Carl Salbach 
Just a Few Pennies 
An advertisement of a few years ago 
carried the title “What a whale of a dif¬ 
ference a few oents make,” but in terms 
of your garden, this statement wouldn’t 
tell half the story. After all, it takes 
just as much garden space, just as much 
water, and just as much weeding for you 
to grow a poor plant as a prize-winner. 
But those few extra pennies on your orig¬ 
inal purchase determine whether your 
garden is one that your neighbors truly 
envy, or whether it is “just another 
garden.” 
SCHIZANTHUS. (Butterfly flower). At¬ 
tractive blooms, colored and formed like 
miniature orchids. Showy in the gar¬ 
den and fine in small bouquets. 
New Sunset Hybrids. A well balanced 
blend, consisting of bright rose and car¬ 
mine shades, each butterfly-like flower 
marked with gold or white. Two-foot 
plants, covered with blooms. Fine for 
potting, massing, or cutting. Easily 
grown. 25C pkt. 
Rock Garden Hybrids. A new strain 
with colors similar to the Sunset hy¬ 
brids, but compact in growth. Ideal 
for rockeries or pot plants, as they 
grow only six inches high. 35C pkt. 
SNAPDRAGONS—Tall Rust-Proof Type. 
We again offer a mixture and eight 
separate colors in snapdragons, all from 
Dr. Lammert’s fine strain which has 
brought such universal satisfaction to 
our customers. 85-100% rust-proof, be¬ 
ing closest to the 100% mark in most 
cases. Available July 15, we offer: 
Appleblossom pink. 
25C pkt.; 1/64 oz., 90c 
Ceylon Court Yellow. 
250 pkt.; 1/64 OZ., 90C 
Deep pink blend (including some 
orange-gold shades). 
25C pkt.; 1/64 oz., 90C 
Maroon red, yellow base. 
25C pkt.; 1/64 OZ., 90C 
Purple red—rich violet red. 
25c pkt.; 1/64 oz., 90c 
Roman gold—striking—orange and 
gold with pink base. 
25C pkt.; 1/64 OZ., 90C 
Rose pink. 25c pkt.; 1/64 oz., 90c 
White. 250 pkt.; 1/64 oz., 90c 
Group Collection —All eight tall 
Maximum Type varieties listed above 
$1.50 
Balanced Color Mixture, (including 
colors above) 15c pkt.; 1/64 oz., 50c 
THALICTRUM DIPTEROCARPUM — 
(Meadowrue). P. Tall graceful peren¬ 
nial that freely produces its lacy sprays, 
each of which is covered with a myriad 
of diminutive lilac flowers. Especially 
desirable in gardens where a natural ef¬ 
fect is desired, and a graceful filler for 
cut-flower arrangements. 25C 
VIOLA. Slightly smaller than pansies, 
but freer flowering, and perennial. 
Apricot —Beautiful apricot color, good 
sized blooms. Very fine. 25C pkt. 
Arkwright Ruby —Rich ruby red of 
large size, slightly darker and richer in 
color than the red-toned pansy pictured 
on page twenty. 25c pkt. 
Blue Perfection —Blue. Large. 15c pkt. 
Selected Seeds 
Fortunately For Us ♦ .. 
The major portion of the flower seeds 
in the United States are grown in Cali¬ 
fornia. We make frequent trips to visit 
the wholesale seed farms while the flow¬ 
ers are in bloom, and a careful study en¬ 
ables us to choose for our listing the most 
noteworthy varieties and novelties. 
In addition, we conduct our own trial 
gardens in which we grow test plantings 
of novelties and strains from Europe and 
elsewhere so that we will be sure not to 
miss anything worth while. Large flower¬ 
ing dahlias, dwarf dahlias, and other seeds 
of our own raising are the best that can 
be had—backed by Carl Salbach’s full per¬ 
sonal knowledge of hybridising. 
This careful, planned effort to obtain 
the very best assures you that seeds of 
our listing will give you the finest, most 
outstanding plants that you could raise. 
WALLFLOWER, Gold Standard— Most 
outstanding of all the many varieties 
of wall-flower we have ever seen. Color 
rich gold flowers double. Plant two feet 
high. Very showy. Plant in June or 
July. 25c pkt.; 1/16 oz., 50c 
DWARF DAHLIAS 
(For immediate planting) 
Available and suitable for planting, we have a 
small supply of tubers of selected dwarf bedding 
dahlias. These are from the same Carl Salbach 
strain which has created such a sensation in the 
seed world, and will produce plants covered with 
semi-double blooms in red, yellow, tan, apricot, and 
other colors in the same range. Height 15-in. to 
24-in., although they sometimes grow taller if they 
are not cut back (pinching out the tops when plants 
are six or eight inches high will keep them dwarf.) 
Stock of these is small, but we hope that it will 
last through June, after which time it is rather late 
for planting except in the milder regions of Califor¬ 
nia. Generous divisions, showing good sprouts, 
ready for immediate planting, in mixed colors only— 
25c each; 6 for $1.25. 
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