about soils—but in very cold climates give them a light 
covering of salt hay or straw. (Temperatures in Litchfield 
go to as low as minus 20 degrees. We have no trouble 
even when we forget to cover. Yes, we forget things like 
that, too.) 
Lavender 
Always in old-fashioned kitchen gardens, though not for 
eating. Snip when blooms open in May-June, dry them, 
use them—that’s all there is to handling lavender. To 
grow it you need no special soils and once established 
the shrubby plants last indefinitely with minimum care. 
Ours are large bushy 2-year-old plants. (Supply this year 
is limited.) 
Chives Three $1.30, Doz. $3.50 
The flower, small purple heads on 10-inch stems, appears 
in early June and is decorative. Use finely chopped leaves 
for flavoring salads or hors d’oeuvres. Strong grower, 
reproduces itself each time it is cut back. 
Three $1.50, Doz. $4.00 
Use the whole leaf or chopped leaves to brighten mid- 
summer lettuce or vegetable salads. 
Three $1.50, Doz. $4.00 
Use leaves sparingly to flavor soups and gravies. Dry 
leaves and young shoots for winter use. This is better by 
far than what is usually sold as marjoram. 
Sage Three $1.50, Doz. $4.00 
Dry leaves are used for flavoring meats, soups, stuffings, 
dressings. 
Large plants, each $1.25 
Costmary 
Marjoram origarium vulgaris 
Three $1.50, Doz. $4.00 
A few chopped leaves added to salads and cold dishes 
give a delightful zest. 
Sweet Cicely 
Each 75c, Three $2.15, Doz. $7.50 
This is a basic cooking material in France. Fresh leaves 
and stalks added to vinegar produce tarragan vinegar. 
Fresh leaves also are chopped finely and dropped into 
salads or used to garnish meat or fish. Dried leaves flavor 
soups and pickles. A kitchen without tarragon is almost in 
the same boat as a kitchen without salt or pepper. 
Tarragon 
Thyme (Common, or Thymus vulgaris) 
Three $1.50, Doz. $4.00 
Fresh leaves are used in salads; dried leaves are impor- 
tant for meats, soups and gravies. 
An Old-Fashioned Kitchen Garden 
Three each of Chives, Costmary, Marjoram, Sage, Sweet Cicely, 
Tarragon, and Thyme. Plus one Lavender. 
Twenty-two plants. A $12.20 value, for . $10.00 
nz 
GIANT AMERICAN BREEDER GLADIOLI 
Mixture Doz. 95c, 25 $1.80, 100 $7.00 
No. 1 bulbs of Albatross, Arctic Snow, Black Opal, Blue 
Orchid, Green Light, Greta Garbo, Helen Hayes, High 
Finance, Lady Anne, Lavender Prince, Leading Lady, 
Florence Nightingale and six other varieties, many of 
which sell for as much as 30 cents a bulb. A mixture of 
this quality is never offered at these prices and it’s all 
due to a costly mistake in growing last year—a block 
of these expensive bulbs was not kept true to varieties 
and got mixed enough so that we dare not sell it as 
named Gladioli. It will never again be offered, we hope. 
Six $1.40, Doz. $2.40, 100 $15.75 
Light yellow deeply ruffled. 
Black Opal Six $1.25, Doz. $2.00, 100 $12.50 
An extremely dark flower, nearly black with deepest red 
or rose overcast. 
Aureole 
Bonfire Each 60c, Six $3.00, Doz. $5.75 
Brilliant scarlet. 
Burma Six $1.25, Doz. $2.00, 100 $12.50 
Deepest rose, ruffled. 
Concord Six $1.40, Doz. $2.40, 100 $15.75 
For those who fancy royal purple. 
Qeikdiacnd Other Von-hardy Bulls 
There are so many new Gladioli bred each year that like Iris the job is 
one of selection. We are offering Miniatures, a new European giant strain, 
outstanding in size and color intensity, and selections of the giant American 
breeder varieties. Glads are easy to grow—plant 4 to 6 inches deep in rows 
in the vegetable garden (they are not good border plants), water heavily 
and spray or dust every 10 days with DDT. Plant two dozen every two weeks 
until July 15 for a succession of bloom. 
We particularly call your attention to a Mixture of Giant American Breeders 
—it includes all the top varieties and we list it first. 
Cover Girl Six $1.30, Doz. $2.15, 100 $13.00 
As you would expect, a pink. 
Florence Nightingale Six $1.75, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
A heavy giant white. 
High Finance Six 90c, Doz. $1.75, 100 $10.00 
This late blooming beauty is the best smoky and color is 
indescribable, which should have been its name. Some 
spikes have grown to 6 feet here. 
Six $1.25, Doz. $2.00, 100 $12.50 
One of the better so-called blue shades. Quite dark. 
Six $1.25, Doz. $2.00, 100 $12.50 
Cream colored and outstanding. 
Lipstick Six $1.40, Doz. $2.40, 100 $15.75 
Rosey blotch put on light pink, quite unevenly. 
Six $1.40, Doz. $2.40, 100 $15.75 
A fine light pink of great size. 
Six $1.40, Doz. $2.40, 100 $15.75 
Deep salmon-red, ruffled. 
Lavender Prince 
Leading Lady 
Phantom Beauty 
Spic & Span 
Sunspot Each 60c, Six $3.00, Doz. $5.75 
Apricot buff with rose blotch at throat. 
