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HORTICU LTURE. 



August 11, 1906 



BURPEE'S EARLIEST WHITE,— "/ contrast with 'Mont Blatu" to the Uft,— ste text beloiu. 



New Sweet Pea, - Burpee's Earliest White, 



Florists, who force Sweet Peas, can imagine our delight when, two years ago, our friend, Mr. Thos_ 

 -.._... I GoiLP of Ventura County, California, found that in a field of the Rc-SflectfJ Burpee's Earliest 

 'f All whichhewasgrowingfor us, oneplani.— cxactly similar in all other respects.— produced /«r.' -.vhtte 

 Uivers Needless to say this plant was carefully guarded, and by growing two crops each season we jrc now 

 ble to introduce Burpee's Earliest White as the only white Sweet Pea that wul ^e used /or forcing 



able to 



or extre 



!y cr*/, — just as soon as its unique merits are known and sufficient seed can be obtained. 



Biirnon'c Corlioct U/hitO has been carefully tested at Fordhook and the originator's crops thoroughly 

 UUrpSu S CalllcSl lYnilO inspected in Califomiadunng the seasons of 1904 and IQ05. After returning 

 from our first visit the past season (in July) we wrote that of the new crop then starting (with ;T/^«/ /*/rt«r 

 alongside) we should like a photograph. On August as, 1905. Mr. Thos. Golld sent a photograph from which 

 the atovc illustration has been reproduced, and wrote: 



'* The crop planted July lath came in bloom August 

 20th and is now e/uite white as a field with no sportv 

 whatever showing. The habit is without exception uni- 

 formly dwarf and even. The coloring is pure wh " 

 and t e stock is of unu-ual sturdiness both in 

 gennination and \u growing qualities. The 

 plants of Mont Blanc, from the seed plante<l 

 the same d y, are as yet showing no sign 

 bloom. In this line I should remark 

 that in former tests wherein I quoted 

 the Mont Blanc as a white variety 

 next earliest bloomer it related only to 

 one or two pUnis in the lot 

 tested as competitors. As 

 10 the general blooming of 

 the two varieties, the Mont 

 Blanc was too far behind 

 for real consideration. 

 . . . . A description 

 of Burpee's * Earliest of 

 AW excepting as to color 

 will correctly apply to this 

 Dew pea." 



Burpee's Earliest 



. comes intofull bloom 

 _! forty-five days rt/fcr 



///,' si-eti IS (''lanifd in the open 

 ground. The dwarf nlants, six- 

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

 foliage and carry a profusion of the pure white fiowers 

 borne upon strong stems six to eight inches long. Each 

 stem has two or three of the full-expanded, well-formed 

 flowers, of good size and placed close together. 



Burpee 



I'e Porlinot WhifO '^^^^^on\y ^s extremely early hxxtaXso just as hardy ns the famous pink 

 IS UdlllBSl winilB and-whitc Burfee's Earliest of All 



the only clear -ohite Sweet Pea that has 



,,, , „ _^ It has black seed,— And is really 



This insures a better stand, stronger and more thrifty plants. 



Burpee 



'c Parlioct UUhiiO " '" ^' w'comed by florists for forcing, because there is no other variety so 

 S LdlllCol nllllC ijuick-growingor surecrof'ping, exccplins only Thr Rt-ieUcted Hiir- 



fee's Earliest of /!//,— the earliest "pink a>iii Hi'iitt." Like the latter, the plants under glass begin lo bloom 

 freely when only twelve inches high and continue to grow and flower profusely until, when six or eight feet 

 tall they reach the top of the greenhouse: the plants can then be cut back, if desired, and will make an ci]ually 

 vigorous second growth. I^^ All florists know, of c virsc, that the regular varieties of Tall Sweet Peas are of no 

 value whatever for forcing, — if early flowers are desiret'.'^'vfl 



Rlirnoo'e Porliact UUhita is sold only in our original sealed packets,— ^aA only imaxo 

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 Packets: Per pkt. (=o seeds) I S cts.; 2 pkts. for 25 Cts. ; 10pkts.for7Scts.net 



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