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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
SWEET PEAS. 
SPENCER SWEET PEAS IN VASE. 
DANIELS’ LARGE-FLOWERED. 
In Selected Colours. 
284 DANIELS’ BRILLIANT SCARLET 
285 DANIELS’ LIGHT BLUE 
286 DANIELS’ BRIGHT ROSE 
287 DANIELS’ PURE WHITE . . 
288 DANIELS’ DARK BLUE 
289 DANIELS’ PRIMROSE YELLOW \ 
290 DANIELS’ DELICATE ROSE . . 
291 DANIELS’ ROSE AND WHITE . . ' 
per or,. — s. 
1 
1 
Beautiful large-flowered 1 
varieties, specially selected 1 
for cut flowers or garden 1 
deooration. 1 
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1 
d. 
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0 
0 
0 
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New Large-flowered Varieties 
in Collections. 
The sorts given in these collections are carefully selected to ensure 
the best possible variety. ( 
292 12 CHOICE VARIETIES, 100 seeds of each .. ..2 6 
293 6 „ ..10 
DANIELS’ SPECIAL MIXTURE 
OF GIANT-FLOWERED SPENCERS. 
We highly recommend this splendid mixture which we feel sure will 
give great satisfaction. The varieties included are all of tb< 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. 
294 Per pint, 7s. fid. 295 Per half-pint, 4s. 296 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. 
297 Per pint, 4s. 6d. 298 Per half-pint, 2s. 6d. 299 Per oz., 6d. 
SWEET PEAS — Ordinary Class, Choice Mixed. 
. 300 Per quart, 4s. 6d. 301 Per pint, 2s. 6d. 302 Per oz., 4d. 
Cultivation. — To grow really fine Sweet Peas, the ground should be deeply dug or trenched and plenty of well-decayed manure, with some coarse 
bone meal worked well in and to the bottom of the 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 so6n 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 case the plants should be not less 
than six or eight inohes apart in the row or dump. Stakes should be placed as soon as the plants are three or four inches high. The ground should 
be kept free of weeds, and water given if the weather is dry. 
As growth advances some weak liquid manure should be given once or twice a week, and if the weather continues dry, a mulching of some short, 
well-decayed manure should be placed on the surface about the roots. This will be of great benefit in stimulating a healthy growth, and some splendid 
flowers will be prodnoed. 
An exoellent 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 good liquid manure. 
For later successive blooming tho seeds may be sown out of doors at intervals from early March to tho middle of May, giving them a similar 
treatment to that recommended above. Excellent results may also be had by sowing in October or November in a sheltorod 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. 
From Mr. R. T. KIRK, Ouiton Broad. 
Angoat l!0th. 
*• I have had a splendid show of Sweet Peas from your seed, and they are aa large as 
erer. I only had 2 ozs. (No. 118). I think there is now 400 to 500 blooms." 
From Mr. C. THOMAS, Byflect. 
March 14th. 
■'IVe took Second Prize for Coronation Sweet Peas, and Socond for another bunch 
from seed we had oft you." 
GYPSOPHILA ELEGANS GRANDI FLORA ALBA (New). 
This splondid hardy Annual is a great improvement on the old White Gypsophila, and should be freely grown wherever cut flowers arc in demand. 
It grows about 2| feet in height, and throws out numerous branches with light foathcry sprays or panicles of numerous pure whito flowers. These can 
be out with long stems, and have a very graceful and pretty effect in association with Sweet Peas when used for table or othor decorations. 
303 GYPSOPHILA ELEGANS GRANDIFLORA ALBA .. .. .. per oz. Is. 6d. por packet, 3d. and Gd. 
304 ,, „ „ ROSEA, rosy pink, very pretty, „ Is. 6d. „ 3d. and Gd. 
