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. 
We want to impress upon our custom- 
ers the importance of doing garden opera- 
tions correctly—and also the importance 
of planting things where they are most 
apt to thrive. 
Again we are adding to our pages of 
growing hints and recommendations of 
plants that you should be able to grow 
successfully. 
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. 
MINIATURE DAHLIAS 
Whether you plant just a dozen, or do 
it grandly with a hundred, we know that 
you ll agree that planting dwarf dahlias 
is the easiest way to create a beautiful 
color mass in your garden that you can 
depend on all summer till frost. 
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 special mention. 
For something outstanding, try Fire 
Chief, the brightest orange red and Ad- 
mural, a lovely blue. 
ROSE BEGONIA 
This plant is probably most popular as 
a house plant—but to see it at its best— 
use it as a bedding border plant in light 
shade. Here it grows more compactly, 
blooms more profusely and flower as well 
as foliage is better. 
Announcing our 
NEW SHIPPING SERVICE 
ON AFRICAN VIOLETS 
Saint Paulias 
Tell your “out-of-town” friends 
about it. 
Make it a point to STOP BY and 
enjoy this unforgettable sight of 
35,000 lovely Violets in bloom. 
See our latest introductions, Violets 
that are unique as well as beautiful. 
Other fine novelties and over 50 
distinct varieties. 
Prices and descriptions, page 42. 
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