ROBSON QUALITY SEED, HALL, NEW YORK 49 

PETUNIAS 
Careful work of hybridizers has developed Petunias into one of our most colorful and useful flowers. 
Always 
dependable, thriving under most adverse conditions of soil and climate, they offer an abundance of bloom and 
beauty throughout the summer. 
For porch and window boxes, for gay masses of bloom in the flower bed and 
around the summer cottage or as border plants they are indispensable. 
For bloom in June they should be started 
in the house March 24th. The seeds are very small and should be sown very thin and barely covered. Seed 
may also be sown in the open ground as soon as the soil can be worked and will flower in July. Transplant or 
thin to | ft. 
BEDDING PETUNIAS 
Our carefully selected bedding Petunias are covered 
with medium size blooms from early summer until 
frost. This type planted in the open ground in our 
trial grounds on May 15th will flower by July 10th. 
Height | ft. 
Celestial Rose. 
blooms. 
Masses of well formed deep rose 
Glow. This is a very bright colored Petunia. The 
flowers are dazzling carmine red. 
Igloo. All-America Bronze Medal in 1943. Sturdy 
compact plants that are covered with dainty, creamy- 
white flowers. 
Silver Blue. An extra select light blue. 
Above Colors. Pkt. 25c; Lg. Pkt. 50c; 4% oz. $1.00. 
Choice Mixed Colors. A blend of many fine colors. 
Pkt. 25c; Lg. Pkt. 50c; 1% oz. $1.00. 
Collection. One Packet each of the four colors 
listed above for 65c. (Saving of 35c.) 
Single Large Flowering Petunias 
Elk’s Pride. A particular favorite that is the largest, 
darkest and best velvety purple. Pkt. (200 seeds) 
25c; Lg. Pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
Flaming Velvet. In our trial grounds and display 
gardens this luscious, velvety, blood-red Petunia is 
always admired by visitors. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; 
Lg. Pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
Snowstorm Improved. Mammoth 4 to 5. inch, 
glistening white flowers shading yellow in the throat. 
These are very effective planted by themselves or 
with dark shades. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; Lg. Pkt. 
(500 seeds) 50c. 
Single Fringed Petunias 
Theodosia. The largest flowered fringed Petunia. 
The color is a most attractive shade of rose with open 
gold throats, Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; Lg. Pkt. (500 
seeds) 50c. 
Ruffled Petunias 
Little Giants, Mixed Colors. A new type dwarf 
ruffled petunia that has been outstanding in our 
trial grounds. The 8 to 12 inch plants remain so 
neatly compact and erect all season they are sure to 
become most popular for bedding and edging. The 
medium-sized, well ruffled and waved, deep throated 
flowers continue to keep the plants completely 
covered. The unusually attractive flowers range 
from deep crimson to white in almost every imagin- 
able shade and combination of marking. Pkt. (200 
seeds) 25c; Lg. Pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
Giants of California, Special Mixture. A _ well 
balanced mixture of light and dark colors, fringed 
and ruffled, with attractive deep throats, many of 
them being beautifully veined. Seed is selected from 
the choicest plants. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; Lg. Pkt. 
(500 seeds) 50c. 
FLORALIFE 
Cut flowers will last 5 to 10 days longer if placed 
in a solution of Floralife and water. Pkt. 10c. 


New Double Petunia, Rose Marie. 
NEW DOUBLE PETUNIA 
Rose Marie. All-America Bronze Medal Winner 
1947. In our trial ground this past summer, Rose 
Marie was a very satisfactory double petunia. 
Flowers are a delightful shade of rose-pink, 3 inches 
across, fully double and freely borne on dwarf, com- 
pact plants 18 inches tall. Pkt. (100 seeds) $1.50. 

ANNUAL PHLOX 
Gigantea, Art Shades Mixed Colors. Large, free 
blooming flowers that come in a wide range of soft 
colors. All have a large white eye in the center. 
Lovely in mass plantings and in rock gardens. Start 
in the house April 10th or in the garden after dan- 
ger of frost. Thin to 8 inches. Height 18 inches. 
Pkt. 25c; Lg. Pkt. 50c; 14 oz. 80c. 
SHIRLEY POPPIES 
There are few flowers with such delicate and attrac- 
tive colorings and at the same time so easy to grow. 
They prefer full sun and a light, sandy loam soil. An an- 
nual that will not stand transplanting. It can be 
sown as soon as the soil can be worked, and for con- 
tinuous bloom, successive sowings should be made. 
Thin to 6 or 8 inches. Height 2 ft. 
American Legion. A greatly improved Flanders 
Poppy having very large single flowers of brilliant 
scarlet with a white maltese cross. Pkt. 15c; Lg. 
Pkt. 25c3 % oz, 35c. 
Double Shirley Mixture. An especially fine mixture 
of double flowers, many of which are ruffled, in shades 
of pink, salmon, rose and scarlet. Pkt. 15c; Lg. Pkt. 
25c; 4% oz. 35c. 
