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SWEET PEAS 
We are headquarters for strictly high-grade Sweet Pea Seed. Our growers give special attention 
to selecting and cleaning. We have orders from all parts of the United States for our selected strains, 
which are furnished at prices within the reach of all and as low as the ordinary stocks are priced by many, 
CULTURE. Sweet Pea delights in a soil inclined to be clayey, and, as the little beauty is a gross feeder, 
a good supply of well-rotted manure should be mixed with the ground. Fall is the best season to prepare 
the soil. A good many failures are caused by manuring in the spring, for the reason that all pea vines like 
a moist ground, and the heat originated by the manure combined with the heat from the sun is too much 
for the young vines, which turn yellow and die. The best season to sow the seed is as soon in the spring as 
the ground can be worked. Late sowing produces rank growth, but few flowers. Dig a trench a foot deep 
by 16 or 18 inches wide and mix in it 6 inches of top soil with old manure. In this plant your seed in two 
rows, dropping one every inch or two; then cover with two inches of soil, gradually filling the trench as they 
grow'. One side has to be a little lower to allow the surplus water to drain off. The flowers must be picked 
every day if you want them to bloom through the summer. Bone dust and nitrate of soda will hasten the 
time of flowering. 
Sweet Peas Up to Date, by Hutchins. A complete treatise on Sweet Pea culture. 10 cents postpaid. 
If you want your Sweet Peas to do wonderfully well, use NITRAGIN, garden size can 30c. 
ORCHID-FLOWERED VARIETIES 
Spencer Sweet Peas have extra large flowers that are beautifully waved and crumpled at the edges 
of the standard and wings. Be sure and plant at least a few of these varieties. After you have seen these 
beautiful Spencers you will have no others. 
DUPLEX PINK SPENCER. One of 
the latest. A very large, wavy, cream 
pink flower with double or duplex 
standards. 
IRISH BELLE SPENCER. 
geous lilac, flushed with pink. 
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W ELITE SPENCER. Large extreme- 
ly beautiful white flowers. The very 
best white variety. 
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AMERICAN SPENCER. Red, 
striped with white. Very effective. 
MRS. ROUTZAHN SPENCER. A 
beautiful blending of soft straw color, 
tinted with blush pink and shading to 
apricot. 
OTHELLO SPENCER. Deep ma- 
roon. Flowers very large and the plant 
a strong grower. 
KING EDWARD SPENCER. Very 
large dark flowers of the genuine Spen- 
cer type. Very fine. 
AURORA SPENCER. Flower a 
cream white beautifully flaked and 
mottled with rich orange crimson. A 
very pleasing effect. 
GLADIS UNWIN. Flowers are large, 
of bright pink color, with unusually 
long stems. 
PHYLLIS UNWIN. Color of a rich, 
rosy carmine with crimped and wavy 
wings. 
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Prices of any of the above, 10c per pkt. ; 25c per oz. ; 75c per K~lb. 
SPECIAL MIXTURE OF SPENCER VARIETIES 
We are offering this excellent mixture for the benefit of those who would like to plant some of these 
magnificent Spencers, but do not care for separate colors. This mixture is composed of the best and most 
popular Spencers and will certainly give satisfaction .Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; X lb 60c 
