. Dreer's garden book 1921. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. PETUNIAS For outdoor decoration, porch or window boxes few plants equal the Petunia in effectiveness. They commence flowering early and con- tinue a sheet of bloom throughout the whole season until killed by frost; easily cultivated, only requiring a good soil and sunny position. It is best to sow them indoors and transplant to the open in May. The Single Bedding kinds can be sown out of doors in May. We have lon
. Dreer's garden book 1921. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. PETUNIAS For outdoor decoration, porch or window boxes few plants equal the Petunia in effectiveness. They commence flowering early and con- tinue a sheet of bloom throughout the whole season until killed by frost; easily cultivated, only requiring a good soil and sunny position. It is best to sow them indoors and transplant to the open in May. The Single Bedding kinds can be sown out of doors in May. We have long been celebrated for our magnificent strains of both the single and double varieties, which we endeavor to improve each year by careful selection and hybridization. Note.—It is well known that seed saved from the most care- fully hybridized flowers produce but a small percentage of double flowers, the balance beiJig single of unusually fine quality. The weaker seedlings should be carefully saved, as these invariably produce tJie finest double flowers. The same is true of the single sorts, the large, strong seedlings usually being weedy, while the, at first, weaker seedlings produce the very finest flowers, of best colorings. PER PKT. Dreer's Superb Single-fringed Petunias LARGE-FLOWERING DOUBLE PETLTIVIAS PHRPKT. 3590 Dreer's Superb Double^fringed. -Saved from our own unrivalled collection; will produce a large per- centage of double flowers of the largest fringed varie- ties in bright colors. Per 500 seeds, $ 50 3587 Double Large=flowering. Beautiful varieties in mixture. This is grown for us by a European special- ist. Per 500 seeds, 25 SINGLE BEDDING PETUNIAS 3555 Balcony Blue. A splendid free-flowering type either for bedding or for window boxes, vases, hanging baskets, etc.; flowers average 3 inches across, of a rich velvety indigo blue 20 3556 Balcony Rose. Brilliant rose-pink; very effective .. 20 3557 Balcony White. The pure white form 20 A packet each of t
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