(Lathyrus odoratus.) 
These exceedingly beautiful and fra2;raiit hardy anniials are now most popular. 
Directions for Cxtlture. — Sweet Peas succeed best in a deep, rich soil. The most approved method of 
cultivation is to sow in a trench or G inches deep, covering them at first with only one inch of soil ; then as the 
plants grow, 1311 in the earth about them one inch at a time. After the plants are well grown up, they should be 
watered copiously, and bone meal worked into the soil about the roots, is recommended. Proper trellis or other 
supports should be provided. 
The first sowing of 8weet Peas may be made very earlj' in the spring, as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground. For a succession, some should be sown every few weeks afterwards. For fall flowering, they may be 
sown as late as July. Then, again, they may be sown late in the fall for very early blooming the following 
spring, but in that case a drj' situation is preferable, and they should be kowu 4 or 5 inches deep, and not by the 
trench method. 
THORBURN'S SELECTED SWEET PEAS. 
ASSORTMENTS CONTAINING— 
1 packet each of 40 named varieties, our own selection $1 50 
1 '« " 20 " " " " " 80 
1 <• 10 " " " " 40 
EIGHTY NAMED VARIETIES. 
ff£3^All five cents per packet. 
Per 
oz. 
Per^41b. 
Perlb. 
10 
$0 20 
$0 50 
Alice Eckford 
..Rich, cream-tinted cerise standards, white wings; very 
10 
30 
1 
00 
10 
25 
75 
10 
20 
60 
..Flowers extra lai-ge ; standards and wings flaked and striped 
10 
25 
75 
Black Knight 
1,5 
45 
1 
50 
Blanche Burpee 
10 
20 
60 
Blanche Ferry 
. . Large pink and white flowers ; very early ; free flowering . . . 
10 
20 
(50 
10 
20 
CO 
10 
20 
CO 
Boreatton 
10 
20 
60 
..Pink and white, semi-double ; very fine 
15 
40 
1 
25 
Butterfly 
10 
20 
CO 
Captain of the Blues 
. . Bright purple and pale blue 
10 
20 
()0 
..Light magenta, self-colored 
10 
25 
75 
10 
20 
CO 
10 
20 
60 
Chancellor 
. . Bright orange-pink 
10 
m 
1 
00 
Colonist 
15 
45 
1 
50 
Coquette 
10 
20 
CO 
Countess of Aberdeen 
. . White, margined with pale pink. 
10 
20 
CO 
Countess of Radnor 
..Standards delicate lavender, wings dark maxivo ; lovelv 
10 
25 
75 
Countess of Shrewsbury.. 
10 
20 
60 
Countess of Powis 
, . Orange, suffused with light purple , 
10 
25 
75 
