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The Florists^ Review 



July 24, 191.; 



THE BEST SWEET PEAS. 



Among the sweet peas which showed 

 up best in the prize-winning collections 

 at the Boston exhibition July 12 and 13 

 were the following: 



Barbara;ra magnificent salmon orange, 

 will be widely grown another season; 

 Thomas Stevenson, a beautiful orange 

 scarlet, easily the best of its shade; 

 Mrs.- Harry Bell, pale salmon apricot, a 

 glorious flower, with an attractive 

 color; Edrom Beauty, similar to Helen 

 Lewis in color, but a far better flower; 

 Doris Usher, pink on a cream ground, 

 quite pleasing; Dazzler, rich orange 

 scarlet, one of the best; Scarlet Em- 

 peror, the finest of the scarlets, fine in 

 many collections; Decorator, one of 

 Burpee's 1913 set, described well as a 

 Rose du Barri Spencer; Orchid, from 

 the same introducers, is of a pleasing 

 heliotrope shade; their new Illuminator, 

 salmon rose, is worth watching and 

 their King White, pronounced by Mr. 

 Kerr away ahead of all existing whites, 

 should create a stir next season. 



Florence Nightingale was the leading 

 lavender in the show and will take some 

 beating. Asta Ohn Spencer and Master- 

 piece are two other lavenders that are 

 well to the front. Edith Taylor is a 

 wonderful salmon rose, only seen in 

 one collection; it is still scarce, but was 

 the finest novelty in England last sea- 

 son. Hercules is best described as a 

 glorified Countess Spencer and it will 

 soon displace the latter variety. Nora 

 Unwin, White Spencer and Etta Dyke 

 appeared most frequently as whites, 

 while in cream or primrose shades 



Debbie's Cream was easily in the lead, 

 with Primrose Beauty and Primrose 

 Spencer as the next best of their color. 

 Dobbie's Crimson was the best of the 

 deep reds, although more vases of King 

 Edward Spencer were staged. Senator 

 Spencer is good for those who admire 

 its color^ which combines claret stripes 

 and flakings on a pale lavender ground. 

 Moneymaker is a grand white self, well 

 shown in several collections. Mrs. Hugh 

 Dickson, apricot on cream ground, is 

 still the best of its color, but Mrs. Eout- 

 zahn Spencer, somewhat similar in color, 

 is still one of the best. Mrs. Bread- 

 more, buflf ground edged with rose, is 

 quite pleasing. 



John Ingman stood out the most 

 prominently among the rosy carmines. 

 Constance Oliver, delicate pink suffused 

 with cream, also showed up well. The 

 old Countess Spencer, introduced in 

 1904, was well up in the running, but 

 Hercules will displace it. Evelyn 

 Hemus, cream with picotee edging of 

 terra-cotta pink, was good in a number 

 of stands. Marie Corelli, rose carmine, 

 is not yet surpassed in its particular 

 shade. Only a few striped, marbled and 

 mottled flowers appeared and the dark 

 shades had comparatively few entries. 

 I noticed only a couple of grandiflora 

 varieties in the show, Dorothy Eckford 

 and St. George. How are the mighty 

 fallen! 



For those who like deep shades Othello 

 Spencer is still the best maroon, while 

 Aurora Spencer and America Spencer 

 are good for those looking for striped 

 or flaked varieties. 



Great advances are still being made 



in sweet peas and their culture is beino 

 better understood each year. I erfec 

 tion in size and coloring is still fj, 

 from being reached. Hardly a :^weet 

 pea exhibited in Boston had been intro 

 duced ten years, most of them noi half 

 that time, and it is safe to say that a 

 decade hence even such wonderful va 

 rieties as Barbara, Edith Taylor, Mrs, 

 Harry Bell, Elfrida Pearson, Heiculeg 

 Florence Nightingale, Thomas Si even 

 son, Dobbie's Cream, Scarlet Emperor 

 and Illuminator will be no more than 

 pleasant memories. W. N. Ciaig, 



OUTDOOR SWEET PEAS. 



There are no summer flowers more 

 popular than sweet peas. It is a popu 

 lar fallacy that they are plants which 

 will only flower for a few brief weeks 

 Everything depends on the treatment 

 they get. If they are in well prepared 

 soil, have been mulched and liberallj 

 watered, they will flower for months, 

 provided, of course, that seed pods are 

 not allowed to form. Too often, hoit 

 ever, with the first heavy crop of flow 

 ers, other duties are pressing and the 

 peas are neglected, with the result that 

 they seed heavily. This speedily crip 

 pies their vitality and shortens the 

 flower stems. There are no flowers more 

 useful to the country florist than sweet 

 peas, and he or she who has a nice row 

 or two will find that there is good 

 money in them. In order to keep the 

 plants blooming, however, a few points 

 should be remembered. Most of the 

 growers already know them, but they 

 will bear repetition: Mulch well, water 

 freely, spray with a soap spray for 

 aphis, pull off all seed pods and fading 

 flowers, and where any vines die, re 

 move them. If these details are ob 

 served, sweet peas will flower well for 

 fully three months. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Chicago, 111. — John G. Lambros, who 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy May 24. 

 scheduling liabilities of $2,300, was in 

 court July 22, but none of the creditors 

 was present or represented by attorney 

 On the representation of Herbert Stern. 

 attorney for Lambros, that there a'f 

 no assets, an order was entered that 



Fint PrUe Table Deconttion at the Recent Boston Sweet Pea Show. 



