loss of beauty. The seeds you can grow on small garden beds are of 
little value. The strain soon runs out and colors will revert to 4 or 5 
basic ones of little beauty. The breeding specialist usually requires 
at least ten plants from which to select one seed producer and it 
takes a lot of experience and know how on his part to know which 
is the one plant in the ten to use for seed production. 
You can keep your plants in better form if you make a practice 
of pruning them a little all the time as you pick the flowers. Instead 
of taking the flower stem by itself pick a bit of foliage with it where 
the plant seems to be getting out of shape. This will give you more 
latitude in the flower arrangement of your bouquets and is good for 
the plant. 
WINTERING PANSIES 
Pansies are much hardier than most gardeners realize. They may 
easily be carried in sub-zero temperatures with light protection. In 
climates where the minimum temperature is not usually below 25 
degrees they will require little or no protection at all. Where the 
temperature drops below 25 degrees and down to 5 above zero or 
where it gets much colder but snow accompanies the extreme cold 
spread a few evergreen boughs or even light brush over the bed for 
protection. Evergreen boughs are ideal for they usually cup upward 
and when turned upside down they stand up nicely off the plants. 
Where temperatures are apt to fall below 5 degrees above zero 
with little or no snow it will be best to winter plants in cold frames 
or mulch with a light straw mulch. If the latter course is used cover 
just heavily enough to allow a few of the leaves to remain visable. 
The main object in protection of any kind is not to prevent freezing 
but to equalize the ground temperature and keep it frozen once it 
freezes. In other words to make the cycle of freezing and thawing 
slow. It is the quick changing of temperature that causes heaving 
and this breaks the taproot and can kill the plant. Covering too heav- 
ily also will prove fatal for the plants smother rather easily and so 
any protection must afford a little circulation of air. They do not 
usually smother under snow. 
MANY THANKS 
We appreciate your patronage and take this opportunity to thank 
you for it. It has been our effort in this little booklet to supply 
expert information that will enable you to produce the best plants 
from our Pansy seeds. The seeds that have been supplied to you are 
the best that can be grown. Every effort has been made to get them 
to you in good condition. It must be remembered, however, that while 
for outstanding results you must have a foundation seed that is 
capable of the desired results, the final success rests with you. You 
may produce outstanding plants and flowers from these seeds while 
possibly your neighbor will experience total failure from the very 
same seeds. That’s one of the permanent attractions and sometimes 
the disappointments of gardening. We all experience these situations 
at times. Rest assured that we have used every bit of our 43 years 
experience and the best of equipment, soil and climate to take the 
variables out of these seeds as nearly as is humanly possible. 
If you are a customer of long standing you will continue to 
receive our catalogs as published. If this is your first experience 
with our stock your subcription to our catalog will begin with the 
next edition. A current copy is being mailed if any are available 
but in these times of paper shortages we have to limit our editions 
and frequently run short before a new edition is ready. 
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