SCABIOSA IMPERIAL GIANTS "BLUE MOON" (Bodger) 
Introducer's Description 
Although 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 hitherto unsuspecting and unimagined beauty. Such has 
been our experience during the development 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 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% 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 improve¬ 
ment 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. 
Tr. Pkt. 50c Va oz. 75c Vi oz. $1.25 Oz. $4.50 
Scabiosa Imperial Giants "Blue Moon" 
NIEREMBERGIA CAERULEA (Hippomanica) 
Introducer's Description 
Of all the hundreds of new flower introductions which have come under 
our observation during the course of the past few years, none has caused 
so much comment from visitors to our farms as this little Dwarf Cup Flower, 
Nierembergia Hippomanica. With the possible exception of Zinnia Linearis, 
it will outbloom any flower we have growing. It starts flowering when the 
plants are only about two inches tall, that is about 15 weeks after the 
seed is sown, and keeps on right up until the heavy frosts of late fall. 
It is at all times neat and tidy looking, the young flowers coming and 
covering the older flowers and seed pods. The lovely lavender-blue shade, 
heightened by a touch of yellow in the center, is most charming. Plants 
are definitely dwarf, compact—streamlined, if you will—and not over 
5 or 6 inches tall, and with a spread of only 8 to 10 inches. Foliage is 
light gray green, very inconspicuous, and there are literally dozens of 
flowers in bloom at a time throughout the summer. As an edging plant, 
for the border along a walk, or- to outline beds of larger flowers, it has 
no equal, while for use in the rockery it is unexcelled, and is extremely 
lovely in a window box or in flower pots. It is a half hardy perennial 
which will winter over if given some protection. In the southern warmer 
sections, no protection will be necessary. The plants should be cut back at 
the end of the season and will send out fresh growth in the spring. A bed of 
the above, bordered with Dwarf Sweet Alyssum, on our trial grounds the 
past season, was indeed a beautiful sight throughout the summer season. 
Tr. Pkt. 50c 1/16 oz. $3.00 Vs oz . $5.50 
Nierembergia Caerulea (Hippomanica) (Dwarf Cup Flower) 
Outstanding in three very important characteristics, we present Orange 
Sunset as the foremost Marigold variety of the year. The flowers, which 
average 5 inches and over in diameter as grown in the fields, are unques¬ 
tionably the last word in the attainment of size. Quite naturally a flower 
of these dimensions is one of the showiest and most colorful garden sub¬ 
jects. Add to these attributes of size and showiness their delightful sweet 
fragrance, and you have a combination hard to resist. Like its parent 
variety, Sunset Giants, Marigold Orange Sunset has flowers that are 
loosely formed, very full centered, with broad, heavy, wavy petals which 
gracefully overlap to make a flower ideal not only for garden decoration 
but for cut flower use as well. The color is a deep, rich, lively orange, 
one of the most admired shades found in the Sunset Giants Mixture. The 
plants are strong growing, upright branching in habit, usually about 3 feet 
tall, producing a heavy growth of foliage, and with 6 to 8 heavy branches, 
each bearing 3 to 6 large flowers. Blooming commences about the first 
of August in most sections of the country, in late June in the southern 
states, and flowers can be depended on well before frost in any latitude. 
Orange Sunset has been tested and found to be a fine forcer in the 
greenhouse, and will come over 65 percent double. 
Tr. Pkt. 50c Vs oz. 75c Va oz. $1.35 Oz. $5.00 
MARIGOLD GIGANTEA 
"ORANGE SUNSET" 
Bodger's Description 
Chicago • AMERICAN BULB COMPANY • new york 
