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HORTICULTUEE 



September 12, 1914 



C. C. MORSE & CO 



San Francisco, Cal. 



NEW SWEET PEA 



MARGARET 

 ATLEE 



THE SPENCER SUPREME 



The largest and finest Sweet 

 Pea yet introduced. 



First PriEe Amerit-an Sweet Pea Society. 

 Silver Medal, National Sweet Pea Society 

 of Great Britain. I^oniion, July, 1914. 



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MARGARET ATLEE 



is a rosysalm 

 extremely attr 

 standard is large and wavy and Inclined to double 

 wavy and well set. It runs almost uniformly four 

 respects, it is the grandest Sweet Pea we have ever 

 varieties. 



MARGARET ATLEE 



I..ife .Size us (iroivn by Ordinary Culture 



on pink on a creamy buff ground; a rich, soft color, and 

 active, both as individual flowers and in the bunch. The 

 under favorable conditions. The wings are equally large, 

 blossoms to the stem; well poised and graceful. In all 

 grown, either from foreign introductions or American 



MARGARET ATLEE '^"^ '"""^ ''^ 



appreciate real SPENCER SWEET PEAS, and we 

 the hope that it will invade every home garden wh 



MARGARET ATLEE TonowirS 



peared in our Contract Lists. 



Messrs. Lowe & Shawyer, the largest flower gro 

 last season and we let them have a pound out of our 

 Covent Garden Market. They had a packet of it the 

 had ever seen in Sweet Peas. With them It is a 



Ever so many people who have seen bouquets 

 Sweet Peas?" 



Under ordinary culture they are delicate and 

 flowers they produce unusually large thick petals 

 see stems 22 inches long, % inch thick and leaves 



MARGARET ATLEE will be put up in insiile wblte p.iclv- 

 ets, 2x3^ inches, simply printed thus: 



SWEET PEA 



MARGARET ATLEE 



There will also lie nn outside pacl^et in salmon pink, 

 2%x4y2 inches, printed thus: 



40 Seeds 25 Cents 



SWEET PEA 



MARGARET ATLEE 



New (iiiint I'lowercd Spencer. 



Rich rosy salmon-pink on creamy buflf. Immense wavy 

 st-andard, inclined to double.. Largre wavy winifs. 



Ided us sufficient seed to warrant our adopting a unique 

 method of exploiting it. We are confident that America does not halt 

 propose to use MARGARET ATLEE as a missionary in 

 ere Sweet Peas can be grown. 



d in 1912, but a short crop that year and the year 

 ented our offering it to the Trade, and it has not yet ap- 



wers in Great Britain, simply insisted on having some of it 

 planting stock, to be used for gi'owing cut flowers for the 

 year previous and considered it the very finest thing they 



leader as a fiorist flower, 

 of Margaret Atlee have exclaimed, "Are those really 



refined to a degree. Under special culture for exhibition 

 and enormous stems and leaves. It is not uncommon to 

 .5% inches across. 



These outside pacliets may be left off if required or they 

 can be supplied empty, so tbat tlie dealer's name may be 

 printed at the bottom. 



PRICES net to the Seed Trade : — 



$3.50 for 25 pkts. 



12.50 per 100, up to 500 pkts. 



lO.OQ per 100 for 500 pkts. and over. 



NOTE — The name was chosen as an ap[>i-c(-ia(ion to Mr. Burpee, — Mrs. Margaret Atlee being: his aunt. 



We are issuing a circular offering several other Sweet Pea Novelties and 

 will mail it to the Trade in a few days. 



C. C. MORSE & CO., 



SAN FRANCISCO, 

 CAL. 



