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Garden 
Parade 
Each year the All America Selections 
Committee chooses new flowers and 
vegetables which have been proved 
noteworthy and presents Gold, Sil- 
ver and Bronze medals. 
This year, after two years when no 
new vegetables were found worthy of 
these awards, two winners have been 
announced: a hybrid sweetcorn, 
GOLDEN BEAUTY and a musk- 
melon—PENNSWEET. 
Flowers selected are: McKANA’S 
GIANT aquilegia (columbine) TO- 
READOR celosia (cockscomb) and 
PRIMA DONNA hybrid petunia. 
YETI 
It 
Takes 
GOLDEN BEAUTY HYBRID 
SWEETCORN 
Silver Medal 
PENNSWEET MUSKMELON 
Bronze Medal 
Very early, with small size fruit. 
PENNSWEET is a good yielder of 
high quality and sweet thick flesh. 
Recommended especially for short 
season areas. 
This is an especially valuable early 
variety because of its good quality, 
yield, disease resistance, attractive 
appearance and color. 
GOLDEN BEAUTY is recommended 
for short season areas. It is valuable 
as an early home garden and local 
market corn and may also prove to 
be a good commercial variety. 12 to 14 
rows of golden yellow kernels of 
medium depth and white silks. 
Vines are fairly vigorous with several 
melons, 142 to 2 pounds, slightly 
longer than wide and very thick 
fleshed. Flesh color is salmon to 
orange and skin is greenish yellow 
when ripe, practically no seed cavity. 
Wr OES NSIS. SINS LX 
Good Seed For 
A Flower 
It is most economical to buy seed varieties best suited to your locality, and 
every item of garden seed in this book is good seed—the finest quality to be 
had anywhere, at any price. 
The best seeds cost only a few cents more than those offered by an unknown 
seed firm or from a dealer who emphasizes cheap prices, so why waste the 
time and money on something nondescript that will be disappointing? 
We are seed specialists of long experience and your garden’s future is safe in 
our hands. Drop in and talk it over with us, our knowledge and experience are 
at your command. 
Planning Your Garden 
A well-planned garden is made on paper first. The main reason for this is to 
keep most of your ground producing throughout the growing season. 
Start with a rough sketch. Try all of your ideas in combination on this rough 
sketch. When you have what you want, convert it into a final plan, drawn to 
scale. A scale of one-quarter inch representing one foot works very well be- 
cause by using one sixteenth of an inch as three inches, almost any standard 
spacing of the rows can be shown in exact scale. 
Even if you have only a small yard, you can put vegetables here and there in 
your flower borders—not in rows, but grouped informally among the flowers. 
Or, you might border your vegetable bed with small growing perennials of 
neat habit, such as thyme, germander, lavender, or any neat annual which 
grows over a long period, such as dwarf French marigolds. snapdragons 
Copyright, 1955, GARDEN PUBLICATIONS, INC., Nashville, Tenn. 
Cover photograph courtesy of HOUSEHOLD Magazine, 
Capper Publications, Inc. Photographer: Gottscho-Schleisner 
