GROWERS OF FINE PERENNIALS 13 
ALL PURPOSE CUT AND DECORATIVES — Continued 
DEAN KAY. _Produces a great abundance of excellent rose- 
pink flowers in a profuse mass. 
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. 
a ag plant with excellent cutting stems. 26 inch, 
ept. 17. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
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 de- 
velop spoon tips. Folage 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. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
DWIGHT DOUGLAS. Dazzling golden yellow large dec- 
orative. Medium tall and very free and excellent for cut- 
ting. Blooms October 5th to 8th. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
EARLY WONDER IMPROVED. A great advance in Pink 
pompons. Rich deep pink, not cold or coarse, fine cut flow- 
er, 242 ft., late September. 
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 cut- 
ting stems with durable, center piece or basket blooms. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
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. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
ELSIE. A good, rugged, and productive buttercup yellow. 
It’s really fine. Single, it has closely piled multiple rows 
of petals on a vigorous 214 ft. plant that blooms Oct. 10. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
EMBER. A brilliant glowing bronze, a combination of coral 
and orange shades ever changing with light . Flowers 2% 
inches in diameter. Mid-October. Height 2% feet. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
ENTERPRISE. A really good new one. Tall to the best 
cutting height, it shows tight, big, fully double pompons in 
flat branching sprays. Amaranth. Mid-season. 
POTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
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 
inchwOctad. 
‘ HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
EUGENE A. WANDERER. 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. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
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 
FASCINATION. A show stopper. Perfectly formed giant 
sized, very double, silvery pink flowers on a powerful, 
bloom laden plant is an irresistible combination. Early. 
POTS — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
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. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
FINGER LAKES. This fine Chrysanthemum will be a long 
lasting favorite standard variety. Medium tall in the best 
form, the most pleasing plastic scarlet, giant formal flowers 
in profusion. Mid-season. 
POTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
FIRE ENGINE. (Lehman) Singles are rarely good enough 
for a place in double selections, but this one is. It is a lus- 
trous, deep, dark sheened cardinal red. Early. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
FORTUNE. Mammoth blooms of rich cream blend. Lusty 
2% ft. In full bloom early October. One of the best of 
the new pot plants. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
GENERAL BRADLEY. Exquisite blooms of a superb blend- 
ing of lovely apricot, seashell pink and buff in long stemmed 
clusters from August to heavy frosts. General Bradley has 
all the desired traits one would want in a mum — glorious 
long-lasting and profuse flowering; beautiful form; rich 
healthy green foliage; and extreme hardiness. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
GENERAL MARSHALL. The ray florets are a rich har- 
mony of deep old rose, purple and gold with light buff re- 
verse, slightly incurved, making the petals appear edged 
with gold. The beautiful rich green foliage is clean and 
nealthy from the base throughout the plant. Full double, 
extremely hardy, compact 2ft. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
GENERAL MacARTHUR. A deluge of glowing coppery- 
red. The 214-3 inch blooms seem to glow in the sunlight 
and even on dull days like new shiny copper pennies. The 
stems are upright, rigid and graceful, not easily broken 
down by violent storms. The beautiful dark leaves are very 
resistant to disease. General MacArthur mum is a lavish 
producer from August through to heavy frosts. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
GENISTA. Very early solid yellow pompon of good siz.e 
Dwarf bushy habit. Blooms from the end of August but 
in full bloom by September 12th. New ’53. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
GOBLIN. Airy, graceful habit. Grows to a height of 2 
feet. Produces lovely, distinct, warm golden bronze flow- 
ers, fully double. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
GOLDEN SUNSET. An immense burnished copper with a 
ruby center. One of the largest and most showy of recent 
introductions. Good cut flower, a prolific decorator from 
Oct. 1 to frost. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
GOLDEN SURPRISE. New 1952. Hurley. Excellent, very 
early, tightly knit, double variety. Flowers deep lemon 
chrome and slightly incurved. Foliage lustrous and disease 
resistant. Cut and garden. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
GONDOLIER. New (Bristol) 3-4 inch flowers, very full, 
very deep, shining with bright crimson to claret. At the 
height of its season it is faintly dusted with that distinctive 
Chrysanthemum silver. Strong, clean, 2% ft. Excellent 
cutter. September. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $4.00; Per 100, $35.00 
GOVERNOR DUFF. Early. 18”. A tightly knit, fully double 
bright orange bronze pompon. More than 2” across, the 
blooms are firm, and densely petaled. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
HILDEGARDE. English. Carefully selected variety—cer- 
tain to bloom about mid-season, largest 5” double blooms in 
such heavy profusion that foliage is obscured. Color is light 
salmon-pink, all its own, with a bright orange reverse that 
keeps it attractive right through until frost. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
