To Mu Customers: 
O flower in history lias made as many admirers 
as my Winter Orchid Flowering Sweet Teas, 
which 1 had originated and introduced in 1912. 
In the past four years hundreds of thousands 
of feet of glass houses have been built especially tor 
this wonderful everybody's flower. Besides the new 
built glass houses at least 3 0 per cent of the com- 
mercial violets and 20 per cent, of the carnation 
grower's glass space has been planted to this type of 
sweet pea, besides large land area in the southern 
and semi-tropical country for cutting out cf doors in 
the past winter. Notwithstanding that four times as 
many sweet pea flowers have been raised during the 
past winter, against the winter before, the price 
for the cut flowers has increased from 15 to 70 per 
sent, while carnations, violets and other cut flowers 
have remained the same — or even decreased in prices — 
notwithstanding their reduced planting. 1 can 
safely say that the Sweet Pea Flower will steadily 
increase in price, even if they are grown thirty times 
as many as in the past. They are now used for every 
purpose — no wedding or dinner party can do without 
Sweet Peas; they are extensively used for funeral 
pieces and other decorations. Every flower store 
must carry them every day in the year. These Sweet 
Peas have received the highest honors wherever 
shown. In San Francisco the GOLD MEDAL OP 
HONOR; also in San Diego the GOLD MEDAL. 
By the National Flower Show, held in Philadelpaia 
last march the highest prizes were awarded to 
Mr. William Sim Eisenhard, Gude Bros., Alban Harvey 
& Sons, and others — all those firms using my seed. 
The highest award at the International Flower Show, 
New York City, was awarded to my son, Chas. A. 
Zvolanek, at Bound Brook, N. J. 
In the past two years several so called New 
Winter Spencer varieties have been placed on the 
market through large advertising in some trade 
papers, but all, excepting one, has proven to be my 
own older varieties. I will mention now only one 
which has been advertised page after page in eastern 
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