24 OUR PLANTS ARE GROWN SPECIALLY FOR US 
UNION SEED Cr FUEL CO 
PETUNIA DAINTY LADY 
PETUNIA 
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. They are 
also used along walks and driveways and are often grown in 
window boxes. Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 
easy culture will always make them popular. In some strains 
the flowers are very large, measuring 4 to 5 inches across; in 
others, they are deeply fringed; still others have star-like 
markings radiating from the throat and extending nearly or 
quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, others have 
full, double flowers. The colors range from white to deep 
red-purple and are variously striped and blotched. 
Single Flowering Bedding Varieties, pkt. 10c. 
Dreer’s Superb Double Fringed Petunia. Said to be one of 
the finest strains in the world producing a large percentage 
of double flowers very large and deep fringed in many bright 
colors. Pkt. 50c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Blue. Velvety indigo blue. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Rose. Brilliant rose pink. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Crimson. Rich velvety crimson. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Mixed. Containing all colors. Pkt. 15c. 
Elks’ Pride. Rich royal purple Pkt. 25c. 
Rosy Morn. Soft rose pink blooms, white throat. Pkt. 15c. 
Giant of California. For description, see inside back cover. 
Petunia Single Fringed Dainty Lady. Award of Merit, All- 
America Selections, 1936. Dainty Lady, a new yellow Petunia, 
has proved itself a winner from the very start. It was granted 
Awards of Merit in both Europe and America as soon as it was 
introduced, and has occasioned favorable comment wherever 
exhibited or grown. The flowers are of medium size and daint¬ 
ily fringed, delicate light yellow deepening to golden yellow 
at the throat. The strain comes exceptionally true to color. 
The plants are neat, compact, somewhat upright in habit, 
semi-dwarf and very free flowering. Dainty Lady is excellent 
for border use, for bedding, for use in window boxes and as 
a cut flower. Dainty Lady is especially effective when com¬ 
bined with one of the purple Petunias, such as Violacea 
Marine or Elk’s Pride. Pkt. 25c. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI (Large Flowering) 
The plants are hardy bush-like annuals with many broad 
flat-topped clusters of nearly round and star-shaped flowers. 
They are of easiest culture and bloom profusely through a 
long season. Pkt. 10c. 
PHYSALIS FRANCHETI (Chinese Lantern Plant) 
This hardy biennial plant grows to a height of about 2 feet 
and is a profuse bloomer, producing many large, striking 
flowers of a beautiful, brilliant orange red color resembling 
Chinese lanterns in shape. 
Francheti. Pkt. 10c. 
PINKS (Dianthus) 
Seed sown out of doors when danger of frost is past will 
produce plants that bear flowers in a few weeks time. Bloom 
constantly from July until frost and if covered, will bloom 
again the second season. Dianthus Chinensis (Double China), 
mixed, pkt. 10c. 
CALIFORNIA POPPY 
The true golden yellow strain. This is the state flower of 
California. Pkt. 10c. 
California Mixed. An excellent mixture producing deep yel¬ 
low, creamy white, scarlet and orange flowers. Pkt. 5c. 
ICELAND POPPY 
These are hardy perennials which will flower the first year 
from seed. The foliage is fern-like, the plants of neat, com¬ 
pact growth and send up slender stalks about 12 inches high 
bearing brilliantly colored flowers. If the flowers are picked 
daily the plants will bear all season. They will continue to 
bear from year to year. Pkt. 10c. 
ORIENTAL POPPY 
For brilliancy of color there is nothing that quite equals the 
Oriental Poppy. The flowers are of enormous size, often 6 
inches in diameter and the colors range from soft pink to 
dazzling scarlet and deep maroon. Especially adapted to mass 
planting and in hardy borders with shrubs or other peren¬ 
nials. The seed should be sown in the early spring in the open 
ground. The plant disappear during July and August, appear¬ 
ing again as soon as weather gets cool. The plants will in¬ 
crease in size from year to year. Pkt. 10c. 
SHIRLEY POPPIES 
Splendid strain of annual poppies of the greatest of color. 
The flowers range from pure white to maroon with all inter¬ 
mediate shadings and all combinations imaginable. Of easy 
culture and free bloomers. Pkt. 10c. 
Poppy Nudicaule “The Emperor”. Truly regal among this 
exceptional group of Poppies, The Emperor stands forth in a 
class by itself. It is without a doubt the very finest orange 
Iceland Poppy ever produced, with extremely large fluted 
petaled flowers composed of broad, overlapping petals, many 
flowers having extra petals. The strong, straight stems are 
very wiry, 18 to 22 inches long, and bear the large flowers 
majestically whether in the garden or when used for cutting. 
A perennial, it blooms freely the first year from seed. Pkt. 25c. 
SINGLE AND DOUBLE POPPIES MIXED 
A fine collection of the best annual varieties. Plant these 
in a mass or row and you will get a beautiful effect. Pkt. 10c. 
PORTULACA 
Sometimes called Moss Rose. Few flowers make such a 
dazzling display of color in the bright sunshine as a bed of 
Portulacas. Desirable also for edgings. They are in bloom 
through a long season. Pkt. 10c. 
Double Portulaca. Pkt. 10c. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Flowers of the richest colors—blue, crimson, yellow, purple, 
scarlet, etc., with texture like rich velvet; each petal beauti¬ 
fully penciled. Splendid for bouquets. Height 2 feet. Mixed 
colors, pkt. 10c. 
SALVIA (Flowering Sage) 
Blooms are borne in long spikes well above the foliage and 
are of fiery red, crimson, continuing in flower a long time. 
The densely filled flower spikes are often 8 to 10 inches long 
and include 30 or more tube-like florets, 1 to 2 inches in 
length. Pkt. 10c. 
STOCKS (Ten Weeks) 
Plants grow about 1 foot high, making a compact bush, cov¬ 
ered with splendid spikes of blossoms from July until frost. 
Half hardy annual. Height 1 foot. Double mixed, pkt. 10c. 
SWEET PEAS, New Early Flowering Spencers 
CULTURE—Sweet Peas do best in good, rich soil that is 
inclined to be a little clayey. Fall is the best time to prepare 
the soil, especially if manure is used. Pea vines like moist soil 
and often the heat originated by the manure combined with 
the heat from the sun is too much for the vines. They turn 
yellow and die. Use a good commercial fertilizer or else apply 
the manure in the fall. Dig a trench a foot deep and about 16 
inches wide and mix in this about 6 inches of top soil with 
good manure or commercial fertilizer. Plant the seeds in this 
trench in two rows, dropping the seeds about 2 inches apart. 
Cover 2 inches deep and then gradually fill the trench as the 
plants grow. The trench should be made so that water will 
drain off. The seed should be planted just as early in the 
spring as possible, as late sowing produces rank growth but 
few flowers. Provide a trellis, wire or brush for the vines to 
climb on and pick the flowers every day. An application of 
bone meal and nitrate of soda will hasten the blooming time. 
If you want your sweet peas to do wonderfully well use 
Nitragin. Garden size, 10c. 
