Michells All Popular 
No other flower has achieved more popularity. The Petunia is a plant that can be 
attractively used in an endless number of ways. New and charming colors and forms add 
to the interest of these indispensable garden flowers. They thrive in various climatic con- 
ditions and can be used in a perennial border, or in a rock garden; they also effectively 
combine with other garden flowers, and a garden entirely of Petunias is a delightful picture. 
PETUNIA, Comanche 
Glow 
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All-America Selections Bronze Medal Winner for 1953. 
The only Petunia receiving an All-America Award this season. This new single scarlet is the 
deepest red Petunia ever offered. The flowers 
and a fast grower. 
are 21% to 3 inches across, very free blooming 
Plants are base branching, semi-compact, quite dwarf. Brilliant for borders. 
Excellent for bedding. Colorful in pots or window boxes. Judged by experts to be superior to 
any other variety in its color class. The brightest color Petunia ever bred. See color plate, page 2. 
Pkt. 35c, large pkt. $1.75. 
PETUNIA, Ballerina 
All-America Selection Winner. This single Hybrid Petunia is a very dwarf compact type, 
with beautifully fringed glowing salmon flowers, An excellent variety for bedding, also the 
blooms keep well when cut for house decoration. See color plate, page 2 
Pkt. 35c, large pkt. $2.00. 
DWARF SINGLE FLOWERED 
Admiral Improved. Flowers are a rich vio- 
let-blue, slightly waved. The plants are 
compact and upright in habit. 
Pkt. 35c, large: pkt. $1.00. 
Bluebird. An excellent bedding variety. Me- 
dium-sized flowers of a deep blue color. 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 50c. 
Celestial Rose. Compact; deep rose. Excel- 
lent for bedding. Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 50c. 
Cheerful. Bronze Medal. Flowers are 
(a) clear salmon-pink, 234 inches and more 
across. Pkt. 25c, large pkt. $1.00. 
Cream Star. Silver Medal. Moundlike plants 
8 to 10 inches tall. Each dainty white 
flower is marked with a cream-colored 
star. Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
English Violet. Honorable Mention. Almost 
the same beautiful color as English 
(a) Violets. The plants grow normally 15 
Fire 
inches high, quite compact. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Chief. Gold Medal Winner. (Bodger.) 
Fire Chief is in the Hybrida nana com- 
pacta class, a dwarf, compact-growing, 
bedding Petunia. Height is about 12 
to 15 inches. Color is a bright scarlet-red, 
a color lacking in this class until now. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c, 1/32 oz. $1.75. 
Cheerful 
velvety 
Produces a pro- 
with a 
igloo. 
a) 
Flaming Velvet. Rich, brilliant, 
blood-red, medium-sized flowers. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
General Dodds. A fine bedding variety. Rich 
velvety blood-red blooms. 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 75c. 
Glow, Nana Compacta. Silver Medal. Me- 
dium-sized, single flowers of a very in- 
OY intense glowing carmine-rose, measur- 
ing 21 inches across. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Howard’s Star, Improved. 
fusion of crimson-maroon flowers, 
distinct five-pointed white star. 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 75c. 
Bronze Medal. Pure white flowers of 
medium size with a slight yellow throat. 
The plants are uniformly compact 
throughout the season, and continue to 
flower until frost. Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Rose of Heaven. Rich, brilliant rose color. 
Pkt. 10c, large pkt. 60c, %4 oz. $1.50. 
Rosy Morn. Dwarf, bushy plants, bearing in 
great profusion brilliant rose-colored flowers 
with white throats. 
Pkt. 10c, large pkt. 50c, 14 oz. $1.25. 
Rose Queen. Brilliant rose-pink. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Pkt. 
(se, WAL Gye 
colors. 
large pkt. 
Petunia 
Color 
Collection 
1 packet each of the 
five Petunias illusrat- 
ed on these pages. 
$1.10, Postpaid 
Dwarf Single Mixed. A dwarf-flower- 
ing type with medium-size flowers 
produced in profusion. Excellent for 
bedding and borders. Choice mixed 
25c, 
$1.50. | 
Salmon Supreme. A distinct color in bed- 
ding Petunias. Clear salmon-pink flowers 
that make an attractive display. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Silver Blue (Heavenly Blue). Makes a fine 
bedding variety combined with Rosy Morn. 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 50c, % oz. $2.25. 
Silver Medal. Silver Medal Winner. When 
first open they are lustrous salmon- 
(aS) cerise with orange-undertone, gradually 
7 changing to rich salmon. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. $1.75. 
Snowball. A fine, compact sort, producing a 
profusion of satiny white flowers. : 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 75c. 
Velvet Ball (Dwarf Flaming Velvet). The 
plants reach a height of about 8 inches 
(ss) and the blooms are comparatively 
large, being about 21% inches in diam- 
eter, well shaped, deep velvety blood-red. 
Pkt. 25c, large pkt. $1.00. 
Violacea. Plants of erect, dwarf type. Beau- 
tiful deep violet flowers. 
Pkt. 15c, large pkt. 60c. 
Violet Queen. A true bright violet color 
which will not fade. Pkt. 25c, large pkt. 75c. 
Choice Mixed. Pkt. 10c, 
large pkt. 40c, %4 oz. $1.25, oz. $3.50. 
