GROWERS OF FINE PERENNIALS 13 
ALL PURPOSE CUT AND DECORATIVES — Continued 
BOKHARA. Full double perfectly formed flowers on well- 
branched stems. Exceptionally hardy with disease resistant 
foliage. Perfect for cutting by Oct. 10th. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BONFIRE. Double burnt-bronze red flowers on 24 inch 
plants. Blooms in early Oct. and is very frost resistant. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BOSTON. A true fall color, bright red bronze, fully double, 
medium tall, mid-October. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BRONZE PYRAMID. A straight medium tall new variety. 
Duplex flowers are the high toned orange bronze favorite 
in the Fall. Dozens of branches straight from the crown 
without disbudding. Foliage forest green and clean. Per- 
fect cut flower variety. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
CALCITE. Double chalk-white flowers with a pale yellow 
center. Fine for cutting. Oct. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
CALVIN COOLIDGE. Old favorite long lost commercially, 
now returned to us from a collector’s garden. Semi-double 
bright red with a bit of fragrance, mid-season, medium tall, 
prolific. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
CANDLELIGHT. Very lovely and graceful, free flowering 
creamy white. Medium size nicely borne double blossom, 
14%-2 feet. September 25th. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
CANARY WONDER. Breath-taking new color—soft canary 
primrose. Perfect 14% inch pompons in huge sprays on tall 
2% foot plant. Superb for outdoor cut flowers. Excellent 
seller in bloom, standing like a sentinel in sales fields. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
CARNIVAL. A bright, brilliant mum. A play of bronze, 
red, and golden bronze shades. Full double, 3 inch flowers 
carried on slender, nicely branched sprays. Oct. 10. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
CHARLES NYE. Developed by Dr. Kraus, University of 
Chicago — this is by far the finest yellow Pompon to date. 
Very large deep yellow blooms produced freely in compact 
clusters. Strong, tidy, 20 inch plant. An outstanding good 
Pompon. 
‘HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
CHIPPEWA. Large double bright aster purple, an early one, 
Sept. 5th, which grows 24 inches high. Tends to fade in the 
hot sun, but in cool weather the color is beautiful. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
CHIQUITA. Lovely dome-shaped pompon flowers of a 
deep lemon-yellow shade. Very desirable both fo rthe 
garden and bouquets. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
CHRIS COLUMBUS. New, outstanding ivory-white. Large. 
double blooms from late Septemper on; excellent for cut- 
ting. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
CONTRAST. A distinct departure. In the field, despite 
the literally endless array of varieties around them, plants 
of Contrast were marked different everywhere they were 
shown. It grows with a character quite different than any- 
thing that we are accustomed to. Instead of the conven- 
tional mound formed by semi-low growing types, a bowl- 
like effect is achieved, a flat mass across the top and a 
cascade of bloom to the ground. The duplex flowers are a 
harmonious contrast with every soft rose petal tipped yellow. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
CRIMSON BANNER. English. A beauty that stands super- 
lative in the discriminating, completely hardy selection 
that we grow. Blooms early, shows bright crimson flowers 
4” in size on good, long, sturdy cutting stems. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
CYDONIA. One of the best bright colors — rich orange-red 
with a well toned bronze overcast. Stems are tall and sturdy, 
flower: sprays clustered, never failing to catch the eye. 
: - HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
DAWNROSE. D. (Kraus). New 1949! Grenadine-pink to 
bittersweet-pink, lightening to clear, bright flesh-color ae 
margin. 24 inch, Oct. 15. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
D. C. P. Early. Low. Among the finest low, yellow but- 
tons. Prolific for cutting, for edging the border, for pot 
plant. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
DEFIANCE. D. (Kraus). A bold flower of intense golden 
yellow with twilled petals. Exceptionally firm substance. 
Strong, upright plant with excellent cutting stems. 26 inch, 
Sept. 17. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
DRAGON LADY. A new mum-color too — a satin smooth 
Chinese Red, more striking than Caliph, deeper than Red 
Velvet. Starting mid-September, it bloomed continuously 
for six weeks and didn’t fade a shade. Mature flowers 
develop spoon tips. Foliage is an outstanding deep green, 
almost black, extra large, bright as waxed leather. It is 
a decorative growing bush, and a red mass in bloom. » 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
EARLY WONDER. Pat. No. 490. On the first opening the 
flowers are a delicate pink blending to peach blossom pink 
when fully open. It is hardy, blooms early enough for a com- 
plete crop in all sections of the country. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
EDGERTON SWEETHEART. (English). Mid-season. 24”. 
This is one of the first of a new series that promises to be 
fine for American adaptation. Flowers are huge, fully 
double, glowing salmon-bronze. Prolific producer of cutting 
stems with durable, center piece or basket blooms. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
EDITH. Early. 18”. This one will hold a place among the 
finest for a generation_ Flowers fully double, 3-4” across, 
and a lovely, royal aster-purple. Upright, the bush is full 
and firm. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
ELIZABETH HOOD (DePetris). Vivid lavender pink, large 
full pompon with excellent substance and spray formation. 
Excellent strong stems 30” to 36” long of vigorous growth 
with very healthy habit and lush foliage. Matures Oct. 12. 
A very fine and productive variety. Excellent for cutting 
or for pots. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
ELSIE. A good, rugged, and productive buttercup yeucet 
It’s really fine. Single, it has closely piled multiple rows 
of petals on a vigorous 2% ft. plant that blooms Oct. 10. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
EMBER. A brilliant glowing bronze, a combination of coral 
and orange shades ever changing with light. Flowers 2% 
inches in diameter. Mid-October. Height 2144 feet. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
ERMINE. D. (Kraus). Fully double, wide-petaled, pure 
white with cream center. Tall, sturdy plants; vigorous grow- 
er. Very frost-resistant flowers. Excellent for cutting. 30 
inch, Oct. 1. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
EUGENE A. WANDER. A big, brilliant, glistening golden 
yellow beauty, flowering so freely that the stocky growing 
plant is almost obscured by its branching clusters of big 
double flowers — each one the height of perfection in form. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
EUREKA GIANT. A superb Mum with huge, semi-double 
orange-bronze flowers, healthy foliage, strong grower. A 
new variety that is completely different. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
FLAXEN BEAUTY. Huge and beautiful, a gorgeous blend 
of peach, yellow, and coral, with soft gold flush in centers. 
Massive 4 inch blooms, very much like Cactus Dahlia,':ex- 
ceptionally frost proof. Spready 2 foot. plants. Fine: for 
bouquets and bedding in borders. #4 SSS 9m 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
