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/I single spike of flowers. 
It is a fact that $250.00 was offered for a single plant of 
Russell Lupins, but George Russell, the old Yorkshire gardener, 
would not part with one of his beloved family of plants. They 
were the finest lupin children in all the world. Twenty-five 
dollars was offered for a pinch of seed and refused. 
Now these marvelously beautiful flowering plants may be 
had by all for a trifle. They grow most anywhere in ordinary 
garden soil, prefering sandy or gravelly soil. 
These great, gorgeous Russell Lupins will, to a certain 
extent, revolutionize our gardens. 
The enormous well rounded, long, symmetrical flower 
spikes are 3 feet long, 15 inches in circumference, a mass of 
gorgeous color, closely set with individual flowers, an inch 
across, that somewhat resemble Sweet Peas. All flowers on 
the spike, from top to bottom, open at one time, showing 
no stem. Never any flower comparable. Flowers keep well 
when cut. 
The colors are extraordinary, many new shades never 
before seen in Lupins: self blues, pinks, reds, yellows, maroon, 
purple and many others. Then there are the bicolors: violet and 
white; blue and yellow; red and bronze; red and white; yellow 
and orange; pink and white, and other delightful combinations, 
the standard one color, the keel another. 
The plants average 3V2 to 4 feet high, with large attractive 
foliage. 
These new hardy Lupins start a new race of flowers that 
bid fair to become as popular as the Dahlia, both native 
American plants. 
AWARDED THREE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY GOLD MEDALS 
At the Cheltenham Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural 
Society in June, 1937, Russell Lupins monopolized the attention 
of visitors and were awarded the great Gold Medal of the 
Society, the first awarded to Lupins. 
At the close of the year the Williams Memorial Medal was 
awarded for the best exhibit of one family of flowers during 
1937. 
To the originator, George Russell, the Veitch Memorial 
Medal for his notable contribution to horticulture. 
A good big armful of brilliant colors,"'plucked from a bed of Russell Lupin’s. 
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* MAY 18 1938 * 
tf. B. iipufa Mil of 
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$25.00 for one THIMBLEFUL OF SEED D 
SEED NOW OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
