February 24, 190C 



HORTICULTURE 



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Sweet Pea Glad>s Unwin 



Dreer's Select Sweet Peas 



fes* o i* i?' i^ o i* i s t s 



'File following is a short list of the very finest sorts for cutting, 

 No use growing poor varieties when the best costs no more. For 

 complete list see our catalogue. 



SWEET PEAS 



Klb. Lb. 



Blanche Burpee, large white $0.10 $0.25 



Blanche Ferry, extra early ; pink and white ■• .10 .115 



Countess of Radnor, delicate lavender .10 .25 



Countess Spencer, new orchid-flowering, clear 



pink shading darker at the edges .30 1.00 



Dorothy Eckford, the finest white 15 .40 



Earliest of All, re-selected. Same color as Blanche 



Ferry, but a week earlier than the extra early type .10 . 30 



Emily Henderson, purest white, early and free 10 -5 



Gladys Unwin, nevi orchid-flowering, of very large 

 size. A charming shade of pale rosy pink, extra 



tine ••• • oz. 50c. 1.50 



Hon. F. Bouverie, one of the best pinks 1" .25 



Hon. Mrs. E. Kenyon, the finest primrose yellow .1" .25 



Janet Scott, a large and bright piuk 15 .40 



King Edward VII, rich deep crimson scarlet 15 .50 



Lady Orisel Hamilton, pale lavender 10 .30 



Lovely, shell pink, extra fine 10 .25 



Miss Willmott, rich deep orange pink 10 .30 



Mont'Blanc, best earl) (lowering white .10 .30 



Mrs. Walter Wright, deep mauve 15 .50 



Prima Donna, deep pink, flue 10 .25 



Prince of Wales, deep rose 10 .25 



Salopian, a grand deep scarlet 10 .25 



NOW IS THE TIME to sow Asters, Centaureas, Cobsea, Dra- 



c.ena. Lobelia, Petunia, Salvia, Stocks, 



Verbenas, etc., etc. < >ur strainsof all florist flow ers are unequaled 

 for quality. 



HENRY A. DREER - Philadelphia, Pa. 



freely, the majority of the pictures 

 being photogravure lull paged plates 

 of artistically arranged floral groups 

 in vases, the style of which reminds us 

 somewhat of that American work, "The 

 Flower Beautiful." by Clarence Moores 

 Weed. The book is divided into two 

 parts and has the addition of several 

 appendices. The first part contains 

 ten chapters, the subjects of which are 

 roughly outlined as follows: Histori- 

 cal retrospect, relative value of flow- 

 ers, fashion, national tastes, selection 

 of colors, scent, form. buds, foliage, 

 selection of material, when to gather 

 flowers, how to gather, packing flow- 

 ers, decoration of apartments, recep- 

 tacles, floral aids, methods of arrang- 

 ing, contrasts, harmonies, etc.. table 

 decorations, church decorations, per- 

 sonal adornment, ball decorations, 

 decking graves. 



In the second part, which is com- 

 prised of eight chapters, there are 

 such things dealt with as annuals and 

 biennials, hardy perennials, herbace- 

 ous fibrous rooted plants, tender 

 exotics, shrubs, trees, everlasting flow- 

 ers, grasses, ferns, orchids and the 

 like. The author also deals in a meas- 

 ure with the art of floral arrangement 

 as practised in Japan and gives a final 

 chapter on the literature dealing with 

 floral decorations, mention being made 

 of books not only in English but also 

 in French and German. 



A book of this kind which the author 

 says on his title page is a complete 

 guide to the preparing, arranging and 

 preserving of flowers for decorative 

 purposes is by no means a superfluity 

 for the way in which some exhibitors 

 at English shows dump their flowers 

 into vases, baskets and epergnes and 



think they have arranged them ar- 

 tistically is notorious to any one who 

 has seen the same kind of thing done 

 in France. But beside exhibitors at 

 shows there is much to be learned 

 from the boo"k of Cut Flowers by those 

 whose duty and pleasure it is to ar- 

 range flowers in the home. Various 

 forms of receptacles are shown as being 

 suitable for certain purposes and the 

 finished picture in photogravure from 

 a real arrangement of natural flowers 

 is one of the many object lessons fur- 

 nished by this excellent treatise. 



The Sweet Pea Annual. 1906. (Horace 

 I. Wright, Hon. Sec. National Sweet 

 Pea Society. London.) The sweet pea 

 is perhaps no less appreciated in Amer- 

 ica than in England and it may there- 

 fore be useful to draw attention in 

 the columns of HORTICULTURE to 

 this new publication which very far 

 surpasses the issue of last year. For 

 the modest sum of one shilling it is 

 about as good value for the money as 

 anything of the kind we know and to 

 a sweet pea enthusiast must have a 

 special charm. Well printed, freely 

 illustrated with the portraits of 

 celebrities, with views of sweet peas 

 growing at Wem and in the States, 

 and also with representations of some 

 of the leading silver cups offered for 

 prizes at the National Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety's shows. It contains SO pages of 

 literary matter bound in stiff covers 

 and forms a most attractive little 

 volume. The frontispiece is a portrait 

 of Mr. Alfred Watkins. the present 

 president of the society, former presi- 

 dents, viz., Mr. Percy Waterer, Mr. 

 Henry Eckford and Mr. George Gordon 

 being also included. 



The articles are numerous, portraits 

 of most of the authors being given. A 

 few headings may in a brief way give 

 an idea of the scope of this new an- 

 nual, viz.. Fungoid diseases of the 

 sweet pea, by George Massee; Sweet 

 pea novelties of 1905, by T. A. Weston; 

 Sweet peas in decoration, by George 

 Gordon; Sweet peas in California, by 

 Lester L. Morse; Cross fertilization of 

 the sweet pea, by J. W. Dawson; The 

 popularity and many virtues of the 

 sweet pea, by A. N. Dickson; The 

 Countess Spencer type, by Silas Cole, 

 and many others. 



C. HARMAN PAYNE 



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