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umway $ OrFi0ouUs ZINHIAS | Flower Popular 
Seed Annual 
Zinnias are one of the most universally planted annuals. They are ° Flower ’ 
hardy and so easy to grow, doing well almost anywhere with little care. They Postpaid 5 q 
offer many lovely colors, and their various types meet every garden need for 
beds, borders, and cut-flowers. Shumway’s Zinnias are far superior to the old- 
fashioned Zinnias because they offer a wider range of delicate as well as rich 
colors, have much larger blooms, and are more handsome in shape. Zinnias 
flower profusely and continuously from midsummer to late autumn. For the 
finest double flowers, plant in a sunny location with good soil and plenty of 
seas Giant Dahlia Flowered Type 
The greatest improvement in Zinnias yet produced. The flowers are immense, 
5 in. or more across and 3 to 4 in, in depth, held on long strong stems. In form 
they resemble a giant Decorative Dahlia. The range of colors is wonderful, 
with many blendings of pastel shades. The plants grow 8 to 4 ft. tall. We 
offer many lovely separate colors as well as excellent mixtures of all colors. 
2509 Crimson Monarch. The largest and finest crimson scarlet. 
2510 Exquisite. Light rose pink with deeper rose center. 
2511 Oriole. Glistening orange and gold bi-color. 
2512 Dream, Beautiful deep lavender turning to purple. 
2513 Golden State. Rich golden yellow shading to bright orange. 
2514 Polar Bear. The largest and best pure white Zinnia. 
2515 Illumination. Magnificent double deep tyrian rose. 
2516 Searlet Flame. Dazzling bright scarlet blended with orange. 
2508S Shumway’s Giant Double Dahlia Flowering Supreme Mixed. A well bal- 
anced complete mixture of all the Dahlia Flowered varieties offered here and 
several other shades not yet available as separate colors. No finer mixture 
available anywhere. Prices: Dahlia Flowered Zinnia, Pkt., 10 ects.; % oz., 60 
ets.; o2., $1.00. ‘ 
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The World’s Largest 
Flowered and 
Finest Zinnia 
Mixture 












SPECIAL OFFER 
2538 One Packet Each 
of the 8 Named Dahlia_ 
Flowered Zinnias Only. 
75 cts., Postpaid. 
2519 Giant Flowered 7 
Picotee Choicest Mixed 
A remarkable new and distinet 
class with beautiful double flow-_ 
ers in orange, flesh, lemon, pin 
and cerise, each petal being dis 
tinctly tipped with variou 
dark shades, resembling the Pi 
cotee Carnations—most attrac 






Beautify Your Home 
with Large Beds 
of Zinnias. 

2518 Shumway’s Colossal 
or Giant Flowered Mixed 
This special strain of Giant 
Mammoth Zinnias has superb, 
massive flowers in many rich col- 
ors. The blooms are well formed, 
“very double, 4_in. and more 
across, with petals thickly set in 
a shingle-like arrangement. The 
eta eA tiers Ba oleae tive and pleasing, Finest Mixed. 
flower-stems. Pkt., 7 ets.; %4 oz. Pkt., 10 cts.; %4 0z., 40 cts.; Y% 0%, 
25 cts.; %4 0%. 40 cts.; 02. 75 cts. 70 cts.; 02., $1.25. : 



































2517 California Giants—Supreme Mixture 
A special strain which produces flowers of colossal size, specimens 
measuring from 5 to 6 inches in diameter. Plants are of extremel 
robust habit and should be given 18 to 24 inches between each to al 
low for full development. Height, 3 feet. They bear freely on. long, 
strong stems numerous semi-globular, mostly very double flowers, all 
a5 the largest size, making them of great value in large beds, borders, 
ete. : a 
We offer you this special mixture made up of equal parts of all 
shades and colors in this type. Pkt., 15 cts.; ¥ oz., 25 cts.; ¥% 0z., 45 
cts.; 4% 0oz., 80 cts.; 0Z., $1.50. i < , 

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2520 Double Elegans Mixed 


of Costs a 
These Little More Or Cut and Come Again. Crested and Curled. A dwarf-growing type 
Beauties Than Common of Zinnias forming bushy, compact plants not over 2 ft. tall, with a 
abundance of well-rounded, double blooms 2% in. in diameter, Espe- 
cially recommended for bedding, and of great value for cutting. Choic- 
est mixed colors. Pkt., 7 cts.; %4 0z., 25 cts.; Y% oz, 40 cts.; 0z., 75 cts 
Sorts But I Guar- 
antee You Get 
Your Money’s Worth 
2527—The cut above is an actual photographie reproduction of average Zinnia blooms from Shum- 
way’s Supreme Mixture, It contains all the Giant sorts introduced to date, including the cream of 
the Dahlia Flowered, the Colossal, California Giants and Picotee Mixed. Ihave taken great pains 
to properly blend this Mixture so as to give you a mass of large, gorgeous blooms from early sum- 
mer until late fall. Pkt., 25 cts.; 4 oz., 45 cts.; 14 0z., 80 cts.; 14 02., $1.50; oz., $2.75. : 
2500 Wild Flower Garden | [illiput, Baby or Pompon Zinnias 
Shumway’s Rainbow Mixture 
in your garden 
will be the envy . 
of your neighborhood 


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2528 New Scabiosa Flowered Supreme Mixture 
2% ft. A new form. On a single corona of outside petals stands a 
semi-globular crown with a large number of small florets giving 
most interesting effect, similar in form to the flowers of the Scabiosa 
Pkt., 15 cts.; 1% 02., 45 cts.; Yo 0z., 80 cts.; 02., $1.50. — 

A mixture of the easiest and sur- An especially pretty, dwarf, branching type, 12 
est growing flower seeds (no elimb- to 18 in. tall, blooming continuously and most 
ae Pa is bat aelua profusely. The double, conical flowers are 1 to 
ers), mostly ae af Eh Aa i | 1%4.in. across. Highly effective for borders. Es-_ 
ve vale 5 een eae 7 pecially desirable for table decoration when me- 
ornamental grasses, that Can De | dium-stemmed flowers are wanted. 
sown broadcast. With little or no 
Special Offer 2539 
care the results are both surpris- aos pale ponenet Gem. 
+ , a 1 ae. ouble oiden em. 
ing and charming and on account | 9593 pouble Purple Gem. | of Lilliput Zinnias. 
Hach collection 
contains the _ five 
of the various seasons of bloom, | 2525 Double White Gem. 
separate colors 
flowers can be had from early a8 Double ose a 
5 s ae) at olors ixe oO 
summer till frost. Many of these | the above five scunente:, | Waresotercd: 
. One pkKt. each 
(value 50 cts.), 35 
flowers will be fine for cutting. | colors. All Lilliput Zin- 
ets. 






Desirable for children’s garden, | nias: Pkt. 10 cts.; 4 oz. 
Pkt., 10 etal; yioz,, 25 cts; oz, | Bo grr aee ta ee 
40 cts: A New Fascinating Zinnia 
2499 Wild Cucumber Vine | 2507 FANTASY—Mixed Colors 
An Old Reliable Annual Climber ; ¢ : 
‘ . F This new Fantasy mixture will be welcomed by 
One of the quickest growing an- | home gardeners and florists alike. The -well- 
nual vines we know of; splendid | rounded, medium-sized Howers, pick. Bre bems 
a = : -on long, slender stems well above the foliage, are 
for covering. trellises, old trees, composed of a mass of shaggy, twisted, tubular 



2500 fences, etc, Clean, bright green | petals which give the blooms a charming, rather 
yl foliage and sprays of white flowers ene anprarance. The eae range stones foe! 2524 
. : : . and orange as well as many fine pastel shades of ~ Dir aeet Double 
Garden in July and August. Pkt., 10 cts.; pink and cream. Pkt., 15 cts.; 14 oz, 45 ets.; % ~ : Pte emo iinet tig Pan Celees 
0z., 25 cts. ‘| 0z., 80 ets.; oz. $1.50. : 2524 Lilliput Zinnias ‘Mixed © 
