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 experience and breeding that has gone 
into the development of this Harrold’s Pedigreed 
Strain line of Pansies affords you the ultimate in 
variety and quality in this ever popular group of 
plants. Every bedding plant retailer needs good 
Pansies each spring and always finds them one of 
his most popular and profitable items. They are 
easily grown with a minimum of equipment and 
with few exceptions are perfectly hardy in outdoor 
cultures anywhere in the U.S, A. and most of 
Canada. 
With the exception of our Harrold’s Pedigreed 
Cut-Flower Pansies TALL SELECTION, all the 
varieties offered in this catalogue should prove 
suitable for wintering in outdoor beds or cold- 
frames. In severe climates, good drainage, soil 
loose enough to prevent heaving from freezing and 
a light mulch should see your plantings through 
the winter easily. 
PLANTING SCHEDULES 
We are enclosing a card hanger which gives 
a basic outline of the usual planting schedules 
followed by most commercial growers. You may 
want to vary this some to meet your own require- 
ments but it will be found to be a rather generally 
applicable schedule for those growers who are new 
producers. We have punched this card so it may 
be hung in a convenient spot in your workroom to 
remind you of this schedule. 
GROW MORE PANSIES 
If you have not already been growing Pansies 
you will find them to be a very valuable line 
with your other bedding plants. You will find 
Harrold’s Pedigreed Pansies the most desirable to 
grow. The line is so complete, (The most extensive 
in America) that no matter what your require- 
ments are some of the varieties will fill it best. 
If you buy seedling plants, ask your grower 
to supply you Harrold’s Pedigreed Varieties or 
better still contact him now and place your season- 
al order for Harrold’s Pansies so that he will be 
sure to have enough for you. 
Where you plant and produce your own seed- 
lings, be sure to plant enough to meet the brisk 
demand. If you have not been planting the seeds 
for your requirements, try some this year. You’ll 
find it is not as difficult as you may think and 
there is a good profit in this home culture, not 
only from the cost of the plants but also from the 
saving in transportation costs. As we have all 
learned these past few years, quite often, the 
saving of transportation costs alone gives a pretty 
fair profit in producing many items we once bought 
as finished material. This is especially true if you 
are situated where you have to ship over a con- 
siderable distance. 
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 brighimess 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 dowers 
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 mot 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. 
