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HORTICULTURE, 



July 10. 1905 



THE SPENCER TYPE OF SWEET 

 PEAS. 



Messrs. Burpee put up a fine show 

 of these at Horticultural Hall, Phila- 

 delphia, on the 29th ulto. This is the 

 first time the general public has had a 

 chance to see the latest improvements 

 in sweet peas, as it is not everybody 

 who can afford to spend a day at Ford- 

 hook, where acres and acres ot sweet 

 peas are now in full bloom in the test- 

 ing grounds. Anyone who can go, 

 should go eaily in July as the fields 

 are then at their best. Among the 

 most conspicuous noted at the show 

 mentioned above were: 



Queen Victoria Spencer; large flow- 

 ers of good substance; primrose, 

 flushed with rose. 



Mrs. Routzahn Spencer; rose and 

 blush on a primrose ground, edged 

 with darker rose. 



Helen Pierce; white marbled with 

 blue. Mr. Kerr informed us that this 

 variety had not reached its best bril- 

 liancy as to coloring so far, on account 

 of the warm weather. 



Primrose Spencer; a creamy yellow 

 flower of large size and excellent sub- 

 stance. This undoubtedly surpasses 

 the well-known older variety, Hon. 

 Mrs. E. Kenyon. 



White Spencer; a pure white flower 

 of enormous size and fine substance. 

 Good long stems. 



Aurora Spencer; creamy white flaked 

 and mottled with salmon; one of the 

 best ot its class — the waving and flut- 

 ing of the wings and standard being 

 very pronounced. 



Princess A'ictoria; one of Dobbie & 

 Co.'s introductions and resembles the 

 old Countess Spencer, but is a lighter 

 pink in color and better as to size and 

 substance. 



Florence Morse Spencer; blush 

 edged with pink; fine as to size, form 

 and stem; mostly three to four (lowers 

 to a stalk. 



Mr. Kerr informs us that there are 

 over seven hundred separate and dis- 

 tinct tests of sweet peas planted out 

 this season on the trial grounds at 

 Fordhook. This fact gives an indica- 

 tion of the care and thoroughness with 

 which the Burpee firm investigates the 

 merit of every promising variety in 

 whatever part of the world it may 

 chance to originate, and explains in a 

 way why the name of this house has 

 become so associated with the sweet 

 pea. Away at the back end of nowhere 

 the fame of Philadelphia is ever green 

 — either with Stetson hats or Burpee's 

 seeds. At least so we're told by that 

 travel-sbtained hardy-perennial — the 

 notion drummer. 



Ct. C. WATSON. 



At the request of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture instructions have been 

 given to officei's of customs by the 

 Treasury Department that until July 

 1, 1910, 2-ounce samples of all impor- 

 tations of 100 pounds or more of grass, 

 clover, and forage-plant seeds be pre- 

 pared at the earliest practicable date 

 after entry, and forwarded to the Seed 

 Laboratory, Department of Agiicul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C, labeled with 

 names and addresses of consignors and 

 consignees, name of seed as given In 

 the invoice, and quantity of the con- 

 signment. 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Knight & Struck, New York. Prie 

 list of named hybrid orchids. 



The George Wittbold Company. 

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