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SWEET PEA. 
Sweet Pea and the Nasturtium each separately improved by the mixing or 
hybridization of distinct colors and qualities and the perpetuation of the new 
product, or in some cases by the seizing of accidental sprouts, now both take 
rank among the most valuable garden plants, not surpassed in brilliant effect by any 
biennials, while they both are within the easy culture of any one of the least gardening 
experience. 
The Sweet Pea, as respects size, texture, diversity of colors, exquisite shades, 
phenomenal production of blooms, and exquisite perfiime, has, in the last few years, 
jumped to the first place among the sweetest of climbing plants. So productive is 
it that single plants have been known to have borne over looo sprays of flowers. 
No praise can be too high for the Sweet Pea. It is the fashionable flower 
consequent upon its rare development in beauty, ranging froni deepest purple to 
pure white and, in perfume, fragrant as Mignonette. 
It is in place everywhere, in bouquets, in vases, as masses on the lawn, as 
ribbons along paths, or trained as screens in the form of hedges, or clambering on trellises 
to hide unsightly objects. 
It is the most useful and ornamental of all hardy annuals, growing best in a cool soil 
and most luxuriantly under conditions of rain or moisture. 
In planting the seed it should be put into the soil in very early Spring, to secure an 
early development, as early, if not earlier, than the planting of garden peas. 
If sown in rows, the trenches to receive the seeds should be marked out four inches 
deep and the seeds placed two inches apart, and covered at first -^rith only two inches of 
earth, the full covering being attained gradually. 
The object of deep seeding is that the roots may be well down to resist drouth. Planted 
in single rows, one ounce of Sweet Peas will seed forty feet, but for eff'ective purposes, one 
ounce should be allowed to every twenty feet or even less. 
INDIGO KING. — Fine large flower, black-blue in centre. Perpacket, locents; per ounce, 25cts. 
PRINCE OF WALES. — ^White, shaded with blue and lavender. Per packet, lo cents; per 
ounce, 15 cents. 
BOREATTON. — A profuse bearer of mammoth flowers of a purple mahogany. Per packet, 
10 cents ; per ounce, 25 cents. 
IMPROVED PAINTED LADY.— An early and profuse bearer of large white flowers, suffused 
with pink, exceedingly fragrant. Per packet, 10 cents ; per ounce, 10 cents. 
PURPLE PRINCE. — Bronze and maroon, wings purple blue, fine sort. Per packet, 10 cents; 
'ounce, 25 cents. 
QUEEN OF ISLES. — Large flower.?, mottled rose and scarlet. Per packet, 10 cents; per ounce, 
25 cents, 
SPLENDOR. — Bright crim.son shaded off to rose-pink, large flowers of striking habit. Per packet, 10 cents ; per ounce, 
25 cents. 
GRAND BLUE. — Very showy, a blue-purple with bright blue wings dashed with mauve, very effective. Per packet, 10 
cents ; per ounce, 25 cents. 
ECKFORD'S MIXED. — A selection of the finest English varieties offered at a lower price than the .separated sorts. It 
shoiild be sown in quantities of a pound to produce showy effect. Per packet, 10 cents ; per ounce, 15 cents ; per pound, S1.50. 
MIXED NEW SORTS. — A selection of the finest sorts not Eckford's. The price is low and the seed should be sown by 
the pound, which we oSer at the low price of $1.00. Per packet, 10 cents ; per ounce, cents. 
D. Landreth & Sons, 31 and 33 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. 
