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Selected BEDDING PETUNIAS 
“ARENT you ever going to have a bedding 
petunia the color of Carmencita and Tango?”’ 
our customers have been asking. 
It looked like a “large order’ but our 
flower plant breeders set to work on it. Color 
was important, but in working for it they 
must not lose sight of the desirability of 
neat, compact plants and flowers of good 
size. Innumerable crosses were made and 
seed of these F, hybrids tested in our green- 
houses. 
We got the color and the plants looked 
good, but how would it perform under the 
trying conditions of our Northeastern sum- 
mers? We had the answer to that this 
summer in our outdoor plantings. Gypsy 
stood the extremes of hot and cold, wet and 
dry weather. The color remained a warm 
burnished salmon-scarlet; the plants uni- 
formly upright and compact. Everyone who 
saw it was most enthusiastic in their praise 
of our new hybrid bedding petunia. 
WE ARE PROUD THEN TO PRESENT 
GYPSY—Harris F, Hybrid Bedding Petunia 
W3839 GYPSY. A warm, burnished, glow- 
ing salmon-scarlet blooming early and pro- 
fusely. Plants are neat and compact about 
1 ft. high and not quite so wide. The large 
flowers are as red as Fire Chief when they 
open becoming a brilliant salmon pink when 
fully mature. Hybrid vigor is apparent in 
the vigorous and uniform growth and in 
the abundance and size of blooms. 
500 seeds 90c; 1000 seeds $1.65; 1/128 
Oz. $3.00; ¢z Oz. $5.50. 
W3821 WHITE PERFECTION. A new white, more uni- 
form in growth and of the same compact habit as 
Celestial Rose. Most white petunias are much taller. 
W3825 DARK PURPLE. A very much improved stock, 
very cOmpact growing and a deep velvety dark blue- 
purple. 
W3826 CELESTIAL ROSE. The finest all-purpose bright 
pink. A clear pink without the large white throat of 
Rosy Morn. This is the most compact and uniform 
strain available. 
W3827 HEAVENLY BLUE Improved. This is the light 
blue so much in demand but generally very variable in 
color. We have finally produced a much improved 
strain. The color is 100% true, clear, light blue and 
the plants uniformly low and compact. 
ANY ONE OF THE ABOVE COLORS: Lg. Pkt. 35c; 
Vg Oz. 70¢c; Yq Oz. $1.15; Oz. $4.00. 
W3840 HARRIS’ SPECIAL FOUR-COLOR MIX- 
TURE. Here is an unusually fine mixture especially 
made up for particular buyers from fresh new-crop 
seed, using carefully balanced proportions of Celes- 
White Perfection, Dark Purple and 
tial Rose, 
Heavenly Blue! 
5 al 30¢c;) Ve Oz. 60c; 14 Oz. $1.05; Oz. 
Fred Statt appraises his new Fi Hybrid Bedding 
Petunia, Gypsy. 
3837 F; ROSE CHARM. A new first generation hybrid 
dwarf bedding variety of the Celestial Rose type. Uni- 
form, vigorous growth; early, profuse bloom; large 
flowers of a clear luminuous pink. Hgt. 1 foot. 
500 seeds 90c; 1000 seeds $1.65; 1/128 Oz. $3.00; 
alr Oz. $5.50. 
W3829 BLUE BEDDER IMPROVED. Here is a clear mid- 
blue, between Heavenly Blue and various purples, that 
we have always wanted in a really dwarf bedding type. 
True medium blue, free flowering, dwarf compact 
variety. 
Lg. Pkt. 40c; +; Oz. 80c; Vg Oz. $1.50; Y% Oz. 
S25 Orn Oz. Dies 
W3845 FINEST BEDDING VARIETIES MIXTURE. 
For growers whose plant customers want a wide 
range of color in mass plantings of dwarf petunias. 
Contains seed of separate varieties of white, cream, 
soft pink, rose, salmon, blue, violet and purple. 
Lg. Pkt. 30c; Vg Oz. 60c; V4 Ox. $1.05; Oz. 
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