SEEDS OF ANNUALS 
Time Tested Strains of Outstanding Merit 
(Seeds sent are always from latest crop) 
Beginning with this issue my full line of flower seeds will 
be published in my Fall catalog. No Spring catalog will be 
published but each year brings forth some really outstanding 
novelties and such as are suited to home gardens I will bring 
to you in a Special Message in January. Look for it! 
I do not pretend to be a seed emporium but I do try to 
offer that which from my long experience I know will 
make for the finest home garden and always in the finest 
strains obtainable. 
Seeds of perennials are usually best sown in Summer 
and Fall. You will find them listed with the plants in pre- 
ceding pages. 
Sowing Seeds. Time of sowing is given with each kind. 
I prefer to sow all tiny seeds and perennials in boxes or seed 
bed to be later transplanted to the border. It pays to 
transplant the more difficult things and perennials to nurs- 
ing beds or boxes, so you will have sturdy plants to set into 
the garden in spring. I find equal parts of sand, leafmold, 
loam, the best seed box soil. Sow thinly in rows. Cover 
seeds 1% times their thickness; which with tiny seeds means 
merely pressing into soil. 
Water carefully. Never allow seed beds to become dry but 
never have them soppy wet. Lack of care in watering at the 
critical time when they are pushing through the soil accounts 
for most failures. 



Snapdragon 
SNAPDRAGON Antirrhinum. Well loved and grand garden 
and cut flowers with profuse bloom through many weeks. 
Sown in fall for early bloom, in the spring for summer 
bloom. I recommend my 
Supreme Super Majestic Mixture (Rust resistant). The very 
finest strain for gardens, producing huge spikes in all 
the colors known to the Snapdragon. Pkt. 25c; 1/16 
oz, 50c. 
-AGERATUM Midget Blue. 3 in. The sweetest little plant 
in my garden; low, compact and smothered through a 
long season with tiny ageratum-blue flowers. Sow boxes 
early spring. Pkt, 25c. 
ALYSSUM Dwarf Annual. 6 in. compact mounds literally 
smothered with bloom for weeks in spring. Sow spring; 
in mild regions, fall, where to bloom, Fine for edgings 
or ribbon plantings. 
Lilac Queen. Pure deep lilac. Pkt. 10 cts.; 14 oz. 25 cts. 
Violet Queen. Rich violet. Pkt. 10 cts.; 7 oz. 25 cts, 
Carpet of Snow. 3 in. Pure white. Pkt. 10 cts.; '4 oz. 25 cts. 

ARCTOTIS Giant Hybrids. 15 in. 2-3 in, flowers resembling 
Transvaal Daisies on 12 in. wiry stems, varied in lovely 
creams, oranges, reds and very long flowering. Sow Sept. 
to June. Pkt. 25 cts. 

Aster Crego 
ASTERS. Well known and much loved garden flowers and 
perhaps the finest of all late summer cutting annuals. 
Sow indoors March-April or in open when safe from 
frost, 
California Giant Sunshine. 8 ft. A lovely cutting type, the 
quilled center yellow while in my supreme mixture there 
is purple, light blue, salmon, snow white and a variety 
of other lovely tones on the long guard petals. Pkt. 20 cts. 
Giant Improved Crego (Wilt Resistant) Supreme Mixture. 
Marvelous garden and cutting Asters, 2 ft. tall and 
much branching; the 5 in. full double blooms are shaggy 
with petals delightfully incurved and mixture includes 
all the lovely colors known to Aster. Pkt. 15 cts.; 1/8 
oz. 35 cts, 
_ 
' Page 36 
See page 12 for Hardy Native Ferns. 
