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Here are some worth-while strains you should try this year. They are fine specialties of extremely high quality and 
will well repay you. All are easy to grow and we believe will please you better than the strains you have been using. 
New Petunia, Cheerful. All-America Winner 1944 
Here’s a brand-new color in dwarf bedding Petunias—clear salmon-pink with a satiny sheen and deeper rose veining 
toward the throat. A cheerful color giving sparkle and sprightliness to any flower border. The blooms, 24 mches across, 
are produced in great abundance from May right up to frost, on plants which first grow low, spreading close to the ground 
and later form dense compact mounds, 10 to 12 inches high and 2 feet across, with no tendency to have open centers. Cheer- 
ful is unsurpassed for garden beds and borders and useful for cutting. Pkt. 25c.; Ajoz. 65c.; +0z. $2; 4oz. $6. 
Marigold, Mammoth Mum. All-America Winner 1944 
This ts the largest of the incurved Chrysanthemum-flowered Marigolds. The strong, bushy, 3-foot, erect, dark-foliaged 
plants from August to frost bear Iong-stemmed, fluffy, ball-like, pale sulphur-yellow flowers of huge size, 31% to 4 inches 
across and 2 inches deep. These blooms, made up of countless, finely cut, incurved petals intricately intertwined, are 
magnificent for cutting and make a striking display. Pkt. 25c.; j;0z. 65c.; Moz. $2. 
Gaillardia, Pinwheel 
; Well named, this new annual Gaillardia is very unique and provides excellent cut-flowers through a very long period. 
oa The single flowers, 1% inches across, are intense wine-red at the center, shading to cherry-pink toward the outside with 
Gaillardia, large petal tips of silvery gray-white. The easily grown plants are 15 inches high. Pkt. 20c.; ~;0z. 50c.; 14oz. $1.50. 
Pinwheel 
Petunia, Cheerful Marigold, Mammoth Mum 

