DELPHINIUM — New Color Series 
{Pacific Strain), Hand-Pollinated seed. 
Improved over the general listing 
(Page 29) in such factors as trueness, 
color, size, habit, etc. 
King Arthur, Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $3.00; V 2 pkt. $1.50 
Guinevere, Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $3.00; % pkt. $1.50 
Summer Skies, Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $3.00; V 2 pkt. $1.50 
Group Collection, all three, above— 
1 pkt. each $8.00; % pkt. each, $4.00 
1939 Introductions 
Black Knight, Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $5.00; V 2 pkt. $2.50 
Blue Jav, Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $5.00; V 2 pkt. $2.50 
Galahad. Hand-Pollinated 
pkt. $5.00; V 2 pkt. $2.50 
Lancelot, Hand-Pollinated. Pure 
lilac with white bee. An entirely new 
color in delphinium. 
pkt. $5.00; % pkt. $2.50 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy). 
Dazzler. Deeper in color than Fire- 
flame—rich, glowing blood red. Silver 
foliage, a striking contrast. A British 
novelty which is the finest “California” 
poppy of all. 
pkt. 15c; 1/4 oz. 60c; oz. $1.50 
Hybrida Mixture. Of dwarf erect 
varieties, containing new colors in 
Eschscholtzia, including soft pink, 
scarlet, chrome, copper, red, claret, and 
royal purple. 
pkt. 15c; 1/4 oz. 60c; oz. $1.50 
GERANIUM ZONALE. Fancy Hybrids. 
P. Easily raised from seed, this fine 
strain will give some blooms the first 
year. Immense, large flower heads in 
pink, rose, scarlet, and other shades. 
pkt. 25c 
GODETIA, Kelvedon Glory. A new 
color in godetia, introduced by the 
same hybridists who released the strik¬ 
ing Sybil Sherwood. Vigorous and 
practically covered with deep glowing 
salmon blossoms. Imported from Eng¬ 
land. 
pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 35c; 1/8 oz. 60c 
HELIANTHEMUM (Sun-rose). P. A 
most delightful dwarf evergreen peren¬ 
nial, three to six inches tall. Spread¬ 
ing, dense matty growth. Covered 
with brightly colored flowers resem¬ 
bling miniature single roses. Yellow, 
bronze red, pink, rose, apricot, orange 
and similar shades. Has attracted con¬ 
stant attention in our garden. Splen¬ 
did for rock gardens. 
We are fortunate enough to secure 
exclusive sale of the seed from Sydney 
B. Mitchell’s own garden. His stock 
was obtained from John Nichols of 
Scotland, and W. M. Christy of Eng¬ 
land, who, between them, raised most 
of the named forms given awards at 
the R. H. S. trial gardens at Wisley, 
England. In mixed colors.pkt. 25c 
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AS BIG AS A HOUSE? 
Not quite, but a good sample of the great 
size and fine form of Pacific Delphinium. 
ICELAND POPPIES {Nudicaule). You 
who are in the habit of visiting the 
beautiful Santa Maria Inn half-way be¬ 
tween San Francisco and Los Angeles 
are no doubt familiar with the remark¬ 
able strains of these most effective 
cut-flowers developed by Frank J. Mc¬ 
Coy, manager of the Inn. Mr. McCoy 
has built an international reputation 
for the Inn by filling it with exquisitely 
arranged bouquets of the most gor¬ 
geous flowers obtainable. Most of these 
blooms he grows himself, and Iceland 
Poppies have been his particular hobby. 
He has scoured the world for seeds and 
has selected and re-selected until he 
has developed a strain that is unques¬ 
tionably the finest in America and prob¬ 
ably unexcelled anywhere. 
Stand frost even when other plants 
wither and blacken. Very floriferous 
with long stems, most excellent cut- 
flowers. At their best sown either 
where they will flower or in boxes and 
transplanted when young. 
Apricot. Probably the most 
ful colored individual variety of all 
Iceland Poppies — delicate apricot. 
Flowers of good size with long stems, 
pkt. 25c; 1/32 oz. 50c; 1/16 oz. 90c 
Coonara Pinks. A new strain of Ice¬ 
land Poppies. Very fine. 95% pink. 
pkt. 25c; 1/16 oz. 60c 
Emperor. Large flowered orange. 
pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 50c 
Yellow Wonder. Large flowered 
bright yellow. Very long stems. 
pitt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 50c 
Santa Maria Inn Mixture {Frank J. 
McCoy re-selections ). Re-selected from 
the finest strains obtainable anywhere 
— the best mixture you could possibly 
have. Orange, yellow, white, pink and 
other shades. pkt. 25c; 1/16 oz. 60c 
Group Collection. One packet each, 
Apricot. Coonara Pinks, Emperor, and 
Yellow Wonder (four).60c 
Selected Seeds 
LINARIA, Fairy Bouquet. — (New) — 
(Wild Snap-Dragon). Very showy, 
eight to ten inches high, colors rose, 
yellow, pink, lavender, carmine, red, 
white and violet mixed. A gem for 
border or rock garden. 
pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 50c 
PANSY, Best-by-test Strain. We secured 
seeds of ten strains generally recog¬ 
nized as the world’s finest, for testing 
purposes. To avoid any possible preju¬ 
dice, we ran our tests “blindfold”— 
that is, grew and planted them under 
number so that even we ourselves did 
not know which strain was best until 
the test was completed. Three strains 
led the group, but one was easily the 
best of the three. We immediately 
tried the three best a second time, with 
the same strain again proving to be 
most outstanding. 
As a result, we offer our first choice 
as our “Best-by-Test” Pansy strain — 
it was the first to bloom, the most 
gorgeous, had a color range as bright, 
but richer than those of any others, 
and produced by far the largest flowers. 
pkt. 40c; 3 pkts. $1.00; 1/16 oz. $2.00 
PANSY, Coronation Gold. Huge flowers 
in various shades of gold. Some of 
the blooms are as rich as those of 
Goldelse (below), and the remainder 
are of good color.pkt. 25c 
PANSY, Goldelse. Imported from Swit¬ 
zerland. The finest yellow colored 
pansy we know, but the flowers are not 
large. Burnished golden yellow, shad¬ 
ing to rich vivid orange gold at the 
center.pkt. 25c 
RANUNCULUS. A bright showy flower 
usually grown from tubers, but actual¬ 
ly more satisfactory from seed, as the 
latter are disease resistant. 
Blooms in showiest yellow, red, scar¬ 
let, orange, white, and other autumn 
colors, in varying degrees of double¬ 
ness. 
We have been fortunate enough to 
secure a supply from the famous 
Tecolote Giant Strain, mixed colors. 
Easily raised from seed sown from 
August to November, depending on 
when the cool weather starts. Can be 
grown on like winter flowering stocks 
and set out in autumn. One packet 
does the work of dozens of tubers, and 
for only .pkt. 50c 
Results 
One customer testifies, “All the Seeds 
I have had from you have been of super 
quality and have given excellent results.” 
Another says, “I have had such excep¬ 
tionally good results from the seeds you 
sent me”; and still a third says, “I am 
a firm believer in your slogan—Anything 
I buy from Salbach is good.” 
