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HORTICULTURE 



August 9, 1913 



SWEET PEAS 



This summer with its prolonged drouth has been very 

 trying for the sweet pea as even where the facilities are 

 at" hand for giving copious waterings it never seems to 

 exactly take the place of a good rainfall. With us 

 diseases of several kinds have been a little more com- 

 mon than in the past and we suffered from a hard frost 

 on May 9th. These notes, however, are to deal more 

 with the quality of the several varieties and are written 

 now while everything is fresh in mind to help the read- 

 ers of HoETicuLTCRE in selecting their varieties for next 

 year. We are fortunately placed for doing this_ as we 

 grow about a hundred varieties of what we conceived at 

 the beginning of the year to be the best of the newer 

 kinds. Taking the colors separately I shall mark those 

 of superb quality' with two asterisks (**) and those that 

 are verv good with one ; I propose to name all the varie- 

 ties wehave grown so that the reader may see the kinds 

 between which the comparison is made as of course there 

 may be others of extra fine quality of which the writer 

 has never heard. 



WHITE 



♦Snowdon. 



♦Burpee's WTiite Seedling. 

 **King White. 



Xora Unwin. 

 Mrs. Sankey Sp. 

 Etta Dyke (Syn. White Spen- 

 cer.) 



Lady Evelyn Eyre 

 *Elfrida Pearson 

 Countess Spencer 



LIGHT PINK 



Beatrice Spencer 

 *Hercules 

 Marjorie Linzee 



CRIMSOX 



•* Margaret Atlee 

 *Paradise 



Maud Holmes 

 *King Edward Spencer 



**Orion 

 Ruby Spencer 



SCARLET 



*Queen AlexaJ.dra Spencer 

 Vermillion Brilliant 



♦Scarlet Emperor 

 Bolton's Scarlet 



PINK BICOLOR 



♦Colleen 

 Mrs. A. Ireland 



**Mrs. Cuthbertson 

 Apple Blosson Spencer 



PINK STRIPED 

 ♦Mrs. W. J. Unwin Aurora America 



PICOTEE EDGED AND FANCY 



Junita Spencer 

 ♦Ethel Roosevelt 



Mrs. Townsend 

 ♦Perdita 



May Campbell 



♦♦Floradale Fairy 

 ♦♦Bobbie's Cream 

 ♦Primrose Beauty 

 Isobel Malcolm 



Rainbow Spencer 

 *Martha Washington 



Evelyn Hemus 

 ♦Helen Pearce 

 ♦Senator 



CREAM 



Queen Victoria 

 Clara Curtis 

 Primrose Spencer 



♦Duplex Spencer 

 Mrs. Hugh Dickson 

 Mrs. Routzahn 

 Doris Usher 



CREAM PINKS 



Mrs. R. Hallam 

 Anglia-Pink 

 Constance Oliver 

 **Lillian 

 ♦Thora 



Anglian Orange 

 ♦♦Edrom Beauty 



LIGHT ORANGE 



♦Carine 

 Helen Lewis 



Helen Grosvenor 



Aitken (darker 



DARK ORANGE 

 Dazzler 

 St. George 



SALMON 



Earl Spencer 

 ♦Andrew 

 shade) 



CHOCOLATE OR MAROON 



Othello Spencer 

 ♦King Manoel 



BLUE (dark) 



♦Lord Nelson Spencer. 



LAVENDER 

 ♦♦Orchid Irish Belle 



♦Bertrand Deal Imp. Mrs. Heslington 



Florence Nightingale Freda Unwin 



♦Pearl Gray 



♦Thos. Stevenson 

 ♦♦Edna Unwin 



♦♦Inspector 

 ♦Melba 

 ♦Barbara 



♦♦Nubian 

 Mrs. Cowdy 



*♦ Navy Paradise 



•Margaret Madison 



•♦Bertie Usher 



♦George Herbert 

 Decorator 

 Rose Du Bari 



LIGHT BLUE 



Anglian Blue 



BLUE STRIPE 



♦Loyalty 



CARMINE ROSE 



Marie Correlli 

 ♦John Ingman 

 ♦♦Rosabelle 



SOME OTHERS 

 ♦♦Charm, a very delicate pink and a grand grower; ♦♦Af- 

 terglow, a lavender and violet bicolor; ♦♦Prince George, 

 lilac rose; *Agricola, white with a shade of silvery lilac; 

 ♦♦Charles Foster, purplish pink; ♦♦Purple Prince, a beauti- 

 ful purple; ♦Captivation, a different shade of purple from 

 the above; *Arthur Green, between a purple and maroon; 

 *Zarina Spencer, a golden pink; ♦Sterling Stent, a distinct 

 shade ot orange scarlet; ♦Countess of Ancaster, plum 

 color. 



The twelve best and absolutely indispensable varie- 

 ties are : 



King White, Margaret Atlee, Edrom Beauty, Inspector, 

 Edna Unwin, Nubian, Afterglow, Orchid, Debbie's Cream, 

 Rosabelle, Scarlet Emperor, Mrs. Cuthbertson. 



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CERASTIUM 



Belonging to the order Caryophylleae, cerastiums are 

 low-growing Alpine plants distinguished by silvery or 

 grayish wliite, wooly or hoary foliage. As garden peren- 

 nials they prove useful for edging on herbacous borders 

 and may be employed to cover ground surface on said 

 sunny slopes. I have also found them valuable for dry- 

 wall planting, but by far the most congenial conditions 

 for their perfect development and effect, the rock gar- 

 den usually offers. Of the six species known to horti- 

 culturists Cerastium Bibersteini, with grayish white 

 leaves, a native of the Caucasus Mountains; Cerastium 

 grandiflorum, silvery white large-flowering type of strong 

 growth, about six inches tall, hailing from the Balkan 



districts, and the old-time Cerastium tomentosum, fre- 

 quently used for carpet-bedding, merit general atten- 

 tion. Thriving best in light sandy soil they respond 

 readily to a reasonable amount of care. During May 

 when in full array of countless blossoms, plantations 

 appear strikingly handsome. Our frontispiece, a repro- 

 duction of a photograph taken in the rockgarden of 

 Henry A. Dreer, Inc., in Riverton, N. J., last spring, 

 gives a fair idea of the effect of the species tomentosum. 

 Cerastiums can be raised from seed and propagated by 

 cuttings and divisions in spring or fall. 



Riverton, N. J. 



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