New Flower Novelties for Florists 
_ While introductions have been limited, you will find those 
listed below of particular merit. 
Aster, Ballet Queen 
Bodger introduction for 1948. This latest addition to the 
Queen of the Market class is excellent for florist use. Ex- 
tremely double and quite wilt-resistant. it's a money making 
crop for cut flower growers. The color is new. Deep rose 
touched with salmon, assuming a soft bronze color when many 
flowers are massed together in sunlight, Early and free- flower- 
ering. It is fine for home gardens as a border plant. Tr. pkt.. 
40c: 14 0z.. 75c: 0z., $2.75. 


Aster, Ballet Queen 
. -Cosmos, Radiance 
Winner of the highest award in the 1948 All-America 
trials. Rad‘ance introduces two entirely new colors in 
Sensation Cosmos: Striking deep rose and rich crimson, 
in the first bi-color Cosmos ever to be developed. Des 
tined for immediate popularity in the nation’s gardens. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; 14 0z., 60c; oz., $2.00. 
New Dwarf Ruffled Petunia 
“Garden Giants” 
The outstanding feature of this new variety is its 
satisfactory plant growth. The plants uniformly develop 
into well rounded mounds 12 to 15 inches high. They 
start flowering when extremely small and continue their 
gorgeous display all through the summer, holding their Cosmos, Sensation, Radiance 
‘size and ruffling even under the adverse conditions of heat 
and dryness. Because of its uniformity and continuous bloom- 
ing, it is by far the best variety of Giant Ruffled Petunias for 
borders we have ever seen. The mixture includes a wide va- 
or bright color combinations. Tr. pkt.. $1.00; 1/32 oz., 
3.50. 

Petunia Hybrid Nana Compacta 
“Glowing Rose” 
The intense brilliance of this new Petunia makes it the most 
startling of all the dwarf bedding varieties. The individual 
flowers are much larger than Celestial Rose and of an even 
shade that, with us, held its intense color right up until the 
last flowers. The plants are of the same well-rounded, mound 
shave as Celestial Rose and of an unusual uniforinity, at no 
time becoming unshapely. Tr. pkt.. 40c; 1/16 oz., $1.00: 14 
oz.. $1.50. 
Verbena Hybrid Grandiflora 
“Salmon Pink” (New Bush Type) 
The plants grow more erect, making a broad. flat topped. 
bushy plant about 8 to 10 inches high and 12 to 15 inches 
across, with the flower heads practically touching each other. 
A row of them makes an even and uniform band or border 
closely covered with flowers over a very long blooming season. 
The flower heads are large and well filled with large broad- 
petalled flowers of an unusually pleasing shade of bright sal- 
mon-pink, each with a small white eye. Tr., pkt., 35c; 14 0z., 
60c; 14 oz., $1.10. 
Any of the above 5 varieties, trial pkt., 25c each. Petunia, Ruffled Garden Giants 

