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RICHARDS GARDENS 
PANSY PLANTS 
GIANT SWISS VARLETIES 
These are the giant flowering: sorts with size and color of almost 
unbelievable beauty. Strong growers and prolific bloomers. Foliag? 
thick and luxuriant. , 
it paye to buy the best when getting Pansy Plants. You will love 
these Ciant Swiss varieties. 
SUPER. SWISS GIANT MIXED 
A vertible rainbow of color. Well balanced.shades are ideal for 
bedding or gay borders. 
SUPER SWISS MAPLE LEAF, GIANT MIXED 
Assorted shades of color. _ Foliage attractively formed. Giant size 
blooms. 
SUPER SWISS BLUE (Ullswater) 
Rich satiny ultramarine blue. Giant blooms in profusion until late 
fall. 
SUPER SWISS CORONATION GOLD 
Largest blooms of clear gold with lower petals flushed rich golden 
orange. A bed of these makes a thrilling spectacle of beauty. 
SUPER SWISS PURE WHITE 
Large, beautifully shaped blooms of. purest white. Ideal for tow 
bouquets or blending with contrasting shades. 
SUPER SWISS ALPENGLOW | 
Richest wine-red coloring. Large bloams in abundan¢te. Ideal for 
\ bedding or borders. : 
YOUR CHOICE OF ABOVE VARIETIES 
90c per dozen, 2 dozen, $1.50, Postpaid 
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The present cands in “perennial growing is to .grow -a number of 
different ‘sorts in informa! beds or along the shrub border and include 
only a few which are classed as rare plants. -Perennials, or plants 
which live for more than one year, are very essential on the grounds 
of anyone who likes color all through the different seasons. They 
may be planted in beds, in wide borders, in front of shrubs, around a 
pool, and the lower growing or dwarf sorts are widely used for rock 
garden planting. They may be planted in rows in a small garden for 
cutting purposes. They may be used singly but it is ‘recommended 
that they be planted in clumps or groups of from three to twelve 
plants of a kind, as a mass of color is much more effective. 
In planting a perennial planting, lay out he space you have avail- 
able for them on piece of paper and spot in the: taller growing sorts 
for background. Then select the plants for the border and jot them 
on your layout. Fill in with the medium tall grownig sorts in the cen- 
‘ter of the bed. Select and plant for color display so that you do not 
have two kinds of perennials with the same color of blossoms eee 
each other. Color variation in. a perennial bed is essential... 
Many types of perennials will do better if frequently transplanted, 
that is, about every third year, This is especially true of the Coreop- 
sis, Gaillardias, Shasta Daisies and other varieties which have dense 
foliage just above the ground. The plants should be removed from 
the bed and torn into several! divisions, and thse: divisions replanted, 
the same as new plants. Iris also does better if transplanted occa- 
sionally. 
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