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Brech’s GENTURY OF PROGRESS, Mixed 
2858 The painstaking care that has been given this mixture of super-Pansies convinces us that com- 
PANSIES — Heartsease 
Treat as Biennial. Bedding plants. 1 foot. 
' Years of careful hybridization, scientific selec- 
tion, and intense cultivation, have converted the 
old-fashioned Heartsease into a modern flower 
of superior size, substance, form and color. 
Pansies grow best in cool, moist, partially shaded 
locations. 
Brecht Boston Prize 
Mixed 
2861 Variety of flower-form, kaleidoscopic 
color-range, compactness of plant habit 
and resistance to drought are the out- 
-standing characteristics of this prize- 
wirning strain of truly Giant Pansies. 
Pkt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 

Roggli’s Swiss .Giants 
The Genuine Original Strain imported from 
Switzerland. A superb: group of Pansies pro- 
ducing huge flowers of the peculiar Swiss type. 
Brightly colored and borne on long, erect stemse 
2864 Alpengluhn. Beautiful brownish red with 
darker eye. Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2867 Berna. Deep velvety violet, without eye. 
Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2870 Blumlisalp (New). Brilliant rose-carmine 
with a dark eye. Pkt. 75c., 3 pkts. $1.75 
2873 Eiger. Brilliant deep yellow with dark 
brown eye. Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2876 Goldgelbe. Huge blooms of pure golden 
yellow with no markings. 
Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2879 Jungfrau. A wonderful large pure white. 
Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2882 Thunersee. Ppa 
dark eye. The finest blue Pansy in existence. 
Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
2885 Roggli’s Swiss Giant Mixture. 
Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25 
Superb Mastodon 
A magnificent strain of immense Pansies, cov- 
ering a wide assortment of self-colors as well as 
interesting color-combinations and shadings. 
2887 Adonis, Improved. Shades of light blue 
and lavender; many with ruffled edges. 
Pkt. 35c., 3 pkts. 85c., 1/16 oz. $1.50 
2893 Bronze. Very large flowers in many shades. 
Pkt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 
2896 Coronation Gold. Handsome large pure 
yellow. Pkt. 50c., 3 pkts. $1.25, 1/16 oz. $2.00 
2899 Elk’s Purple. Immense blooms; a perfect 
or: 
kt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 
2902 Giant White. A very large, all-white 
Pansy. Pkt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 
2905 Golden Gate. A monster; golden yellow 
with ero atere 
; t. 35c., 3 pkts. 85c., 1/16 oz. $1.50 
2908 Isabelle. Ruffled, bronze and yellow. 
Pkt. 35c., 3 pkts. 85c., 1/16 oz. $1.50 
2914 Mammoth Black. Fine, jet black. 
Pkt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 
2917 Mille. Irene. A new henna-red shade. 
Pkt. 35c., 3 pkts. 85c., 1/16 oz. $1.50 
2923 Superb Mastodon Mixture. 
Pkt. 25c., 3 pkts. 60c., 1/16 oz. $1.00 
Trimardeau 
2927 Choice Mixed. A very popular, large- 
flowered strain in a wide variety of fine colors. 
Pkt. 15c.,.3-pkts. 35c., % oz. $1.00. 
Giant Winter-flowering 
2929 Choice Mixture. Gigantic blooms in a 
wide variety of shades and colorings, borne 
on sturdy 12-inch stems. The plants will grow 
to a height of 3 feet if supported. If sown in 
July, they will bloom from December on, in a 
cool greenhouse. Pkt. $2.00 
Beautiful gentian-blue with : 
Parison with any other strain is utterly useless. 
The mixture has purposely been restricted to 
comparatively few colors, and each type of flower represented has undergone careful selection for 
gigantic size, texture and individual beauty. The blooms are truly colossal. Pkt. 75c., 3 pkts. $1.75 

GROW YOUR OWN PANSIES 
It is easy to grow your own Pansies. They are 
at their best during the cool days of early Spring 
and therefore the best time to start them is in 
July or early August of the previous year. Choose 
a sheltered spot for the seed bed—a coldframe is 
especially good—and dig the soil over to the full 
depth of a spading fork. If manure is used, it 
should be well-rotted and should be thoroughly 
mixed with the soil well below the level at which 
the seed is to be sown. Cover the bed with at 
least a half-inch of sifted loam of the best quality 
obtainable and be sure that the surface soil is 
thoroughly pulverized and level. 
Sow the seed in shallow drills or broadcast over 
the surface. In either case, sow as thinly as pos- 
sible so the seedlings will not be crowded when 
they emerge from the ground. Cover the seed 
just as lightly as possible (no more than 1g inch) 
and then press surface firmly with a flat board. 
Cover the seed bed with some such material as 
cheese cloth to shelter it from the sun and show- 
ers and as soon as the seeds begin to sprout raise 
this covering on stakes so that it will hang a few 
inches above the plants and shade them but not 
interfere with their growth. As soon as the seed- 
lings are large enough to handle, thin out or 
transplant far enough apart so that they will not 
crowd each other. Transplant to their perma- 
nent positions in September. Be sure that neither 
the seed nor the resulting seedling plants ever 
become dry. 

a 
ed Forcing Frame 

COLDFRAMES AND HOTBEDS 
The value of a frame to the home gardener can 
never be fully appreciated until he or she pos- 
sesses one and finds what an endless number of 
things can be done with it. 
By using the frame as a hotbed—that is, by 
heating it artificially either by the use of fresh 
manure or by an electric heating unit—you may 
start your growing season weeks earlier. Even as 
a coldframe—with no heat except that provided 
by the sun—young seedlings will progress rapidly 
through the changeable weather of early Spring 
and be far ahead of other plants which have no 
protection and which must grow in the open. A 
frame is invaluable for the Wintering-over of 
plants which are not thoroughly hardy and itisa 
great place for the Midsummer sowing of Pansies 
or Perennial Seeds. For this latter purpose, the 
sash or glass is unnecessary, but the frame, with 
a covering of cheese cloth provides shade from 
the heat of the Summer sun and protection from 
the downpour of heavy showers. 
Breck’s Improved Forcing Frame (illustrated 
below) is made particularly for the small home 
owner. It is portable and when not in use, may 
be unbolted and stored away in some convenient 
place; it is 444 feet long, 3 feet wide, neat and 
painted in an inconspicuous gray color. 
described in our list of 
Requisites.”’ 
Fully 
“Garden Tools and 
Price $138.50, F.O.B. Boston. 
