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Beautiful in their modest love- 
liness, perfection in form, grace- 
ful in arrangement, delightful in i 
perfume, exquisite in coloring, lavish in bloom, unequaled for cutting, bright and showy in the garden, of 
the easiest culture, succeeding with everybody, in short, irresistible in their wealth of charms, 
If the primitive varieties were such fragrant favorites in the old-fashioned garden, is it to be 
wondered at, with the wonderiully improved sorts of the present time, with increased size. 
better shape, greater quantity of bloom, with three or four flowers borne on astem, and with 
lovely new colors, that Sweet Peas are now enjoying unprecedented popularity? Bushy 
climbers, 4 to 6 feet high, flowering through summer and autumn from seed sown in the spring, 
SPECIAL NOTICE 2& NEW DEPARTURE [RoiieR iat Sweet Peas. 
There are too many so-called varieties of Sweet Peas offered to the public. Many of them are 
alike, or so nearly so that experts can scarcely distinguish them apart, 
The list of over one-hundred varieties is being added to at the rate of a 
dozen or more annually, and we feel that it is time to commence culling 
out the older varieties that have been improved upon, the newer sorts 
that have reverted back or are not improvements, and the sorts that 
have been offered under different names by different firms, which we have 
proved at our trial grounds to be thesame thing. There are, ol 
course, many excellent sorts in our discarded list, but a counter. 
part or an improvement has in all cases been retained; for in- 
stance, in the lavender section, Princess May, Countess Radnor 
and Celestial are all practically the same thing. Weretained the 
latter because it has been trued up better to the pure lavendei 
color. All other sections have had the same consideration. * 
We: 
An ounce of Sweet Peas contains 
about 300 seeds, enough to sow a 
single row 25 feet long. Our packets 
of all (excepting the Novelties) are 
liberal, containing about 75 S. 
enough to sow a single row 6 feet long. 
Oo” 
PACKETS 
of Named 
SWEET 
PEA SEEDS 
(Novelties excepted) 
contain about 
75 SEEDS, 
enough to sow a 
single row 6 feet 
MIXED SWEET PEAS. 
Sweet Peas, Mixed Colors. From thirty standard varieties, 5c. per large packet of about 100 seeds; 10c. pez 
oz. (300 to 400 seeds.) 20c. %4 lb., 50c. lb. Delivered free in U.S. 
Eckford’s Large-flowering Sweet Peas, Mixed Colors. Equal proportions from 25 named varieties, 10c. 
per large packet of about 100 seeds; 15c. per oz. (300 to 400 seeds.) 35c.%41b., 75e. lb. Delivered free in U. S. 
DOUBLE SWEET PEAS. 
The flowers of these do not all come double, but usually produce from 20 to 40 percent of double blossoms. 
In some uncongenial localities or situations they have proved very inconstant, producing no double flowers at all, 
but in such cases they make up for the deficiency in doubles by producing in greatest profusion large single flowers 
of beautiful colors. Only with this understanding with purchasers do we supply the seeds. Such flowers as do 
come double are of incomparable beauty. Sometimes they will all come double on one stem, sometimes all 
single, but generally doubles and singles are borne about half-and-half on each stem. 
Double Apple Blossom. Rose and blush...... Pkt. 10 Double Lottie Eckford. White and mauve...Pkt. 10 
Double Boreatton. Deep maroon................ SO Double Splendor. Rosy crimson 10 
Double Butterfly. White, lavender and blue......... 10 Double Senator. Striped blue, whiteandchocolate 10 
Double Captain of the Blues. Blue and purple.... 10 Double White. Pure white 10 
Double Duke of Clarence. Plum claret................ 10 Double Mixed Colors.............- 
Collection of Double Sweet Peas, 1 packet each of the above 9 separate sorts, 75¢. 
DOUBLE SWEET PEA. 
OUR LIST OF DISCARDED SWEET PEAS, 
WITH THE SUPPLANTING VARIETY WE RECOMMEND AS BEING SIMILAR AND SUPERIOR. 
Fea SELECT IN ner near SELECT IN PLACE, DISCARDED. SELECT IN PLACE, DISCARDED. SELECT IN PLACE. 
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American Belle a No. 3 Duke of York.:............:.... Yo. 9 Light blue and purple.. Purple Prince........-.s.sss0+ No. 8 
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ronze Prince . & Ignea....... No. 59 Ovidizseecnne 3 7 Striped Celestial No. 69 
Butterfly ...... yeh) Imperial Blt Yo. 21 Painted Lad vi Sultan : No. 85 
Captain Sharke . 59 Indigo King.. . 119 Primrose... Je The Queen No. 53 
Cardinal eee Yo. 59 Invincible Car Yo, 59 Princess Bea °. Vesuvius No. 53 
Carmen Sylva. OL Invincible Scarlet - 59 Prin ‘ Violet Queen No. 53 
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