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The Fbrists' Review 



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A Fair Example of the Early- Flowering Spencer Sweet Pea. 



ess Spencer and others of that family 

 come in. The stock is sold on the Chi- 

 cago market by the E. C. Amling Co., 

 which reported being able to realize ^3 

 per hundred for the winter SpenC€!Js uj) 

 to the time that the pick became so 

 large that the stores with wealthy trade 

 could not consume them all. It is fig- 

 ured that, aside from the first cost of 

 the seed, the cost of growing the Spen- 

 cers is no greater than the old grandi- 

 flora type with one or two small flow- 

 ers to the stem, and that the price ob- 

 tained, both at wholesale and retail, will 

 always be better. 



SWEET PEAS FOR OUTDOORS. 



, The finest outdoor sweet peas are to 

 be had from plants set out from pots, 

 allowing eight to twelve inches of 

 space between the plants in the rows. 

 The benches in which they are to be 

 planted should be prepared late in the 

 fall, for the best results, but if this has 

 not been done, the work ought to be 

 undertaken just as soon as the weather 

 breaks. Seeds should be sown one or 

 two in 3-inch pots, in ligllt soil. The 

 first ten days in March for the northern 

 states, and ten to fourteen days ear- 

 lier farther south, is a suitable ti^ie 



to start them. The pots can either be , 

 put in a cool gVeenhouse, kept at a 

 temperature of about ^0 degrees at 

 night. Or a gentle hotbed can be made 

 with horse manure and leaves, firmly 

 tramped, laying a coating of fine coal 

 ashes on these, protecting well yrith 

 mats and shutters on severe nights and- 

 ventilating freely when growths have 

 appeared. The hashes can later be re- 

 moved on warm days, and by degrees 

 can be left o(ff altogether. Supports con- 

 sisting of such brush as birch or wild 

 cherry are, preferable, or, where these 

 are unprocurable, wire or string sup- 

 ports can be placed in position before 

 the peas are planted out. The rows 

 should run five to six feet apart. Free 

 cultivation should be given until the 

 /|)lants start to bloom; then a good 

 mulch of partially spent manure will 

 be found of great advantage. 



j\ few good commercial varieties are: 

 Nora Unwin and White Spencer, pure 

 white; Mrs. Hugh Dickson, cream pink; 

 Helen Lewis, orange pink; Countess 

 Spencer and Hercules, pale pink; John 

 Ingman, rosy carmine; Thomas Steven- 

 son, orange scarlet; Mrs. C. W. Bread- 

 more-, picotee-edged; Frank Dolby and 

 Florence Nightingale, lavender; Asta 

 Ohn Spencer, lavender suffused with 

 mauve; Blanche Ferry Spencer, a fine 

 bicolor, and Primrose Spencer, prim- 

 rose. The white, pink and lavender 

 shades are always the best sellers. 



In the way of newer varieties, these 

 are all of great excellence: Money- 

 maker and King White, pure white; 

 Dorothy, rosy lilac; Illuminator, sal- 

 mon orange; Scarlet Emperor, rich 

 scarlet; Earl Spencer, salmOn orange; • 

 Orchid, lavender, and Dobbie's Cream, *" 

 primrose. ] 



Meadville, Pa. — T. R. Snyder has re- * 

 tired from the florists' business and 

 moved to Saegertown, Pa. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — The copartnership 

 of the Syracuse Pottery Co. has been 

 dissolved by mutual consent. Conrad 

 Hreitschwerth has bought the interest 

 of his partner, James C. Butler, and 

 will continue the business under the 

 name of the Svracuse Potterv. 



Zvolanek's Winter-Blooming Sweet Peas^atvH. Wehrman's, Maywood, 111. 



