FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES 
FOR 1938 
PAUL J. HOWARD’S 
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CALLIOPSIS. Golden Crown. All-America Selection. 
A strong growing annual producing beautiful semi-double flowers of 
rich orange yellow with small rich brown center. It has a pleas¬ 
ing fragrance and is nice for cutting, with twelve inch wiry stems. 
Packet, 25c. 
PETUNIA. Salmon Supreme. All-America Selection. 
A hybrida nana or dwarf bedding variety of distinct new, bright sal¬ 
mon color in this type. Flowers are about 1 Vi inches across, 
plants grow about 12 inches high and wide but apt to grow more 
late in the season. It is striking in color and of excellent habit. 
Packet, 50c. 
PETUNIA. All Double Giants. (Victorious). All-American 
Selection. Mixed. 
A new Giant All-Double flowered variety. Makes sturdy strong well 
branched upright plants covered with purple veined double 
frilled flowers. The plant is semi-dwarf in habit with flowers 3!/2 
inches across and blooms over a long season. Packet, $1.00. 
(Approximately 150 Seeds) 
TAHOKA DAISY. Annual. 
Free flowering plants of bushy habit and about eighteen inches high. 
The foliage is fine and feathery covered with masses of lilac 
blue, vellow-eyed daisies. It is fast growing and early blooming 
and a good cut flower. Packet, 25c. 
TITHONIA SPECIOSA GRANDIFLORA FIREBALL. 
Fireball is, undoubtedly, the last word in brilliance of color in a 
fall blooming plant. Many who have known and enjoyed the 
orange Tithonia have considered it the brightest possible flower 
for fall use. Fireball is a brilliant vibrant shade of scarlet orange 
and the flower has a clear yellow center. The plants are about 
6 feet high, bushy, and th# flowers are carried on fine long stems. 
Fine as a background subject. Packet, 25c. 
NEW ANNUAL SCABIOSA—Rosette. 
Rosette is a beautiful shade of deep rose heavily suffused with sal¬ 
mon. This glorious glowing new color will make this Scabiosa a 
most popular flower for the garden and for cutting. Packet, 25e. 
ZINNIA. Gaillardia Flowered. NAVAJO. 
A new Zinnia cross which resembles the double Gaillardia in form. 
The flowers are very attractive, of medium size, about two inches 
in diameter, just a good size for cut flower use, and are carried 
on stems of medium length. The colors range through the mel¬ 
low tones of rose, pink, bronze, yellow, orange, lavender and 
combinations of these colors. Most of the flowers are two toned, 
with a ring of deeper color towards the center of the flower. 
Flowers are produced about 45 days after seeding. Packet, 25c. 
ZINNIA LILLIPUT. Tom Thumb. 
Dwarf compact plants 4 to 6 inches in height covered with well 
formed flowers of miniature button type. Colors range through 
the red, orange, yellow, pink, rose and other pastel shades. An 
excellent border subject. Mixed. Packet, 25e. 
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