ALEC HENDERSON, 
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FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES OF MERIT FOR 1942 

IPOMEA PEARLY GATES 
Cosmos Yellow Fiare 
Silver Medal Winner in the 1942 All-America Selections. Yellow Flare 
is similar to Orange Flare, except its color, which is a very rich butter 
yellow, or golden yellow. Free blooming on long wiry stems, it will 
make an ideal garden flower. 
Tradewektiae ie $0.40 VE OR e cie ane $1.00 OZ Sane $3.00 
Ipomea Pearly Gates 
See Illustration 
Silver Medal Winner in the 1942 All-America Selections. Ipomea, 
Pearly Gates is seemingly identical in growth, foliage and bloom, ex- 
cept white in color, with Clark’s Early Heavenly Blue. Bloom is a 
large satiny white, with a creamy shading in the throat. An ideal 
variety to plant with Heavenly Blue and Scarlet O'Hara. 
digevoley Ee ane aee $0.50 Wa OZ sare ers $0.65 OZeS ae Rhee $2.00 
Marigold 
Dwarf French Double Butterball 
Very attractive, compact, scabious flowered canary yellow in color, 
Butterball should make an ideal pot plant, as it is only 6 to 10 inches 
in height, uniform in size, very early and continuous flowering. Bronze 
Medal Winner in the 1942 All-America Trials. 
Aiigatoley 120 eae ae $0.50 VOT Wea $0.75 Ona $2.00 
Marigold 
Mission Giant Yellowstone 
A new color in the Mission Giant Type, Yellowstone is a clear golden 
yellow. Awarded an honorable mention in the 1942 All-America 
Selections, it is highly recommended by the introducer. 
Jiradey ektyritiae $0.50 VA OW nustolone totes $1.00 Ora Hei aad $3.00 
Nierembergia—Purple Robe 
A Bronze Medal Winner in the 1942 All-America Trials, Purple Robe is 
similar to Nierembergia Hippomanica, except that it is several shades 
deeper blue or a violet-blue in color. Very dwarf, being about 6 inches 
tall. It prefers full sun, sandy loam and makes a grand border or edg- 
ing plant, being about 6 inches in height. Especially recommended for 
the retail trade. 
Trader PEt er cernce treet: $1.00 L/G2POZ 7 aoe eee $1.75 
Petunia Hybrida Mars 
Deep, velvety crimson in color, Mars is a color which will hold its own 
anywhere, and one that will be particularly outstanding for bedding 
and mass effect. Deeper than Flaming Velvet, and a larger flower than 
any other in the hybrida group. Mars will find a ready sale by the 
discriminate grower. 
Trades PEt rane eee $0.50 Uk oy Mater Pace ROME Coote SRS C $2.00 
Petunia Giants of California 
Glamour 
A luscious shade of salmon rose, delicately veined brown in the 
creamy open shallow throat. The blooms are extremtly large, 5 to 6 
inches in diameter, with a shallow open throat surrounded by satiny 
petals which are heavily ruffled. The huge strikingly beautiful flowers 
are freely produced on strong growing richly foliaged plants which 
will be 1% ft. to 2 ft. tall by the end of the season, although the first 
flowers are produced when the plants are only 5 inches to 6 inches tall. 
liradephktaremiter $1.00 TAG ARoz erate $2.00 l /S2ROzAeer ere $3.50 
Phlox Gigantea Red Glory 
Here is the brightest color ever seen in Phlox, being a brilliant red with 
a large creamy white eye, which seems to intensify the red into an 
unbelievable sharpness. Red Glory is identical in type, habit of 
growth, and size of bloom to Gigantea Art Shades, and the other two 
separate colors, Salmon Glory and Rosy Morn. 
Trake@Pkie ers. = $0.75 VAS OL sates ols wei $1.50 OZ ya reruene $5.00 
Verbena Dwarf Compacta 
Red Sentinel 
See Illustration Page 13 
A compact type with the color of Spectrum Red of the grandiflora class. 
An intense bright red, with no eye. The plants will retain their up- 
right and compact habit, throughout the entire blooming season, 
growing from 6 to 8 inches tall. 
raceme Pte sanecetts $0.50 VA- OZ aetenotetere $1.25 OZke meet $4.50 
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