
ROBSON QUALITY SEEDS, HALL, NEW YORK 59 
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. 
around the summer cottage or as border plants they are indispensable. 
The seeds are very small and should be sown very thin and barely covered. Bedding 
Petunias may also be sown in the open ground as soon as the soil can be worked and will flower in July. 
in the house March 24th. 
plant 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. 
1345 Choice Mixed Colors. A blend of many fine 
colors. Pkt. 25c; lg. pkt. 50c; % oz. $1.00. 
1346 Celestial Rose. Masses of deep rose blooms. 
1347 Igloo. All-America Bronze Medal in 1943. 
Sturdy compact plants that are covered with dainty, 
creamy-white flowers. 
1348 Silver Blue. An extra select light blue. 
1358 Topaz Queen. Scarlet rose. 
1349 Dark Purple. Deep velvety purple. 
Above Colors. Pkt. 25c; lg. pkt. 50c; 1% oz. $1.00. 
C140 Collection. One packet each of the five colors 
listed above for 90c. 
1357 Fire Chief. New. Fire Chief All-America Gold 
Medal Winner for 1950. Fire Chief is a brilliant 
scarlet red petunia that the All-America Selections 
flower judges voted tops of the new flowers being 
introduced in 1950. Plants are dwarf and compact. 
Pkt. (500 seeds) 25c; Ig. pkt. 50c. 
Illustrated inside back cover. 
1378 Rose Charm (Hybrid No. 9 in our trial grounds 
last summer). A new hybrid bedding petunia that 
is a clear deep rose similar to Celestial Rose but 
much more vigorous, freer of bloom, and earlier than 
other bedding varieties. ~The amount of bloom on 
these plants is amazing. We offer this seed in 
introducers packages only. Pkt. 50c. 
Single Fringed Petunia 
1353 Theodosia. The largest flowered fringed Pe- 
tunia. The color is a most attractive shade of rose 
with open gold throats. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; lg. 
pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
Single Large Flowering Petunias 
1354 Flaming Velvet. In our trial grounds and dis- 
play gardens this luscious, velvety, blood-red Petunia 
is always admired by visitors. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; 
Ig. pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
1352 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. 
1375 Carmencita. New. A dwarf, deep scarlet- 
salmon petunia that is a knock-out. The color is in 
the salmon range, but is deeper than anything seen 
so far. It is entirely different from any color yet 
seen in petunias. This is almost a true scarlet- 
orange. We offer this seed in introducers pack- 
ages only. Pkt. (500 seeds) 60c. 
1376 Rosita. New. Dwarf rose pink variety that is 
very free-blooming. Flowers are large, 3% inches 
across. Vigorous yet very dwarf and uniform. 
We offer this seed in introducers packages only. 
Pkt. (500 seeds) 45c. 

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A view of part of our trial grounds where our flower strains and varie- 
ties are carefully tested to be sure that they are the best to be had. 
For porch and window boxes, for gay masses of bloom in the flower bed and 
For bloom in June they should be started 
‘Trans- 

After years of painstaking breeding, Charles 
as the one above. 
Weddle, a graduate of Cornell’s Floriculture and Plant Breeding 
Departments, has produced large, fully double Petunias in several 
different colors on vigorous free-flowering plants. 
NEW ALL-DOUBLE PETUNIAS 
The new double petunias are exceptionally beautiful 
annuals that every flower gardener will want to try. 
We offer this seed in the introducers packages 
only. 
1361 Sonata. 
1362 Allegro. 
1363 Minuet. 
An outstanding pure white. 
Medium to deep salmon—very good. 
Beautiful orchid-lavender. 
1364 Nocturne. Deep midnight purple. 
Above colors. Pkt. (125 seeds) $1.00. 
1360 Glorious Mixture. <A formula mixture of all of 
the above colors that we feel is a real value. 
Pkt. (125 seeds) 90c; pkt. (500 seeds) $2.00. 
Ruffled Petunias 
1350 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 cov- 
ered. Pkt. (200 seeds) 25c; Ig. pkt. (500 seeds) 50c. 
1351 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; Ig. pkt. 
(500 seeds) 50c. 
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