TRY THESE FINE NEW FLOWERS FOR 1955 
Here are some newly developed flowers for your garden, all easily grown from seed. Each is the best in its 
class ready to display its beauty of color and form for your gardening pleasure. Try them this spring. 
ASTER, Powderpuffs, Mixed 
A new Bouquet type with 2-foot, V-shaped plants 
one foot across, topped with 15 or 20 fully double 
“puff ball” cutflowers in all the delightful Aster 
colors. The entire plant may be cut and placed in 
one vase for an indoor bouquet. Pkt. 25¢; 4eoz. 70c. 
PETUNIA, Crusader 
The gay rose-pink stripes on 
the white petals of this fine F, 
hybrid make it the nicest of all 
fringed bicolors. The dwarf 12- 
inch plants are very free-flower- 
ing all summer and right up to 
frost. The rose-pink striping 
holds well even in the hot weather. 
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AQUILEGIA, McKana’s Giant Columbine, Mixed 
This is the only perennial flower to win the coveted All-America 
Selection for 1955. It is a wonderful improvement with flowers 4 inches 
across and spurs 3 inches long on 3-foot plants, Pkt. 35c; “oz. $1. 
MORNING GLORY, Candy Pink 
A beautiful new color in Morning Glories—bright salmony rose-pink 
flowers all summer on strong growing 12-foot vines. These are free- 
flowering, bearing large flowers, over 3 inches in diameter, of this de- 
lightful pmk companion for Heavenly Blue. Pkt. 15c; loz. 75c. 
MYOSOTIS, Clausdel Blue 
This annual Forget-me-not is hard to 
beat for summer bedding. Sow the seed 
in March or April for a mass of bright, 
light blue flowers on 12-inch plants from 
July on. The flowers are larger and more 
intense blue than the Perennial. Pkt. 25c. 
PETUNIA, Popcorn 
Really an improved Snowstorm, this variety has 
ruffled, pure white flowers up to 4 inches across but 
most important of all, these appear freely on com- 
pact dwarf plants one foot high. This dwarf plant 
habit makes Popcorn invaluable for edging or low 
borders. Pkt. 40c; 3 for $1. 
SALVIA, Fireworks 
Much like St. John’s Fire in 
habit, this new strain has larger for 1955, this large-flowered, 
blooms, produces 
and holds them right up to frost. 
A bed of this shows much more 
vivid scarlet color and creates a 
striking display. The plants grow 
12 inches high and are exception- 
ally uniform. Pkt. 25c; Yeoz. $1.35. 
CELOSIA, Cristata Toreador 
An All-America Winner for 1955, this has huge 
bright red cockscombs on stout 20-inch plants with 
light green foliage. It grows rapidly, loves hot 
weather and is pest free. When massed in a border 
it gives a stunning effect. Pkt. 25c. 
PETUNIA, Prima Donna 
Another All-America Winner 
them earlier fringed F, hybrid is bright rose- 
pink, 31% inches across on com- 
pact 12-inch plants which grow 
about 20 inches broad. It is a 
splendid thing for massed beds 
and ideal for margins and rock 
gardens. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.35. 
SALVIA, Welwyn 
A delightful change in Salvia, 
this is a mixture of soft colors in- 
cluding clear salmon pink, glisten- 
ing white, lovely soft lilac, deep 
mahogany red, etc. Splendid for 
massed effects in your border for 
continuous bloom from summer 
until frost. Makes a wonderful 
subject to enter in fall Flower 
Shows. Pkt. 25c; Yeoz. $1.35, 
SWEET PEA, Little Sweetheart 
The first dwarf or bush Sweet Pea to be developed. It doesn’t 
climb at all but forms a rounded bushy plant only 8 inches high, 
covered with Spencer type Sweet Peas. It is adaptable to 
margins, low borders and rock gardens. The flowers come in a 
sparkling mixture containing white, cream, salmon, rose, scar- 
let, crimson, maroon, mauve, lavender, and blue. Pkt. 25c. 
PETUNIA, Silver Medal 
Another recent All-America Winner with com- 
pact bushy plants, 12 inches high and 18 inches 
across, which carry many 3-inch single flowers 
opening salmon-cerise with a slight orange sheen 
and ageing pure salmon. Perhaps the most de- 
lightful color of all Petunias. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.35. 
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Crusader Petunia 
Prima Donna Petunia 
Popcorn Petunia 
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Little Sweetheart Sweet Pea 
Powderpuffs Aster 
Toreador Celosia 
