24 OUR PLANTS ARE GROWN SPECIALLY FOR US 
UNION SEED & FUEL CO 
ICELAND POPPIES 
PETUNIA 
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. They are 
also used along walks and driveways and are often grown in 
window boxes. Their richness of color, duration of bloom and 
easy culture will always make them popular. The seed may 
be started indoors early in the year in seed boxes and later 
transplanted, or sown out of doors in the spring. Cover very 
lightly and apply water with a fine spray. Be careful not to 
discard the smaller and weaker seedlings. From these the 
finest flowers are often obtained, the coarse growing plants 
frequently reverting to the common types. 
Giants of California. For description, see inside front cover. 
Double Fringed Petunias. Produces many double-flowering 
plants, all beautifully fringed and in many colors. Pkt. 50c. 
Hollywood Star. Silver Medal, All-America Selections, 1939. A 
charming shade of rich rose with amber throat. Unique in 
form of flower which consists of a five-pointed star. Pkt. 15c. 
Flaming Velvet. Plants are loaded with extra-fine textured 
large blooms of a beautiful shade of deep velvety mahogany- 
red with a luster of scarlet. Pkt. 15c. 
Elks’ Pride. Rich royal purple. Pkt. 25c. 
Rosy Mom. Soft rose pink blooms, white throat. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Blue. Velvety indigo blue. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Rose. Brilliant rose pink. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Crimson. Rich velvety crimson. Pkt. 15c. 
Dreer’s Balcony Mixed. Containing all colors. Pkt. 15c. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI (Large Flowering) 
The plants are hardy bush-like annuals with many broad 
flat-topped clusters of nearly round and star-shaped flowers. 
They are of easiest culture and bloom profusely through a 
long season. Pkt. 10c. 
PHYSALIS FRANCHETI (Chinese Lantern Plant) 
This hardy biennial plant grows to a height of about 2 feet 
and is a profuse bloomer, producing many large, striking 
flowers of a beautiful, brilliant orange red color resembling 
Chinese lanterns in shape. 
Francheti. Pkt. 10c. 
PINKS (Dianthus) 
Seed sown out of doors when danger of frost is past will 
produce plants that bear flowers in a few weeks time. Bloom 
constantly from July until frost and if covered, will bloom 
again the second season. Dianthus Cliineiisis (Double China), 
mixed, pkt. 10c. 
CALIFORNIA POPPY 
The true golden yellow strain. This is the state flower of 
California. Pkt. 10c. 
California Mixed. An excellent mixture producing deep yel¬ 
low. creamy white, scarlet and orange flowers. Pkt. 5c. 
ICELAND POPPY 
These are hardy perennials which will flower the first year 
from seed. The foliage is fern-like, the plants of neat, com¬ 
pact growth and send up slender stalks about 12 inches high 
bearing brilliantly colored flowers. If the flowers are picked 
daily the plants will bear all season. They will continue to 
bear from year to year. Pkt. 10c. 
ORIENTAL POPPY 
Huge, brilliantly colored flowers borne profusely during 
May and June on plants 3 feet tall. Colors range from soft 
pink to dazzling scarlet and deep maroon. A perennial, the 
plants will increase in size from year to year. Pkt. 10c. 
SHIRLEY POPPIES 
Splendid strain of annual poppies of the greatest of color. 
The flowers range from pure white to maroon with all inter¬ 
mediate shadings and all combinations imaginable. Of easy 
culture and free bloomers. Pkt. lOc. 
Poppy Nudicaule “The Emperor.’’ 18-22 in. Finest giant 
orange variety, of distinct new form, with broad overlapping 
fluted petals giving effect of semi-doubleness. 
A perennial, it blooms freely the first year from seed. Pkt. 15c. 
SINGLE AND DOUBLE POPPIES MIXED 
A fine collection of the best annual varieties. Plant these 
in a mass or row and you will get a beautiful effect. Pkt. 10c. 
PORTULACA 
Sometimes called Moss Rose. Few flowers make such a 
dazzling display of color in the bright sunshine as a bed of 
Portulacas. Desirable also for edgings. They are in bloom 
through a long season. 
Double Portulaca. Pkt. 10c. 
Single Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Flowers of the richest colors—blue, crimson, yellow, purple, 
scarlet, etc., with texture like rich velvet: each petal beauti¬ 
fully penciled. Splendid for bouquets. Height 2 feet. Mixed 
colors, pkt. 10c. 
SALVIA (Flowering Sage) 
Bloom.s are borne in long spikes well above the foliage and 
are of fiery red. crimson, continuing in flowei- a long time. 
'The densel.v filled f.ower spikes are often 8 to 10 inches long 
and include 30 or more tube-like florets. 1 to 2 inches in 
length. I kt, 10c. 
Ball of Fire. Early flowering, the vivid flowers on compact 
plants, the most dwarf of all scarlet Salvias, it was a sensa¬ 
tion in England last summer. Sow indoor, February-April, 
or in open after all frost danger is past. Pkt. 25c. 
STOCKS (Ten Weeks) 
Plants grow about 1 foot high, making a compact bush, cov¬ 
ered with splendid spikes of blossoms from July until frost. 
Half haidy annual. Height 1 foot. Double mixed, pkt. 10c. 
