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easily takes first place. In fact, I con- 

 sider it the most exquisitely beautiful 

 variety in cultivation, the color being 

 soft, light terra cotta on cream ground. 

 Of the other novelties, the only va- 

 rieties of outstanding merit were Mrs. 

 Hugh Dickson, soft pink on cream 

 ground; Martha Washington, white 

 edged and suffused rose; W. T. Hutch- 

 ins, buff, pinkish apricot; Earl Spencer, 

 or Nancy Perkins, salmon-orange; Marie 

 Corelli, rose; Ruby, glowing orange- 

 scarlet, wings rose, and Arthur Unwin, 

 a much improved Mrs. Ireland. If we 

 add the following, the cream of the 

 earlier Spencer novelties, this may be 

 said to embrace the very finest set now 

 in commerce, namely: Mrs. Routzahn, 

 apricot pink and creamy buff; Con- 

 stance Oliver, a cream ground Countess 

 Spencer; Dainty Spencer, white with a 

 picotee edging of rose; Mrs. C. W. 

 Breadmore, or Evelyn Hemus, primrose 

 with picotee edging of pink; White 

 Spencer; Primrose Spencer; Asta Ohn, 

 soft lavender, standard flushed pale 

 rose; Tennant Spencer, heliotrope; John 

 Ingman, or George Herbert, rosy car- 

 mine; Helen Lewis, deep orange; Flor- 

 ence Morse Spencer, pale pink; Othello 

 Spencer, deep maroon; King Edward 

 Spencer, rich crimson; Flora Norton 

 Spencer pale blue; Aurora Spencer; 

 Queen Victoria Spencer; Coccinea Spen- 

 cer, and — last but not least — Countess 

 Spencer, the forerunner of this mag- 

 nificent new race. 



The New Winter Spencers. 



So much for this popular flower as 

 we know it in the summer time, but 

 what of our winter flowering varieties? 

 After having admired the magnificent 

 exhibits of roses, carnations and other 

 winter and spring flowers exhibited at 

 the show, you may imagine I m^ a raah 

 and false prophet when I say wkt there 



E. Allan 



(Member Board of Control, 



Peirce. 



National Flower Show ) 



is ;i race of winter flowering sweet peas 

 coining that will to a great extent oust 



many of these from popular favor, and 

 that their introduction will revolution- 

 ize the cut flower market I I am re- 

 ferring to the Spencerized type of win- 

 ter blooming sweet peas. Although the 

 winter flowering type as we have it to- 

 day is extremely popular, it is still in 

 its infancy and the new race to which 

 I refer is as much superior to it as are 

 the summer flowering Spencers to the 

 grandifloras, and all sweet pea lovers 

 appreciate this marked difference, but 

 I believe it is even more accentuated 

 in the new winter Spencers. 



I had the pleasure of visiting Mr. 

 Zvolanek at Boundbrook a few days 

 ago, where I saw this new class in per- 

 fection. There were pure white, prim- 

 rose, blush pink, pink in various shades 

 to rose and orange. The size of flowers 

 and the excellent frilled blooms, 

 strong steins and robust and vigorous 

 growth to which I was introduced were 

 magnificent and I am certain the in 

 troduetion of this new race will place 

 the sweet pea at the forefront of all 

 winter flowers, especially for table 

 decorations and boutonnieres. 



T understand that the Rev. FJdwin 

 Arkwright, of Algiers, has ;;lso been 

 working on this form. I have also been 

 hybridizing for the same results for the 

 last few years, so that we have now at 

 Fordhook a large family of promising 

 youngsters of various ages, from which 

 T am expecting great things. 



Thomac RoUnd. 



(Memlier Board of Control, National Flower Show.) 



Pascoag, B. I. — William Doefl, who last 

 fall purchased the greenhouses of the 

 Slade estate, in Franklin, Mass., sold 

 the property March 4 to M. J. Van 

 Leeuwen, proprietor of the rnntinontal 

 Nurseries, in Franklin. 



