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HORTICULTURE 



March 3, 1906 



Burpee's earliest white,— ■" contrast with "Mont />'.'«'., 



te i ( below 



New Sweet Pea, - Burpee's Earliest White. 



fjrjO jn florists, who force Sweet Peas, ..an imagine our delight when, two years ago, our friend, Mr. Thos. 

 Vllglllt Could, of Ventura County, California, f und that in a field of the Re-Selected Burpee's Earliest 

 of All, which he was growing for us, one plant,— exactly similar in all other respects,- produced>«r* white 

 flowers. Ne- dless to say thi- plant was carefully guarded, and by growing two crops each season we are now 

 able to introduce Burpee's Earliest White as t/t, ,-t Pea that will be used for fo% 



or t i tretnt ea rly < rtp — just as soon as its unique merits are known and sufficient seed can be obtained. 



9 *S EflrllPSt WhltP !ias been carefu ">' tested al Fordhook and the originator's crops thoroughly 

 & O LUI 1 1 CO I IF HMD inspected in Ca ifori ia during the seasons of 1904 and 1905. After returning 

 from our first visit the past season (in July) w- wrote that of the new crop then starting [with Mont Blanc 

 alongside) we should like a photograph On August 22, 1Q05, Mr. Thos. Got'i.D sent a photograph from which 

 the above illustration has been reproduced and wrote: 



"The crop planted July 12th came in bloom August 

 20th and is now gu.lt- white as a field with no spots 

 wh iiever showing. The habit is without exception uni- 

 lonnly dj arf and even. The coloring is , 

 and the stock is of unusual stnrrfiness both in 

 germination and in growing qualities. The 

 plants of Mont Blanc, from the seed planted 

 the same day, are as yet showing no signs of 

 /'loom. In this line I should remark 

 that in former tests wherein I quoted 

 tlir Mont Blanc as a white variety 

 next eailiest bloomei n rel ltd only to 

 one or two pUnts in the lot 

 tested as competitors. As 

 to the general blooming of 

 the two varieties, the Mont 

 was too fa r behind 

 for real consideration. 

 . . . . A de>cnption 

 of Burpee's ' Ear.; r 

 All' excepting as to color 

 will correctly apply to this 

 new pea." 



Burpee's Earliest 



Whit Q comes in '" '"" bloom 

 If HUB forty-live days after 

 ////■ seed is planted in the open 

 ground. The dwaif planis, six- 

 teen to twenty inches high, nr - clad in rich, dark-green 

 foliage and carry a profusion of rhe pure wkt'tt 

 borne upon strong stems six to eight inches long I ich 

 s-em has two or three of the fully expanded, well formed 

 flowers, of good size and placed close together. 



BlIfDPR S FflT IP^t Wtl MP ls "'" " nlv ^ * ctremely ea. ly but ., 50 1st .1 . hardy is the famous pink- 

 UUI|JGG S UaillBil TUNIC ^d-white Burpee's Ear/Lit of All I. has Hack seed,- and is real y 

 the only clear white Sweet Pea that lias' This insures a heller siand. stronger and more thrifty plants 



RlimPP S r3r P^t WhltP * '" '"-' welcomed by florists for forcing, because ihere is no other variety so 

 uuijjuoo UU1IIOJI Millie wing or ture-cropping. excepting only The Re-selected Bur- 



pee s Earliest of A I!, — the earliest " pink and white." Like the biter, the plants under q]..ss begin to boom 

 fredy when only twelve inches high and continue to grow and/lower .'■ , ■'„ ,, ly until, when .is or tight feet 

 tall they reach the topof the greenhouse: the plants can then be cut back, if desired, and will make an equally 

 vigorous second growth. Ufg-All florists know, of course, that the regular varieties of Tall Sweet Peas are of no 

 -.'alue luhatevt r for forcing,— if early flowers are desned. i 



iosa Bnrnpp s Fjirlipst Whitp .-> — ,ni »/■ direct to 



Z"50 UUIUGG UaillCOl IIIIIIC p i anters _ „„ nc to other seedsmen. The seed is all hand-picked and 

 every seed should grow. Per pkt. 01 ., seeds) 25 cts.. lesi one-third; 5 pkts. for 75 cts. net. H.i. 

 Packets: Per pkt. (20 seeds) 15 cts. ; 2 pkts. for 25 cts. 10pkts.for75cts.net. 



Burpee's "Blue List" for 1906 



etabte seeds for market 

 for same immediately to 



garden 



is now re idy to mail. This is our complete catalogue of whole- 

 _ sale prices tor the choicest flower seeds tor florists and the finest 

 Any florist or market gardener who has not received a copy should apply 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., 



gree of knowledge, not having seen 

 any of them to speak of. The F. R. 

 Pierson Co.'s Glenview, a bronzy red, 

 is a good one and well worth a trial. 

 Nathan Smith & Son and H. W. Buck- 

 bee both have their usual list of new 

 seedlings, but I cannot speak on them, 

 not having seen them, and we must 

 wait another year to pass judgment 

 on them. 



You may, perhaps, ask what is the 

 use in buying new kinds every year 

 when so many of the older ones are 

 so fine. If you are an exhibitor, you 

 must keep up with the times and keep 

 buying the best. A valuable object 

 lesson was seen at the Philadelphia 

 show where, in the special classes, 

 every prize winner was a new variety 

 or not over two years old, and there 

 were lots of the older varieties com- 

 peting. The obvious lesson is that 

 while progress may be slow, neverthe- 

 less it is progress all the time, and the 

 end is not yet by any means. 



C. W. Ward says it takes nearly a 

 thousand years to add an inch to the 

 size of a carnation. Progress in the 

 chrysanthemum is very much faster 

 than that. If you look back and see 

 what has been done in the last twenty 

 years, it is really startling; and while 

 Improved methods of culture have 

 brought out a good deal, careful and 

 systematic hybridizing are bringing 

 out much more. Our own exhibition 

 last year was the best we ever had and 

 the flowers certainly the largest we 

 ever had staged. This coming fall I 

 know we shall make more progress 

 in this direction and the varieties we 

 have been describing this evening will 

 have no small part in the grand pro- 

 cession. 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



This week the Santa Rosa Board of 

 Education received permission from 

 Luther Burbank to use his name in 

 christening their large new stone 

 schoolhouse. 



The past week has been climatically 

 perfect for horticulturists. Deciduous 

 fruits are blooming in all parts of the 

 State and give promise of good crops 

 if not injured by late frosts. The sea- 

 sonable precipitation in the central and 

 northern sections is still below aver- 

 age, but the rainfall since the first of 

 the year has been remarkably well dis- 

 tributed and at present is sufficient for 

 all purposes. As California relies upon 

 these crop prospects for the major por- 

 tion of its prosperity the outlook is cer- 

 tainly bright. 



Until within a recent date Los 

 Angeles and San Diego and other South 

 California flower-consuming localities 

 have depended altogether for their 

 finest greenhouse-grown roses on the 

 growers in the vicinity of San Fran- 

 cisco, and up to this time large quan- 

 tities of these stocks are still shipped 

 to the Los Angeles market. But it is 

 plainly in view that the business is 

 growing to an infinitesimally small 

 trade point. Within the last two years 

 J. W. Wolfskin has built up in the out- 

 skirts of Los Angeles the Grace Hill 

 Nursery, and in the heart of the town 

 Mr. Wolfskin's two sons have opened 

 a handsomely equipped wholesale and 

 retail place of business. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



SEED TRADE. 



M. B. Faxon, formerly of Boston and 

 Newport, is now r one of the seedsmen 

 with the Livingston Seed Company of 

 Columbus. O. 



