Prumualas 
(Primroses) 
PRIMULA MALACOIDES 
(12,000 seeds per 1% 07.) 
Baby Primroses, as they are often called, provide the grower 
with one of his most valuable sources of colorful material for 
Valentine’s Day and early spring combination boxes. You'll find 
they move readily as pot plants, too. 3’s and 4’s are the most 
profitable sizes, and they can be had from late January on by 
sowing from August to October. 
Malacoides Primulas are of easy culture if they are grown in 
an airy, cool house (45° night temperature) and not allowed to 
get dry between waterings. Equally important is the avoidance of 
fertilized soil in the seed flat or early stages of growth. 
No. 32 Glory of Riverside Imp. An excellent variety with 
freely produced, beautiful salmon-rose flowers. 
No. 41 White Giant. This is the finest pure white available. 
Large flowers and heavy stems. 
No. 43 Brilliancy Imp. Large flowers of rich wine-red. This 
is our own origination and should not be confused with the old, 
small flowered Brilliancy. 
No. 51. Mrs. Eriksson of Riverside. Large flowers of glowing 
rose on compact plants of medium height. 
No. 62 Ball Lavender. Bright orchid-lavender. Many flowers 
attractively fringed. 
No. 50 Mixture. Our own balanced formula mixture. 
Prices above 6, each: tr. pkt., $1.25; 164 0z., $2.75; 12 02z., 
S5c2Ds 
No. 64 Red Velvet. Newly opened flowers are a bright coral- 
rose changing to deep, velvety crimson-red as they mature. Tr. 
pkt., $1.50; Woes oz., $2.50. 
DOUBLE MALACOIDES 
Fairy Jewels. Double pink. Tr. pkt. 
VW4og oz., $2.50. 
PRIMULA CHINENSIS 
(Chinese Primula) 
A popular class with many retail growers. Very colorful and 
showy. Sow from March on for Christmas and later. 
@ Kardinal. Vivid, intense orange. Tr. pkt., $1.50; 144 0z., $5.00. 
Special Mixture. A choice assortment of colors. Tr. pkt., 
$1.25; 140 0z., $3.75. 
(1000 seeds), $1.50; 
NAEGELIA 
(Temple Bells) 
Art Shades. Dwarf plants with Gloxinia-like leaves and 
clusters of slender, tubular flowers in shades of pink, red, 
yellow and orange; all with spotted throats. This showy pot 
plant requires the same culture as Gloxinias. Tr. pkt., $1.50. 
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CROSSANDRA 
Something New in Potted Plants! 
A distinctly new and valuable pot plant. It is an ever- 
green and ever-blooming plant with glossy, attractive foliage 
and flower spikes of overlapping, bright salmon florets. Sown 
any time of the year, but most easily started in early spring 
and flowers in 6 to 9 months. It demands high temperature 
eat and rich, well-drained soil. 50 seeds, $2.50; 200 seeds, 
8.00. 
PRIMULA OBCONICA 
(4,000 seeds per 142 02.) 
These colorful and showy plants still provide the grower with 
one of his best sources of mid-winter pot plant material. In spite 
of their effect on some people’s skin, they continue to be widely 
grown and called for. 
Sowings made during June and July will produce nice pot plants 
for late winter and spring. We carry them along in 24-inch bands 
from the seed flat, shifting when ready to their final size pot. 
Important points are a soil that drains readily and a cool, well 
shaded location during the summer. Fasbender’s Red and Mohn- 
stein’s Atrosanguinea are the preferred reds; Berlin Rose is the 
best pink. Blue and white are wanted in smaller quantities. 
@ Fasbender’s Red. An outstandingly fine, extra large flowered 
deep crimson-red. 
@ Better Days. Bright carmine-red. 
Mohnstein’s Red. (Atrosanguinea). Popular deep red. 
@Mueller’s Berlin Rose (Mueller’s Rosea). Soft medium rose. 
Heavy compact plants and large flowers. 
Salmon-Rese (Lachsrosa). Salmon-rose shades. 
@Sky-Blue (Coerulea). Clear mid-blue. A choice strain. 
Violet Blue. Deep violet. 
White. Rather tall growth. 
Wyaston Wonder. A special selection of this famous English 
variety. Vigorous growing, large flowered bright crimson. 
@Formula Mixture. Carefully blended from above colors. 
Prices above 10, each: tr. pkt., $1.25; 164 0z., $2.75; 145 oz., 
$5.00. 
Try Crossandra for something different in pot plants. hal 
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