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We offer below a collection of 12 different 
colored Sweet Peas. They are the choicest of 
recent introductions. Both in colors and size 
they represent the iatest triumphs of the plant 
breeder’s skill. In these will be found the rich- 
est shades of apricot, pink to silvery blue, ivory 
white to royal purple. 
HERCUIiES. Finest Pink. 
ETTA DYKE. Pure White. 
MARGARITE ATEEE. Pink. 
ROYAE PURFEE. Purple. 
GEORGE HERBERT. Rose. 
VERMIEEION BRIEEIANT. Scarlet. 
DOBBIE CREAM. Cream. 
WEDGEWOOD. Blue. 
HEEEH EEWIS. Best Orange. 
KIHG EDWARD. Best Red. 
MARGARITE MADISON. Pale Lavender. 
EEFRIDA PEARSON, Best and Largest Light 
Pink. 
We repeat this spiendid offer which we made 
last year, for it was much appreciated by our 
many patrons as being the best value, quality 
considered, that can be offered in this rarely 
beautiful flower. 
APTERGEOW. Fancy Pastel Pink. 
EEPRIDA PEARSON. Pink. 
BARBARA. Shrimp Pink. 
VERMIEEION. Briliiant Scarlet. 
ROYAE PURFEE. Purple. 
WHITE SPENCER. 
Our Special Offer for the above 6 varieties 50c. 
GENERAL CULTURE 
The above 12 varieties, regular price, $1.50. 
Our special offer for the above collection, 
$ 1 . 00 . 
For those who do not wish to plant very ex- 
tensively, this is a great value. All the varieties 
are GIANT WAVED SPENCERS and are de- 
sirable in every way. 
Every lover of Sweet Peas should plant one 
of these collections. 
The ground where sweet peas are to be grown 
should be well prepared — if possible, the fall pre- 
vious. Deep spading or plowing is very essential 
for the roots love to penetrate into the cooler 
regions of the soil. Manure placed very deep will 
help to draw the roots downward. Sweet peas love 
sun, therefore they should always be planted 
where they are exposed to the. sun all day. 
SOW SEEDS EAREY. Sweet peas will produce 
their strongest roots during the cool, moist months 
of the spring, so that the sowing should take place 
as soon as the land can be worked, A little frost 
will do no harm to sweet peas. The old-fashioned 
method of sowing seeds in a trench eight inches 
deep and to cover them later is obsolete. After 
the soil has been carefully smoothened and raked, 
draw a line for a straight row and sow three seeds 
every six inches in the row. Do not cover the seed 
more than with one-half inch of soil, and if more 
than one plant should appear in each spot, care- 
fully destroy all but the strongest specimen, so 
that one plant shows every six inches in the i-ow. 
Two ounces of seed is sufficient to sow a single 
row of 100 feet. 
Sweet peas grown thus will produce stems and 
foliage of unusual strength and vigor, and, as each 
plant branches freely from the bottom, the entire 
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row will soon be a mass of foliage, more dense 
even than under the old-fashioned method of sow- 
ing thick. 
Other up-to-date dealers will suggest that you 
sow thick and afterward thin out, but it is utterly 
impossible to do this satisfactorily, and it con- 
stitutes an extravagant waste of seeds, and conse- 
quently a waste of money. The flowers produced 
from plants grown as suggested by us are fit for 
the queen’s garden, and will be a revelation to all 
who try this up-to-date method. 
Notwithstanding the smaller number of plants 
existing in a row, when our suggestions are fol- 
lowed, we can positively assure our patrons that 
they will be able to pick more flowers. 
\A/atprincr Sweet peas must be constantly 
actnng. supplied with moisture to do 
well, and we suggest the following: On either 
side of the row of sweet peas (si.x inches awa.v 
from the plant) dig a trench six inches deep and 
till same with well decayed stable manure. Let 
the hose run into the trenches long enough to fill 
them up complete at least once a day and your 
sweet peas will never suffer. 
