Gaillardia Sun God, 
This yellow Gaillar- 
dia will be one of the 
bright spots in your 
garden. The rich gold- 
en yellow flowers are 
immense. Grow _ tall 
and erect—about 24 
inches high. Lots of 
blooms over a long é 
time—mid-Juneto mid- 
July in the north. Fine 
for cutting, fine in the 
garden. Will continue © 
to bloom until frost if 
flowers are cut, mak- 
ing it an all-summer 
flower. PRICES: 1 for a. 
71c; 2 for $1.27; 3 for ~ wa 
$1.80; 4 for $2.39. A Bonus ” 
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Blue Bonnet 
(Scabiosa, Isaac House Hybrids) 
There are two kinds of 
blues, the happy blues and 
the unhappy blues. Any 
blues you can get into 
your garden are the happy 
kinds, for blue is only too 
rare a color among flow 
ers. Blue Bonnet will give 
your garden the happy 
blues. Its coloring is soft 
and lovely, and we won't 
blame you a bit if so many of 
you make a rush for this 
Isaac House “Blue Bonnet”, 
that we sell out in a jiffy, 
Starts blooming in June, continues 
until September. Tall stems: 18 to 
24 inches high. Plant 12 to 15 inch- 
es apart in sun or part shade: ordin- 
ary soil; ordinary moisture require- 
ments. PRICES: Field-grown, 70c 
each; 2 for $1.26; 3 for $1.75; 4 for 
$2.30. 
. : We Pay 
Heliopsis, Apollo | $s? 
As brilliant as an ort Charges— 
ole, Apollo will really See page 16 
enrich your garden: ae 
Blooms from August 
Ist or earlier to 
frost. Foliage dark 
green, robust and 
healthy. Hardy. 
Grows 20 to 24 
inches high. Or- 
der this gleaming 
flower early fora 
fine display in 
your garden. 
PRICES: 1 for 
60c; 2 for $1.05; 
3 for $1.50; 4 for 
$1.95; 6 for 
$2.85. 
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Kellogg's Famous Flowers 
still advisable in later years. It is simply a 
matter of covering the plants to protect them 
from alternate freezing and thawing. 
Always wait until after the ground is 
frozen before mulching. Remember that you 
are preventing alternate freezing and thaw- 
ing, and are not attempting to prevent the 
ground from freezing. Once it is frozen, a lit- 
tle mulch will keep it from thawing during 
any brief warm period you may have, but 
the same mulch would not prevent freezing. 
With alternate freezing and thawing, 
heaving of the ground occurs, and this tears 
the roots, which tearing really causes winter 
injury, rather than freezing itself. Most 
plants are quite hardy as to temperatures. 
Wheat, rye or oat straw are the best 
mulching materials, and in Indiana, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, Hlinois and other states of 
similar latitude, about two inches deep is 
proper. Southern Michigan about the same, 
but much farther north, you can apply the 
mulch deeper, about three or four inches. 
Farther south you can apply less mulch. 
In any event, cut the tops of the plants 
down before mulching, and with Azalea- 
ums, let them lie over the plants, and apply 
the mulch on top. 
With other plants carry the tops 
away and burn them; keeping your gar- 
den clean. 
Cutting Flowers 
They say you cannot eat your cake 
and have it, too, but gardening gives an 
exception. It is really good for your gar- 
den to cut the flowers, and have table 
bouquets, as well as flowers in the gar- 
den itself. When you cut the flowers, vou 
prevent the formation of pollen, and ac 
cordingly the strength of the plant would 
spend in manufacturing pollen goes into 
more and better flowers. 
