New Sparkle Verbena—BEAUTIFUL! 
NEW Dwarf, Compact 
SPARKLE Verbena 
All the descriptive words that may be used to tell 
you how beautiful it is are not enough! You must see 
it. Sparkle is positively one of the most beautiful flow- 
ers we have ever seen. It is the first color of a new class 
of Verbenas which has completely eliminated the open 
or bare spots that develop in the center of the plants of 
regular strains. Sparkle is the sharpest, brightest 
scarlet-red ever seen in Verbenas. This is intensified 
by a large gleaming white eye. The 9-inch, dwarf, com- 
pact plants are fully covered with flower heads 2 to 
2% inches wide. For borders, mass planting, or com- 
bining with other flowers and for pots, we say it should 
be a “‘must”’ for every lover of charming flowers. It is 
wonderful! Pkt. 25 cts.; 2 pkts. 45 cts.; 5 pkts. $1; 
1Z0z. $1.75; 40z. $3; 1,0z. $5.50; oz. $10; 2 ozs. $18. 
And now The New **CRYSTAL’’—pure white, an 
excellent companion for ‘‘Sparkle.’’ Vision the beauty 
of these two colors growing together—scarlet and white! 
Prices same as **Sparkle.’’ 
carinatum 
Improved Gorgeous New Color Combinations in Our Merry 
Mixture! This is an excellent bouquet and garden flower. Very 
popular, being easy to grow. Blooms from July until frost from seed 
sown in Aprilor May. Ours is an improved mixture of richly blended, 
extremely gay colors, each flower fringed with red or gold or both, 
from which flash out the dominant colors in the petals. Every lover 
of flowers will want this beautiful annual to add its gay colors to the 
garden. And for bouquets for market it isa leader. Plantsare 21% feet 
high, flowers 3 inches across. Schell’s Merry Mixture. Pkt. 15 cts.; 
2 pkts. 25 cts.; oz. 45 cts.; oz. 85 cts.; oz. $1.50; i4lb. $5. 
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New Alyssum, ROYAL CARPET 
The All-America Top Winner for 1953 
A *‘Carpet’’ of loveliness! The first new Alyssum in twelve years. Never 
have we received such an avalanche of orders for one variety of flower as we 
did last year for this new Royal Carpet Alyssum. You flower lovers do ap- 
preciate the new and beautiful flowers we have for you. 
Royal Carpet is a brilliant new gem for your garden. A vibrant violet- 
purple carpet just 3 inches high, each plant having a spread of 10 to 12 inches. 
For a mass carpet-bed effect, for borders, for edgings, for rock-gardens, it is 
super! Easy to grow, flowering when only weeks old until the end of 
the season, and will self-sow for next year. It is a royal gem of beauty for 
your garden. Pkt. 25 cts.; 2 pkts. 45 cts.; oz. $1.50; 140z. $2.50; Ioz. 
$4.50; oz. $8; 2 ozs. $15; 14lb. $28. 
nd new Alyssum, Royal Carpet 
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DELPHINIUM (Hardy Perennial Larkspur) 
IMPROVED PACIFIC GIANTS MIXED 
The beauty of the flowers of this Improved Mixture is really 
sensational, as it contains so many royal rich colors, so interesting 
yet impossible to describe properly. The individual flowers are 100 
per cent double and extremely large, 24% to 3% inches in diameter, 
on long spikes, beautiful and graceful. The plants average 5 to 7 
feet tall. Give the seed time enough to germinate—two to three 
weeks. Being a hardy perennial, its beauty will be enjoyed for years 
to come. It should be in every hardy flower garden. Pkt. 50 cts.; 
2 pkts. 95 cts.; 14202. $1.25; Yjgoz. $2: Woz. $3.50; 4oz. $6.50 
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