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Brighten your home with beautiful flowers. 

FLOWERS 
Abronia—Ssand Verbena 
© Quick - growing, 
Umbellata grandiflora trailing, succulent 
plant, especially adapted for dry, poor soils and 
sunny locations in border, rock garden or hanging 
basket. Rosy lilac, verbena-like flowers. 10 in. Pkt. 
2 Abutilon 
Flowering Maple 
7 Bright crepe-like bell- 
Choicest Hybrids shaped flowers of yel- 
low, salmon scarlet and crimson in mixture. Grows 
outdoers or inside. 3 to 4 ft. Pkt. 50c. 
Ageratum—Floss Flower 
One of the best bedding plants being literally a sheet 
of bloom from early summer until frost. 
1 Deep amethyst blue 
Blue Perfection flowers almost hide the 
dwarf, compact plants from view. The darkest colored 
of all, 9 in. Pkt. 15c, ¥% oz. 40c, Y oz. 70c. 
Alonsoa 
An attractive bedding plant with remarkable brilliant 
searlet flowers, in bloom from July till frost. Re- 
moved to the house they bloom well during winter. 
Height, ,18 inches. Half hardy annual. Alonsoa 
myrtifolia. Pkt. 15c. 
Anchusa 
Cape Forget-Me-Not 
; Bright Gehtian-blue For- 
Capensis, Annual get-Me-Not-like fiowers; 
early summer to late fall. Fine for beds and cut- 
ting. 2 ft. Pkt. 10c, % oz. 25c. 
; (Perennial) Large, tur- 
Italica, Dropmore quoise-blue Forget-Me- 
Not flowers in June and July and again in the fall. 
8 to 5 ft.” Pkt..15c, 4% oz. 25c. 
Anemone (Wind Flower) A pleasing 
ardy peren- 
nial; easily grown from seed, producing large flow- 
ers; few plants compare with them in brilliancy; 
fine for bouquets. Mixed, Pkt. 15c. 

Alyssum Sweet 
ALYSSUM 
An easily grown annual succeeding in any ordinary 
garden soil in full sun. The plants bloom freely 
for many months, particularly where the summers 
remain reasonably cool. Sweet Alyssum is unsur- 
passed for edging and planting in the rock garden. 
Sweet (Maritimum) This is the old-fashioned 
Sweet Alyssum. The plants are of 
dwarf, spreading growth about 10 in. tall. . The 
small white flowers are produced in masses on in- 
numerable spikes. Fine for the rock garden and 
for edgings. Pkt. 10c, 1% oz. 20c, oz. 35c. 
7 The plants are’of dwarf, com- 
ee Queen pact, upright growth, 4 to 5 in. 
all. 
The fiower clusters are composed of small, 
rich lilae florets which become lighter as they age. 
Pkt. 15c, Y% oz. 25c, Y% oz. 45c. 
=) This is without question the best 
Little Gem pure white, dwarf Alyssum, The 
plants make a dense growth spreading but slightly, 
attaining a height of only 38 to 4 in. They bloom so 
profusely that they merit their surname ‘‘Carpet 
of Snow.” Pkt. 15c, 4 oz. 25c, Y% oz. 45c. 
Alyssum Hardy Perennial Saxatile 
The plants grow about 9 inches 
Compactum high; of easiest culture and 
very free blooming. 
{ Broad masses of bright yellow 
flowers in early Spring. An excellent plant for the 
rockery or front of borders. Pkt. 15c. °* 



Starting Seed Indoors 
the glass. 
Classification 
Agrostemma 
Agrostemma (Rose 
of Heaven) 
An attractive free-flowering 
hardy perennial, producing 
bright colored flowers on long, 
slender stems like a_ single 
pink; blooms the first season; 
fine for cutting 1 to 2 feet. 
Mixed. Pkt. 15c. 

Aquilegia, Long-Spurred 
Hybrids 
AQUILEGIA 
(Columbine) 
Hardy. perennials. Attractive 
plants with large, long-spurred 
flowers borne on slender, wiry 
.stems during May and June. 
Excellent for garden display 
and cutting. 3 ft. 
Long-Spurred Hy- 
brids, Mixed 
Extra long-spurred. Pkt. 15c, 
YY, oz. $1.00. 
Finest Mixed .- 
A grand mixture. Pkt. 10c, 14 
oz. 40c, 2 oz. 75c. 
bloom the second year and die. 
and generally do not bloom the same year the seed is planted. 

A month before you expect to set the started plants out- 
doors fill a flat wooden box one inch deep with coal ashes 
or small stones and cover that with an inch of finely sifted rich soil. 
cover about one-eighth of an inch and press firmly. Cover with a pane of glass and two 
thicknesses of newspaper to prevent too rapid evap 
60° and 70° and water regularly and carefully. I 
When large enough to handle, transplant one ine 
box where they may be kept until time to set outdoors. 
Starting Seed Outdoors 
Anagallis 
Anagallis Annual 
Large-flowered Pimpernel 
Charming plants covered with 
5-petalled flowers, about 1 in. 
across. Effective as edgings; 
lovely in porch or window 
boxes, rockeries, and _ pots. 
Must have a sunny location. 
8 to 10 in. 
Mixed Colors 
Unusual shades of lilac, scar- 
let, crimson, blue® brick-red 
and others in mixture. Greatly 
admired. Pkt. 15c, Y% oz. 30c, 
WY oz. 50c. 
—=, 
“Arctotis, Grandis 
ARCTOTIS_ 
(Blue-Eyed African Daisy) 
Hardy Annual 
bY Quickly forms 
Grandis branched bushes 
2 to 3 feet high; flowers pure 
white on the upper surface, the 
reverse of the petals being lilae 
blue. Easily grown, blooming 
all summer until frost. Valu- 
able for cutting. Withstands 
hot, dry weather better than 
many annuals. Pkt. 15c. 
Antirrhinums 
or Snapdragons 
~ 
The Antirrhinum, better known as Snapdragons, is of very 
easy culture. 
in May. 
Sow in the house in April, transplant in ground 
Fine Mixed Pkt. 10c, %4 oz. 40c, oz. $1.25. 
New Rust-Proof Snapdragons 
Certificate of Honor, All-America Selections, 1935 
Rust has discouraged the growing of snapdragons greatly in 
recent years. 
After 8 years’ work there has been developed 
rust-proof varieties which will give snapdragons the popularity 
they deserve. 
clean, healthy foliage. 
Rust-Proof Mixture 
Tests show they are 75% 
rust proof, having 
Wonderful range of popular colors, 
Pkt. 15c, Ya, oz. 75c. < 
oration. Keep in a temperature between ; 
When the seeds have germinated remove 
h apart in a similarly prepared 
A fine seed bed is necessary and the seed 
planted deeper than four times their size. 
Annual flowers grow from seed, bloom, and die in one year. Biennials 
Perennials live on from year to year 



Sow the seed thinly, 
should not be} — 
Amaranthus ie 
Molten Fire 
Amaranthus 
Ornamental foliage plants, 
very graceful. 
15th. Half hardy annuals. 
Tri-color (Joseph’s- = 
Leaves red, yel- 
low and _= green. 
Coat) 









Sow seed in 
house, plant out about May 

Pkt. 15¢c. - 
Molten Fire 
Maroon foliage; fiery crim- 
son top leaves. Pkt. 15c, 
1% oz. 30c. 

