1938 
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W • SALZER’S • SEEDS* 
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PETUNIA 
Annual. Few flowers excel Petunias 
in brilliant and gorgeous display, es¬ 
pecially for porch or window boxes. 
Easily cultivated, requiring only a 
good soil and a sunny position. It is 
best to sow them indoors and trans¬ 
plant to the open in May, although the 
seed may be sown directly out of doors 
in May. 1 to 1% feet. 
Mixed Balcony Petunias 
BALCONY PETUNIAS 
This type has become very popular. 
They are unusually free-blooming, 
trailing in growth, with immense sin¬ 
gle flowers averaging three inches in 
diameter, and are particularly suited 
for hanging baskets, window boxes 
and beds. 
Mixed. Flowers often 2% to 3 in. 
across, in many beautiful colors. Al¬ 
ways in bloom. 2334—Pkt., 10c; 3 for 
25c; Vie oz., 50c. 
Cliffwood Balcony Mixed. Our own 
savings from the finest flowers; of 
very large size and beautiful shape; 
varied and brilliant colors. 2335—Pkt., 
15c; 3 for 35c; Vie oz., 85c. 
ROSE OF HEAVEN 
The official World’s Fair Flower of 
the 1933 Century of Progress at Chi¬ 
cago! Exquisite, soft rose-pink flow¬ 
ers without any lighter shadings; the 
throat is also soft rose-pink. Blooms 
freely and luxuriantly, the pure all 
pink flowers creating a beautiful ef¬ 
fect in window boxes or beds. 2321— 
Pkt., 15c; 2 pkts., 45c; % oz., 30c. 
MINIATURE ROSE GEM 
Award of Merit, All American Se¬ 
lections! The plant of this showy 
petunia is only five to six inches high, 
compact and bushy, and simply smoth¬ 
ered with rich rose colored single 
flowers about two inches in diameter. 
Very desirable for borders, because of 
its compact growth. 2316—Pkt., 20c; 
2 pkts., 35c; % oz., 85c. 
Miniature Rose Gem 
FLAMING VELVET 
Received Gold Medal 1936 All Amer¬ 
ican Flower Selections! Flowers are 
large, of a heavy velvety substance, 
and are borne in riotous profusion. 
The color is outstanding,—a rich and 
brilliant blood red, running very true 
to type, with but few flowers off color, 
and those that are, are in themselves 
beautiful. 2314—Pkt., 25c; 2 pkts., 45c; 
Vie oz., 70c. 
FLUFFY RUFFLES 
The immense sin¬ 
gle blooms, in a 
grand mixture of 
gorgeous light col¬ 
ors, are handsomely 
ruffled, fluted and 
fringed, of good 
substance, and each 
flower is a superb, 
crinkly mass of 
bloom. 2341 —Pkt., 
20c; 3 pkts., 50c; Vie oz., 95c. 
VIOLACEA MARINE 
Deep velvety violet, large single 
flowers, beautifully fringed. Finest of 
the purples. 2320—Pkt., 35c; Vei oz., 
$3.00. 
[PLAIN EDGE SINGLES 
Howard’s Star. Rosy-crimson with 
a clearly defined five-pointed star of 
bluish-white. Elegant. 2325—Pkt., 
10c; Vie oz., 20c. 
Rosy Mora. Soft rose-pink with 
white throat. Charming and very 
dainty. A window box planted to 
nothing but Rosy Morn Petunias is 
strikingly effective. 2327—Pkt., 10c; 
Vi6 oz., 25c; % oz., 40c. 
Rosy Mora, Sailer’s Cliffwood Farm 
TRIPLE-A-TESTED —A special rese¬ 
lected strain certified by THREE- 
WAY tests: 2336—Pkt., 15c; Vie oz., 
40c; Vs oz., 65c. 
Dwarf Mixed. Compact, bushy 
plants, about 6 inches high, covered 
with showy flowers. 2323—Pkt., 5c; 
Vie oz., 15c; % oz., 25c. 
Improved Giants of California 
IMPROVED GIANTS OF 
CALIFORNIA 
The largest and finest of all Single 
Petunias on the market today! Enor¬ 
mous flowers with wide open throats 
well marked and veined, five to six 
inches in diameter, freely borne on ro¬ 
bust plants. For size and brilliancy of 
bloom it surpasses every other single 
sort. Mixed colors, carefully blended, 
in a fine array of pleasing shades and 
veinings. Frilled edges. 2342—Pkt., 
35c; 3 pkts., 90c; Vet oz., $2.25. 
RUFFLED GIANTS 
Ruffled Giants 
A distinctive type 
with flowers of ex¬ 
traordinary size 
and substance. 
Mixed colors, richly 
marked and veined, 
deeply ruffled, and 
elegantly fluted. 
Extra choice. 2340 
—Pkt., 25c; 2 pkts., 
45c; V 32 oz„ $2.50; Vie 
oz., $4.50. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS 
In growing them from seed, the 
weaker seedlings should receive the 
most attention as they produce the 
finest double flowers. Not difficult to 
grow. 
Salzer’s Double Fringed. Will pro¬ 
duce up to 75% of the largest double 
flowers, beautifully fringed, in the 
brightest colors, all mixed. An ele¬ 
gant mixture. 2338—Pkt., 35c; 2 pkts., 
65c; Ve4 oz., $5.50. 
Improved Double Fringed. Big, 
fluffy, crinkly balls of bloom, spicily 
fragrant, borne in riotous profusion! 
A super-fine mixture of superb colors, 
fully 85% double, carefully chosen 
from perfect, large, fringed double 
flowers. Contains a wide range of 
shades as well as pure self colors. 
2343—Pkt., 45c; 2 pkts., 85c; Vet oz., 
$6.50. 
Dwarf Mixed, Salzer’s Cliffwood 
Farm TRIPLE-A-TESTED —A special 
reselected strain certified by THREE- 
WAY tests: 2315—Pkt., 10c; Vie oz., 25c. 
GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA 
This giant-flowered type bears very 
large flowers, often 4 inches across, 
single, in many beautiful light shades, 
mostly in blotches and pencil mark¬ 
ings of a different color in the throat. 
Lovely frilled edges. 2339—Pkt., 20c; 
2 pkts., 35c; Vei oz., $1.50. 
Howard’s Star Rosy Morn 
Maximum Double Fringed. Finest 
double petunia grown today! Unusu¬ 
ally large flowers, double and heavily 
fringed, growing almost 100% double 
and semi-double. We have not seen 
any other strain produce such perfect 
double flowers. Mixed colors, includ¬ 
ing carmine, rose, pink, violet, etc. 
Very striking. 2309—Pkt., 50c; 2 pkts., 
95c; V04 oz., $7.50. 
Maximum Double Fringed 
The Petunias that we ordered from you bore huge blossoms and were one solid mass of bloom.—Mr. F. H. Dahl, 
R. D. 1, Box 168, Zimm, Minnesota. 
