PLATT’S FLOWER SEEDS 
including the latest All America Selections 
for 1952 
ALL AMERICA SELECTIONS 
The World’s Best by Tests 
TRIAL GROUND TESTED 
IN SEVERAL PARTS OF USS. 
Each year growers enter their choicest new 
creations in competition for awards. Only a 
few receive the awards of Gold, Silver or Bronze 
Medals or Honorable Mention. In turn we offer 
only such as we believe adapted to our trade. 
On this page there is room for only a few of the 
more recent introductions. Earlier introductions 
will be found on pages 43 to 60. 
Cosmos Fiesta. AA Silver Medal Award for 1952. Semi- 
double flowers, brilliant colors of Old Mexico; golden flowers 
striped scarlet. Easy to grow, thrives in hot weather. 
Early, free-flowering; something entirely new for the 
garden and for cutting. Pkt. 25c. 
Petunia Ballerina. New AA Award for 1952. An F! 
Hybrid. Flowers large, 3% to 4 inches, soft glowing salmon, 
delicately fringed. Plants vigorous, dwarf and compact, 
free-flowering. Excellent for pots, outstanding for gardens. 
Pkts. (approx. 150 seeds). 50c. 
Phlox Globe Mixed. New AA 1952 Award from Japan. A 
new type of striking effect, grows 6 inches tall. Plants 
globe shaped, literally covered with bloom. Colors mostly 
purple with white marking and some other phlox colors. 
Recommended for pots, window boxes or edging. Pkts. 25c. 
New Hybrid Giant Zinnias (Burpee). Lovely, different, 
artistic, fluffy chrysanthemum like flowers. The curved 
and ruffled petals add grace and beauty never before seen in 
Zinnias. The colors are soft and gorgeous on long stems. 
Height 38 ft. Pkt. (approx. 100 seeds) 25c; %-oz., 75c; 
%y~-oz., $1.85; %-oz., $2.50; 1 oz., $4.75. 
Zinnia Floradale Scarlet. New and distinct giant cactus 
flowered, deep scarlet. Petals ruffled and fluted. A showy, 
unusually beautiful flower in the garden, or for cutting. 
Plants 2% ft. Pkt. 25c; %-oz., 50c; %Y-oz., 85c; oz. $2.50. 
Zinnia Persian Carpet. One of the 1952 AA Awards. A 
new Mexicanum Zinnia, and great improvement on the 
older type. Plants 12 inches. Flowers fully double, size of 
silver dollar in rich shades of gold, bronze and orange. 
Easy to grow, early flowering. Pkt. 25c; %-oz., 85c. 
Tithonia Torch. Top winner. Silver Medal All America 
Selection tor 1951. New Bush form is four feet tall. Flowers 
fiery scarlet, early brilliant garden display and cut flower, 
easy to grow; thrives in hot weather, blooms from August 
until frost. Flower of the Incas. Pkts., 26c.; %4-oz., $1.00. 
Marigold Glitters. Awarded Bronze Medal AA 1951. Large 
handsome early chrysanthemum-flowered, soft golden yel- 
low. Plants 2% to 4 ft., bushy, long strong stems, attractive 
deep green foliage. Pkts., 25c.; %-oz., $1.00. 
Cosmos Fiesta 
Petunia Fire Chief. All America Gold Medal Winner 
for 1950. The reddest Petunia you have ever seen. Dwarf 
habit, free blooming Hybrida Compacta type. Pkts., 25c.; 
1/16-0z., $2.00. 
Petunia Silver Medal. AA 1949 Silver Medal Award. 
New F! Hybrid. Richest and purest salmon pink to date. 
Compact plants, 12 inches high with great hybrid vigor 
and free blooming medium large plain petaled flowers; 
called the most attractive of all bedding petunias. Pkts., 
(100 seeds) 50c. each. 
Dahlia Unwin Dwarf Hybrids. A greatly improved strain 
of this remarkable Dahlia. Blooms measure 8 inches on 
twelve-inch stems, profusely borne on bushy 24-inch plants. 
Blooms in three months from seed. Colors, crimson, apricot 
yellow, cream, terra cotta and many others including white. 
Pkt., 25c.; %-oz., 60c.; %-oz., $1.00 (750 seeds). See page 
50 for culture suggestion. 
Cuthbertson Sweet Peas (Spring Flowering). Now you 
can grow better Sweet Peas. This new strain has strong 
heat resistance, combined with vigorous growth and long 
stout stem. Has been grown in Connecticut with remarkable 
success. Flowers over a longer period. 
Pkt. Oz. %-lb. Lb. 
Tommy. Clear Medium Blue ..15c. 65c. $1.75 $5.50 
Lois. Rose Pink ......... ee OC OOCs 1.75 5.50 
PrankeGe) wavender sete tetris e l5bc. 65c. 1.75 5.50 
CarolsClearePinkges or ce are 15c. 665c. 1.75 5.50 
Janet. Black-seeded White ....l5c. 65c. 1.75 5.50 
Spring Flowering Mixed ...... Loc ouc: 1.75 5.50 
