CONNOISSEURS SERIES 
This series has increased in popularity every year. Only novelties are 
included here and consist of plants coming into bloom for the first time. Here 
is a certain element of risk and you should expect some ordinary as well as 
extraordinary things. Only true connoisseurs should try their luck with these 
seeds. 
(The seeds of this series will not be ready before the first of November. 
Please don’t write to me before then enquiring about the seeds which you might 
have ordered in the summer. If you fail to receive your seeds by the first week 
in November, write to me; but not before, please! 
C-l. Corresponds to the numbers 1 to 4 as described above. 
C-2. Corresponds to numbers 5 and 6. 
C-3. Pure white. 
C-4. Softer shades of bicolors. 
C-5. Darker shades of bicolors. 
C-6. A mixture of the above five assortments plus a number of other 
crosses too small in quantity to be offered separately. 
PRICES 
Continuing the policy of Lyondel Gardens of asking one price for novelties 
as well as old established lines, I have retained the former price of $2.50 per 
packet of at least 100 seeds. 
YOUNG SEEDLINGS 
These will be offered in the spring only. I will not have any for autumn 
delivery. Price $2.50 per dozen postpaid. If you wish to succeed with small 
seedlings, you should pot them as soon as you receive them, and keep in a shel¬ 
tered place for about a month or six weeks before planting out. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES 
So far as I know I am the only breeder offering oriental poppy seeds cross 
pollinated by hand. This is the only way you can be assured of obtaining some 
superior progenies as open pollinated seeds usually revert to undesirable 
colors and types. Some of the finest of named varieties, as well as the cream 
of my own seedlings will combine to bring to you a new adventure in garden¬ 
ing. Here are whites, smokies, pear] pinks, lavenders, old rose, glowing salmon, 
cerise, watermelon pinks, silvery pinks, crushed raspberry, blood reds, mahog¬ 
any reds, purplish reds, — a veritable riot of colors that will come forth to 
burst upon your garden like an avalanche of dazzling splendor. Don’t expect 
every seedling to be of good quality, but you should look forward to some sur¬ 
prisingly splendid things. Seeds are offered in the following lots: 
1. Salmon pink shades. 
2. Rose pink shades. 
3. Lavenders. 
4. Whites or near whites. 
5. Reds from the newest and the best named varieties and promising 
seedlings. 
6. A mixture of the foregoing five assortments. 
Only a small number of poppy seedlings will be worth saving; therefore 
it is unwise to purchase a dozen seedlings and expect some fine things. If 
you refrain from buying seeds because of limited space, just remember that you 
may sow your seeds in a cold frame, sow very thin, and leave the seedlings 
there until they bloom, then select what you want and discard all others. 
Thus you can produce hundreds, even thousands of seedlings on a few square 
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