Staffel’s Selected Flower 
For half a century we have kept posted on the latest 
developments in the flower world. You will find 
offered here, the varieties which we know can do 
well in San Antonio and the surrounding vicinity. 
May we suggest that you plant a wide variety of 
flowers this year. They cost so little compared to 
the joy and pleasure you will get from them. 
You can depend on Staffel’s flower seeds. We have 
built a reputation for complete dependability over 
the last 50 years—and we are going to do every- 
thing possible to keep it. 
AGERATUM 
Tom Thumb Little Blue Star—Flower opens light blue with 
purple center and develops to a bright blue self. Grows 6 
inches tall. 
ALYSSUM 
Sweet Alyssum—White and lilac. Grows 6 inches tall. Used 
extensively for borders, edging and rockeries but equally valu- 
able as a cut flower, covering itself with clusters or trusses of 
small flowers of a peculiar delicate fragrance. 
AMARANTHUS 
Tricolor is well known as Joseph’s Coat. A hardy annual with 
leaves of red, yellow and green. Especially brilliant if grown 
in poor soil. 
Molten Fire—The top leaves are a fiery crimson, the lower ones 
maroon. This type often seen in Brackenridge park. 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
A hardy-perennial and old-fashioned garden favorite. Fine for 
cut flowers. Height 2!/2 feet. Sow in boxes, indoors, in the fall. 
ASTERS 
Early Beauty—A wilt-resistant type which begins blooming in 
July until frost. Grow 2/2 to 3 feet high with long, stout stems, 
bearing large, well-formed flowers in dark lavender, carmine 
rose, flesh pink, and white. 
Giant Harmony Mixture—Lovely shades of light and deep blue, 
flesh, peach blossom, silvery rose, purple and white. 
BALSAM (Lady Slipper) 
Hardy, bushy annual which grows 18 inches high. Wants partial 
shade and plenty of moisture. Flowers on short stems, some- 
times 2 inches across. Bloom for Sixty Days. Double White, 
Double Dark Red, Double Camellia and Double Rose Flowered. 
BEGONIA 
Gracilis Luminosa— Large, bright, scarlet flowers. 
Gracilis Prima Donna—Grow 1 foot high, the color a brilliant 
clear pink, shading to carmine-rose. 
BELLIS PERENNIS (Double Daisy) 
Extra Double, Mixed—About six inches high. Charming little 
plants for edging and borders. 
CASTOR BEAN 
Crimson Spire—Bushy plants grow 6 to 8 feet high with large 
palmate leaves of a lustrous purple color gradually changing 
to bronze green, with red stems, stalks and vines. Sow in 
Spring. 
CALLIOPSIS 
Dwarf Mixture—Very showy, fine for beds, borders and cut 
flowers. Height 1!/2 feet. Sow outdoors from February to May. 
CALENDULA 
Campfire (Improved strain)—Deep, strong orange with a dis- 
tinct scarlet sheen on the upper side of each petal. Measure at 
least 4 inches in diameter. 
Lemon Queen—A large type bearing a beautiful lemon shaded 
flower. 

PETUNIA 
MORNING GLORY GYPSOPHILA 
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MARIGOLD AGERATUM 
Calendula Chrysanthea—Resembles Chrysanthemum. A clear, 
buttercup yellow. 
Sensation—Blooms are flat and larger than any other type pre- 
viously introduced. Brilliant orange with a scarlet sheen when 
in full bloom. 
Double Mixed 
CARNATION 
Chabaud’s Giant—Double, extra large, clove-scented. Bloom 
five months after seeding. All colors. 
Chabaud’s Enfant de Nice—Flowers 21/2 inches in diameter. 
Long, strong stem, 90% double. Red, light salmon, rose, white 
and mixed. 
CANDYTUFT 
Giant Hyacinth, Flowered, White is a grand border plant 
bearing large, bold spikes of snowy white flowers. Habit 
sturdy and compact. 
CENTAUREA (Bachelor’s Buttons) 
Jubilee Gem—Dwarf, compact growth. Double, with dark 
blue blossoms. 12 inches high. Also Pink Gem, Blue, Mixed 
and Double Blue Boy. 
CAMPANULA (Canterbury Bells) 
In Mixed colors. A brilliant old time favorite with colors 
ranging through whites, pinks, blues and lilac. Adaptable, 
but enjoys good soil. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
Chinese and Japanese Varieties Mixed—Sow seed in Febru- 
ary and March. Properly treated, the plants will bloom pro- 
fusely next fall. 
CELOSIA (Cockscomb) 
Dwarf Impress has bronze leaves; combs are rich crimson | 
of colossal proportions. 
Finest Mixed—a selection of the finest Dwarf-growing varie- 
ties. 
Flame of Fire is a new dwarf Celosia, grows 12 inches high 
in a pyramidal form, carrying large blaze colored combs on 
each stem. Very branching, each plant grown to same size 
ana form. 
Red Chenille—A new branching type. Each plant produces 
six or more branches ideal for cutting with a red crest re- 
sembling a mass of chenille. 
COLEUS 
Most popular of ornamental foliage plants. Leaves are of many 
shades of color and have a rich, velvety appearance. Finest 
Hybrida mixed. 
COREOPSIS 
These graceful, daisy-like flowers with their broad fluted 
petals are a must for every garden. Long stemmed, wonderful 
for cutting. A glossy, rich yellow. Long blooming season. 
COSMOS 
Sensation—Finest mixed. Flowers are mammoth, 4 to 5 inches 
in diameter with broad, heavy, fluted petals carried on very 
fee stems. Mixture contains white and shades of rose and 
pink. 
Early Flowering Mixed—-A selection of all the lovely cosmos 
colors. 
Extra Early Double Crested in Crimson King, Pink Beauty 
and mixed. 
ALL FLOWER SEEDS 
10c PER PACKET—3 PACKETS 25c 
Unless otherwise specified 


