1947 GARDEN CATALOG 13 

FLOWER SEED SELECTION 
Navajo, Mixed. Medium-sized, double and 
semi-double flowers with long, narrow, in- 
curved or fluted florets, each of which is 
tipped with a lighter contrasting color. 
18 in. Packet 10c. 
Pumila Picotee, Mixed. The petals are 
ruffled and curled, giving a light, dainty 
effect, and each is beautifully picoteed. 
Allcolors. Packet 10c. 
Fantasy Zinnias 
On 33-inch-high plants, lovely 3-inch 
blooms are developed in seven weeks from 
seed. The florets are shaggy, waved and 
frilled, making them lovely for cut-bloom 
and for annual flower-beds. Packet 10c. 
BULBS 
AMARYLLIS 
Extra Choice Hybrids. Free-flowering habit 
and enormous size, colors varying from 
crimson to orange-scarlet, light rose to 
white, many combinations, in stripes and 
variegations. Each 75c 
BEGONIA, TUBEROUS-ROOTED 
Giant Single. Vari-colored flowers of great 
beauty, 4 in. or more across, borne freely 
during the whole summer. Each 35c. 
Giant Double. Each 35c. 
DAHLIAS 
Choice Named Varieties. 
GLADIOLUS 
New and Choice Named Varieties. 
HARDY LILIES 
For Gardens and Pot Culture 
Mammoth Bulbs 
Bulbs should be planted 6 inches deep in 
a well drained deep, loamy soil. 
Auratum (Golden-rayed Lily of Japan). 
Large, pure white flowers, with crimson 
spots and a golden band through the center 
of each petal. Mammoth bulbs. Each 50c.; 
doz. $5.00; 100, $40.00. 
Henryi (Yellow Speciosum). Beautiful Lily 
from China. Rich apricot yellow, reddish 
brown spots. 5 ft. July and August. Each 
60c.; doz. $5.00; 100, $40.00. 
Regale (Regal Lily). White, slightly suf- 
fused with pink, with a beautiful shade of 
canary yellow at the center of the trumpet. 
Hardy. Each 60c.; doz. $5.00; 100, $40.00. 
‘(VEGETABLE SEEDS 
BEANS 
Packet 15c 
Y lb. equals about 14 pint; 1 lb. equals about 
1 pint 
BUSH BEANS 
Sow twice monthly for succession: you will 
then gather all summer 
One pound will plant 100 feet of drill 
Culture. Plant as soon as danger of frost 
is over, placing the seeds 2 inches apart in 
drills and about 24% inches deep. Thin to 4 
inches from plant to plant. The rows should 
be about 214 feet apart, and the soil slightly 
hilled, to insure good drainage and to keep 
the Beans from touching the ground. Most 
Beans should be picked when about 4 inches 
long. Avoid cultivating, walking among or 
picking when bushes are wet. 
GREEN-POD BUSH BEANS 
Yield in from 8 to 10 weeks 
Black Valentine. 52 days. Stringless, fine 
early variety. Pods are slender, round, 
smooth, and entirely stringless. Fine, 
tender. 1% lb. 25c; Ib. 45c; 2 Ibs. 85c. 
Bountiful. 50 days. Extra early, very proli- 
fic and long bearing, flat green pods, tender 
and stringless. 14 lb. 25c; lb. 45c; 2 Ibs. 85c. 
Giant Stringless Green Pod. 50 days. 
Color deep green, very long, round, fleshy 
pods; very prolific and entirely stringless, 
ValDw2oct. IDbntoC. 21 bs ooce 
Horticultural French Dwarf. 65 days. 
An improved form of Dwarf Horticultural, 
producing long pods, beautifully splashed 
with bright crimson, heavy cropper. % 
lb. 25c¢.; Ib. 45c.;.2 Ibs. 85c. 
