia. The blooms 
are large and full petalled, and it is almost 
impossible to find any of the objectionable 
wheeled forms that so frequently appear in 
mixtures from seed. 
The ground coloring is, of course, golden 
yellow in varying tones, but the zones differ 
both in color and character to an amazing 
degree. Pkt., 20c. 
Petunia, Flaming Velvet 
Winner of the gold medal in the All- 
America Contest for 1936. The color is out¬ 
standing, being a brilliant velvety scarlet, of 
excellent type and very uniform. A very 
striking Petunia and having very few off-color flowers. Pkt., 25c. 
Dahlia, Unwin's 
Ideal Bedding Mixture. 
Petunia, Single Fringed Dainty Lady 
Not for many years has an entirely new color in Petunias been introduced to 
the gardening public. Various new shades of rose, pink, blue and crimson may 
be expected from season to season, but we now present for your critical approval 
a distinct new hue in the Petunia color cycle—delicate golden yellow. Dainty 
Lady, the remarkable new Petunia introduction, is to the best of our knowledge, 
the first really yellow Petunia. It has been in the process of development for 
the past ten years, gradually but surely deepening the color, until this season 
it is ready for presentation. 
The plants are neat, compact, semi-dwarf and free-flowering, bearing generous 
quantities of the medium-sized, delicately-fringed light golden yellow flowers 
throughout the summer. 
Award of Merit 1936 All America Selections. Also award of merit by the 
Royal Horticultural Society of England. Pkt., 35c. 
Miniature Petunia, Rose Gem 
Rose Gem is a charming addition to the new miniature group of Petunias which 
was started with Pink Gem. Rose Gem is the color which the public has been 
asking for in this miniature form. It is the rich deep rose that has made Petunia 
Rose of Heaven so popular. The plant is neat and compact, five to six inches 
high and smothered with rich rose-colored blooms about two inches in diameter. 
Award of Merit 1936 All America Selections. Pkt, 25c. 
A new subject for cut flower use. A 
very easily grown, attractive annual. The 
plants are neat, upright and semi-com¬ 
pact in habit, 12 to 15 inches 
high, covered with dozens of the 
dainty single flaxlike flowers 
which are borne on long stems. 
Gaillardia, Perennial (Monarch Strain, Mixed). 
Perennial Gaillardia 
Monarch Strain Mixed 
BI>ACK PRINCE. Deep velvety red. Pkt., 20c, 
Dianthus Superbus, Loveliness. 
