NEW IN FLOWERS 
Aster, Queen of The Market, Ballet-Queen. 
Good news for Aster growers! This Queen is very definitely wilt resistant, and a 
beautiful shade of deep salmon rose that attracts attention immediately. Bears 3% inch 
flowers generously, on plants useful for bedding and cutting. 
Cosmos, Radiance. 
Winner of the highest awards in the ’48 All-American trials, Radiance introduces 
two entirely new colors in Sensation Cosmos; Striking deep rose and rich crimson, in 
the first bicolor Cosmos ever to be developed. It is the first big postwar novelty. 
Dahlia, Unwin’s Dwarf Hybrids. 
Marigold, Naughty Marietta. 
This is a new dwarf, single French Marigold, brightly colored and free flowering. 
Giant Ruffled Tetraploid Snapdragon. 
Tetra Snaps are a new scientific creation producing large flowers, stout stems 
and strong husky plants. Foliage is dark green and thick. Central spike averages 
7 
2% feet in height and is surrounded by lateral spikes of lesser height. Mixed colors. — 
Salvia Splendens, St. John’s Fire. 
This salvia has brilliant scarlet spikes in profusion. It is dwarf, early and a 
continuous bloomer. 
Coralbells (Heuchera) 
Heuchera is a flower which is beautiful both in a border or in a rockery. From 
a tuft of heart shaped leaves, graceful flower stalks rise, beariny flowers of all 
shades of red and coral pink in clusters. 
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