Old-Fashioned Gardens 
U. S. Rt. No. 30 
Est. 1921 
JOHN L. LOCKARD, Prop. 
MQUNTVILLE, PA 
SPRING-FALL 
List No. 16 
LANCASTER COUNTY 
• CUT FLOWER 
and ROCKERY 
PERENNIALS « 
After Snow, Sleet and 
Ice Comes Spring 
and Beautiful Flowers 
SUN GOLD (Rich Gold) 
LARGE EXHIBITION 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Can be grown successfully outdoors. The 
plants should be set out throughout June or early 
July in rich, well fertilized soil, spaced about 8 
inches either way in rows or beds. When the 
plants start growing and have reached about 10 
inches they should be given stakes so that three 
feet of the stake is out of the ground. Tie the 
plants up early therefore avoid weak and crooked 
stems. When the buds appear break out all but 
one or two. Keep all succors and other shoots 
off. Feed the plants moderately every week 
until the selected buds start to swell. 
HARDY CUT FLOWER 
AND 
ROCKERY PLANTS 
The interest in gardening has vastly 
increased in late years, the hardy peren¬ 
nial herbacious plants are coming into 
their own. The “Old Fashioned Garden” 
reminiscent of "Grandmother” and her 
times has been a commercial slogan and 
a garden fad for the past decade. Plant 
producers have enriched the available 
lists of material by incursions into other 
climes and distant lands seeking rare and 
unknown species and improving those 
types already known. 
Through careful study the nurseries 
have learned to provide groups of plants 
for hot and dry locations, a different col¬ 
lection for shade and dampness, provid¬ 
ing a variety of edging subjects so that 
artistically balanced color and blooming 
season in any location may be had. Many 
“Back yards” have been changed from a 
place for storing rubbish into a place of 
beauty by planting hardy perennials. 
Planting can be started in spring and fall. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
CULTURAL NOTES 
START RIGHT by obtaining clean 
stock. It is not hard to keep such plants 
clean and healthy by following simple 
rules. 
NEVER PLANT discarded greenhouse 
stock, which has been highly fed and 
forced (most Florists throw out such 
plants and buy new stock from the plant 
specialists). 
WE GROW our stock plants in the 
field and greenhouse with special care 
under proper conditions for propagating. 
All plants are grown cool and kept clean. 
A visit here will convince you of this, 
visitors are always welcome. We invite 
inspection. 
SOIL. Never plant on poorly drained 
soil. Although the Chrysanthemum likes 
moisture it does not like wet feet. Most 
any other type of soil will grow them 
well. Heavy clay soil produces splendid 
results. Loosen the soil by cultivation 
several times after planting and mulch 
when plants start new growth, using 
manure, grass-clippings and best of all 
tobacco stems. Mulching prevents rapid 
evaporation of moisture, feeds the plants 
and keeps down insect pests. 
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NEW PETUNIA 
“MARTHA WASHINGTON” 
NEW YORK BUTTON 
PACHYSANDRA 
Japanese Spurge 
Most Satisfactory Evergreen 
Ground Cover 
Pachysandra is recognized as the har¬ 
diest, quick growing, dense covering that 
we can establish in dense shade, under 
trees and shrubbery and other unsightly, 
shaded places where it is impossible to 
grow grass. It quickly adapts itself to 
the conditions under which grass will not 
grow. Quickly forming a thick mat of 
clean, green foliage about 8 inches high. 
Plants should be set 6x6 inches apart for 
quick, dense coverage. 
Thrifty one year plants, 25 for $1.00— 
100 plants, $3.00; 500 plants, $13.50; 1000 
plants, $25.00. 
Beauty Marks New 
Petunia 
Ruffled mammoth Compacta. 
“Martha Washington” 
A new break in Petunias. Martha 
Washington is a ruffled or frilled, dwarf, 
compact grower, about 9 inches high. 
Forms a perfect ball, literally smothered 
with lovely frilled blooms about three 
inches in diameter. Its neat compact 
habit has never before been seen in 
Azalea Flowered 
Chrysanthemum 
PINK CUSHION—A descriptive name. A 
30-inch rounded mound of beauty, from 
July into October. The earliest pink 
’Mum to bloom, with countless rosy 
buds and 2-inch opened flowers. A 
broad, low mound completely covered 
by its captivating flower clusters of 
tender lilac, blush and ivory white. 
30c each—3 for 75c; 7 for $1.50. 
Hardy Plant, Continued on Page 2 
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See Page 5 for other Chrysanthemums 
