KUMFORT KNEE PADS. 
Rubber cushion protects knee-joints. 
Enables 
you to kneel all day; prevents injury to clothing. 
Cost, per pair $1.75 


Marigold, Crown of Gold 

Marigold, Butterball 

AFRICAN MARIGOLDS 
Very easy to grow. Push groups of three seeds just under the surface at intervals of 1 foot 
or more, after frost has gone in spring; thin to one plant from each group. Or sow indoors in 
March; plant out in May. 
Tall Double. 21, ft. 
Husky plants, quick to grow and smothered 
with mammoth tightly double blooms. 
Alldouble Lemon Alldouble Orange 
Each, pkt. 25 cts., oz. $1, oz. $3.50 
Mixed Alldouble. Pkt. 15 cts., Woz. 
75 cts., oz. $2.50. 
Colliarette. 21 ft. 
Centers of the 24-inch blooms are short, 
quilled florets, surrounded by flat ones. Foli- 
age practically odorless. 
Crown of Gold. Bright golden orange. 
Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Gigantea. 3 ft. 
A remarkable new, sweet-scented, robust- 
growing, extremely large-flowered type. 
Orange Sunset. Fine deep orange. Pkt. 
20 cts., oz. 50 cts., 14oz. 75 cts., oz. $2.50. 
Sunset Giants. Rich mixture. Pkt. 15 cts., 
Yoz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Dwarf Gigantea. 15 in. 
Pot O’Gold. Fragrant. Large, loosely 
formed flowers of deep orange-gold 4 inches 
in diameter, ball-like and double. Pkt. 
20 cts., 14o0z. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Golden Bedder. Golden orange flowers have 
an outer row of guard florets surrounding a 
fully double crest. Quick-blooming. Pkt. 
35 cts., 3 pkts. $1, Woz. $1.50. 
Peony-flowered. 21/2 ft. 
Immense bomb-shaped blooms. 
Golden Supreme. Glowing gold. 
Orange Supreme. Intense orange. 
Each, pkt. 25 cts., oz. 60 cts., Yyoz. $1 
Dwarf Double. 12-15 in. 
Good for edging a border or a bed contain- 
ing other Marigolds. 
Little Giants, Mixed. Pkt. 20 cts., oz. 
60 cts., Moz. $1. 
NEW YORK 8, N. Y. 

Chrysanthemum-flowered. 2-3 ft. 
Florets are curved like a chrysanthemum. 
Mammoth Mum. Growing 3 feet, bears on 
Iong stems the largest flowers yet seen— 
4 inches across and Jemon-yellow. High 
award in annual tests for 1944 of the AIL 
America Seed Selections examining novel- 
ties. Pkt. 25 cts., Ygoz. $1, goz. $1.50. 
Early Sunshine. Bright yellow. 
Golden Glow. Golden yellow. Odorless. 
Limelight. Light primrose-yellow. 
Hybrids. Fine mixture of many varieties. 
Each, except where noted, pkt. 15 cts., 
W4oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50 
Goldsmith. Bushes are literally covered 
with large flowers, round, double and 
saffron-gold, 4 inches across, quilled and 
incurved. Starts to bloom early. 4 ft. Pkt. 
25 cts., Moz. 75 cts., oz. $2.50. 
Yellowstone. Flowers are 3 inches in diam- 
eter, Incurved, quilled, and highly attrac- 
tive. Clear golden yellow. Height 4 ft. 
Pkt. 25 cts., oz. 75 cts., oz. $2.50. 
Carnation-flowered. 1-21/ ft. 
The florets are wide and waved. 
Yellow Supreme. Lemon-yellow. 214 ft. 
Guinea Gold. Golden orange. 21% ft. 
Dwarf Guinea Gold. Smaller plant. 1 ft. 
Each, pkt. 20 cts., Y4oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50 
Winter-flowering Marigolds 
Sawco Strain. For indoor growing. Outer 
florets are beautiful mahogany, with a 
large pin-cushion center of golden yellow, 
suffused mahogany. Pinch plants when 
they are 8 inches high. 24 ft. Pkt. 50 cts., 
3 pkts. $1.25, 6 pkts. $2. 


FRENCH MARIGOLDS 
Scabious-flowered 
Flowers have a _pincushion-like, cone- 
shaped center, surrounded by a few flattened 
petals. Splendid for cut-flower purposes, 
and very decorative in the garden. 
Sunkist. Neat, low growing plant starts to 
bear double orange-colored blooms early, 
and thereafter is a blaze of flowers until 
November. Won highest honors in the 
All-America Seed Trials for 1943. Pkt. 
25 cts., Yoz. 50 cts., Ygoz. 75 cts. 
Butterball. Flowers 11% in. across, canary- 
yellow, so bright that they seem to glow 
with their own light. Butterball is a yellow 
counterpart of Sunkist (above). 9 in. 
Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Dwarf Harmony. Deep orange crest with 

maroon-brown collar of broad florets, 
Double. 1 ft. Pkt. 15 cts., 1Zoz. 50 cts., 
oz. $1.50. 
Harmony Hybrids. Double blooms average 
184 inches across and colors include orange 
and yellow selfs and combinatiors of 
maroon blotchings and stripings. 12 to 14 
in. Pkt. 10 cts., Woz. 35 cts., oz. $1.25. 
Melody. Of the scabious-flowering type, and 
remarkable for the earliness with which it 
starts to bloom. The golden yellow flowers 
are 11% inches in diameter. 1 ft. 
Scarlet Glow. Bushy, foot-high sort, with 
fiery red flowers 2 inches across. 
Spry. Only 9 inches high. Covered with 
double flowers, each having a crested cen- 
ter of light yellow, surrounded by flat 
outer florets of maroon. 
Above 3, each, pkt. 20 cts., I4oz. 50 cts., 
oz. $1.50 
Dwarf Doubles 
Royal Scot Alldouble. Rich mahogany 
and gold in uniform stripes. 1 ft. 
Yellow Pygmy. Blooms Jess than an inch 
across, light lemon-yellow. 9 in. 
Each, pkt. 15 cts., oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50 
Robert Beist. Dark brownish maroon. 1 ft. 
Golden Ball. Double yellow. 1 ft. 
Lemon Ball. Lemon-yellow. 1 ft. 
Mahogany. Velvety mahogany-brown. 1 ft. 
Mixed. Contains all colors. 
Above 5, each, pkt. 10 cts., 140z. 35 cts., 
oz. $1.25 
Dwarf Singles 
NAUGHTY MARIETTA. Honorable Men- 
tion, All-America Seed Trials for 1947. 
The mound-like plants are covered with 
21-inch, bright gold flowers. Each floret 
is blotched and striped at its base with 
dark red. Plants are 1 foot high and spread 
about 16 inches. Pkt. 25 cts., Woz. $1.50, 
Yoz. $2.50. 
FLASH. A bed seems to be alive with fire. 
Most blooms have a tangerine base-color, 
overlaid rich red, but others range from 
vivid red through bronze to yellow. Early, 
continuous and profuse bloomer. Flowers 
are single, 134 inches across. Height 18 
inches. Pkt. 20 cts., oz. 60 cts., oz. $2. 
Legion of Honor (Little Brownie). Golden 
yellow, crimson blotch. 9 in. 
Pkt. 10 cts., 140z. 35 cts., oz. $1.25 
Collection of Marigolds 
Three varieties shown in color on 
page 20: GUINEA GOLD, YELLOW 
SUPREME, SPRY. 3 pkts., one of 
each, 50 cts., oz. each $1.25, ounce 
each $4. 


Marigolds, easily grown, are ideal for cut-bloom and garden decora- 
tion. The Pot Marigold is Calendula, which see. 
Flower Seeds 31 
