16 SPRINGFIELD SEED COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 
FLOWER SEEDS 
Loads of Beautiful Flowers 
The flowers outside a home largely re- 
veal the character within. 
From just a few packets of seeds you 
will be able to cut flowers all summer. 
Flowers. germinate quickly. All are 
tested and sent to you in big full- 
measure packets with instructions for 
planting on the back of each. 
We also aré offering plants of many of 
our finer varieties. All are grown from 
the finest selected seed stocks, trans- 
planted and ‘‘topped,’’ which means 
healthy, vigorous tops, as well as sturdy 
roots. Send your order for plants right 
along with your seed order and we will 
mail the plants at the proper planting 
time. 
DWARF PURPLE PERFECTION. Deep- 
est blue. One of the best bedding plants. 
Splendid for borders or edging, bloom- 
ing the entire season. 
Pretty little plants for beds or vases, 
blooming all summer long. Very sweetly 
scented. 
ROYAL CARPET ALYSSUM. 
ie The Silver Medal Award for 
1953 was given by the All-Amer- 
ica reviewing committee. For 
use as ground covers, low 
edgings to beds and borders or 
for rock and wall gardens. Only 2 inches 
tall when full grown, the plants are 
covered with blooms of the _ richest, 
deepest violet. The sheet of blossoms 
measure about 10 to 12 inches across, 
practically concealing the foliage of the 
plant. Very uniform in type and color. 
Pkt., 25c. 
LITTLE GEM. Very dwarf, excellent for 
borders. Snow white, lacy flowers, meas- 
uring about 4 to 6 inches across. 
COMPACTUM YELLOW. These golden 
yellow flowers are showy for perennial 
borders and beds. 
(Tri-Color Splendens — Joseph’s Coat). 
Very useful in borders of tall plants, 
among shrubs, or for centers of large 
beds. Grows 2% feet tall. Inner foliage 
is of blackest bronze tipped with green. 
Outer foliage scarlet and gold. 
ANTIRRHINUM or 
Excellent for garden and cut flowers. 
Rust resistant. White, Crimson, Yellow 
or Pink. Pkt., 25c. 
SUPER MAJESTIC MIXED. Giant flower- 
ed. Plants are 16 to 20 inches tall. Best 
for home gardening. 
AQUILEGIA or 
An early grown hardy perennial. Plants 
last for years. Sow eitheer in spring or 
fally Pkt, 25¢. 
$3 — 8 eo ey 
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ASTERS 
Early sorts begin blooming in July, fol- 
lowed by the midseason sorts, which are 
at their best in August. Then come the 
late blooming kinds which bloom through 
September and October. 
Aster, Crego 
Improved 
CREGO ASTERS. This variety produces 
the largest flowers of the comet type. 
Very full and fluffy, 4 to 5 inches in di- 
ameter. When cut they outlast all other 
types. 
Mixed colors. 
EARLY BEAUTY MIXED. Large flowers 
on long stout stems. 
GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA. Large Crego 
type flowers. Plants about 3 feet tall. 
Late summer to frost. Mixed. 
POWDER PUFF 
Hspecially adapted to home gardening 
with colors of pink, azure, rose, crimson, 
white, scarlet and blue. Both wilt re- 
sistant and early. Fully double flowers. 
Pkt. 25c: 
PRINCESS. Plants have branching habit 
bearing quantities of 3 to 34% inch flowers 
on strong stems. Attractive cutting type. 
Alice, azure blue 
Goldilocks, yellow 
Nancy, salmon pink 
Pat, bright crimson 
Elizabeth, white Pkt., 20c. 
SUPER GIANT MIXED. .A true giant, 
wilt resistant strain. Ostrich-feather 
flowers borne on plants 3 ft. high. Blooms 
from late summer to frost. Mixed. 
BALSAM 
The old-fashioned Camelia- flowered 
“Touch-Me-Not’’ or ‘‘Lady’s Slipper.’’ 
Produces a great profusion of brilliantly 
colored blooms. 
CALENDULA 
A hardy annual of the marigold family. 
Grows well in any good soil, producing 
flowers until frost. Fine for cutting 
Lemon Queen; Orange King. Double 
finest. Mixed. 
CALLIOPSIS 
SEMI-DOUBLE GOLDEN CROWN. Sow 
early and thin to 12 inches apart. Easily 
grown. Beautiful for either garden or cut 
flower decoration. 
CAMPANULA or 
CANTERBURY BELLS 
A hardy biennial, growing best in a 
rich, light soil. A profusion of bell-shaped 
flowers. Double, Pkt., 10c. Single, Pkt., 
10c. New Annual Mixed, Pkt., 25c. 
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. Mixed. 
CARDINAL CLIMBER 
A rapid growing vine, very attractive. 
Foliage is  fern-like and _laciniated. 
Cardinal red flowers from mid-summer 
to frost. 
CARNATIONS 
CHAUBAD’S GIANT DOUBLE. Starts 
blooming five months from time of seed- 
ing and continues to bloom throughout 
the sumer. Double mixed. 
MARGUERITE DOUBLE. A fine bedding 
type, blooming 5 months from sowing 
time. Very fragrant flowers on good 
stems. 
CASTOR BEANS (Ricinus) 
Well adapted for backgrounds along the 
side or back garden fence. Moles won’t 
bother a garden hedged with Castor 
eans. 
CELOSIA PLUMOSA 
PAMPAS PLUME. Giant-flowered strain 
in distinctly new shades of bronze, cop- 
per gold and sunset. Pkt., 20c. 
GOLDEN FLEECE. Feathery spikes of 
pee golden yellow on good stems. Pkt., 
Oc. 
CHILDSI 
Chinese Wool Flower 
Splendid for garden display and valued 
for cutting. Wooly flower heads of pink, 
yellow or crimson. 
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. 
CLARKIA 
A free blooming hardy annual. 
are showy and bloom for months. 
and fine for table decorations. 
COBAEA SCANDENS 
(Cathedral Bells). A half hardy per- 
ennial and one of the best climbers. Its 
purple flowers are large and bell-shaped. 
COIX—Job’s Tears 
Ornamental grass which is fine for win- 
ter bouquets. 
COREOPSIS 
DOUBLE NEW GOLD. A fine golden 
yellow hardy perennial flower which 
blooms most of the season. 
COSMOS 
GIANT FLOWERED MIXED. Fast grow- 
ing hardy plants with feathery green 
foliage. 
Flowers 
Double 
