
COSMOS—Radiance This Staffel’s introduction for the 1948 
season has proved immensely popular with home gardeners because it will 
grow well almost anywhere, and repays a minimum of care with a pro- 
fusion of large, long stemmed flowers well suited for cutting. A cross 
between the Sensation type and a zoned hybrid developed by Sydney 
Percy-Lancaster of Calcutta, India. It took twelve years to perfect in 
Bodger trial grounds, and won the top All America Award for the year 
1948. Radiance is a real novelty—the central crimson zone is entirely new 
in Cosmos and identifies it like a signature. 
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SWEET PEAS—Cuthbertson Folks who planted this éné last 
year are planting no other Sweet Peas this year. Just can’t be beat for it’s 
tong-lasting blocms and fragrant qualities which hold up admirably in even 
the hottest weather. Later than the Early Flowering Spencers but earliei 
than the late flowering type. Cuthbertson Sweet Peas combine the qualities 
of both and completely ignore the Spencer’s weak points—Flowering long 
into the warm weather and ever-reaching for record-breaking heights. 
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Yes, we think that 
Yankees are just 
about the nicest 
folks. In fact, many 
of our best friends 
are Yankees. We've 
really got to hand it to those folks in the North and 
East because in such things as clambakes and record 
snows and pipe-bustin’ freezes they just can’t be beat. 
What's more, they raise some mighty pretty scenery 
and lots of their flowers and shrubbery can’t be dupli- 
cated for size, quality and loveliness (much as we hate 
to admit it on account of Texas, naturally, is best in 
just about everything.) Of course, most of that stuff 
they raise out there is made up of plants that do well in 
cold, rough climates and shouldn’t be confused with 
the plant life that thrives, gets fat and sassy and 
blooms just about all the time in our own heaven-like 
climate in San Antonio and vicinity, where most things 
do better than any place else on earth. For this reason 
we urge all you folks to buy your Garden Seed right 
here in Texas and particularly at Staffel’s, because 
Staffel’s lists only that which has proved itself in this 
locality. You won‘t find varieties listed here that will 
only do well in the North and East. There’s hundreds 
of Got-Smart Texans right now that order their seed 
from Staffel’s all the time because they've learned 
that ordering from Yankee Catalogs brought them 
just heaps of headaches in the shape of stuff that 
looked lovely in the illustrations but didn’t do nothing 
but grow puny in their front yards. You can bet your 
bottom dollar that if Staffel’s sells it . . . it will do 
well in Texas! 
Very truly yours, 
THE FERD STAFFEL COMPANY 
321 East Commerce Street 
San*Antonio;. Texas 
