HOME GARDENERS ACHIEVE 
SENSATIONAL RESULTS WITH 
AMAZING NEW VITAMIN 
DISCOVERY 
While it has long been known that Vitamins are as 
essential to plant life as they are to human beings, 
their practical application to plant culture is something 
of recent discovery. 
In cooperation with amateur and commercial growers, 
scientists working with various'growth substances report 
almost miraculous results from -using Vitamin B-1 on 
a widely diversified variety of plants. Plants treated 
vrith Vitamin B-1 have produced more luxuriant foliage, 
larger blooms and an increased vigor and substance. 
In some cases, growth was speeded up almost beyond 
belief, resulting in earlier maturity of flowers and fruits. 
Seeds immersed in Vftamin 6.-1 before planting (and 
seedlings watered with the solution) produced much 
hardier, faster growing plants. 
Miraculous —^ But True 
A daffodil treated with Vitamin B-1 shot its flowering 
stock forty-two inches into the air and produced a 
flower so large a salad plate was concealed behind it. 
A red tea rose produced a five-inch bud. A three* 
inch camelia cutting was rooted and grew into a 
fourteen-inch shrub in eleven months. A bougain¬ 
villea, one of the most difficult plants to handle, was 
lifted from its container, the dirt shaken off, dipped 
in Vitamin B-1 solution for fifteen minutes, then trans- 
I^anted to a location in full sunlight. It produced six 
inches of new growth in two weeks and apparently 
suffered no shock from transplanting. 
When eighty foot palms were placed in the Pasa¬ 
dena Rose Bowl in the Fall of 1938, they were moved 
with so little earth, experts predicted they would die. 
Two hundred gallons of Vitamin B-1 were given each 
