HARROLD’S PANSY GARDENS 
SELECTING AND GROWING 
GRANTS PASS, OREGON 
HARROLD'S Pedigreed Strain PANSIES 
Easily Grown Almost Anywhere 
In Bloom For Months In Most Climates 
Hardy Practically Anywhere 
The breeding and experience that has developed 
this group of Pansy varieties affords you the ulti- 
mate in quality in this universally popular, easily 
grown garden flower. Excepting the Harrold’s 
Tall Cut-Flower variety they will all withstand 10 
to 15 degrees of freezing without protection and 
when given light protection, such as is given other 
moderately hardy perennials in your climate, they 
are hardy in any part of the U. S. and Canada. 
The flowering season of most varieties can be 
extended over a season of a least six months and 
in many favored climates over the entire year. 
American bred and grown for our American gar- 
dening conditions and taste, they afford the finest 
selections you can obtain. Selections that properly 
made and with reasonable culture will give unsur- 
passed results. Naturally your local climate, garden 
situation and the care given to their culture will 
determine the final result to some degree but you 
must have good variety and strain quality as a 
foundation. Originally our work was exclusively in 
supplying the critical professional grower and we 
still do this to the extent of something over 6,000 
florists, nurserymen and seedsmen. During the past 
few years, however, we have also served more than 
35,000 home gardeners. 
SPRING CULTURE 
Two methods of establishing satisfactory Pansy 
beds in the spring are possible. In either case no 
consideration need be given the problems of win- 
tering the plants. 
Probably the least trouble is to procure plants 
ready to set into your beds where they soon come 
into bloom and give a beautiful display. The plants 
of the Harrold’s Pedigreed Original Strains are 
available as listed in this catalogue for delivery 
to you direct from our gardens or you may procure 
many of these sorts from your local bedding plant 
grower. If buying locally ALWAYS INSIST ON 
GENUINE HARROLD’S PEDIGREED PANSIES. 
The most economical Pansy beds can be estab- 
lished by planting the seeds now. For early beds, 
seeds planted indoors during February and then 
transplanted into the flowering bed when the grow- 
ing season starts, will afford nice bloom by the 
middle or latter part of May and these will bloom 
well into the summer, 
Seeds may also be planted right in the bed 
where the plants are to bloom as soon as the soil 
can be worked and is warm enough to give germ- 
inating conditions. Pansies like a cool, moist situa- 
tion while germinating and in the early stages of 
growth so that usually this sort of planting can be 
done in most places during March, April and early 
May. i 
We have a good supply of both plants and seed 
for this spring planting season and will be able to 
serve you for either type of culture. 
FREE CULTURE BOOKLET 
Our booklet ‘‘MODERN PANSIES’’ Their 
History, Culture and Habits will accompany all 
orders for seeds or plants. This gives complete 
information needed for your success with Pansies. 
THE VARIETY TO SELECT 
The selection offered in this catalogue is the 
most complete made by any grower of seeds or 
plants. At first glance the mere scope of the selec- 
tion may be confusing but each variety has its own 
characteristic and use. 
In mixtures the price range to some extent is 
an index to the capabilities of the variety as to the 
size of flower and richness of color range. The 
more costly are the more highly bred and more 
recent of introduction. There are colors and com- 
binations in these varieties that are not included 
in the older and less costly sorts. From the stand- 
point of quality, however, all Harrold’s Pedigreed 
Strain varieties are grown to a quality not a price. 
BEDDING MIXTURES 
In general there are two distinct groups of 
these. The socalled EXHIBITION GROUP is the 
largest flowered generally and the most useful 
where mass plantings in the most showy colors 
viewed from a distance is desired. The color form- 
ulas usually are of lighter shades that show to 
brilliant effect and this brightness is enhanced by 
the fact that this group has a characteristic smaller 
center blotch and developes more of the self (plain 
colors) than the fancy group. 
The FANCY GROUP gives truly giant flowers 
in the darker and more velvety shades. The center 
blotch is large, covering three and sometimes all 
five petals over as much as half their area. The 
general effect is much darker on overall color tone 
and so at a distance this group does not show so 
brilliantly. However, when viewed as individual 
plants or where planted in spot plantings about the 
garden they are most useful and attractive. 
EXHIBITION MIXTURES 
We consider our Harrold’s Pedigreed Giant 
Art-Shades to be the largest flowered in this class 
and the most desirable. The color range is modern 
and in every way these meet the most popular 
demand. Our Harrold’s Pedigreed Giants are an 
older strain, the parent strain of the Art-Shades 
and are considered still by many of our gardening 
customers to be most preferable. 
FANCY MIXTURES 
This year our new introduction, Harrold’s 
Pedigreed American Giants, of course heads the 
list in this class. This is followed by our Harrold’s 
Pedigreed Swiss Giants which has been our top 
strain in this group for several years. Harrold’s 
Improved Swiss is an old standby prefered by 
many since its introduction back in the ’20-s. 
