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Our 1953 Surprise Collection 
44C1 —You save 40% or more by ordering this 
colorful collection. It includes every color and type 
listed in this catalog. If you want an abundance of 
blooms for color display and bouquets and care 
little for names, let our expert growers select your 
mum garden. Only best named varieties used and 
all plants first quality, regular 2% in. pot size plants 
shipped with ball of earth around roots. (All plants 
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Our Best Large Flowering “English By | ums 
$2.25 
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SPRING HILL'S SURE-TO-BLOOM CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANTS 
We grow several hundred-thousand field 
clumps each year and select only the most 
choice Mother plants when blooming for 
asexual propagation. This insures true re- 
production of finest quality. We ship well- 
rooted 2% inch pot plants with a good, solid 
ball of earth. Experience proves these are 
the most practical, most reliable, most satis- 
The varieties we sell have all been tested in 
our nursery and selected as the best of their: 
color from over one hundred varieties. They 
all bloom in early October or earlier and 
produce exhibition blooms that win the 
prizes. = 
BEACON—44C2—F ull, double 4 inch flow- 
ers on sturdy, healthy, hardy plants. This 
is one of the largest and best. Flaming- 
scarlet-orange shaded apricot. 
CHESTER CASTLE—44C3—Lovely soft salmon- 
pink with abundance of extra large, double 
blooms. Early flowering; strong growing, 
one of the hardiest and best. 
GEORGE McLEODE—44C4—Large, incurved 
florist-type of rich, golden-yellow. This is 
the largest and brightest of all yellows. 
iINDIANA—44C5—This is our best, bright 
red English mum for color and profusion of 
big, well shaped, tomato-red blooms. Es- 
pecially good for exhibition. 
NELROSE — 44C6—Perfect shaped, extra 
large blooms with thick, frost resistant 
petals of rich lavender. A prize winner. 
WESTBOURNE—44C7—Brilliant deep crim- 
son flecked with gold at center, amber re- 
verse petals: Nice, erect blooms on strong 
plants. 
Choice of above six English mums, 
55c ea.; 3 for $1.50; 12 for $5.75. 
factory, most economical and will produce 
by far the largest, healthiest, free blooming 
plants by fall. This is the reason we plant 
pot plants each spring in our fields for the 
vigorous, healthy blooming plants we grow. 
Each year we receive hundreds of letters 
from customers complimenting us on our 
fine mum plants. 
Big Greenhouse 
Chrysanthemums 
‘*Football Mums”’ Be 
Grow them in your: garden. The following 
are giant blooming varieties, grown by com- 
mercial florists, that bloom in October. They 
must be taken up and potted in the North 
or given protection as they are not winter 
hardy. To produce the extra large blooms — 
fertilize plants, also be sure to stake. Plants 
grown this way are magnificent. Chrysan- 
themums are strong feeders and respond to 
both commercial and organic fertilizer. = 
BLAZING GOLD—44C9—Huge, bright, gol- 
den-yellow, incurved. 
MAJOR BOWES—44C10—The most popular, 
large, incurved pink. = 
DETROIT NEWS — 44C11 — Our finest large, © 
‘incurved flaming-bronze. Is 
MRS. DAVID F. ROY — 44€12—Huge, in- 
curved red with gold reverse, very popular. © 
MAYFORD TRIUMPH — 44C€14 — New, early, 
glowing red; recommended for trial. 
MRS. H. E. KIDDER — 44€15 — Big, yellow, 
greatest prize winner of all. ; 
SMITH’S EARLY WHITE—44C16—The largest 
and best of the large whites grown.., ; 
INDIANAPOLIS PINK—44C17 — Huge, in- 
curved flowers of bright rose-pink with 
silvery-white reverse. 
HILDA BERGEN — 44C€18 — Deep reddish- 
bronze. Magnificent size and shape. 
PINK CHIEF — 44C19 — The earliest of all. 
Large, glowing pink. 
SILVER SHEEN—44C20—Highest rated white 
by National Chry. Society. : 
PATRIE—44C2 1— Unusual aster-purple with 
silver reverse. 
Choice of above 12 large greenhouse 
chrysanthemums, 40c each; 3 for 
98c; 6 for $1.85. _ 
BIG GREENHOUSE MUM GARDEN 
44CG22 — One each of 12 large Greenhouse 
Mums listed 
1 2 for °3.48 
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