
4- ‘Tip Top Ten 
Hardy Phlox 
Ten varieties, carefully selected. Nowhere will you find better ones. Will 
color your garden from August to late autumn. 
MARY LOUISE. Pure white, like 
newly fallen snow. The favorite of 
all whites. 
BLUETTE. Shades of blue and rose 
magically intermingled. Unusually 
large florets. Vigor, productiveness, 
well filled, symmetrical heads, 
CAROLYN VANDENBURG. The 
outstanding dark blue Phlox, not 
only because of its color; but it is 
extra large, healthy, vigorous, and 
productive. The nearest to a real 
blue. 
BRIGHT EYES. No other red Phlox 
has the beautiful large florets and 
dancing dark eyes of Bright Eyes, 
and none has quite its brilliance. 
Gorgeous in mass displays. Healthy; 
vigorous; huge florets. 
PINKETTE. Exceedingly delicate 
pink, like soft-shed light. Dainty, 
yet strong. Lustrous sea-green fo- 
liage. Healthy. 
AFRICA. Amazing dark carmine- 
red, so mysteriously beautiful that 
it seems to belong to another 
world. Strong, vigorous grower, 
healthy and hardy; easy to grow. 
DAILY SKETCH. Outstanding fea- 
ture: extra large florets, 114 inches 
across, or more. Clear, beautiful 
pink with small carmine eye. Does 
not fade. Very long blooming; 
starts in July and continues until 
frost. 
(Index of Plants and Bulbs—page 15.) [2] 
LILLIAN. The famous blue-eyed 
Phlox; rest of flower beautiful sal- 
mon-pink. Very compact flower 
heads, with beauitfully shaped flor- 
ets. Very robust, plenty of vitality. 
Often 12 to 15 flower spikes per 
plant. 
SALMON GLOW. A beautiful deep 
salmon-pink. Eye, deep carmine. 
Well filled, stately heads. Healthy, 
strong foliage. 
POLKA DOT. Petals have a very 
slight pinkish tinge with glorious 
fuchsia-colored eye. Beautifully 
shaped; extra large, overlapping 
florets. 
PRICES, Field-Grown Plants: 
1 for $0.57 6 for $2.55 
2 for 1.00 8 for 3.35 
3 for 1.35 10 for 4.15 
4 for 1.75 20 for 8.00 
epoca! 
ne of each va- 
riety in the Tip Top Ten 
group torts ae ‘$3.99 
2 Collections, 
20 plants, for .....$7.50 
How to Grow Them 
By S. F. Beatty, and Nursery Staff 
We have made these instructions as complete as 
possible, but naturally some questions will occur 
to you to which you will not find the answers. 
If you do not find the exact information you want 
in this book, write us any time within four months, 
and we will gladly give you the information you 
need. 
Should you send us an order for planting stock, 
your free consultation service is extended for one 
year from the time of shipment. And now.... 
Meet Mr. X — 
The Man with the 
Beautiful Garden 
In our town, there’s a man whose garden is the 
envy of all others. His Roses are always more 
beautiful, his Delphiniums more tall, stately, and 
exquisitely colored, his ““Mums” a brilliant, daz- 
zling autumn display, his perennial borders a 
sight to behold. And, when it comes to Tulips, 
Hyacinths, Crocuses and Daffodils, he has them 
all beat a “thousand ways from Sunday’, as the 
saying goes. 
People drive by just to gaze at his flowers. They 
walk by. They call him on the phone to ask 
about them; and in driving by, they have even 
had near accidents, because that beautiful garden 
was so fascinating. 
Yet his soil is no better than that of others in 
our town, his climate is surely the same, and he 
has no more real gardening ability than they 
have. He simply follows the few easy rules, and 
it takes so little more of his time and energy 
than these others spend, that it is amazing that 
he is so far ahead of them, astounding that they 
don’t catch on and have a garden as outstanding 
as his instead of being mere admirers. Oh yes, 
there are other good gardens, but they are not 
as good as Mr. X’s garden. 
One thing he does do is to buy planting stock 
carefully, a most important thing. Some of the 
others, particularly those who can be classed as 
failures, are those who seek the bargains. Here’s 
an advertisement with a guaranty. It says: ‘100 
fine Tulip bulbs for $ , and the price is so 
ridiculously low that it should immediately breed 
suspicion, 

Yet the ad is cleverly written, and out go the 
checks and money orders. And in due time here 
come the bulbs. They’re healthy, yes, because 
most states have adequate nursery inspection, but 
my, what mammoth bulbs they are! We wish you 
could see them! Our tongue is in our cheek, of 
course, when we say that. 
“Surely”, the man says, “Those bulbs will not 
bloom this year,” and he is right, because after 
all a Tulip, Hyacinth or Narcissus bulb is noth- 
ing more than a little protective home which 
houses inside a complete though miniature flower- 
ing plant. And, if that bulb is only marble-sized, 
how in the name of common sense can it hold a 
plant of any vigor? Remember now, that plant 
must, in the spring, push its way first out of the 
bulb, and then up through the soil to the open 
air and sunshine that will make it grow; a really 
considerable task. 
Further, the planting rule for bulbs is that the 
depth must be approximately four to five times 
the diameter of the bulb. A three-quarter inch 
