Notes of Interest 
We are including these notes in our 
new catalog to help home gardeners in 
the Greater Washington area establish 
gardens that can be depended upon to 
give a more satisfactory show for the en- 
tire season. 
Some of the plants described here are 
new varieties that have proven superior, 
others are older varieties that are not as 
well known and widely used as they 
should be, and others have the character- 
istics of adaptability to a wide range of 
conditions, favorable and unfavorable. 
We introduce them to you, you intro- 
duce them to your garden. Using these 
plants and bulbs as a foundation, the 
garden can be completed with other de- 
sirable perennials, bulbs, and annuals. 
‘This way, your garden will be in continu- 
ous bloom, regardless of the success you 
have with hard to grow favorites and 
oddities that most gardeners like to try. 

TULIPS AT BEHNKE’S 
Last year on our trip through Holland, 
we made it a point to learn about the 
latest in Tulips and Daffodils and had our 
bulbgrower make us up a good collection 
of outstanding novelties for fall planting. 
This special collection and twenty-five of 
each of the varieties that we carried in 
our Fall List, we have combined and 
planted right here on our grounds near 
the Boulevard in one grand show garden. 


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So come spring we expect to have 
about 10,000 bulbs in bloom which should 
be a beautiful sight. We do not want you 
to miss it. When it’s Tulip and Daffodil 
Tune m Washington, kindly look in the 
Sunday Star—Farm & Garden Page— 
where we shall post a notice for our Belts- 
ville time (which is usually just a little bit 
later). 
You are cordially invited to visit us 
then. Be sure to come out, bring along 
the family and friends, take color pictures 
and enjoy this fine show of spring-flower- 
ing bulbs. 
All of the varieties are labelled in case 
you desire to take notes for your prefer- 
ence in fall planting. 
DIFFERENT PETUNIAS 
Petunias are the accepted basic annual 
for the border that will bloom all sum- 
mer. Qur list is revised every year as 
new varieties are hybridized. Last spring 
we offered two varieties that we think 
rate spe cial mention c 
For something different in blue, try 
Heavenly Blue Improved. Not a deep 
color, but a soft smoky silver blue. “This 
Petunia is popular with nearly everyone 
who has seen it. Even more popular was 
Cheerful, a dusty salmon pink. This one 
sold out early in the bedding plant season. 
Both are dwarf hybrids. 


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