8 Flower Seeds 
HOSEA WATERER, Philadelphia 
RECENT NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES for 1936 
Coreopsis grandiflora, Double Sunburst 
Cornflower, Jubilee Gem 
This is a dwarf variety of Cornflower mak¬ 
ing a compact plant literally covered with 
flowers. It has a foliage distinct from all 
other Cornflowers, forming a tufted mass of 
vivid green, contrasting well with the dark 
but vivid double blue flowers. The plant is 
about 12 inches high. Easy to grow, it is 
‘everyone’s” flower and is adaptable for 
almost any purpose to which a plant may be 
put. As an edging plant, a border plant, or 
for groundwork in formal beds of roses, etc., 
it will be found admirable; it is a fine cut- 
flower, and, above all, it may be sown out¬ 
side in the autumn for spring flowering, or in 
the spring for summer flowering. We con¬ 
sider Jubilee Gem a novelty equal in merit 
to the best of recent introductions. Pkt. 35c. 
New Early Cosmos, 
Klondyke, Orange Flare 
Granted the Gold Medal at the 1935 All- 
America Seed Selections, this Cosmos has 
proved itself worthy of this honor. In most 
parts of the country this brilliant-hued flower 
is practically unknown because of its late- 
flowering habit. The color is the same vivid 
orange as the ordinary Klondyke and it will 
bloom in less than 4 months from time of 
sowing. The foliage is much less abundant, 
giving a plant which is a mass of color. The 
stems are long and wiry, well adapted for 
cutting. Shown in color on back cover. Pkt. 
25 cts.; large pkt. 75 cts. 
New Mammoth-flowering 
Cosmos, Sensation 
Received the Award of Merit at the 1936 
All-America Seed Selections. The advantage 
of this new Cosmos is not only its unusually 
large size—flowers measuring 4 to 6 inches 
across—but the important fact that plants 
come into bloom in about 10 weeks from time 
of sowing. The seed offered this year con¬ 
tains a mixture of two shades of pink and 
white. I leight 4 to 6 feet. Pkt. 50 cts. 
Dahlias 
UNWIN’S DWARF HYBRIDS. Rese¬ 
lected Strain. The graceful, semi-double 
flowers of these new Hybrids are borne 
very freely and embrace a very wide range 
of color, those of no two plants being 
exactly alike. Though primarily intended 
for bedding purposes, they make very fine 
cut-flowers, blooming from June until frost. 
They are very easily grown from seed and 
bloom within 3 to 3}^ months from time 
of sowing. May be planted as close as 18 
to 20 inches apart, rarely exceed 24 inches 
in height and require no stakes. See inside 
front cover. Pkt. 25 cts.; large pkt. 75 cts. 
DOBBIE’S NEW ORCHID-FLOWERED. 
A Single Dahlia of new and entirely dis¬ 
tinct type. Of medium size, its peculiar 
form of petals, which curl over toward their 
centers, has given rise to its name. A wide 
range of both brilliant and soft colors are 
almost bewildering in their variety and 
blending, while the reverse of the petals is 
distinct from the ground-color, and often 
the petals are fluted and pointed. Pkt. 
25 cts.; large pkt. 75 cts. 
Dianthus superbus. Loveliness 
New Annual Dianthus 
LACINIATUS SPLENDENS. A striking ad¬ 
dition to the popular Annual Dianthus. 
The flowers aie sweet scented, very large 
—over 2 inches across—in a brilliant shade 
of crimson, with a large, boldly contrasting 
glistening white eye. Easily grown, they 
flower profusely on neat, dwarf, compact 
plants. Pkt. 25 cts.; large pkt. 75 cts. 
DELIGHT. An interesting hybrid of neat, 
erect habit, growing about 9 inches high. 
Blooms continuously from June to October, 
producing flowers about half an inch in 
diameter, not in trusses, but in alternating 
spikes in great profusion. There is a 
bewildering range of colors from the palest 
pink to deepest purple, many having the 
eye of a Sweet William. Very easily grown 
and truly a delight in the garden or as a 
cut-flower. Pkt. 35 cts. 
Dianthus 
SUPERBUS, LOVELINESS, Stately and 
magnificent in habit of growth, yet de¬ 
lightfully charming and informal in flower 
form, this new hardy garden Pink is one of 
the finest of the newer cut-flower varieties. 
Plants are 12 to 15 inches tall, of good 
branching habit, and very free flowering. 
The shaggy-appearing, finely fringed 
flowers of delicate rosy lilac are highly 
sweet scented and measure from IJ^ to 2 
inches across. They are fascinating in the 
garden and exquisitely dainty in flower 
arrangements. Pkt. 35 cts. 
Exacum affine 
atrocaeruleum 
Beautiful greenhouse pot-plant growing 9 
inches high. The sweetly scented, small, 
dark lavender flowers with golden stamens 
contrast wonderfully with the light green 
leaves. Biennial; flowering within 6 months 
from sowing. Pkt. 35 cts.; 3 pkts. 90 cts. 
Hunnemannia, Sunlite 
A double-flowered Poppy which is different. 
Its extra band of petals is produced on the 
outside rather than the inside of the tulip¬ 
shaped flowers, giving the impression of 
being open, even after the cuplike blossoms 
have closed for the night. The flowers are a 
bright canary-yellow, and the foliage of the 
2-foot bush is a light gray-green. It likes a 
sunny position in a well-drained border and 
flowers freely in late summer. Pkt. 20 cts.; 
large pkt. 50 cts. 
Larkspur 
New Tall Double Stock-flowered, 
Rosamond 
This novelty was awarded a Gold Medal 
in the All-America Selections for 1934 and has 
been acclaimed the most distinct L.arkspur to 
be introduced in many years. It is two weeks 
earlier than other Stock-flowered varieties 
and is exceptionally uniform in height, growing 
4 feet tall. The plant bears numerous spikes 
heavily covered with fully double, bright rose- 
colored flowers, and has that rare quality of 
holding this pure rose shade until out of bloom. 
Pkt. 20 cts.; large pkt. 50 cts. 
Exacum affine atrocaeruleum 
