No. 555—NICKELTYPES $20.00 
Scabiosa Imperial Giants Blue Moon (Bodger) 
Honorable Mention \ALL~AM€RICA '/& SELECTIONS/ 7 1939 
7V LTHOUGH we hybridists may sometimes feel that the business of producing 
new flowers is just a routine day-after-day job, every once in a while we 
are buoyed up when we succeed in guiding a plant into unsuspected and 
hitherto unimagined beauty. Such has been our experience during the develop¬ 
ment of a strikingly beautiful Scabiosa which we present herewith—Scabiosa 
Imperial Giants Blue Moon. The flower form is as different from the existent 
Scabiosa varieties as Nasturtium Golden Gleam is different from the old singles 
or the Dahlia Flowered Zinnia differs from the old Zinnia types. Instead of a 
flower composed of a few rows of broad petals surmounted by a flat pincushion¬ 
like top of small petals, this new type has flowers composed entirely of broad, 
heavy, wavy petals, eliminating the pincushion center entirely. In other words, 
the flower is literally fully double. Because of this complete doubleness, the 
flowers are of course extremely large and deep, 2 3 /4 inches across and 2 to 2% 
inches deep, about the shape of an old-fashioned beehive. The color is a rich 
deep lavender blue, a shade which maintains its effectiveness indoors or out. 
The plant type is just as great an improvement over the old as the flower itself. 
In its development we have followed the modern trend of streamlining for space 
saving. Plants are extremely upright growing, tall, 42 to 48 inches in height as 
grown on our ranches and the long, heavy yet wiry stems hold the flowers 
proudly erect, completely eliminating the weak necks which are a fault of older 
types. Blue Moon is an ideal cutting type, because of the stem length, fully 27 
inches even when field grown, and especially because the large beautifully 
shaped flowers are a luscious shade of deep lavender blue so hard to find in 
annual flowers. 
No. 8140 .... Price per oz., $1.30 Per lb., $15.00 
Approximately 3,500 seeds per ounce. 
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