SPRINGFIELD SEED COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 17 
PRICES: All Packets are 10c Each, Postpaid, except as noted. 
CALENDULA 
RADIO CALENDULA. A large double 
bloom of a deep shade of golden yellow 
with attractively quilled petals. Orange 
King, Lemon King. 
ORANGE SHAGGY (New). Closely set, 
irreguiarly placed long narrow petals, 
beautifully fringed or lacinated, giving 
the flower the frilled or shaggy appear- 
ance of some Chrysanthemums. 
SENSATION (Campfire). Brilliant orange 
with crimson sheen. 
RADIO. Rich orange blooms with quilled 
petals. 
CALLIOPSIS 
Mixed colors. Sow early and thin to 12 
inches apart. Easily grown. Beautiful 
for either garden or cut flower decora- 
tion. 
CANDYTUFT 
They soon flower from seed and remain 
long in bloom. When massed in flower 
beds and edgings they are unsurpassed. 
Make splendid cut bouquets. 
CANNAS, Large Flowering 
You all Know how easily they can be 
grown from the roots; well they can be 
just as easily grown from seed. Soak 
seed 24 hours in warm water. Sown in 
February should bloom all colors in July. 
CANTERBURY BELLS 
A biennial which seeds itself. WHasily 
grown and fine for rock garden or in the 
border. Mixed colors. 
CARNATIONS 
Always in demand and can be easily 
grown in your own garden. They are just 
like regular greenhouse blooms except 
that they are a trifle smaller. Mixed. 
CASTOR BEANS (Ricinus) 
Well adapted for backgrounds along the 
side or back garden fence. Moles won’t 
bother a garden hedged with Castor 
Beans. 
CENTAUREA 
This is a very hardy annual, flowering 
all summer. Very easily grown. A fine 
border plant and very showy. Bachelor’s 
Button or Corn Flower. Also Dusty 
Miller. 
CHINESE 
FORGET-ME-NOT 
Very fine for cutting. Grows 18 to 24 
inches tall and are covered with vivid 
Forget-Me-Not blooms. Mixed. 
CHINESE WOOLFLOWER 
(Celosia Childsi.) A variety of Cocks- 
corn Fine for winter bouquets. Mixed 
shades. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Sown in April they begin flowering in 
July. Pinch back to encourage branch- 
ing. They make delightful border plants 
and beautiful bouquets throughout the 
summer. Mixed. 
COBAEA 
COBAEA (Cup and Saucer Vine). A rap- 
id climber; fine for trellises, arbors, etc.; 
clings to any rough surface. Place seeds 
in the ground edgewise and cover with 
light soil. Purple, Pure White. 
COLEUS 
COLEUS (Flame Nettle). An attractive 
foliage plant for house or garden. Very 
interesting to grow from seed, easily 
raised. Sow in March or April. Pkt., 25c. 
COSMOS 
Cosmos 
FIESTA COSMOS. 1952 Silver 
Medal award was given this an- 
nual Klondyke Cosmos. It has 
extra petals, similar to Orange 
Flare. Petals are striped with 
scarlet. The first-bi-colored flower of its 
kind. Pkt., 25c. 
EARLY KLONDYKE ORANGE FLARE. 
The Grand Champion Gold Medal Winner. 
The unanimous choice of all judges in the 
All-American Competition for 1935. Bright 
vivid orange, very free flowering, with a 
sparce growth of light green foliage, the 
plants are in full flower less than four 
months from the time of planting, and 
are a mass of color all season. The sen- 
sation of the year. 
EARLY DOUBLE CRESTED. Showy 
plants, 3 to 4 feet tall, covered with a 
mass of lovely, large flowers. Our strain 
produces a large percentage of double 
blooms. 
CYPRESS VINE 
(Ipomoea Quamoclit) 
Half Hardy Annual Climber, 15 Feet 
A beautiful vine of very rapid growth, 
with delicately cut fern-like foliage and 
producing in abundance dainty star- 
shaped scarlet and white flowers. Sow 
when the weather is warm, or seed may 
be started indoors. Soak over night in 
warm water previous to sowing. 
DAHLIAS 
Can be easily raised from seed and will 
bloom the first year. One of the best 
late summer flowering plants. 
DAISIES 
SHASTA. Flowers very large and grace- 
ful, pure white, single. Grow on long, 
stiff, wiry stems. 
DELPHINIUM 
Delphinium are hardy, 
free blooming. 
and lime the 
planted. 
Delphinium, Belladona. 
Delphinium, Bellamosum. 
Delphinium, Giant Hybrids, Mixed. 
DIANTHUS 
A lovely class of annual flowers for 
beds, borders and cutting. Of easy cul- 
ture. Blooms from July until frost. 
GRASS PINKS. The delicately fringed 
flowers are fragrant and fine for bou- 
quets. 
SPECIAL MIXTURE. 
ture of double pinks. 
vigorous and 
Soak the seed over night, 
soil where they are to be 
A splendid mix- 
DIGITALIS 
THE SHIRLEY. Stately spikes growing 
up to 7 feet tall, closely set with large 
bells, in many bright colors. Some dotted 
with crimson or chocolate. 
FORGET-ME-NOT (Myosotis). 
FOUR-O’CLOCK, Mixed. 
GAILLARDIA, Single Mixed. 
GAILLARDIA, Double Mixed. 
GAILLARDIA, Perennial Mixed. 
GODETIA. 
GOMPHRENA (Globe Amaranth). 
GOURDS, Mixed. 
HELIANTHUS or SUNFLOWER. 
HELICHRYSUM, Mixed Colors. 
HELIOTROPE. 
HIBISCUS. 
HOLLYHOCK, Double Mixed. 
JAPANESE HOP VINE. 
JOB’S TEARS. 
KOCHIA (Mexican Fire Bush). 
KUDZU VINE (Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk. 
LANTANA. 
LARKSPUR, Tall Double Mixed. 
LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS (Perennial or 
Everlasting Pea). 10c pkt.; 30c per oz. 
LUPINE 
MAYFAIR HYBRID. Easily grown on 
poor soil but insists on good drainage. 
Carries long graceful spikes of rich and 
various colored flowers. 
Marigold 
GLITTERS 
MARIGOLDS 
Received the Bronze Medal All America 
award for 1951. Large, tall and double 
Chrysanthemum-flowered beauty. Height 
is 21% to 4 feet, is bushy with long stems 
for cutting. Flowers are a clear yellow, 
measuring 3 to 4 inches across and fringed 
at outer petals. 25c per packet. 
MARIGOLDS 
They light the garden with a glitter of 
yellow and gold from July far into the 
frosts of autumn. 
DOUBLE TALL AFRICAN VARIETIES. 
Lemon Ball. Mixed shades of yellow and 
orange. Orange Ball. 
DWARF FRENCH DOUBLE. Mahogany, 
Lemon Queen, Double Dwarf Mixed 
(Pride of the Garden). 
DWARF SINGLE FRENCH. Legion of 
Honor. Golden yellow marked with a 
large spot of velvety crimson at the base 
of each petal. Golden Star, Marigold 
Mixed. 
GUINEA GOLD. A brilliant orange, very 
double and ruffled with loose lace petals. 
This is a new and distinct type. 
