
Cleome, Pink Queen 

Morning Glory, Pearly Gates 

Marigold, Dwarf French Double, Butterball 

Phlox Gigantea, Red Glory 
GRAND NEW FLOWERS 
All-America Selections for 1942 
MORNING GLORY, PEARLY GATES. (Silver Medal.) More 
vigorous and larger flowered than the much loved Heavenly 
Blue and a lovely companion for it. Flowers are lustrous 
white, shaded creamy deep in throat. Sow only after ground 
is warm in May. Pkt. 25c. 
CLEOME, PINK QUEEN. (Silver Medal.) Spider 
Huge trusses of bright salmon-pink top the 3 ft. stems of 
this striking plant. Sow where to bloom after ground warms 
in spring where it will bloom abundantly from midsummer 
to fall. Novel and lovely. Pkt. 25c. 
COSMOS, EARLY YELLOW FLARE. (Silver Medal.) Similar 
to the familiar Orange Flare but slightly taller and later and 
even more striking. Color is a rich butter yellow. 
highly desirable. Pkt. 25c. 
NIEREMBERGIA, PURPLE ROBE. (Bronze 
Medal.) Its color a deep violet-blue that does not 
fade in hottest sun, it will share in continued 
usefulness and popularity with its parent. N. 
Hippomanica. A grand edging and border plant. 
4 in. As it takes 3 weeks to germinate, sow in 
boxes and tend carefully. Pkt. 45c. 
DWARF FRENCH MARIGOLD, BUTTERBALL. 
(Bronze Medal.) Of the Harmony type, 6-10 in. 
tall, uniform, early and continuous flowering, it 
is a splendid bedding, edging and pot variety. 
Flowers are fully double and are soft canary yel- 
low. Yg oz. 40c; pkt. 20c. 
Flower. 

3-4 ft. 
Marigold, Melody 
DWARF FRENCH MARIGOLD, MELODY. 
(Bronze Medal.) Fully double brilliant orange 
flower 114 in. across, literally smother the 12 in. 
high uniform, compact plants. Very early and 
profuse bloomer. 'g oz. 40c; pkt. 20c. 
GIANT PHLOX, RED GLORY. (Honorable Men- 
tion.) A new color separated from the Giant Art 
Shades, Red Glory is a stunning rich glowing 
scarlet with a large creamy eye. Pkt. 30c. 
ZINNIA, PURPLE ROBE. (Honorable Mention.) 
2%%-3 ft. tall. The large full double dahlia type 
blooms are rich velvety reddish purple and 4 in. 
in diameter. The unusual color held an impelling 
attraction for all who saw the trials. Pkt. 25c. 
THINGS OUT OF THE ORDINARY 
Created by the Great Master, some are bizarre, others very lovely. All are easy to grow from seed and 
will add impelling interest to your 1942 garden. (Annuals unless otherwise stated.) 
AMBERBOA MURICATA, Star of the Desert. 
Easy, a fine cut and garden flower blooming 
freely from late June through earlier frosts. 30 
in. tall, good foliage always. Blossoms 3 in. 
across are fringed, lacy-edged stars of tyrian 
purple. Drought resistant. Sow fall or early 
spring while soil is cool. 1/16 oz. 40c; pkt. 20c. 
ANODA OPALCUP. Chalice flowers, crinkly and 
lustrous, of an opalescent shade you will at noon 
swear is blue while in late day you will be cer- 
tain it is rosy-pink. 4 ft. tall with flowers above 
large spear-like leaves it blooms in increasing 
profusion from June to November. Quick and 
easy. Sow spring. Vg oz. 25c; pkt. 15c. 
ANODA SNOWCUP. 30 in. tall. One of the very 
finest of white annuals, the flower cups are like 
glistening snow. Symmetrical plants are almost 
formal; splendid spaced well as specimens or 
crowded for floral hedge. Profuse, June to No- 
vember. Easy, sow spring. Vg oz. 35c; pkt. 15c. 
CENTAUREA BELLA. Perennial, 16 in. tall. Mul- 
titudes of fringed starry blooms of lilac-pink 
each on its own slender stem in spring with some 
bloom all summer. Lovely cut or for edgings, 
rock garden, border or for carpeting. Sow spring 
to summer. Easy. Pkt. 25c. 
COMMELINA COELESTIS. ‘Sky Flower.’ One 
of the three ‘“‘bluest flowers”, its vivid masses 
the tone of deep summer sky. Tuberous peren- 
nial. Tubers may be stored but best grown as an 
annual. Height 30 in. Sow spring to August. 
Everblooming. Vg oz. 35c; pkt. 15c. 
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SPECIAL NOTE 
This list includes only the All-America Selections for 
1942 and some other unusual seeds not available when 
my catalog was published. 
A full line of Purdy’s Supreme Seeds will be found in 
my Fall 1941-Spring 1942 catalog. If you do not have a 
copy I will gladly send one. 
SEEDS OF ANNUALS—See pages 36 to 39. 
CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWER SEEDS — See 
page 42. 
SEEDS OF PERENNIALS are listed with the plants 
pages 13 to 30. My Columbine strains, page 14, are 
particularly fine. 
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GOLDEN CLEOME, Cleome lutea. Sow in early 
spring and by July the 8 ft. tree-like plants will 
be swaying masses of the long stamened gold 
blossoms continuing profusely until October. 
Easy and showy. 1/16 oz. 30c; pkt. 15c. 
CORAL FLOWER. 30 in. tall. A vivid new annual 
of jewel-like daintiness. Many stemmed plants 
with decorative spoon-like leaves and many 
spire-like stems bear the clusters of starry 
blooms of luminous pink. Then come long hang- 
ing pods like beads of brilliant polished coral. 
Easy. Sow after soil warms in spring. Good cut. 
Pkt. 20c. 
ELSCHOLTZIA FARQUAHARI. Splendid late 
flowering hardy perennial with spicy aromatic 
foliage, filled in autumn with long, one-sided 
spikes of attractive lilac-purple carried candel- 
abra fashion on the many branched stems. Quick 
from seed. Sow any time. Fine cut. 1/16 oz. 30c; 
pkt. 20c. 
LOPEZIA CORONATA. A gay new annual from 
Mexico. The flowers like jeweled coronets of 
carmine-rose climb the ever lengthening stems 
like fluttering butterflies all summer until Oct 
freezes. 30 in. tall. Sow early spring while soil 
is cool. 1/32 oz. 30c; pkt. 15c. * 
VERBESINA ENCELOIDES. It just does not 
know when to stop blooming. Easy, showy for 
border and a good cut flower. Flowers are big 
single butter-yellow daisies. Sow spring to sum- 
mer. Yg oz. 25c; pkt. 15c. 
TAHOKA DAISY, in Blue. 
TEXAS DAISY, in Gold. 
Each in its color unsurpassed for profuse sum- 
mer-long bloom. Very drouth resistant and good 
keepers when cut. A splendid combination of 
blue and gold either in the garden or as cut 
flowers. Both are 16 in. tall and easy if sown in 
early spring while ground is cool. Tahoka has 
long rayed flowers of pure blue-lavender. Texas 
Daisy (Xanthisma) is much branched with two 
inch discs of broadly overlapping petals of glis- 
tening deep butter-yellow, Either, pkt. 15c; \% 
oz. 30c. One pkt. each for 25c. yee 
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“Out of the Ordinary Special” 
Separately the above unusual flowers would 
cost $2.05. That you may enjoy them all I will 
send all 12 kinds, 1 pkt. each for $1.60. 
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