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Giant Spencer Sweet Peas 



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THE FIFTEEN VARIETIES 

 SHOWN IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE 



AND DESCRIBED BELOW 



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 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. 



MIXED GIANT "SPENCEK" SWEET PEAS 



Composed exclusively of Giant Waved "Spencer" varieties, including several 

 new hybrids of exquisite colors and shades, many of which, when sufficiently 

 trued up, will be introduced as new-named varieties. Pkt. of 50 seeds, 10c. ; 

 per oz., 25c.; per Vi lb., 75c.; per lb. 12.50. Delivered free in the U. S. 



I PACKET, 50 SEEDS OF EACH, 

 PRICES:-! 1 OVEK-SIZE PACKET, 150 SEEDS OF 

 1 OZ. OF EACH, $5.00 



. $1.00 

 EACH, $2.00 



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These "Packets" contain about 50 seeds; "Over-Size" packets 

 about 1 50 seeds. 



Apple Blossom Spencer. Very bright rose color; 

 wings flushed with pink over cream color; large 

 waved flower 



Asta Ohn. Charming lavender with a soft pinkish 

 sheen; beautifully waved large flower 



Constance Oliver. Rich orange-pink, suffused over 

 primrose; an unusually vigorous variety with 

 immense waved flowers 



Countess Spencer. Clear, soft pink deepening slight- 

 ly toward the edges; the original giant waved 

 Spencer and still one of the best 



Evelyn Hemus. Primrose lightly shaded with rosy- 

 buff and picotee edged with pink; beautiful large 

 waved flower 



Florence Morse. Very daintily flushed over white 

 mth pale pink, deepening into an edging of pink; 

 charming large waved variety 



Helen Lewis. Bright flame orange with orange-pink 

 wings; large waved flowers 



John Ingman. Rich rose-red veined with a deeper 

 shade; splendid large waved flower 



King Edward Spencer. Brilliant, crimson and sun- 

 proof; the best and largest Spencer of its color. . . 



Martha Washington. Veiled over white with a flush of 

 pink, deepening into a marginal zone of soft tyrian 

 rose; radiantly beautiful 



Mrs. Routzahn. Cream-pink or straw color, washed 

 and tinted with blush-pink deepening to rosy- 

 apricot at the edges 



Othello Spencer. Rich deep maroon; immense waved 

 flov/ers; the finest variety of its color 



Primrose Spencer. Light primrose- yellow flowers of 

 the largest and finest Spencer form 



Tennant Spencer. Unique purplish-mauve shaded 

 over rose-magenta; giant waved flowers 



White Spencer. Snow-white; magnificent large 

 waved flowers of the best Spencer form, unsur- 

 passed by any synonomous variety 



Per 

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Size 



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10c. 



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10c. 



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Per 

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35c. 

 35c. 



50c. 



30c. 



50c. 



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 3Sc. 



35c. 

 35c. 



SOc. 



50c. 

 35c. 

 35c. 

 50c. 



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