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NEW INTRODUCTIONS 
CELOSIA, Toreador (Cockscomb). Bronze 
Medal, All-America Selections, 1955. A 
very large comb of rich, lustrous bright red. 
Can be used for garden display, for cutting 
and drying for winter arrangements. Height Pkg. 
18 to 20 inches 
COLUMBINE, McKana’s Giant Hybrid 
(Aquilegia). Bronze Medal, All-America 
Selections, 1955. The first perennial to re- 
celve an award in recent years. Large, 
showy flowers with long spurs, widely flared. 
Colors include white, yellow, red, pink, 
rose, cream and violet. Flowers 3 to 414% 
inches across, with 3-inch spurs. Strong, 
free-blooming plants 20 to 26 inches tall... . 
PETUNIA, Prima Donna. Bronze Medal, 
All-America Selections, 1955. Bears a pro- 
fusion of bright rose-pink, well-fringed 
flowers 3% to 4 inches in diameter. Dwarf, 
compact and vigorous plant about a foot 
high. Shows color early and is a free 
bloomer 
AFRICAN DAISY, Mixed Colors (Dimorpho- 
theca). Daisy-like flowers about 31% inches 
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across, in a wide range of colors. Used for Pkg. 
cutting, edging and rock-gardens........... 
AGERATUM, Biue Perfection. An annual 
with large heads of deep blue flowers on 
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Blue Wonder. Very dwarf strain of the finest 
compact type. Large flowers 4 to 5 inches 
above the ground. Splendid for borders, edg- 
ING and ‘POtsmakscke ee re 
ALYSSUM, Carpet of Snow. Low, creeping 
annual; plant about 3 inches high, with 
heads of tiny, fragrant white flowers all sum- 
mer. Used for edging, window-boxes, etc. 
Royal Carpet. Top All-America Winner for 
1953. A neat and well-behaved edging for 
the flower bed. Grows only a few inches high 
but 10 inches across. Flowers when only a 
few weeks old until end of season. Color vi- 
brant purplevees ie. sects er ee oe 
Saxatile, Basket of Gold. Perennial. Gray- 
green foliage and half-shrubby plants covered 
with a mass of bright yellow flowers in spring. 
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Violet Queen. Annual. Dwarf, compact 
plant covered with small violet-colored 
flowers. A free bloomer.................. 
AMARANTHUS, Molten Fire (“Summer Poin- 
settia). Dark foliage, with brilliant poin- 
settia-like flower heads. Grows 4 feet high. 
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Tricolor Mixed. Large leaves of brilliant red, 
scarlet and yellow. An annual reaching 3 
PEGE Ss. eee ne oR ets nee pete ee courcae 
ASTER, American Branching Wilt-resistant, 
Mixed. Free branching plants with large, 
compact flowers in all the Aster colors. A 
Splendidslate AStenm i ee erica es 
Wilt-resistant Super Giants. Largest of all 
Asters and a superb cut-flower because of its 
long, wiry, non-branching stems and huge, 
ostrich-feather flowers. Until now its use has 
been sharply restricted because of its lack of 
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Our Aster seeds are grown by a leading California flower-seed 
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Hower Seeds 
Giant Crego, Wilt-resistant Strain, Mixed. 
Beautiful, long-stemmed flowers of lacy form 
like Japanese chrysanthemums. Shades of 
crimson, rose, violet, pale blue, pink, white, 
etc. One of the most popular of the Annual 
Asters. The plants are strong and produce Pkg. 
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Wilt-resistant Strain, Blue, Red, Pink, and 
White. We offer these in separate colors. ... 
Powderpuffs, Mixed. New wilt-resistant va- 
riety. Wide range of colors. Plants bear 3 
to 34%-inch flowers in such abundance that 
the foliage literally cannot be seen. Blooms 
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Queen of the Market, Wilt-resistant, 
Mixed. Early-flowering variety of branch- 
ing habit with long stems for cutting........ 
BALSAM, Camellia-flowered, Double, Mixed. 
Quick-growing, hot-weather annuals with 
brilliant, double, waxy flowers of curious 
shape all up the stems. Scarlet, crimson, 
pink, white, and many intermediate and 
variegated shades............... 
BALSAM APPLE (Momordica). An attractive 
annual climbing vine with large yellow flowers 
andeapple-shapednt ults saan arias 
BLACK-EYED SUSAN, Fine Mixed (Thun- 
bergia). Yellow, buff and orange shades, 
with black eye. Pretty little vine for hanging- 
baskets, window-boxes and for use as a trail- 
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BLUE LACE FLOWER (Didiscus czxrulea). 
Annual. Plants 114 feet high, with lacy heads 
of azure-blue flowers. A fine cut-flower..... 
CALENDULA, Ball’s Orange. Very popular 
annual cut-flowers. Big, circular blooms of 
many vivid orange-yellow petals......... 
CALLIOPSIS, Mixed. Graceful annual plants 
blooming all summer, with lovely daisy-like 
flowers of red, orange, and gold............ 
CANDYTUFT, Umbellata, White (Jberis). 
An annual with immense spikes of pure 
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Umbellata, Finest Mixed. Pretty cutting 
annual about a foot high with spikes of flow- 
ers of various shades of pink, white, red, and 
purple. Blooms quickly from seed in early 
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CANTERBURY BELL, Cup and Saucer (Cam- 
panula Medium Calycanthema). Biennial. 
Plants bloom profusely. Shades of pink, 
bluetand,whiteree hem seme eee ee oe 
CARDINAL CLIMBER ([pomea Quamoclit). 
An annual climber with fern-like foliage cov- 
ered with a blaze of cardinal-red flowers in 
latelsummnersand tal lees 
CARNATION, Marguerite, Mixed. Beautiful 
double flowers of various colors with spicy 
RRP, MOEN coon onansocoasdauennn 
Chabaud’s Giant Improved. An annual 
with double blooms 2 inches in diameter, 
deeply fringed. Profuse bloomer; 1144 to 2 
feet: tall St rine sox gerner. hic eh ean ie eer oo en eae 
Grenadin Mixed. A _ perennial Carnation 
bearing large, double, fringed flowers. 
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CENTAUREA, Jubilee Gem. Annual. Dwarf 
compact plants covered with double dark 
blue flowers. Very distinct. Height 12 nches. 
Blue (Bachelor’s Button). Annual. The lovely 
Cornflower with rich blue flowers. Excellent 
for cutting 
OROL LEDDEN & SONS, Sewell, N. J. 
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