
Trade Mark Reg. 
GILBERT'S MAPLE GOLD 
“Gilbert’s Maple Gold” is the name of the first of the Gilbertia 
strains of Celosia seed to be offered on the market for the first 
time this year. One of the leading seedmen advertised this variety 
in his 1943 spring catalogue and the sales were very successful. 
Gilbert’s Maple Gold is the loveliest of all cristata—coxcomb— 
creations and is the result of eighteen years of line breeding. I 
starts forming lovely round maple-pink heads when quite small and 
erows increasingly beautiful as each ruffled segment becomes tipped 
with bright yellow. The individual plants grow two to three feet 
high and are of the strong branching type with each stem terminat- 
ing in a lovely ball-shaped clustered head that varies in size from 
small to sometimes ten or more inches in diameter. The maple-pink 
heads vary in color from a light to a dark pink, tipped with pure gold. 
These clusters may be cut at any stage and size and used in any 
arrangement from corsages to funeral sprays as the heads will last 
three or four days out of water. These beautiful, large cristata lasts 
until late in the fall when killed by frost. Any left-over flowers 
always can be gathered just before cold weather and dried for winter 
bouquets. 
These flowers have passed all tests for long distance shipping 
as they will not fade, nor do the flower heads shatter after they have 
been cut for several days. 
These seeds come about 98% true to type at the present time. 
As the stock of these seed is limited all seedmen interested in ac- 
quiring stock either for growing or for sale should get in touch with 
the grower at once. These seeds are put out in trade marked pack- 
ages, both in retail and wholesale sizes. For larger amounts write 
for quotations. 
