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STEELE’S PANSY GARDENS 
PORTLAND, OREGON, U.S. A. 
HOWDY FOLKS: 
Spring is the season for flower shows so why not drop 
around for our own display and be a judge yourself. If 
you come in April, early in the season you may be in time 
to see the largest blooms of the year. If you prefer to 
wait a few weeks you will get in when the widest range of 
color shows, May or June. 
If you are partial to Jumbos you will like our new 
hybrids, of immense size and colors you have never seen 
before. For instance, there is a periwinkle blue, delicately 
tinted at the top of the upper petals and gradually deep- 
ening to brilliant violet at the base of the lower petal and 
in contrast two brilliant spots of orange yellow at the 
center 
The ladies go for the orchid tones and our jumbo beds are full of these. Some of our 
visitors admire the light blue fluted edges of the more delicately tinted ones while others 
prefer the pink shades. A striking type is shown in our new color plate. We call this a 
copper Jumbo and it is a great favorite of our own staff as well as many of our customers. 
There are so many variations of this type in the strain that it may be said to be a typical 
Jumbo hybrid. During the past few years we have paid special attention to the bronze types 
and the results have more than justified our efforts to improve on size and color. Many show 
a smoky blue fluted edge while some shade into salmon tones or deepen into rich brown with 
a violet hue which defies description. 
The high light of the Jumbo strain, however, is the huge yellow, favorite of the true 
pansy fan. The self with only a few sunburst rays is found in every tone of yellow from the 
soft creamy pastel yellow to the brilliant gold and the blotched form is as often seen and in 
equally wide variation of color. Only white is missing from the Jumbo strain for every 
color is found in profusion, red, fine light blues, velvety purples, and every combination of 
color that our friend the bumble bee can mix on his palette. 
For brilliant reds and three-tone hybrids you can’t go wrong on Super Swiss ‘400” 
mixed. This strain has been receiving a great deal of attention in our gardens over a period 
of more than ten years and it contains the finest color range we can produce by painstaking 
selection and hybridization. All inferior types have long since been rogued out and nothing 
but the most perfect and largest blooming stock reserved. This strain is a companion to the 
Jumbo strain and has been developed especially to complement the color range of that 
variety, and the size is almost equal to that of Jumbo. 
We tell our customers they will be better satisfied if they buy pansies in mixture, using 
only a limited quantity of separate colors if they are partial to some special coloring or type. 
These cheerful little fellows are fond of company, true cosmopolitans. They resent being 
separated into stiff little rows of purple or red and show a strong tendency to revert to type. 
The true lover of pansies likes the gorgeous display he may have from a bed of mixed colors 
and if every bloom shows some variation in its complexion he feels that nothing is lacking 
for his enjoyment unless it might be more space to have more colors and more funny little 
faces to greet him as he walks by. 
And for a couple of hot tips to get that expert touch on your pansy display we will say 
that a smaller amount of fertilizer at shorter intervals will give much better results than a 
great deal piled on a few times during the growing season. We have also found that pansies 
respond to winter and spring cultivation with amazing results. In short, pansies need lots 
of care and cultivation and they respond with a display of beauty which will reward your 
efforts a thousand times over. 
Don’t forget! Highway No. 99E. Come this year, sure. 
Voraeh NS tied 
DONALD M. STEELE 
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