Phlox Drummondi Gigantea, Art Shades, is exceedingly beautiful 
Phlox Drummondi 
Beautiful summer-flowering annual that makes excellent pot-plants 
for spring sales. 
GIGANTEA, SALMON GLORY 
1939 All-America Winner of Silver Medal. We take pleasure in offer¬ 
ing this new Phlox, Salmon Glory. The individual florets are gigantic, 
measuring from to inches in diameter. Color is a pure salmon- 
pink with a distinct creamy white throat. This combination, with its 
clear, clean, crisp appearance, makes one of the most beautiful Phloxes 
we have ever seen. Trade pkt. 75c.; $2.00 per V 4 OZ. 
GIGANTEA, ART SHADES • NOVELTY 
A new strain with flowers 1^ to 134 inches in diameter. In addition 
to its enormous flowers (which in themselves would be enough to justify 
it as a novelty), it has a most wonderful range of color in soft art shades, 
such as salmon with white eye, deep salmon with cream eye, apple-blossom- 
pink, soft rose with white eye, light blue with white eye, pale violet with 
white eye, light mauve with cream eye, rose with white eye, and many 
other pleasing art shades. Plants about 9 inches high. Choice mixture 
only. Trade pkt. 40c.; $2.00 per oz. 
GRANDIFLORA VARIETIES Trade pkt. 
Alba. Pure white.$0 25 
Chamois-Rose . 25 
Coccinea. Scarlet. 25 
Lilac . 25 
Pink . 25 
Yellow . 25 
Choicest Mixed .$3.00.. 20 
Cuspidata (Star of Quedlinburg). Extra-fine, star- 
flowered mixture. 25 
Oz. 
$1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
80 
1 00 
DWARF OR COMPACT VARIETIES 
Cecily. Large-flowering, mixed. 
Chamois-Rose. 
Fireball. Brilliant scarlet. 
Isabellina. Yellow. 
Pink.. 
Snowbali. Pure white. 
Choicest Mixed. Vilb- $5.50.. 
40 2 00 
40 2 00 
40 2 00 
40 2 00 
40 2 00 
40 2 00 
30 1 50 
PRIMULA OBCONICA GRANDIFLORA ^rade pkt. 
Hybrida, Mixed .^oz. $1.50. $0 50 
Trade pkt. ^oz. 
Dawkin’s Carmine-Pink. This new variety is a rich 
glowing carmine-pink and the flowers are large, on wiry 
stems of upright and graceful habit.$0 50 $3 00 
Liiac. Improved Baby Primrose. Vsoz. $1.00. . 50 
Princess Patricia. Beautiful lavender-pink flowers, finely 
laced. 50 2 00 
Pink Beauty. Deep rosy pink flowers. 50 1 00 
Snow Queen. Single; white. 75 3 00 
FRINGED CHINESE VARIETY trade Trade 
Micheil’s Prize Mixture. This mixture contains only pkt. pkt. 
the very finest sorts.ireoz. $3.00. .$0 60 $1 00 
KEWENSIS, Verbena-scented Yellow Primrose 
Long spikes of yellow flowers.■^oz. $1.50 50 
Pyrethrum 
Aureum. Golden Feather. Golden yellow foliage. For Trade pkt. Oz. 
bedding.$0 15 $0 40 
Rhodanthe • Everlastins Flower 
Mixed. Annual. Fine for cutting. 15 50 
Ricinus communis • Castor-Oil Bean 
Very effective plants on the lawn as centerpieces in beds of 
such as cannas, etc. qz. 
Cambodgensis. Bronzy maroon. 5 ft. $0 15 
Red Spire. Leaves bronzy green with bright rosy crimson 
seed-spikes. 15 
Sanguineus. Blood-red stalks. 8 ft. 15 
Zanzibarensis. Large. Various colors. 12 ft. 15 
Mixed. All sorts. .Lb. $1.00.. 10 
flowers 
Vdb. 
$0 50 
50 
50 
50 
30 
Poppy • Papaver 
DOUBLE ANNUAL VARIETIES 
Carnation-flowered, Mixed. V^lb* 50c... 15 
Peony-flowered, Mixed.. Vilb- 50c... 15 
Improved Shirley, May Queen. An improved strain 
with large double flowers. Mixed colors. 15 50 
Rudbeckia • Coneflower 
Tall-growing plants, flowering profusely all summer. 
Kelvedon Star. A really good annual. The perfect, long-stemmed 
flowers are fine for cutting. Very floriferous and of sturdy habit of 
growth. Colors vary, but all have brown central discs surrounded by 
a mahogany zone on petals of deep orange. 3 ft. Trade pkt. 30c.; 
$1.50 per oz. 
SINGLE ANNUAL VARIETIES 
Flanders. Bright scarlet. ._.. 15 
Oriental Scarlet. An exact duplicate of the perennial 
type, but is an annual, flowering profusely the first 
season.. 15 
Shirley, Wild-Rose-Pink. Beautiful rich pink. 15 
Shirley, Mixed. Large flowers.V^lb* 60c... 15 
25 
50 
50 
25 
MichelTs Primulas 
We offer select strains of this fine winter-blooming pot-plant. Several 
of the varieties are originator’s stock and grown exclusively for our 
florists’ trade. 
NEW GIANT OBCONICAS 
The following three are new Giant German varieties that produce 
immense trusses of larger flowers than any other strain. Plants are of 
compact habit and are very free flowering. Trade pkt.^oz. 
Bavarian Blood-Red (Bayernblut). Deep blood-red. . .$1 50 $3 00 
Sky-Blue (Konigsee). Bright blue with yellow eye .... 1 50 3 00 
Snowfall (Schneelawine). Pure white. 1 50 3 00 
^ozs. of the above three varieties available in glass tubes 
OBCONICA 
These are excellent pot-plants for winter blooming. 
Fasbender. Very compact grower with enormous, deep 
crimson blooms.V 2 trade pkt. 60c.. . 1 00 2 00 
Mohnstein, Atrosanguinea. Dark red. 1 00 2 00 
Mohnstein, Kermesina. Crimson. 1 00 2 00 
Mueller. (Berlin.) Bright rose._. 1 00 2 00 
Mueller and Mohnstein, Mixed. Shades of pink and red. 1 00 2 00 
OBCONICA GIGANTEA 
We have pleasure in listing several new shades of real giant Primulas, 
both in form and massive substance. Trade pkt. ^oz. 
Monster, Mixed. A large-flowering strain.$1 00 $2 00 
Phlox gigantea, Salmon Glory 
516 and 518 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa 
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