BARTELDES 
Every garden should have a row of Sweet 
Peas, A nice row of them will provide you with 
a beautiful bouquet day after day. Plant them 
I early, give them good rich soil, pick the blos- 
I soms every day and you will be richly rewarded 
' for your trouble. 
Culture. Sweet Peas do best in good, rich soil 
that is inclined to be a little clayey. Fall is the 
best time to prepare the soil, especially if 
manure is used. Pea vines like moist soil and 
often the heat originated by the manure com- 
bined with the heat from the sun is too much 
for the vines. They turn yellow and die. Use 
a good commercial fertilizer or else apply the 
manure in the fall. Dig a trench a foot deep 
and about 16 inches wide and mix in this about 
six inches of top soil with good manure or com- 
mercial fertilizer. Plant the seeds in this 
trench in two rows, dropping the seeds about 
two inches apart. Cover about two inches deep 
and then gradually fill the trench as the plants 
grow. The trench should be made so that water 
will drain off. The seed should be planted just 
as early in the spring as possible as late sowing 
produces rank growth but few flowers. Provide 
a trellis, wire or brush for the vines to climb 
on and pick the flowers every day. An appli- 
cation of bone dust and nitrate of soda will 
hasten the blooming time. 
If you want your Sweet Peas to do wonder- 
fully well use Nitragin. Garden size, 20c. 
New Early and Long Flower- 
ing Spencer Sweet Peas 
These bloom from three to four weeks earlier than standard orchid 
Sweet Peas. 
r These flowers show the greatest development in Sweet Pea culture 
since the Spencer or Orchid-flowering varieties were introduced. 
For the past few years these, early or Christmas-flowering varieties 
have been used exclusively by florists for winter or greenhouse cul- 
ture. It has been found that these splendid new sorts are especially 
valuable for amateur gardeners for out-door planting. . , 
They are extremely vigorous, bloom fully four weeks ahead of the 
standard sorts and under favorable conditions will bloom for a period 
up to four months. They will be highly prized in the middle west as 
they will produce an abundance of bloom before the hot weather sets 
If you are going to plant any Sweet Peas be sure that you plant at least a few of these early and long 
flowering varieties. We know that you will be delighted with them. 
We offer below a few of the very best. 
Include Some of These in Your Order 
Asia Ohn. 
ASTA OHN. A very beautiful lavender, of large 
Size and sure to be very popular. 
CREAM.: A fine cream color. The flowers are of 
immense size and frilled and duplexed, 
LIBERTY. A new variety of brilliant red color, j 
. MRS. A. A. SKAACH. Flowers of bright shell pink 
color. 
WHITE ORCHID. White flowers of good size and 
fine shape. . • 
YARRAWA. One of the most popular" of the new 
varieties. The color on opening is rose, changing as 
the flower develops to a light pink standard, tinted 
buff with blush wings. 
EARLY FLOWERING SPENCER MIXED. A fine 
mixture of all colors. 
Price of any of the above, 15c per packet, 60c per 
ounce. 
If you are going to have Sweet Peas why not plant 
the Spencer varieties and have the best? The seeds 
cost a little more but they require no more land nor 
labor and the flowers are much larger and much more 
beautiful. If you will fry the Spencers you will be so 
well pleased with them that you will plant them every 
year hereafter. 
PINK AND WHITE 
Blanche Ferry Spencer. Light pink standard- with 
white wings. ,.Very attractive. Pkt., 10c; >4 oz.. 20c: 
oz., 30c. 
WHITE 
Constance Hinton Spencer. The best black-seeded, 
white-flowered Spencer; the flowers are large and of 
true _Spencer form. Pkt., 10c; y 2 oz., 20c; oz., 30c. 
Etta Dyke- Immense, frilled flowers. Pkt., 10c; % 
oz., 20c; oz., 35c. 
White Spencer. The flowers are extremely large 
and beautiful. .The bold standard is crinkled and 
fluted and its wavy leaves are so folded that the keel 
is almost hidden. The flowers are borne three and 
four to the stem. Pkt., 10c; % oz, 3 20c; oz., 30c. 
