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DIANTHUS Nobilis 
A Grand Annual Pink. Many gardeners will recognize this annual 
Pink as the flower we asked them to try out in their gardens two 
years ago. From their reports and from results in our own Display 
Grounds we give it a prominent place in this book. While not a new 
variety by any means, it really is a very lovely and satisfactory annual 
flower. Not at all difficult to grow; it makes a plant some 12 inches 
tall, bushy growing and literally covered all season with large, strong- 
stemmed, single flowers of remarkable beauty. Find a place for it in 
your 1943 garden. You, also, will be enthusiastic about it. Pkg. 10c 
NIEREMBERGIA, Purple Robe 
Bronze Medal Winner. (Color illustration inside front cover.) Few 
flowers of recent introduction have taken so quickly and suddenly with 
the gardening public as this little dwarf Nierembergia. The plant is of 
neat, compact flowering habit, is only 6 inches tall, with a mature 
spread of 10 to 12 inches. Pkg. 15c; large pkg. 50c 
CLEOME (Spider Fiower) , Giant Pink Queen 
Silver Medal Award, 1942. (Color illustration inside front cover.) Huge 
trusses of bright salmon with pink top. This new flower has created 
outstanding interest and admiration. The average height is 3 feet, is 
striking in the background of a border or outlining a driveway. 
Pkg. 15c 
ZINNIA, Royal Purple 
All-America Honorable Mention, 1942. 
This charming giant-flowered royal 
~ purple Zinnia is a brand new shade. 
Extra large, double blossoms 
about 4 inches in diameter 
and of excellent form. 
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PETUNIA, America 
All-Double 
Silver Medal Winner, 1943 AIll- : 
America Selections. Double carna- Pig. LOcp lorgespk a aoe 
tion-like flowers about 2 inches in 
diameter of fresh rose-pink color 25 8 : MORNING 
slightly netted with crimson-rose.% ¥ 
The plants grow about 14 inches ~ GLORY, 
Pearly Gates 
high and 18 inches wide and pro- 
Silver Medal Award, 1942— 
duce fair quantities of excellent 
bloom nearly 100% double. 
y 2 receiving the highest number 
of points in the entire history 
Pkg. 25c 
of All-America Selections. 
The flowers are a lovely lus- 
trous white with creamy 
shadings deep down in the 
throat. They average 41 
inches across. The vigorous 
climbing vines are covered 
with kloom from the middle 
of summer until frost. Pearly 
Gates is a wonderful companion — for 
Heavenly Blue and Scarlett O’Hara, and 
when planted together will give a patriotic 


MARIGOLD, Sunkist 
Silver Medal Winner, 1943 All- 
America Selections. Very interest- 
ing to our northern gardeners is the 
fact that this new Marigold blooms 
very early. Here in Rochester it was in full flow- 
er early in August and continued in bloom until 
hard frost. The plant is low growing, about 10 
inches high, French dwarf type, very free bloom- 
ing; the flowers 1 Y2 inches across, very double, 
of rich orange color. This is a companion flower color combination of red, white and blue. 
to Butterball—-last year’s medal winner. Pkg. (will make a row 10 ft. long), 15¢; 
Pkg. 25c Zinnia, Royal Purple large pkg. (will sow 50 ft.) , 50c. 

Morning Glory, Pearly Gates 
PETUNIA, English Violet 
Honorable Mention, All-America Selections, 1943. A very 
pleasing shade of violet-blue, almost the same beautiful 
color as English violets. The plants grow about 18 inches 
high, are compact and thrifty, and covered all season long 
with these very lovely flowers. This new blue Petunia is un- 
usually true to color. You can depend on every plant being 
alike and every flower of the true color. Pkg. 25c 
MARIGOLD, Melody 
Bronze Medal, 1942 All-America Selections. New dwarf 
double, low-growing, very early blooming French Marigold, 
with bright orange flowers | Y2 inches across that cover the 
plant from midsummer until frost. Pkg. 15c 
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