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GIANT WAVED SPENCER 
ORCHID FLOWERING SWEET PEA 
PLANT WASHINGTON GROWN SEEDS. THEY ARE THE BEST 
Every motorist who traveled between here and Tacoma on the brick boulevard during the 
nast summer cUldn’t help seeing and admiring the immense field of Sweet Peas ^ 
Led by the Aabling Seed Farms. They were not only for ourselves, but for some of the l^[Sest 
seed hLsesfn Amlrfca. and we now have under contract 100 acres for the next crop, a large 
quantity of which will be sent to Europe. 
WHAT OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS THINK OF US 
Anacortes, Wash., Oct. 16, 1916. 
Aaling-Boyce Co., 
Seattle, Wash. 
Dear Sirs; , „ , 
In regards to flower seeds ordered from you last 
spring, I will say that the sweet peas were mar- 
velous, the flowers being immense, borne on stems 
eight inches to a foot long. Though there have 
been several frosts I still can pick boquets of sur- 
prising beauty for this time of year, ^d can 
frankly say that we never had flowers that brought 
more pleasure to ourselves and friends. 
I gathered them by the market basketful, keep- 
ing niy friends’ homes and the hospital bright all 
summer long with those lovely blossoms. 
I should be glad to see your bulb catalogue but 
would like at once for an invalid friend one tine 
Giant Persian Cyclamen of mauve or rose pink, 
also twenty-five cents worth of Freesia bulbs. 
Yours very truly, 
MBS. L. HENRI DU VALI-. 
1207 9th St., Anacortes, Wash. 
Everett, W'ash., Oct. 19/16. 
Aabling-Boyce Seed Co., 
Seattle, Wash. 
Dear Sirs: , „ .u . 
In answer to your letter I am glad to say that 
w6 grew some perfectly wonderful Sweet Peas 
from your seeds. ^ ^ « a. 
Perhaps you have heard about our Sweet T’ea 
show here in Everett; they are thought to be well 
worth coming a long way to see. 
I went in very heavily for Peas this year, be- 
cause I wanted to win the sweepstakes away from 
Mrs Ross, our treasurer, who grows the best 
Sweet Peas in Washington. I believe I can truth- 
fully say, but I had the bad luck to have no sun- 
shine to bring mine out. I picked the vines clean 
Sunday, thinking I would have lots out in four 
days, but we had three dark days and I had to 
pick on Thursday for our Friday’s show. Mrs. 
Ross did not pick hers on Sunday, so she had lots 
of giant flowers. I entered in nineteen classes and 
onlv won one blue ribbon on the "best arranged 
basket" of your “Royal Purple," but got second on 
nearly everything I entered. However, my daugh- 
ter, Genevieve, who will be 11 the 23rd inst., won 
Sweepstakes over Mrs. Ross’ daughter, aged 14. 
so. of course, that helped some. Genevieve en- 
tered 18 classes and won ten blue ribbons ^d 
seven seconds, so she got the trophy cup for this 
year and is going to try twice as hard next year 
so she can keep it. Below is a list of your peas 
that won blue ribbons for us: „ 
Koyal Purple, Margaret Atlee, Barbara, Wedge- 
wood, Clara Curtis, Edith Taylor. The Royal Pur- 
ple and Edith Taylor are simply magnificent and 
Clara Curtis is the largest primrose or cream 1 
have found yet, but — I want to find a larger and 
better salmon than Barbara and ditto about 
Wedgewood for light blue. „ 
Margaret Atlee is, of course, a splendid fiower 
and is well known. 
You will think this a freak letter, but I wanted 
to give you the benefit of my small expenence, 
and hope your business will keep on growing as 
it has the past year. I will never be satisfied 
until I can have a few acres to grow flowers, then 
1 will be one of your big customers. 
Yours truly. 
.MRS. .1. ST. PETER. 
Vice Pres. R. and D. Society. 
Aabling-Boyce Seed Co 
Seattle. Wash. 
Dear Sirs; 
Just received your letter today and also your 
poppy seeds. Many thanks for them. . . , j 
In reply to your inquiry as to results obtained 
with your seeds this summer, I wish to say that 
my sweet peas were lovely, the nicest I have ever 
grown and are stili blossoming profusely. 
I dug up the seeds after they were all sprouted 
and transplanted them as we moved in^ another 
house, and yet they grew over five feet high — some 
are fully six feet — and blossom so freely. 
Today I found such a freaky blossom that I am 
sending it to you. There was oniy the one flower 
on a fine long stem, very double and has a pollen 
center something like a rose or poppy. 
Sincerely yours, 
MRS. L. E. LLOYD. 
Oct. 15, 1916. 
Aabling-Boyce Seed Co., 
Seattle, Wash. 
Dear Sirs: ,, , 
Received your letter and would say that 1 was 
more than pleased with the seeds 1 purchased 
from you last season. The Spencer Sweet Feas 
grew ten feet high and were a mass of bloom till 
the frost killed them, and the garden seeds were 
all good, and will be pleased to get prices on your 
bulbs, and also your new catalogue. Thanking 
you for the poppy seed, I am. 
Yours respectfully, 
MRS. M. J. WRIGHT, 
Rochester, Wash. 
MARGARET ATLEE 
SEE ILLUSTRATION ON BACK OF COVER 
We are so charmed by the rare grace and beauty 
of this lovely variety that we wish to call your 
especial attention to it, that you may not possibly 
miss it in making your selection for the coming 
.season, for if you onee consider it, you are sure 
to want it in your garden. 
In the beauty of its coloring it has no superior, 
being a rich, warm, salmon pink, perfectly suf- 
fused over a body of soft cream color. 
The flowers are of unusual size and well placed 
and the petals delightfully frilled, giving an ap- 
pearance of surpassing charm and beauty. 
The stems are extra long and heavy, bearing 
three to four blossoms. As a cut fiower it is pre- 
eminent and a row of them in your garden will 
win admiration from every passing glance and 
will be to you a source of much pleasure. Pkt., 
15c; oz., 40c. 
WE HAVE UNDER CONTRACT 
FOR 1917, 100 ACRES SWEET PEAS. 
PLANT WASHINGTON GROWN 
SEED. THEY ARE THE BEST. 
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