CONDITIONS OF SALE 
All items are offered subject to availability. Orders for bulbs and 
plants must total over Three Dollars. Remit by postal order if 
possible. Checks accepted in amounts over Two Dollars. Send any 
actual cash by registered mail. On items ordered from this catalog 
only, WE PAY TRANSPORTATION to U.S. points east of the 
Mississippi. Add 5% for U.S. destinations west of that river. Add 
15% for Canada. Safe arrival in growable condition guaranteed 
September through November, and again, April through June 15th. 
PEARCE SEED COMPANY 
MOORESTOWN NEW JERSEY 
AUTUMN SEED-GROWING 
Seeds of many hardy perennials, bulbs, shrubs and trees need 
exposure to low soil temperatures in order to germinate. They are 
best handled by sowing in open ground seed beds or frames, from 
late October, on through early winter, germination expected in 
spring. This includes seeds of Lilies, Primulas, Gentians, Irises, 
Aconitum and the some hundreds of others marked in our General 
Catalog #61 with the cultural key letters KT, YT, or Y. We suggest 
that you order seeds of these groups now. House plant seeds, key 
letter W, may be sown under glass year around. If you do not have 
General Catalog #61 already, please write us for a copy now. It 
will come quickly. 
THE RARE FRANKLINIA 
The FRANKLIN TREE makes 
a handsome, large shrub, thriving 
under Azalea conditions, and win- 
ter-hardy at Buffalo. It blooms in 
late summer and autumn, big, 
wax-white blossoms, one petal odd- 
ly cupped, centered each with a 
golden tassel. One of the few au- 
tumn-blooming shrubs. It can be 
trained to a single stem as a small 
tree, but left to itself it will make 
several branching stems. Foliage 
becomes scarlet in late fall. Ilus- 
trated opposite. Not difficult from 
seed. 8 seeds for 25c; 50 for $1.25; 
100 seeds for $2.00; 500 seeds for 
$9.00. Plants, one year and over, 
from seed, 7 inches up of height, 
each $1.30; 3 for $3.60. They grow 
rather rapidly, blooming usually at 
about 3 feet. Franklinia Alata- 
maha. 
IRIS FROM PALESTINE 
Two lovely and unusual Irises of 
the Oncocyclus group, from the 
near east. They like well-drained soil, full sun, a rather dry, 
warm, summer rest, and, in cold areas, some winter protection. 
May also be handled as pot plants. Supplied as dormant roots. 
IRIS NAZARENA—Found near Nazareth in Palestine. Large, 
handsome, creamy flowers, the standards veiled and dotted blue, 
the falls stippled chocolate, this deepening at center 
to velvety black. Perhaps loveliest of the rare 
Oncocyclus Irises. Each $3.75; 3 for $10.00. 
IRIS SUSIANA—Unusual Persian Iris, illustrated 
opposite. Large, silvery grey flowers, veined and 
stippled in a brown so dark it approaches black. 
Will make a showy, and unusual, pot plant. Each 
$2.00; 3 for $5.50. 
THE OSTRICH-PLUME HYACINTH 
The floret petals are deeply shredded, curled and 
crisped until the whole spike becomes a great plume 
of feathery lavender lilac. Fullest winter hardiness. An aberrant 
giant Muscari. Illustrated on front cover. 3 for 50c; 8 for 95c: 
21 for $2.00 ; 100 for $7.85. i 
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