HARROLD’S PANSY GARDENS & GREENHOUSES. 
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C. W7. Piereog Private Blend 
Specimens Pictured In Color Are From This Seed 
C. W. Harrold, the founder of our firm is still actively in charge of our breeding 
work and seed production at the age of 79. He has been working with Pansies for 
about 50 years and is the oldest living specialist breeder of Pansies in the United 
States now actively producing seeds and plants commercially. These are his babies. 
They are the finest selections of types for bedding found in a single mixture today 
and he has drawn on our best strains and breeding work to blend this all type 
mixture. We believe it to be the ultimate in a general mixture today. 
As may be seen from the natural color photo the color and type range is most 
varied. In fact there are probably over 800 colors, color combinations and markings 
in this blend. It contains many new shades and markings not found in our other 
sorts and as always the plant and flowering habits are the ultimate. The results 
will be outstanding when given suitable culture. 
SEED PRICES: Per packet, about 500 seeds, $2.00; jj 02., about 1400 seeds, 
$5.00; Ye oz., $9.00; 14 0z., $15.00; 1% 0z., $25.00; 1oz., $40.00. 
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AMERICA’S MOST COMPLETE LINE OF PANSY 
AND VIOLA SEEDS. 
The Harrold’s Pedigreed Strain line of Pansies has for many years 
been the most extensive and complete of any specialist bred line avail- 
able in this country. You will find in it both general mixtures and 
specialty items that meet practically any need in Pansies. Added to our 
own line we supply and grow a group of the foremost General American 
Strains and Varieties. In 1948 we again entered the importing field with 
the same proven European varieties that we had handled before 1938. 
Combined these three extensive group selections constitute the widest 
selection of Pansies obtainable from a single supply source in America. 
Harvesting is now progressing normally and with the planting season 
extending over the next two months you will find it advantageous to 
order your requirments at once. 
FREE AIR MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE on all orders for seeds 
amounting to $2.00 in seeds listing at more than $2.50 per ounce. Cultural 
booklet sent with every Pansy or Viola order. 
PANSY PLANTS 
While we anticipate having a fairly normal supply of good Pansy plants this 
fall we are not quoting prices on them in this folder as we have in the past. As we 
go to press there are several variables which may be stabilized by the time the plant 
season is here and we will then issue a separate list covering these. For one thing 
we don’t know just what the new Parcel Post rates are going to be but there will 
have to be some adjustment of our prepaid prices this season to cover this change. 
Also we are not certain as to how much acreage we can devote to this department 
due to labor costs and supply. It will be August before planting starts and with 
early August there can be a considerable change in our agricultural labor supply 
here in the valley. 
It is our advice to our many friends and patrons that they plant at least a part 
of their Pansy requirements this year in their own establishment if at all possible. 
Not only will you save money by doing so but you will be more certain of a supply. 
There is a shift under way in the Pansy seed and plant trade. Some growers who 
have been wholesaling are dropping out because of price and labor conditions while 
some growers took a pretty bad beating from the weather this past season. You 
probably noticed that there was not nearly the pansy plants offered in the wholesale 
trade this past spring. We feel sure that the retailer wili find it profitabie to grow 
some of his Pansy requirements from seed this year even if he has never done so 
before. 
WHAT VARIETY SHOULD I PLANT 
Frequently asked, this question must be answered in a flexible manner. You will 
have to check the characteristics of the varieties available in the light of your own 
experience as to your market. One piece of advice - don’t select your seed on the 
basis of cheapness for it takes no more labor to grow the better varieties and they 
are both more profitable and more easily sold. Generally speaking the price of the 
seeds to an extent reflect the quality because they are direct reflections of the 
production costs except in the case of new introductions where you pay for the 
novelty and the experimental breeding. 
Plant 80 to 90% of your planting in good mixtures. The public likes Pansies 
best because of their color range and the mixtures will produce larger flowering 
plants than are to be found in the separate colors. Separate colors in a limited way 
are both useful and profitable. They may be used in many garden situations with 
most pleasing results such as borders and mass plantings to a color scheme. 
In the mixtures; other stock too for that matter, there are generally two distinct 
types of Pansies. The EXHIBITION type is the largest flowered and is distin- 
guished by the smaller center blotch surrounded by one and often two distinct 
color zones, This type also carries many self and poly-chrome combinations. It is 
from the blotch and two zone character that the name Viola, tricolor maxima is 
derived, This type is of robust plant growth and very hardy. Its color blend tends 
toward the lighter shades making it very showy for mass plantings. 
The other general type usually referred to as the FANCY type has a character- 
istic larger center blotch, often covering 3 or all 5 petals for about half to three- 
fourths of their area. Generally the surrounding color is in one band which may be 
a solid color or blended. A few poly-chrome colors also appear but not in the 
proportion found in the Exhibition stock. Penciled and ray centers appear in both 
types to an extent but less in the Fancy group. We recommend the planting of 
both types and a few separate colors for a complete assortment. 
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Bridge St. and Lower River Rd. P. O. Box 29 GRANTS PASS, ORE. 
HARROLD’S PEDIGREED SLIGHTLY REDUCED 
GIANT ART-SHADES are this flower was 37% in. 
outstanding in color, giant in diameter, picked from 
size, robust plant habit and our seed field in April. 
earliness. 
Outstanding Miatures 
HARROLD’S 
PEDIGREED GIANT ART-SHADES 
We consider this to be THE FINEST EXHIBITION type of Pansy available 
today. With good culture the flowers are extremely large (we have had them five 
inches across in the seed production field). They flower very early and the coloring 
is very brilliant. Normally there are over 500 color combinations and markings in 
this mixture with many pastels as well as pure deep colors. The markings, typically 
Exhibition, range from self colors through the dainty penciled to the tri-color 
blotches having a veritable rainbow of color in a single flower. The plant habit is 
equally robust and this variety is hardy under reasonable treatment anywhere in 
the United States and most of gardening Canada, For mass bedding these are not 
excelled in their display because of the brightness of the color scale while selections 
from this mixture will give outstanding specimens for individual setting. The flower 
stems are long, usually being adequate for good bouquets. This variety is an im- 
proved progeny of our Harrold’s Pedigreed Giant variety. 
SEED PRICES: Trade packet, about 1,000 seeds, $1.00; 1 02., $2.50; 
4, oz., $4.75; 1/2 0z., $9.25; 10z., $18.00; 2 ozs., $32.00; 4 ozs., $45.00; one 
pound $180.00; 5 pounds $875.00. 
HARROLD’S 
Our latest and finest ‘‘Fancy’’ type Pansy. The Fancy type has the typically 
large center blotch. This variety is the ultimate in flower size and color range on 
compact, sturdy plants. The flowers of heavy substance and velvety texture are 
brilliantly colored with many red and deep shades which are individually outstand- 
ing. Under good culture it is possible to grow 4% inch flowers from this strain 
though in this respect they are not quite so large as Harrold’s Pedigreed Art-shades. 
For variety we suggest the use of both these varieties if you really want the 
maximum in display. 
SEED PRICES: Trade packet, about 1,000 seeds, $1.00; 1g 0z., $2.50; 
14, oz., $4.75; YY oz., $9.25; 1oz., $18.00; 2 ozs., $32.00; 4 0zs., $45.00; one 
pound $180.00; 5 pounds $875.00. 
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WHAT VARIETY SHOULD I PLANT Continued 
Regarding color blends, a specialist uses a definite formula to which each 
mixture is built. These formulas may be developed during the growing or after 
harvest from several individual lots of seed. The number of plants it is anticipated 
that a formula will produce per ounce of seed must be taken into account and in 
the case of Harrold formulas this is based on a production norm of 10,000 plants 
per ounce. Production exceeding this figure will usually result in more fancy and 
novelty stock in the mixture and lower production will quickly detract from the 
quality of the color blend. Novelties and fancy types are those most quickly lost 
as germination drops. 
Regarding flower size and general results the seedsman can of course control 
only the factors involved in the production of the seed. The culture that you supply 
is just as important to satisfactory and outstanding results as that required on the 
part of the seedsman. Usually, however, the seedsman is more experienced and takes 
advantage of more elaborate safeguards than the average grower so for that reason 
it is never surprising that many growers report excellent results from the same seed 
that causes other growers trouble. Our policy of growing plants in large quantities, 
constant germination tests and a half century of experience enables us to give you 
everything that can be put into the seeds by the seedsman. 
