The Garden Magazine, March, 1924 
89 
Flower 
Vegetable 
Grass 
SEEDS 
Many of the most discriminating buyers 
of seeds are our customers year after year, 
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Its 80 pages are profusely illustrated and 
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Seed and Bulb Importer 
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All Kinds of A-l Shrubs and Trees 
All my stock is propagated with extreme care. It 
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MAY SEED & NURSERY COMPANY 
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DAHLIAS 
The choicest varieties from California and the East. 
Catalogue upon request. 
GRACE G. RYDER 
Box 97 Berwyn, Penna. 
18 miles from Philadelphia 
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Add 25c postage west of Rocky Mts. 
BEVERLY GARDENS Ravenna, Ohio 
1 - NEW GLADIOLI= 
We are originators and introducers of 
some of the most highly praised new 
gladioli on the American market to-day. 
Your collection of choice varieties is not 
complete without Gold, Jenny Lind, 
Carmen Sylva, Regalis, Jap Lady, Polly- 
anna, Titanic, Montezuma, Hazel Dawn 
and many of our other beauties. 
Write for our 1924 illustrated catalogue 
DECORAH GLADIOLUS GARDENS 
Box 257-C Decorah, Iowa 
Grow New Gladioli 
All the wonderful new prize-winning varieties are grown from 
seed. From our world-wide collection of choice varieties in 
addition to the superb “Austin-Originations” embracing 
every color and form known to the Gladiolus, we offer hand- 
pollenized seed, the careful hand work of 
Mrs. A. H. Austin. 
Packet of 150 seeds $ 1 . 00—6 packets for $5.00 J 
Send for our free catalogue of bulbs listing L;\ *4 
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the new early; Golden Swallow, the new pure 
yellow; Illuminator, the new drought-resisting 
red; Twilight, Diana and many others. The only catalogue 
that lists two winners of the First Class Certificate of the 
American Gladiolus Society. 
AUSTIN TRIAL GROUNDS 356 S ‘ 
