Contrary to the popular practice of naming individual 
plants, our aim is to produce a group of individual plants 
resembling each other as closely as possible, keep inter- 
breeding them until the progeny brings a high percentage 
of specimens true to description, and then introduce it as 
a named series. In this manner we can offer new progres- 
sions of each series each year as the progeny always super- 
sedes the parents. The names of our Delphinium series, 
with the exception of the blues, which have descriptive 
names, have been chosen from Tennyson’s “Idylls of the 
King.” 
The Pacific Strain of delphinium has been in commerce 
for 15 years now and has become a standard for the highest 
quality in delphinium all over the world. Instead of mak- 
ing extravagant claims, we would like to let our flowers 
speak for themselves when you grow them. 
NEW CREATIONS —ASTOLAT SERIES 
Although we introduced this new group of novel 
shades in 1950 we feel that the new series from 
which we harvested this season’s crop of seed is far 
ahead of the original introduction. 
Color variations extend from pale blush through 
all shades of lilac pink to deep raspberry rose with 
large fawn and black bees for contrast. The entire 
range is pictured on the back cover of our catalog. 
CROSS POLLINATED SEED 
$4.00 per packet (over 400 seeds). 
$2.00 per 14 packet (over 200 seeds). 
SELF POLLINATED SEED 
$2.00 per packet (over 400 seeds). 
$1.00 per 14 packet (over 200 seeds). 
PLANTS 
$4.00 per dozen. $30.00 per 100. 
F.O.B. Capitola 
Orders for less than 1 dozen not accepted. 
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