Seeds that Grow”»f the Burpee-Quality 
Cost more but are Worth more than the difference in cost! Of seeds it is always true that the Best is the 
Cheapest,”—and that is one reason why we have maintained the Largest Mail-Order Seed Trade in the World. 
To prove to others that QUALITY COUNTS and to demonstrate the value of the New BURPEE SPECIALTIES 
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we now offer 
“Four of the Finest” Novelties 
Your Choice—for 25 Cents! 
Separately the nine varieties named belcw each cost (except Fordhook. 
Melon) 15 cts. per pkt.,—but you can select any Four Varieties 
for 25 cts. (silver or stamps), while we will mail all Nine varieties 
for 50 cts. 
44 Giant-Podded ” Pole Lima 
An entirely new and most remarkable variety, now first offered 
for advance trials in connection with $ I 27 .50 In Cash Prizes. 
We will pay $1()0 for a suitable name! 11 is the largest seeded and 
largest podded of all Limas,— see illustration herewith from a photo¬ 
graph. For Colored Plate, history, and description,— see Burpee's 
A 7 ew Annual for 1910. Per pkt. 15 cts.; 'A pint 30 ets.; Vz 
pint 50 cts. 
“Burpee’s Dwarf-Giant” Tomato 
The flesh is so firm and the tomatoes so heavy that they 
1 might be described “ solid as a rock / ” It is the most nearly 
seedless of all tomatoes. Of handsome dwarf, erect growth, 
the bushes produce enormous crops of the most beautiful 
tomatoes which are truly gigantic in size and absolutely un¬ 
equaled in delicious flavor. Per pkt. 15 cts.; 14 oz. 
cts.; oz. $1.50. 
Burpee-Improved Bush Lima 
The pods, truly enormous in size, are borne early and abun¬ 
dantly on strong upright bushes. Per pkt. (two ounces) 15 
cts.; )4 pint 25 cts.; pint 15 cts. 
Fordhook Bush Lima 
The only stiffly erect Bush form of the popular “ Potato”. 
Lima. Both pods and beans are twice the size of the Kumerle, 
while the “fat” beans are of the same delicious flavqr as 
Burpee's Bush Lima. Per pkt. 15 cts.; J4 pint 25 cts.; 
pint 10 cts., postpaid. 
Earliest Catawba Swdet Corn 
A real rival to our famous Golden Bantam— both in extreme earliness 
and surpassingly delicious flavor. Some planters say it is even better than 
Bantam! For illustrations, description and “reports,”- .see Burpee's 
Annual for 1910. Per pkt. 15 cts.; >4 pint 30 cts.; pint 50 cts., 
postpaid. 
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‘Wayahead” Lettuce 
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So named because it is the earliest, most solid and surest-heading of all early 
“Butterhead,” Lettuces. Per pkt. 15 cts.; oz. 4 5 cts. 
Fordhook Musk Melon 
Heavily netted melons, with thick golden-red flesh of exquisite flavor. A 
bet ter shipper than our original Netted Gem, i. e. -The “Rocky Ford’ Melon 
and as sweet as our famous Emerald Gem ! Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts. 
African “Golden-Orange” Daisy 
(Dimorphoiheca Aurantiaca) . As easily grown as any common annual,— 
this is entirely unique in color and most strikingly beautif ul! It has created 
a sensation wherever seen and you can get some idea of its rare beauty 
from the colored plate in Burpee's New Annual tor 1910. Per pkt. 15 cts. 
“Variegated-Queen” Nasturtiums 
In Superb Mixture for 1910. Of tall growth, bearing flowers of 
many bright colors. The leaves are so beaut ifully variegated with > el low, 
white and green that; the plants would be worthy of culture even for 
foliage alone. Per pkt. 15 cts.; per oz. 35cts, 
of the Above : or we will mail all nine varieties, in regular 
Burpee’s Six New 
Spencer ” RS 
In Six Separate Packets 
All for 25 Cents! 
These six are of the Choicest Re-selected 
Strains,—all true to type, and of such quality 
as has not been possible to obtain before 
at any price ! 
F _ ey r we will mall one regular 
Ol 2 3 VslS* p ac h e t each of Buhpkk’s 
King Eward Spencer, the largest and best of all 
crimson scarlet Sweet Peas; Othello Spencer, 
the first gigantic rich maroon; Asta Oiin, the 
I large lovely waved true lavender Spencer; 
Burpee’s White Spencer, largest and most 
beautiful of all whites; Helen Lewis, agiowing 
crimson-orange, and our re-selected pink. 
Countess Spencer, the parent of all this new race 
of “Truly Gigantic” ruffled, Orchid-flowered 
Sweet Peas. 
These six superb Spencers, together with 
our new Leaflet on culture, mailed for only 25 
ets.: five collections for $1.00, and mailed 
to separate addresses if so ordered. 
Even at our reduced prices for 1910, if pur¬ 
chased separately, these six packets of New 
“Spencers” would cost sixty cents. 
For 50 Cts. 
25 Cts. 
Bin s any Four 
size packet (worth $1.30) for only 50 cts 
Beautiful New Giant-Flowered Pansies— 
Burpee’s Best-Blend 
This is ihe finest complete Mix¬ 
ture of “ Truly Giant”flowered 
Pansies yet produced. It in¬ 
cludes all colors of Burpee's 
Defiance , illustrated herewith, j 
and the new Burpee's 
Hercules Giant; also Brest. 
McKinley, Brest. Carnot, 
etc., with all colors of Blotched 
Bugnot and Giant- Rufified, 
Masterpiece. Per pkt. 15 cts. 
we will mail both the Collec¬ 
tion of Sweet Peas as above, 
r and the Eight Choice Annual Flowers advertised 
. to the left, together with your choice of a 15-cent packet 
of either Ite-selected Burpee s Queen Victoria Spencer, 
_ ’_Burpee’s Apple Blossom Spencer or Burpee’s Un- 
r f equaled Mixture for 1910 of New Superb Spencer Seedlings, 
which will delight Sweet Poa lovers everywhere. 
w f3fThus you obtain for only 50 cts. fifteen of the finest 
Flowers, which even at our reduced prices for 1910 amount in value 
r- to $1 00 ! Nowhere else can von obtain sueli value and never before has 
r it been possible even for us to equal t his offer ! We have been long recog¬ 
nized as American “ Headquarters for Sweet Peas ” and are determined 
to maintain this unique position. 
The Only Gold Medal of the National Sweet Pea Society 
ever won by any growers outside of Great Britain 
was awarded to the American Firm of Burpee, at 
the great exhibition in London, July 23,1909. 
An immense amount of interest was taken in the very flue display made by 
Messrs. W. Atlee Burpee & Go., Philadelphia, America. 1 lie name suffices as a 
guarantee of excellence, and we can truly add that the excellence of the flower3 
staged was such as to uphold the fame of the American sweet pea specialists.— 
From The Gardener’s Magazine, London, England. 
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Magnificent” Celosia 
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As grown exclusively bv us, this is 
surpassingly beautiful, with ils gor- , 
geously brilliant feathery plumes of 
magnificent colors. Per pkt. 10 cts. 
Most charming 
lialf-dwarf plants 
— covered all summer with lovely large 
flowers of many colors. Per pkt. 10 cts. 
Most orna 
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and write simply “ for All the Vegetable 
- and Flower Seeds advertised in The 
Hiu-al New-Yorker.” You will then receive by return jmajl All tlie 25 
Send One Dollar 
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•mental plants 
Kochia Tricophylla. 
of rounded, globe-like form that excite a'dmiration 
everywhere,—the bushy plants resembling “ balls of 
fire" in the fall. Per pkt. 10 cts. 
N We will mail the above four and also one regular 
1 TC ten cent packet each of the grand Novelty Red-Giant 
* w* “V Mi GN onette, largest spiked of all, deliciously fra¬ 
grant — Dianthus Fordhook Favorites, single and double, in unequalled Mix¬ 
ture — “P'uchsia-Flowered” Ipomcea, most attractive and unique, new quick 
growing climber, and the lovely dwarf Little Gem Sweet Alyssum. 
ns *-«■ invested in no other way —unless in one of our Sweet Pea Collections, 
CtO V—tS. —can be productive of so much pleasure. ' I ' u " ™“' 1 ' 0,1 “ f 
Burpee Quality and better strains can not be had at 
The seeds are all of The 
any price! 
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quality 
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Fntire Satisfaction Guaranteed or money refunded. If you do not 
consider that you have received more than double v»lne, wnto us at my 
time this winter, spring or summer, and your dollar will come back to you T /l * 
dintely— without question! Your word alone is sufficient. We never know 
ingly have a single dissatisfied customer. 
t^“In ordering, please state whether you want also a copy of 
Burpee’s Annual for 19*0, 
an elegant book of 178 pages and a trustworthy Guide, which has been long and 
favorably known as “ The Leading American Seed Catalog. ,, 
Tills advertisement will not appear again, and theiefoie we wouia 
urge you to take this Special Opportunity to ‘become acquainted with 
the MOST POPULAR _ 
Seeds That Grow! 
Shall we mail you our Complete Catalog ? It is Free to all planters who appreciate 
Quality in Seeds! 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & COMPANY, Burpee Building, Philadelphia 
