Novelties and Specialties of Flower Seeds for 1939 
For 1939 we brought you one page of outstanding novelties and specialties in flower seeds. The demand for 
them was so great that we have decided to repeat them for this year. These novelties and specialties will bring 
your garden a gorgeous array of color and bloom. No garden is complete without a wide share of them. 
Hollyhock Treasure Island 
HOLLYHOCK 
Annual Indian Spring 
901 This is a silver medal winner for 
1938. It blooms in five months from seed. 
Individual flowers measuring about five 
inches. The color range is from pale pink 
to crimson rose. Height five feet. Packet 
25c; Special Packet 75c. 
PETUNIA 
Hollywood Star 
545 This is another silver medal winner 
in the all American Award selections. A 
distinctive novelty with five pointed star 
shaped flowers. Rose pink color with 
creamy yellow in throat. Because of the 
shape of the flowers, it will be very useful 
for planting in beds and borders. There 
is nothing like it. Packet 25c; Special 
Packet 75c. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI 
Salmon Glory 
2570 This is a silver medal winner in the 
All American selections. Flowers are huge 
in size and the color is soft but rich sal¬ 
mon pink. A grand novelty and a worthy 
variety for bedding, boxes, and cutting. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
RED DOUBLE SUNFLOWER 
Red Indian Moon 
2715 This is a beautiful new bronzy red 
double sunflower growing about four feet 
high and having flowers that measure from 
five to six inches across. For background 
planting, and among shrubbery it has no 
equal. Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
LUPINE 
Russel's Prize Mixture 
2525 This is one of the finest of all Lu¬ 
pines. Some spikes have a height of three 
feet. The range of colors is superb. We 
feel that this strain has a brilliant future. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
COLUMBINE. ARIZONA 
(Golden Trumpet Longissima) 
2770 This Columbine is a native of Ari¬ 
zona and has spurs on it six to seven 
inches long of the most beautiful clear 
daffodil yellow. It will grow in partial 
shade or full sun. There is nothing like it 
in the Columbine family. Packet 25c; Spe¬ 
cial Packet 75c. 
BURPEE'S RED AND GOLD 
HYBRID MARIGOLD 
391 These red and gold giant hybrids are 
the earliest of all marigolds. They range 
in color from pure golden yellow to a rich 
mahogany-scarlet. This is a novelty of 
rare merit. The height, 2 feet. Pkt. 25c. 
MORNING GLORY 
Scarlet O'Hara 
(Gold Award winner of the 1938 All 
American selections) 
2849 It is an early bloomer of Carmelian 
red color, measuring three and one-half 
inches across, a fine climber, and the 
bloms stay open longer than any other 
Morning Glory known. Packet 35c; Special 
Packet $1.00. 
GIANT ZINNIA, DESERT GOLD 
146 This to us is the most artistic of all 
Golden Zinnias. The flowers have golden 
yellow petals edged with primrose. Most 
beautiful. A wonderful companion to plant 
with the Will Rogers innia listed above. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
ASTER 
San Francisco's Blue and Gold 
3002 This is an Aster which has two col¬ 
ors—blue and yellow. There are several 
short rows of yellow ray petals around a 
full crest-like center cushion of Pacific 
Ocean blue. This is on the order of the 
Sunshine Type Aster but more double. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
155 The new Will Rogers Zinnia is the 
most vivid shade yet developed in Zinnias. 
It is a vibrant red ,a strikingly brilliant 
blending of scarlet and crimson, which 
glistens in the sun with dazzling beauty. 
Grows three feet high. Packet 35c; Spe¬ 
cial Packet $1.00. 
PORTULACA. DOUBLE 
(Sun Plant) 
Fraser's Upright Growing 
2682 This is the first of a charming new 
range of Portulacas introduced by us in 
1935. It is altogether different from the 
ordinary Portulaca, grows in little bushes, 
completely covered with flowers, and does 
not spread like the old type. It has one 
of the finest range of colors we have ever 
seen. Fine for borders, window boxes, 
pots, rock gardens, and broadcast sowing. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
HOLLYHOCK 
Treasure Island 
902 This is named ni honor of San Fran¬ 
cisco’s Treasure Island, where the world’s 
fair will be held for 1939. It has beautiful 
golden salmon rose double frilled flowers 
measuring five to six inches across. Sow 
in the early spring and transplant to the 
open ground six weeks later. Twelve 
weeks later it will be in full bloom and 
will carry over for the following year. 
Packet 25c; Special Packet 75c. 
GOURDS 
Super Gigantic Gourds, Mixed 
2875 These Gourds grow to an enormous 
size, some thirty inches through, some four 
feet long. In this mixture such varieties as 
the Siamese Bottle, Kenyi Bottle from 
Africa, Long Handled Dipper, and Brazil¬ 
ian Long Neck Bottle, and the Great Big 
Zucca. They are all hard shelled types and 
are very ornamental. For painting designs 
on they are unequalled. They will grow 
in any country and are novelties of sur¬ 
prising merit. Packet 25c; Special Packet 
75c. 
Will Rogers Zinnia 
WILL ROGERS ZINNIA 
(Dahlia Flowered) 
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