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Girls harvesting pansy seed on Floradale Farms. Because the plants keep 
on blooming through a long season, it is necessary for the girls to go over 
the fields most frequently, often every day, and hand pick the seed pods, Lemonade, one of the new giant double snapdragons 
otherwise they would shatter and much valuable seed would be lost. growing for seed on Burpee’s Floradale Farms, in the 
Lompoc Valley, near Santa Barbara, California. 



















Day after day, in proper season, 
girls tediously and painstak- 
ingly hand pollinate petunia 
flowers to create the new Multi- 
flora F1 hybrids, Pink Sensation 
and Silver Medal. On page 28 
we describe these outstanding 
hybrids and give you some idea 
as to how this pollination is 
done. It is necessary for us to 
hand pollinate each year and 
for best results in your garden 
you should get new seed each 
year. It is amazing to see the 
hybrid vigor in the plants, the 
profusion of flowers and the way 
they are carried well above the 
foliage of the bushy plants. 


Seeds of practically all hardy Part of a 40-acre field of the 
AF og annuals are sown directly out- Giant Luther Burbank Zinnias growing for seed. 1949 is the 100th 
doors, after which it is necessary to thin out and transplant. The anniversary of Luther Burbank’s birth. Be sure to have a planting 
men here are doing such work in a field of asters at Floradale. of these Centennial flowers in your garden. They are delightful. 
