Hew Creations Make Your Garden Unusual 
Petunia, Glow 
Silver Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
PETUNIA, GLOW 
@ A dwarf, compact, ball-shaped plant, 
Glow is exteremely free-flowering all 
season with blooms of bright rose red 
blending lighter in the throat. It is a 
wonderful variety for both home garden 
and commercial uses. Packet, 25c. 
PETUNIA, CREAM STAR 
Silver Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
Flowers of this Hybrida Nana Com- 
paeta variety are a soft, creamy 
white, bluntly star-shaped and with a star 
of cream coloring on the white blooms. 
This variety adds a new color needed in 
the dwarf bedding group. It is a grand 
and extremely free bloomer. Illustrated 
on the outside back cover. Packet, 25c. 
AGERATUM, MIDGET BLUE 
Silver Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
As the name implies. Midget Blue is 
dwarf variety. Only three to four 
inches tall and with a spread of twelve 
inches it produces freely tiny tufts of true 
ageratum-blue or azure-blue flowers over 
a dense foliage. Very fine for edging, 
rockeries and pots. Illustrated on outside 
back cover. Packet, 25c. 
ANTIRRHINUM, ROSALIE 
Bronze Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
This exciting color is entirely new in 
Antirrhinum. It is a rich deep rose 
with an underlying tone of topaz or amber. 
The plants are base branching and pro¬ 
duce froTii six to eight huge long flowering 
spikes with well arranged florets. An all 
[)ur))ose ‘‘Snap”. Illustrated on outside 
l)ack cover. Packet, 25c. 
MARIGOLD, YELLOW PIGMY 
Honorable Mentiom—1940 All-America Selections 
Yellow Pygmy is the tiniest of all 
Marigolds, the plants growing to a 
height of about 6 in. with the foliage form¬ 
ing a compact mass about 4 in. high with 
the flowers borne well above the leaves. 
The flowers are so extermely double that 
they are globular in shape. The color is 
a very sparkling light lemon yellow. Since 
Yellow Pygmy is very uniform in habit 
and color, it is extremely suitable for 
edgings and other spots in the garden 
where a very dwarf plant is needed. 
Plants bloom in less than 10 weeks from 
sowing and continue until frost. Packet, 
25c. 
® Marigold, Yellow Pygmy 
Honorable Mention 
1940 All-America Selections 
MARIGOLD, LIMELIGHT 
(Chrysanthemum Flowered) 
Bronze Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
@ Limelight is a very light primrose- 
yellow marigold and stands out most 
prominently in any planting. It is the 
lightest in color of all marigolds. Flowers 
grow 2% in. across, and are made up of 
hundreds of artistically curled and inter¬ 
laced petals, so arranged as to form a per¬ 
fectly round and symmetrical head of the 
most exquisite pompon chrysanthemum 
like form. 
Plants are of dwarf, bushy habit, 20 in. 
high and 2 ft. across, vigorous growing and 
very free flowering. They bloom from 17 
weeks after sowing until frost. The uni¬ 
formity of the plants makes them very 
desirable for use in beds and borders; 
valuable for cutting. Illustrated on back 
cover. Packet, 25c. 
MORNING GLORY, SCARLETT O’HARA 
Gold Medal — All-America Selections 
The flowers, rich dark wine red or 
deep crimson, are of good size, very 
showy and produce freely on fast growing 
vines. It stays open longer than others. 
Blooms until frost. Its fairly dark green 
foliage is quite distinct. Your garden will 
not be complete without Scarlett O’Hara. 
Packet, 25c, 
SCABIOSA, HEAVENLY BLUE 
Bronze Medal—1940 All-America Selections 
The first of a new group of annual, 
large flowered double scabiosas. Plants 
are medium tall, coming in between the 
tails and the dwarfs, their average height 
being 2 ft. Flowers are round, soft azure 
blue and borne most profusely on long, 
strong stems well above the foliage. 
Blooms from mid-summer until frost if 
flowers are not allowed to go to seed. 
Pretty in l)eds and borders, highly prized 
for cutting. Illustrated on back cover. 
Packet, 25c. 
MARIGOLD, FERDINAND 
(Harmony Type, French, Tall, Single) 
Ferdinand is single flowered with a neat 
round, crested center of dainty tubular 
florets in a very striking shade of golden 
yellow surrounded by a single row of 
broad, mahogany-red guard petals, tall 
growing, semi-compact and upright, Ferd¬ 
inand is one of the sauciest and spright- 
liest of the newer flowers. Packet, 25c. 
ANTIRRHINUM, GOLDEN ROD 
(New Tall Giant Snapdragon) 
The most rugged and most rust resistant 
of all Snapdragons. Spikes stand up like 
rods. Plants are base branching, 26 in. 
tall with many unusually thick, erect, well- 
filled spikes of large, bright golden yellow 
flowers, the edges of which are delicately 
waved and crinkled. This gives an un¬ 
usual frilled or fringed effect that is most 
pleasing. The flower buds and terminal 
growth extend but 2 or 3 in. above the 
topmost flowers, with all the other flowers 
open at the same time. The foliage is 
luxuriant, heavy, broad, of a deeper green 
color than other snapdragons, and highly 
resistant to rust. Very desirable for garden 
use as well as for cutting. Packet, 25c. 
Antirrhinum, Golden Eod 
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