~ FARNAM’S CHRYSANTHEMUM FARM 
NAW BLAINE, ARKANSAS 
DEAR FLOWER LOVING FRIENDS: 
First, we wish to thank you for your liberal patronage in the past. 
We owe all our success to you. This year we will endeavor to give you 
even better service and higher class plants than ever before. 
We do not claim to grow all the varieties of Chrysanthemums on the 
market as that would number into the hundreds, but we do try to have the 
loveliest, the hardiest and the most pleasing to our customers wherever 
they live. The early blooming kinds for localities where frost comes early, 
the later varieties for localities where killing frosts come late. We urge you 
to order early. Orders placed now will be given our very best attention 
and sent at proper planting time. 
With best wishes and all success and much enjoyment in your garden. 
May it grow more beautiful year after year. 
Sincerely yours, 

M. FARNUM. 
PLEASE NOTE 
Orders are accepted subject to conditions beyond our control. If your order 
cannot be filled to your satisfaction, your money will be refunded, ending our 
responsibility. 
_ We cannot accept orders for less than six plants. All orders of one dozen 
plants sent postpaid. On orders for less than 12 plants add 25c extra for packing 
and mailing. We always add extra plants which take care of this extra expense. 
Two gift plants of our selection but different from order will be sent free 
with orders of one dozen plants and over and two names and addresses of home- 
owners and flower lovers. If you wish to pay postage on your plants we will 
send plants of our newer varieties to more than cover this extra expense. 

BEGONIAS, ETC. 
If interested in Rex Begonias, new small leaved Rex Begonias, unusual 
Fibrous Begonias—all good house plants—a stamped, self-addressed, envelope will 
bring you descriptive price list when ready. 

CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTURE 
A few do’s and dont’s: Plant in well prepared soil that has had a coat of 
manure the previous fall or winter if you have it, or an application of commercial 
fertilizer worked into the soil 10 days before planting. Side dress with any 
fertilizer about July 10th, again when buds appear just before a rain. Keep well 
cultivated, pinch out top when 6 or 8 inches high, again after the side branches 
have made good growth. Not after July 20th it might be too late for buds to set. 
Don’t plant too near a building or tall trees. Give them room enough to develope 
and produce the blooms you expect. By all means dig up your old clumps each 
Spring, divide using the new shoots, destroy the old core. You will be rewarded 
for your labor. 

BOOK ON CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTURE 
“Chrysanthemums and How We Grow Them Out of Doors,” by the Portland 
Chrysanthemum Society. The finest book on the subject published. Price, $1.50 
postpaid. 
