1939-1940 CATALOG OF RICHARD DIENER NURSERY, oxnard, calif., u. s. a. 
DIENER’S ALL-DOUBLE SHASTA DAISY MIXED 
Packet 50c 6 packets $2.00 
DIENER’S NEW SINGLE BROAD PETALED SHASTA 
DAISY 
Long stems, flowers 8 inches in diameter, early 
flowering. 
Packet 25c 6 packets $1.00 
SHASTA DAISIES 
All varieties, single, semi-double and double 
mixed. 
Packet 25c 6 packets $1.00 
DIENER'S SINGLE BROAD PETALED SHASTA 
DAISY 
Flowers 6 to 7 inches in diameter. 
Packet 25c 6 packets $1.00 
DIENER’S FANCY CHIFFON SHASTA DAISY 
Packet 50c 
Prices on larger quantities on request. 
Rooted Plant Cuttings From the Original Plants 
25c each $2.50 dozen 
DELPHINIUM SULPHUREUM 
(Hardy Perennial) 
This large flowering canary yellow variety has flower 
spikes 3 to 4 feet tall and is a beautiful orchid-like 
Delphinium, easy growing. It dies down after flower¬ 
ing and forms a blackish-looking bulb in the ground. 
They need no water during the rest period. This 
variety produces very few seeds. Seeds offered here 
are of our 1939 raising. Sow out during the fall. 
Package 50c 6 packages $2.50 
DIENER’S DELPHINIUM HYBRID 
PERENNIALS 
’’Dreams of Beauty” 
These Delphinium have been favorites with our cus¬ 
tomers for many years. They have done well in the 
tropics as well as in Alaska and all over the United 
States. They are very hardy against fungus diseases 
and mildew affects them very little, as for years we 
have destroyed all plants that show any mildew. 
They are immensely free flowering; as soon as one 
set of stems has finished flowering, it is replaced with 
another set, and this is repeated during the whole 
growing season. The flowers are single semi-double 
and double and the colors run from sky blue through 
all intermediate shades to the deepest indigo blue 
and many have pinkish frillings. All colorings are 
truly exquisite and the sizes of the single flowers 
are the very largest; they have willowy flexible 
stems with very long closely set spire-like spikes. 
The many testimonials, freely given to us, are enough 
proof of their popularity. 
Sample pkg. 50c Trade pkg. $1.00 Yz oz. $2.50 
1 oz. $5.00 1 pound $60.00 
FLOWER SPIKES. FOUR FEET HIGH 
Cut from Six Months' Old Seedlings 
Directions for Sowing: Make a soil of leaf mould with a little 
sand and sift through a screen. Place this soil three inches 
deep in a box or bed and smooth the surface of the soil with 
a flat board. Then sprinkle the seeds over the surface and 
press them into the soil with the board. Do not cover with any 
soil or at least very lightly, not more than the thickness of 
the seeds, as they will not come up if too heavily covered. 
Moisten the soil with a fine sprinkler and cover the seed bed 
with burlap. Sprinkle the burlap two or three times each day 
to keep moist. Remove the burlap about eight to ten days 
after the seeds are up and keep the soil moist at all times. 
Under no condition should you use a fertilizer of any kind 
in this seed bed. Keep snails or slugs away by making a 
ring around the seed bed, with air-slacked lime. Keep the 
young seedlings shaded with cheesecloth. 
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