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HENDERSON'S CLIMAX COLLECTION OF 



GIANT ^SPENCER" SWEET PEAS 



Price j 



ONE PACKET EACH OF THE 15 BEAUTIFUL VARIETIES SHOWN IN COLORS t 

 ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE AND DESCRIBED ON THIS PAGE t 



$1.00 



SWEET PEA evolution has resulted in the creation of a glorified race. 

 "The Spencers," so surpassingly superior that older types are destined 

 to be superseded as rapidly as corresponding colors among the Spencers 

 can be trued up and sufficient seed produced. 



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 a foot apart. The flowers are 

 giants among Sweet Peas, measuring 2 to 2H 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 color- 

 ing. 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 phenom- 

 enal, 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. 



THE SPENCER SWEET PEAS ORIGINATED IN THE 



ENGLISH HOMELAND OF WASHINGTON'S ANCESTORS 



We discovered this when visiting this section and the coincidence was 



so impressive that we tarried a day or two longer, collecting information 



and getting photographs amid scenes and environment of the fore-fathers 



of America's father. These we publish as "pot-pourri" in 



Henderson's Washington Booklet 



Free wit h every Climax Collection of Spencer Sweet Peas. 



Henderson's Great and Grand New Sweet Pea 



GEORGE WASHINGTON 



(No. A — on the colored page opposite) 



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, having 

 round, open standards pleasingly undulated from throat to border. The 

 waved wings also are of huge size and gracefully poised over the keel, almost 

 hiding it from view. 



These gorgeous blossoms are borne usually in fours, but sometimes in 

 threes, on strong stems 10 to 12 inches in length. The plants of exuberant, 

 healthy growth display such a continued profusion of bloom they appear 

 for weeks as if mantled in richest scarlet. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz.; $1.50 

 per % lb.; $5.00 per lb. 



Henderson's Great and Grand New Sweet Pea 



MARTHA WASHINGTON 



(No. B — on the colored"page opposite) 



A radiantly beautiful new 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 which ever way they face, in vase, 

 bouquet or on the plant. 



The flowers of lasting substance are perfection in form and of the largest 

 size, standards upright, open, well rounded out and beautifully waved. 

 The wings are also very large, gracefully waved and poised almost enclosing 

 the keel. Usually four of these peerless blossoms are carried, well arranged 

 on long, strong stems. They vase charmingly and where shown have 

 elicited enthusiastic encomiums. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz; $1.50 per 1 i 

 lb; $5.00 per lb. 



A FEW OF MANY GOOD REPORTS PxEGAPvD- 

 ING OUPv NEW WASHINGTON SWEET PEAS 

 " The Washington Sweet Peas were even more beautiful than you describe. 

 The coloring of the George Washington is quite new and wonderful and the 

 Martha Washington — white with sea shell linlings — is exquisite." 



ANNIE L. CARVER. Plainville, Ohio. 

 "The Sweet Peas, George and Martha Washington were most beautiful and 

 satisfactory — they were simply grand." 

 M. J. FRITZ, Cashier, Ann Arbor Savings Bank, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



" The George and Martha Washington Sweet Peas from you were both very 

 handsome. The only variety I can compare to the former is the King Edward 

 Spencer, but the color of George Washington is considerably finer. The Martha 

 Washington is Ike daintiest colored Sweet Pea I have ever grown and possesses 

 a peculiar charm." JAMES QUIGLEY, Regina, Saskatchewan. 



THE GIANT SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



COMPRISING OUPv CLIMAX COLLECTION OFFERED ABOVE 

 IN ADDITION TO GEORGE AND MARTHA WASHINGTON 

 VARIETIES DESCRIBED IN OPPOSITE COLUMN :: :: :: 



Apple Blossom Spencer. (No. C.) Immense, waved flowers of carmine-rose 

 color with creamy-blush wings. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Asta Ohn Spencer (Xo. D.) Beautiful, soft lavender, slightly suffused with 

 pinkish mauve: large waved flowers. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Aurora Spencer (Xo. E.) Striped on white with brilliant, rosy-orange; of the 

 largest and finest waved Spencer form. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Countess Spencer (No. F.) The grand, original from which this beautiful giant 

 flowered race has sprung and still the gem of all the "Spencers"; flowers of 

 noble proportions and exquisite coloring. Soft pink, shading to warm rose- 

 pink at the edges. 10c. per pkt.; 25c. per oz.; 75c. per J4 lb.; S2.50 per lb. 



Evelyn Hemus (No. G.) Primrose and buff with a distinct, rosy-pink edge and 

 of the finest, large Spencer form. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Flora Norton Spencer (No. H.) Bright, light-blue with a slight purplish tinge — not 

 as large as the other Spencers, but fine 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Helen Lewis (No. I.) Immense waved flowers of reddish-orange; wings rose- 

 orange 10c. per pkt.; 25c. per oz.; 75c. per M lb.; $2.50 per lb. 



John Ingman (Xo. J.) Bright carmine-rose with veins of a deeper shade; splen- 

 did large waved flowers. 



10c. per pkt.; 25c. per oz.; 75c. per }i lb.; S2.50 per lb. 



Mrs. Routzahn Spencer (No. K.) Charming apricot-buff, delicately flushed with 

 soft pink; large and finely waved. 10c. per pkt.: 50c. per oz. 



Mrs. Walter Wright Spencer (Xo. L.) Deep rosy-heliotrope, suffused with a 

 bluish plum color. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per or. 



Othello Spencer (Xo. M.) Pure deep maroon, of the largest and finest Spencer 

 form. 10c. per pkt.; 50c. per oz. 



Primrose Spencer (Xo. N.) Large waved, cream-yellow flowers: the fines 



this color. 10c. per pkt.; 35c. per oz.; $1.00 per l t lb.; $5.50 per lb. 



White Spencer (Xo. O.) Pure satiny-white flowers of gigantic size and beauti- 

 fully waved. 10c. per pkt.; 35c. per oz.; $1.00 per ' 4 lb.; $3.50 per lb. 



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