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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
SWEET PEAS. 
SPENCER SWEET PEAS IN VASE. 
DANIELS’ LARGE-FLOWERED. 
In Selected Colours. 
94 DANIELS’ BRILLIANT SCARLET . 
95 DANIELS’ LIGHT BLUE . . 
96 DANIELS’ BRIGHT ROSE 
97 DANIELS’ PURE WHITE . . 
98 DANIELS’ DARK BLUE . . ' 
99 DANIELS’ PRIMROSE YELLOW 
100 DANIELS’ DELICATE ROSE . . 
101 DANIELS’ ROSE AND WHITE . . J 
per oz. — s. d. 
1 0 > 
1 0 
Beautiful large-flowered 1 0 
varieties, specially selected 1 0 1 
for cut flowers or garden 1 0 
decoration. I 0 1 
1 0 
1 a 
New Large-flowered Varieties 
in Collections. 
The sorts given in these collections are carefully selected to ensure 
the best possible variety. 
102 12 CHOICE VARIETIES, 100 seeds of each .. ..2 0 
103 6 „ „ .. ..16 
DANIELS’ SPECIAL MIXTURE 
OF GIANT-FLOWERED SPENCERS. 
We highly recommend this splendid mixture which we feel sure wilt 
give great satisfaction. The varieties included are ail of the true Giant- 
flowered Spencer type, and the colours include all the most brilliant and 
beautiful shades of scarlet, crimson, magenta, orange, salmon, pink, mauve, 
cream and primrose to the purest white. This will prove a first-class 
mixture where really good Sweet Peas are required for cut bloom. 
104 Per quart, 10s. 105 Per pint, 5s. 6d. 106 Per oz., 9d. 
Large-flowered in Mixture. 
Splendid varieties in choicest mixture, including a good proportion 
of the light and delicately coloured sorts. Very highly recommended. 
107 Per quart, 6s. 108 Per pint, 3s. 6d. 109 Per oz., 6d. 
SWEET PEAS — Ordinary Class, Choice Mixed. 
110 Per quart, 3s. 6d. Ill Per pint, 2s. 112 Per oz., 4d. 
NEW TOM THUMB SWEET PEAS— CUPID, -w 
Charming and highly interesting new varieties growing only four or five inches high, and of a compact, spreading habit of growth ; when fully grown 
the plants are about a foot across, the foliage being dark green, and the flower-stems about four inches long. 
113 
CUPID— APPLE BLOSSOM. Rose, shaded blush . . 
per pkt. — s. 
.. 0 
d. 
3 
114 
„ BEAUTY. Rosy crimson and white 
.. 0 
3 
115 
,, BOREATTON. Deep maroon 
.. 0 
3 
116 
„ CAPTAIN OF THE BLUES. Deep blue . . 
.. 0 
3 
117 
„ FIREFLY. Dazzling scarlet 
.. 0 
3 
118 
„ HER MAJESTY. Deep rose crimson 
.. 0 
3 
119 
„ LADY MARY CURRIE. Orange pink 
.. 0 
3 
j erplvt. — s. d. 
120 CUPID — LOTTIE ECKFORD. Rose and white, edged blue . . 0 3 
121 „ MAUVE QUEEN. Pinkish lauve . . ..03 
122 „ PINK. Rose and white, very pretty . . ..03 
123 „ PRIMROSE. Delicate pale yellow . . .03 
124 „ PURE WHITE. Beautiful . . . . ..03 
125 „ SALOPIAN. Deep crimson . . . . ..03 
126 ,, STELLA MORSE. Primrose, flushed pink . . 0 3 
127 One Packet of each fourteen varieties, 2s. 6d. 
128 NEW DWARF SWEET PEAS, in mixture, containing many pretty varieties . . . . . . . . . . per oz. 8d. ; per pkt. 3d. 
Cultivation. — To grow really fine Sweet Peas, the ground should bo deoply dug or trenched and plenty of well-decayed manure, with some coarse 
bone meal worked well in and to the bottom of tho trench. This should be done in Autumn if convenient, or as early as possible in Spring, so as to 
allow of the ground settling down firmly before planting out. 
For early blooming, sow the seeds thinly in pots or pans in January or February, and place in a gentle heat ; harden off as soon as the plants are 
well up, and plant out as soon as convenient in March. If intended to be grown for exhibition, we should recommend planting in clumps four feet 
apart, six or eight plants in a clump, or they may be planted in single or double rows six feet apart; but in any ease the plants should be not less 
than six or eight inches apart in tho row or clump. Stakes should bo placed as soon as the plants are three or four inches high. The "round should 
bo kept free of weeds, and water given if tho weather is dry. 
As growth advances some weak liquid manure should be given once or twice a week, and if tho weather continues dry, a mulching of some short 
woll-decayed manure should be placed on the surface about the roots. This will bo of great benefit in stimulating a healthy growth, and some splendid 
flowers will be produced. ’ 1 
An excellent liquid manure can be made by dissolving Daniels’ Sweet Pea Fertiliser, about four ounces to the gallon of water, or guano, about two 
ounces to the gallon, with the addition of some soot. Either of these are splendid stimulants for promoting growth and improving the size and brilliancy 
of the flowers. Drainings from a cowshed or manure heap, mixed with five or six times its bulk of clear water, also forms a very "ood iiquid manure. 
For lator successive blooming tho seeds may be sown out of doors at intervals from early March to the middle of May, givin" them a similar 
treatment to that recommended above. Excellent results may also be had by sowing in October or November in a sheltered position in the garden. 
These, with a slight protection, will survive a moderately severe Winter and furnish some nice blooms for cutting earlier than those sown in spring. 
If the blooms are closely gathered and seed pods not allowed to develop, the plants will continue in bloom for a much longer period. 
