Bolgiano's Trustworthy Flower Seeds for 1917 



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Bolgiano's Giant Orchid Flowering Countess Spencer Type 



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Perfect Dreams of Beauty 



Because of such unusual size, often 2 inches and more across, 

 waved or fluted appearance and charming l)lendings of harmonious 

 colors, the new Spencer Type may be appropriately described as 

 Truly Gigantic "Orchid-Flowered." The flowers are not 

 only of extremely lar^e size, but are distinct in having the outer 

 edges of the standard and wings beautifully crumpled or waved, 

 the tissue being so full that there is not room for it to lie flatly 

 expanded or smoothly rolled. The standard is broad an<l tall; 

 the wings are broad, well sjiread and held erect by the keel. 



Bolgiano's Gorgeous Mixture of Sweet Peas 



5. Blanche Ferry Spencer. Pink and White. These beautiful con- 

 trasted colors in the large wavy standard and wings are a welcome addition. 

 Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 30c. },i Lb. 90c. Lb. $2.75. 



6. White Spencer. A pure wavy white of enormous size and splenditi 

 substance. Pkts. oo and 10c. Oz. 30c. }i Lb. 90c. Lb. $2.75. 



7. Asta Ohn Spencer. This is the first lavender of the True Spencer. 

 The large flowers are waved and fluted. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. >4 IA> 

 75e. Lh. $2..50. 



Bolgiano's Ten Superb New Spencers 



We have selected what we consider the ten best and most dis- 

 tinct kinds introduced prior to 1917, which we offer below. 



They are a great improvement on the standard sorts, having 

 large, rourid, open flowers of extraordinary size, measuring two 

 inches anc! over across, with wavy standards and wide-spreading 

 wings, a very large percentage bearing four of these immense 

 blossoms to the stem, which is long and strong, making them of 

 exceptional value for cutting, ami are just as easy to grow as the 

 standard varieties. 



1. Ma'.'ie Corelli Spencer. The large flowers are brilliant 

 rose carmine <'r red of the true Spencer form. The wings are a 

 pure rich rose crimson, while the standard shows a tin t of cherry-red . 

 Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 35c. J| Lb. $1.00. Lb. $3.00. 



2. Mrs. Routzahn Spencer. The beautiful coloring is 

 buff* or apricot ground flushed with pink deepening toward the 

 edges. Charming as a cut fiower. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. 

 M Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



3. Senator Spencer. The color is a varying combination 

 of deep claret and chocolate, striped and flaked on a ground of 

 light heliotrope. The vines are a perfect mass of bloom throughout 

 the season. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. }4: Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



4. True Countess Spencer. The coloring is a soft rose- 

 pink, which deepens at the outer edges and becomes still richer 

 or more heavily suffused in cool weather. In size, form and col- 

 oring Countess Spencer is simply exquisite. Pkts. 5c and 10c. 

 Oz. 30c. li Lb. 90c. Lb. $2.75. 



8. Aurora Spencer. Brilliant Orange rose-striped and flaked on a 

 cream white, the most attractive of the striped Spencers. Pkts. 5c and 10c. 

 Oz. 25c. M Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



9. Apple Blossom Spencer. Immense waved and crinkled flowers 

 of carmine-rose color with creamy blush wings. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. 

 '4 Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



10. Mrs. Hugh Dickson. One of the finest, beautiful, salmon-pink 

 on a cream ground. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. }4 Lb- 75c. lib. $2.50. 



11. America Spencer. Striped brilliant carmine-red on white. Pkts. 

 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. J| Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



12. Florence Morse. A light pink-edged Countess Spencer. Pkts. 5c 

 and 10c. Oz. 25c. J;| Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



13. Ruby Spencer. Rich, dark red. The flowers are enormous and 

 borne three and four to a stem. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 30c. }4 Lb. 90c. 

 Lb. $2.75. 



14. Primrose Spencer. The finest primrose yellow, with very large 

 wavy flowers. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. 3,| Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



15. Loyalty. A fine, large, waved, bright blue, flaked on white. Pkts. 

 5c and 10c. Oz. 30c. }i Lb. 90c. Lb. $3.00. 



16. Maud Holmes. A large and bright rich crimson. Pkts. 5c. and 

 10c. Oz. 25c. }i Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



17. Florence Nightingale. The largest and finest pure lavender. 

 Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 30c. }i Lb. 90c. Lb. $3.00. 



18. George Herbert. Beautiful, rich, bright rosy-carmine. Pkts. 5c 

 and 10c. Oz. 25c. J^ Lb. 7,5c. Lb. $2.50. 



Other Rare and Beautiful Spencer Varieties 



19. Helen Lewis Spencer. The wings orange-rose; the standard is of 

 an intense, rich crimson-orange. Blooms of a gigantic size. Pkts. 5c and 10c. 

 Oz. 25c. }i Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



20. Mrs. Walter Wright Spencer. A beautiful shade of deep mauve; 

 very artistic. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 25c. J.i Lb. 75c. Lb. $2.50. 



21. Bolgiano's Gorgeous Mixed of Best Tall or Grandiflora Sweet 

 Peas. This wonderful combination of more than 75 distinct varieties of New 

 and Standard Sweet Peas makes it unequal for the vast range of <'.olor, both 

 earliness, profusion of bloom and lateness of flowers. The gratifying and won- 

 derful reports we annually receive from growers of our mixture as well as our 

 own experiments permits us to t'laim we have the finest mixture of Standard 

 Sweet Peas in the World. Pkt. 5c. Oz. 10c. ij Lb. 25c. }4 Lb. 40c. 

 Lb. 7.DC. 



22. The Gigantic Orchid Flowered Sweet Peas, Countess Spencer 

 Type Mixed. This wonderful mixture contains only tlie rarest and most 

 lovely Countess Spencer varieties, grown separately, then mixed in proper pro- 

 portion so as to contain all varieties and colors. Pkts. 5c and 10c. Oz. 20c. 

 M Lb. 50c. Lb. $1.75. 



The New Spencer Sweet Pea — Fiery Cross 



The Wonderful New Spencer Sweet Pea that has Attracted so much Attention the World Over 



Fiery Cross is a most appropriate name for this most wonderful Sweet Pea. During the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries, when Scolland was continually at war, the method employed by the chiefs to 

 gather the clans to repel invaders was by means of a fiery cross, which was taken from hamlet to liamlet 

 by the speediest man available. The fiery cross was simply a blazing pine branch. 



The Color of Fire — Fiery Cross is the famous Sweet Pea for which the originator received $417.00 

 per ounce or $1.39 per seed recently. 



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 sunlight, thus adding a glowing, fire-like sheen 

 which radiates over the flower, llnlike most of the orange-scarlet varieties, it does not scorch or burn 

 even during extended periods of intense sunshine, therefore it can be grown in all soils without shading. 

 The beautiful waved and fluted flowers are borne freely in threes and fours, well placed on long stout 

 stems. Pkt, 25c. 



Beautiful Flowers, Delicious Vegetables, Luxuriant House Plants 



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 10 days on any quick-growing plants, vegetables and lawns, and on slower- 

 growing plants in a proportionate time. It being complete food, containing 

 Nitrogen, Potash and Phosphoric Acid in sufficient quantities, will sustain the 

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BON-ARBOR Is Put Up As Follows: 



One-half-pound package, making 15 gallons, by mail postpaid, 35c. 1- 

 pound package, making 30 gallons, by mail postpaid, 60c. 5-pound package, 

 making 150 gallons, by express, not prepaid, $2.00. 



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