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HORTICULTURE 



August 14, 1915 



FLORADALE- 

 GROWN SEED 

 EXCLUSIVELY 



BURPEES' 

 WINTER - FLOWERING 

 SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



Originated at Fordhook Farms and 

 Grown at Floradale Farm. Absolutely 

 fixed— true to color and type. 



Yarrawa 



K oz., SI. 00 



Per oz., 3.50 



% lb., 12.50 



Lb., 45.00 



We began hybridizing the original Winter - Flowering 

 Sweet Peas, namely, Burpee's Earliest of All (Christmas Pink), 

 Burpee's Earliest White, Burpee's Earliest Sunbeams and 

 Burpee's Re-selected Earliest of All with the finest varieties of 

 the summer flowering Spencers at our FORDHOOK FARMS in 

 1909. It is, however, quite a slow process to thoroughly "true" 

 and "fix" these seedlings, and it being against the principles of 

 our business to put any novelty on the market in an unfixed condition, we are offering 

 only two varieties at present. The stocks of these, we know to be absolutely fixed, true 

 to color and type. After our crops are harvested we may be in a position to offer, in a 

 limited way, several other winter-flowering novelties, particulars of which will be found 

 in Burpee's Annual for 1916. 



j._ _^ _^_- r»I'Vir/' ''^'"'^ '^ '^^ result of a cross made at our Fordhook Farms In 1909. The 

 Pi ll/l jMl If Ik I |[\l\ color is a beautiful shade of rose-pinlc on white ground; the coloring deep- 

 '-^-'■*'^*"'^-'^^*-'- •■ ■^^*-»- ening towards the edge of the standard and wings. The flowers are of 

 largest size, exquisitely waved and usually produced in threes and fours on long stems. Unsurpassed for 

 cut flower trade. Awarded Certificate of Merit at the Spring Show of the PENNSYLVANIA HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY, Philadelphia. .March i::5, 1915. 



In sealed packets containing twelve seeds each, Per pkt., 25 cents; '4 oz.. $1.35; 12 oz., $2.25; per oz., 

 $4.00. 



FORDHOOK ROSE 



The result of a cross made at our Fordhook Farms in 1910. This lovely 

 novelty is a charming shade of rosy-carmine. The flowers are of largest 

 size and usually borne in threes and fours on long stiff stems. Awarded 

 Certificates of IVlerit at the INTERNATIONAL SHOW, New York, March 20. 1915, and at the Spring Show of 

 the PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Philadelphia. March 23, 1915. 



In sealed packets containing twelve seeds each. Per pkt., 25 cents; I/4 oz., $1.35; Vz oz., $2.25; per oz., 

 $4.00. 



THE SWEET PEA PAR EXCELLENCE FOR WINTER-FLOWERING UNDER GLASS. 

 I AlvlvA^VA ^^ were awarded Certificates of Merit for this superb novelty at the International 

 •'•■^"••"•^ ' ' ^ Flower Show in New York. Jlarch. 1914. and at the Spring Show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society. Philadelphia, March, 1915. YARRAWA is an easy and good "doer." invariably giving 

 an excellent account of itself, whether grown in pots, boxes, raised benches or solid beds. YARRAWA has 

 the heavy foliage and rank, strong growth of the summer-flowering type and is a true winter-blooming 

 Spencer. From seed sown early in October at Fordhook Farms, the plants came into bloom December 20 

 and flowered profusely until May. The flowers are exquisitely waved and when well grown will average two 

 and one-half inches in diameter, many of them being duplex, or double-flowered, thus adding greatly to the 

 general effect of the bunch. They are borne usually in fours on extra long, strong stems. The color is a 

 most pleasing shade of bright rose-pink, with light wings. 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., seed Growers 

 Burpee Building, PHILADELPHIA 



