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



^^^ WE OFFEK $200.00 IN FIVE PKIZES ^^^ 



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



To be Held in Boston, Mass., Summer of 1912 



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



THE 15 VARIETIES— 12 SPIKES EACH— OWN FOLIAGE— CROWN FKOM 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: Dates of Exhibition, 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 



garallel among cultivated flowers — was marvelled at by botanists? Eventually, 

 owever, the physiological reason was understood, and artificial cross fertiliza- 

 tion 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, Northampton- 

 shire, 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 Peas. 



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 undula- 

 tions 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 Worid"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. Letter J on opposite plate, 



Pkt. 10c. ; Oz., 2Sc. 



C — Apple Blossom Spencer. Rose; blush wings Pkt. 



E — Asta Ohn Spencer. Soft lavender and pinkish-mauve . . " 



F — Aurora Spencer. Striped white with rosy-orange " 



I — Countess Spencer. Soft pink, rose-pink edges " 



N — Flora Norton Spencer. Bright, light blue " 



O — Garnet Spencer. Large-waved purplish-maroon " 



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



H — John Ingman. Carmine-rose with deeper veins " 



10c. ; 



Oz. 



2Sc. 



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25c. 



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25c. 



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25c. 



Henderson's Great and Grand Sweet Pea 



MAKTHA 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. 

 Letter M on opposite plate Pkl. 10c. ; Oz. 2Sc. 



D^ — Mrs. Routzahn Spencer. Apricot-buff, flushed soft pinkPkt. 10c. ; Oz. 2Sc. 



L — Primrose Spencer. Cream-yellow or primrose " 10c. ; * 2Sc. 



B — Tennant Spencer. Rosy-heliotrope " 10c. ; * 2Sc. 



A — Waverly Spencer. Purplish-maroon. " 10c. ; ' 2Sc. 



K — White Spencer. Pure satiny-white " 10c.; ' 2Sc. 



PRICE 



Each of the 1 5 Beautiful Varieties Shown in Colors on the Opposite Page and Described above, 



$1.00 



Henderson's Leaflet How to Grow Sweet Peas 



includes new information on the subiect and 

 how the English grow big ones for exhibition 



Free to Customers when asked for 



