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OcxoBEU 7, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



61 



Threil ''Superfine'' New Spencers for 1916 



An Average 

 Spray of 

 "FIERT CROSS 

 reproduced 

 from a 

 Fordhook 

 PhotoBraph 



"Fiery Cross" 



"Fiery Cross" is a most appropriate name for a most 

 uausual novelty. Daring tlie seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries, when Scotland was continually at war, the 

 method employed by the chiefs to gather the clans to re- 

 pel invaders was by means of a flery cross, which was 

 taken from hamlet to hamlet by the speediest man avail- 

 able. The fiery cross was simply a blazing pine branch. 

 "Fiery Cross" has all the appearance of live fire, the 

 color being a scorching -fire-red, or scarlet, without any 

 shading and which scintillates and glitters in bright sun- 

 light, thus adding a glowing, fire-like sheen which radi- 

 ates over the flower. Unlike most of the orange-scarlet 

 varieties, it does not scorch or burn even 

 during extended periods of intense sun- 

 shine, therefore it can be grown in all 

 soils without shading. The beautifully 

 waved and fluted flowers are borne freely 

 in threes and fours, well placed on long 

 stout stems. 



"Fiery Cross" was recommended for 

 the Silver Medal variety of National Sweet 

 Pea Society of Eaglaad, July. 1914. which 

 was awarded July, 1916. It received an 

 Award of Merit at the exhibition held by 

 the American Sweet Pea Society at the 

 San Francisco Fair, June 10, 1915, as be- 

 ing the outstanding variety in the Show. 

 Also Certificate of Merit at the Sweet Pea 

 Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society, June 23, 1916; and Silver 

 Medal at the Seventh Annual Exhibition 

 of the American Sweet Pea Society, New- 

 port. R. I., July 15, 1915. 



Prices for "Fiery Cross" Sweet Pea 



In sealed packets containing ten seeds 

 each: Per pkt., 25c; $2.00 per dozen pkts.; $13.75 per 100 pkts. In lots of 

 500 packets or more, $12.50 per 100 pkts. 



If 600 or more packets are ordered at one time and it is so re- 

 quested, we shall print on the packets the name and address of the pur- 

 chaser and supply free an electrotype of either the spray or single flower. 



"The President" 



This will compete with "Fiery Cross" as the greatest novelty of the 

 year. It is wonderfully brilliant, in fact it might be termed a glowing 

 scarlet self. The flowers are of largest size, carried on strong, stiff 

 stems, usually in fours, always beautifully waved even when well ex- 

 panded and most harmoniously placed. It has been termed "the bright- 

 est color we have in sweet peas" and does not burn. "It is head and 

 shoulders above anything of a similar color" and probably will never be 

 surpassed in the orange-scarlet section. We were awarded Certificate of 

 Merit for "The President" by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 June 23, 1915, also by the American Sweet Pea Society at Newport, R. I., 

 July 15. 1915, and have pleasure now in introducing this unusual novelty, 

 simultaneously with our friends Messrs. Alex. Dickson & Son, the celebrated Rosarians, of Belfast, Ireland. 



Prices for "The President" Sweet Pea 



In sealed packets containing ten seeds each: 

 packets or more, $12.50 per 100 pkts. 



New Spencer Hilary Christy 



We were much pleased with this beautiful and distinct 

 novelty in 1914 in the Essex cultures of our friend, Mr. Hugh 

 Dickson, then President of the National Sweet Pea Society 

 of Great Britain. The trial at Fordhook the past season has 

 also been most satisfactory and we have great pleasure in 

 now first offering the seed in connection with the originator. 

 The plants grow strongly, bloom profusely, bearing flowers 



Per pkt., 25c; $2.00 per dozen pkts.; $13.75 per 100 pkts. In lots of 500 



of good size and true Spencer type. The standard is frosted 

 orange-cerise with crenulated fiery edge, wings rosy car- 

 mine, keel delicate fawny lemon. Its rich though subdued 

 colorings are very chaste and refined. 



la sealed packets containing ten seeds each: Per pkt., 

 15c; 2 pkts. for 25c; $1.00 per dozen pkts.; $7.00 per 100 pkts. 

 In lots of 500 packets or more, $6.25 per 100 pkts. 



In sealed packets containing twenty seeds each: Per 

 pkt., 25c; 5 pkts. for $1.00; $2.00 per dozen pkts.; $13.76 per 

 100 pkts. In lots of 500 packets or more, $12.50 per 100 pkts. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia 



