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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



TO AID IN DISTRIBUTING AND POPULARIZING THE GIANT WAVED "SPENCEK" SWEET PEAS 



WE OFFER $200.00 IN FIVE PRIZES 



To Amateur and Private Gardener Exhibitors at the American Sweet Pea Society's Exhibition 



To be held in Boston. Mass., July 13th and 14th, 1912 



FOK THE "HENDERSON PRIZE" COLLECTION OF GIANT WAVED "SPENCER" SWEET PEAS 



THE 15 VARIETIES— 12 SPIKES EACH— OWN FOLIAGE— GROWN FROM OUR SEED 

 A FIRST PRIZE of $100 00 A SECOND PRIZE of $50.00 A THIRD PRIZE of $25 00 A FOURTH PRIZE of $15 00 A FIFTH PRIZE of $10.00 

 The Society's Rules to Govern and their Judges to Decide. Detailed Information: How to Pack and Forward. Label Cards, Etc. Will be furnished 



All Intending Exhibitors Who Will Write Us by June 1st, 1912 



The "Henderson Prize" Collection of 15 Giant Spencer Sweet Peas 



Sweet Peas, gay and fragrant, are perhaps the most universally popular flowers 

 cultivated. Inexpensive, easily and quickly grown from seed, thriving in town or 

 country gardens, supplying an abundance of continuous bloom for months — an 

 adornment to garden, house or corsage. Is it any wonder that they are everybody's 

 flowers, and have been for years and years, even though for a century and a half their 

 tardiness in developing improved varieties — without parallel among cultivated flowers 

 was marvelled at by botanists? Eventually, however, the physiological reason was 

 understood, and artificial cross fertilization was undertaken, then Sweet Pea "blood 

 was broken." New colors and forms began to appear in rapid succession, until finally, 

 about 10 years ago, a climaxing type appeared in the famous gardens of Earl Spencer, 

 Northamptonshire, England. This newcomer, extremely beautiful, the fairest-formed 

 and largest Sweet Pea ever grown, was named "Countess Spencer" and from this has 

 sprung the glorified modern race of Giant Waved "Spencer" Sweet Pea. 



The characteristics of the Spencer Sweet Peas, grown under congenial conditions 

 are: robust growth, the plants attaining a height of from 6 to 10 feet, requiring for 

 full development to be not less than 6 inches apart. The flowers are giants among 

 Sweet Peas, measuring 2 to 2] inches across. They are beautifully formed with huge 

 standards, open and upright and immense wings gracefully poised. Both standards 

 and wings are daintily waved, the undulations reflecting high lights and casting 

 shadows in the depths, thus showing a varied harmony of tones which greatly enhances 

 the coloring. Three and often four of these queenly blossoms are borne on long, 

 strong stems, rendering them unsurpassable as cut flowers for vases, bouquets and 

 other decorations. Their long-continued profusion of bloom is phenomenal, but 

 accounted for by the fact that a majority of the flowers of true Spencers fall as they 

 fade — before the seed pod is formed — thus continuing the succession of bloom — for as 

 all know when Sweet Peas set pods, the flowering diminishes. 



Henderson's Great and Grand Sweet Pea 



GEOKGE WASHINGTON 



This glorious crimson-scarlet self we believe surpasses all the World's Sweet Peas 

 of similar coloring in size of flower, form, substance and in brilliant purity, untarnished 

 by burn or scald, though grown unshaded under most trying sun. The flowers of 



gigantic size are true Spencers Pkl. 



Apple Blossom Spencer. Rose; blush wings Pkl. 



Asta Ohn Spencer. Soft Lavender and pinkish-mauve ' 



Aurora Spencer. Striped white with rosy-orange " 



Countess Spencer. Soft pink, rose-pink edges " 



Flora Norton Spencer. Bright, light blue " 



Garnet Spencer. Large-waved purplish-maroon " 



Helen Lewis. Reddish-orange; wings rose-orange " 



John logman. Carmine-rose with deeper veins " 



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Henderson's Great and Grand Sweet Pea 



MARTHA WASHINGTON 



A radiantly beautiful Spencer Sweet Pea. most daintily colored pearl-white from 

 throat to center, then appears a veiled flush of pink deepening in intensity as it 

 merges into the marginal zone of soft tyrian-rose. The standard and wings are adorned 

 alike, front and back being tinted and colored just the same, a remarkable and pleasing 

 characteristic; thus the flowers present the same exquisite color effect whichever way 

 they face, in vase, bouquet or on the plant . . Pkl. ioc; Oz. 25c. 



Mrs. Routzahn Spencer. Apricot-buff, flushed soft pink .... Pkl. ioc; Oz. 25c. 



Primrose Spencer. Cream-yellow or primrose " ioc; " 25c. 



Tennant Spencer. Rosy-heliotrope " ioc; " 25c 



Waverly Spencer. Purplish-maroon " ioc; " 25c 



White Spencer. Pure satiny-white " ioc; " 25c. 



PRICE 



for the "HENDERSON PRIZE" COLLECTION of GIANT SPENCER SWEET PEAS 

 One Packet Each of the 1 5 Beautiful Varieties Described above, 



$1.00 



Our new Leaflet "How to Grow Sweet Peas." includes new information on the subject and how the English grow big ones for Exhibition. 



Mailed free to all mentioning Garden Magazine. 



Peter Henderson £r Co., 35-37 Cortlandt St, New York 



