Bloom This Year 
You Can Have Flowers Just as Beautiful as California, in Your Garden 
My annual flowers start blooming about July 1st, and will bloom 
clear up until heavy frost. My choicest of flowers for your garden, 
many of them All-America and Gold Medal winners. 
Whether you have an acre of ground or just a back-yard garden I 
want you to have the best and newest flowers. Plant a good, big bed 
for plenty of cut flowers. Pine for bed and border planting. 
These annuals will give you more flowers in a shorter length of time, 
and for less money, than any flowers you can grow. 
All of these seeds are grown from selected strains, carefully tested. 
Complete planting instructions on each packet assures you an abun¬ 
dance of these glorious blooms for your home and garden. 
I am also offering you plants of many of these choice varieties. They 
are stocky, thrifty fellows, in ideal shipping condition, true to name, 
and guaranteed to please you. Send your order for plants and seeds 
early. I’ll ship the plants out to you at the proper planting time. 
You can have loads of lovely flowers like these all summer long. 
EARL E. MAY 
All Flower Seed Prices Are Postpaid 
PRICES' A11 Packets are 10c each; 3 for 25c, 
postpaid, except as noted. 
1018 — JOSEPH’S COAT (Amaranthus). A vigorous 
growing foliage plant which attains its finest 
coloring in a hot, sunny location. 
1056—AMETHYST FLOWER (Browallia Elata). 12 
inches tall. Blooms mid-summer to frost. Pkt., 
10c. Plants, 65c per doz,, postpaid. (See color 
illus. inside back cover.) 
1127—BABY’S BREATH. This annual variety has 
larger flowers than the perennial and is a soft 
pink in color. (See color illus. inside back cover.) 
1054—BALSAM. The old-fashioned “Touch-Me-Not” 
or “Lady’s SlipDer.” A great profusion of bril¬ 
liantly colored blooms. 
1051— BARTONIA. Here is a beauti¬ 
ful rock garden plant of gray foliage 
literally covered with bright golden 
yellow blooms. 
1119— BLUE LACEPLOWER (Bldlcus 
Coeruleus). Charming blue annual 
with dainty lavender and blue flow¬ 
ers. Excellent for bedding and a de¬ 
sirable cut flower. Seed Pkt., 10c; 3 
for 25c. Plants, 65c per doz., postpaid. 
1052— BOUNCING BET (Saponaria). 
The light graceful flowers glistening 
white with shades of pink and red. 
Beautiful bouquets. 
1069—BUTTERFLY FLOWER (Schl- 
zanthns). Fern-like foliage. The 
blooms are all colors, shaped like 
many delicate butterflies. 
1120— AFRICAN DAISY (Dimorpho- 
theca) . Grows 15 inches high. Blooms 
are 2% inches across, blooms rich 
orange, with black eye. Very attrac¬ 
tive. Easily grown. 
FOUR FULL MONTHS OF 
BLOOM 
From early 
July to 
October 
Balsam 
With Your Vegetable 
and Flower Seed Orders 
These “Gold Medal Winners” for your 
garden. See them illustrated in color on 
Page 54, 
$1-00 Order Brings Yon 2 Free Packets 
1 Packet Orange Flare Cosmos 
1 Packet Glowing Ball Radish 
(Value 35c) 
$JLOO Vegetable and Flower Seed Order 
Brings You 3 Free Packets 
1 Packet New Flaming Velvet Petunia 
1 Packet Orange Flare Cosmos 
1 Packet Glowing Ball Radish 
(Value 60c) 
$3*50 Order or More Brings You Free 
1 Packet New Flaming Velvet Petunia 
1 Packet Orange Flare Cosmos 
% Lb. Tendergreen Beans 
(Value 80c) 
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS 
ON EVERY 
PACKET 
CANDYTUFT. Beautiful hyacinth shaped 
blooms. When massed in flower beds and 
edgings they are unsurpassed. Make splen¬ 
did cut bouquets. 
1065—Crimson 1064—Fine Mixed 
1099—CHINESE FORGET-ME-NOT. Grows 18 
to 24 inches tall and is covered with vivid 
blue Forget-Me-Not blooms. 
1101 —CHINESE WOOL- 
Pl 0wer FLOWER (Celosla Childsi). 
A variety of Cockscomb. Fine 
for winter bouquets. Mixed 
shades. 
Candytuft 
Joseph’s Coat 
Flowers for Special Uses 
Rock Garden Page 
Sweet Alyssum.76 
Ice Plant .80 
Dwarf Marigold.79 
Dwarf Petunias.80 
Rose Moss 
(Portulaca) .78 
Old Fashioned Pinks..77 
Creeping Zinnia.83 
Sand Verbena.79 
For Fragrance Page 
Candytuft .75 
Carnation.77 
Heliotrope .80 
Mignonette .80 
Petunia.80 
Nicotiana.81 
Pin Cushion Flower.. .78 
Sweet Peas .83 
Cut Flowers Page 
Snapdragon . ....81 
Asters .78 
Calendula.7 6 
Calliopsis.76 
Cosmos .78 
Trumpet Flower .82 
Sweet Peas .83 
Clarkia .77 
Semi-Shade Page 
Balsam .75 
Canterbury Bell.77 
Centaurea .76 
Clarkia . 77 
Coleus.78 
Godetia.77 
Linaria .80 
Mignonette .80 
Earl E. May Seed Co.. Shenandoah, Iowa—Page 75 
Flowers! Flowers! Loads of Flowers s 
