SWEET PEAS 
Our stocks are absolutely unsurpassed in selection, purity and vitality. 
Spencer Types or “Orchid Flowered” 
SWEET PEAS 
The Varieties we offer are the very choicest sorts obtainable. 
This new type of Sweet Peas stands in a separate class 
and is entirely distinct from the ordinary varieties. The 
flowers are extra large and beautiful beyond description. 
Both standard and wings are beautifully waved and crumpled 
giving a striking appearance that is most pleasing. 
ASTA OHN SPENCER. Best lavender of the true spencer type. Flowers 
very kirue and wavy. Edges fluted with large waved wings. Stems 
extremely long and hardy and each stem usually hearing lour flowers. 
Color delicate lavender, tinted with mauve. 
COUNTESS SPENCER. Immense flowers with wavy petals. Color deep 
but delicate nink. Very large open form; long stems. Avery desir- 
able variety. 
FLORENCE MORSE SPENCER. Delicate blush with pink margin. Flowers 
exceedingly large and wavy. Excellent for cutting on account of strong 
stems. 
SPENCER TYPES OR “ORCHID FLOWERED” SWEET PEAS 
CULTURE. Early in Spring make a trench about six inches deep in rich, mellow soil so 
arranged that no water can stand in it, and plant the seed in the bottom, taking care not 
to cover it more than two inches. When the plants are about five inches high, fill up the 
trench and furnish some support for the vines to run upon. The flowers should be picked 
before they form pods, or the plants will soon stop flowering. 
INVINCIBLE MIXTURE. All named varieties from superior selected strains 
from flowers of delicate colors, ranging from pearly white to the richest 
reds and purple. The Invincible leads, because it is a result of selecting 
year after year, seeds from the choicest flowers. The mixture cannot 
fail to give satisfaction. 
BLUSHING BRIDE. Very popular. Pink and White. A strong grower 
and a free bloomer. None more handsome. 
COUNTESS OF CADOGAN. Stems very long, each bearing three or four 
flowers, a little darker than Navy blue. 
DOROTHY ECKFORD. Vine very robust and exceedingly floriferous. 
Flowers of extra large size. pure white, beautifully shell shaped; usually 
three on a stem 
EMILY HENDERSON. An extra, large flower, pure white, very hardy. 
FIREFLY. Bright scarlet. Very attractive and a vigorous grower. 
GLADYS UNWIN. Clear light bright pink with deeper shade at edge 
of standard; very large size, open form, with wavy edges. One 
of the best. 
KATHERINE TRACY. The color is a soft but brilliant pink in 
wings and standard. Plants vigorous and give a profusion 
of flowers which continue large and fine until the close of 
the season. 
LADY GRISEL HAMILTON. Flowers arc hooded; extra large; 
a beautiful lavender color. 
MISS WILLMOTT. A fine semi hooded type, standard orange 
pink: wings rose tinted with orange. Of very large size, 
long stems; plant very vigorous. 
NORA UNWIN. A pure white, very large, open form and 
wavy. One of the very choicest on our list. 
PRIMROSE. A beautiful blossom, pale primrose approach- 
ing yellow. 
SHAHZADA. This has a very rich dark maroon standard 
and deep violet wings. One of the finest dark sorts. 
HELEN LEWIS. One of the best. Very large open form, wavy edges; standard 
crimson orange, wings orange rose. 
JOHN INGMAN. Rose carmine, showing veins of deeper shade; large size, 
open form with wavy edges. 
KING EDWARD SPENCER. Flowers grow to (mormons size, often 2 inches 
across. Color deep carniinc scarlet or red. Stems grow lrora 12 to 14 inches 
long, usually bearing 3 to 4 blossoms each. 
WHITE SPENCER. Standard and wines of pore white, beautifnlly waved and 
fluted. An especially attractive variety. The best and largest of the white 
spencer type. 
EXTRA CHOICE SPENCER MIXTURE. 
SWEET WILLIAM 
The best varieties of Sweet William are of exceedingly beautiful colors, very large and almost 
perfect in form, with trusses of great size. Treatment as for Carnation. The plants are perfectly 
hardy, and may be increased by division of roots. The colors pass from white to pink, crimson, 
carmine, and purple; with distinct eye encircled with color different from the rest of the flower, 
like Phlox or Verbenas. They make very durable cut flowers. It is well to raise new plants every 
year from seed, for old plants become debilitated and unsightly, and the flowers decrease in size. 
Double Varieties Mixed. 
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