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Old Fashioned Garden. A selection of the popular annual flowers 
suitable for waste places or in any locality where the wild flower effect is 
desired. Should be sown boadcast for the best effect. 
Zinnia. One of the most brilliant and showy of annuals. They bloom 
early in summer, until hard frost. We can supply Double Giants in 
mixture; also in separate colors—orange, rose and scarlet. 
Double Dahlia Flowered Zinnias produce handsome double flowers in 
softer shades—orange, rose, scarlet. A mixture also available. 
Double Lilliput or Pompon Zinnias are of dwarf, bushy habit with many 
double pompon flowers in bright colors. 
SWEET PEAS 
Giant Orchid Flowering or Spencer Mixture Spencer varieties 
of Sweet Peas have come into general favor so rapidly that the demand 
lias been large for all Spencer sorts i n mixture. We have included in 
this combination nearly all of the Spencers, 
making it a rare and lasting pleasure to the 
grower. The vines are strong, healthy and 
vigorous in growth and produce in wonderful 
profusion, long and strong stemmed flowers 
of great beauty, size, 
perfect form and col¬ 
oring. Those prefer¬ 
ring to grow all sorts 
together, rather than 
separate colors, will 
find this mixture un¬ 
surpassed. Also single 
colors. 
LAVENDER. RED 
SALMON-ORANGE 
PINK 
Large Flowering 
or Grandiflora 
Mixed 
Sweet Peas 
The Grandiflora is the common type of 
Sweet Peas, producing more flowers, more 
fragrance, and standing poor treatment bet¬ 
ter than the Spencers, but the flowers are 
not as large and stems not as long. 
Single Colors 
For those who wish to grow the separate colors we can supply the 
large blossom varieties in the following: 
RED 
PINK 
LAVENDER BLUE 
WHITE 
Sweet Pea Culture 
Preparation Soil. Prepare a trench 2 feet deep and at least 1H feet 
wide. Fill in with a mixture of rich loam and well rotted barnyard 
manure or 5 lbs. of sheep manure and \ l A lbs. of bone meal for each 8 
feet of row. Cover with 6 inches of good soil and mix well with fertilizer. 
Planting. Should be done the first day the soil is dry enough to work 
without becoming sticky. Sweet Peas require a long period of slow 
growth under cool conditions which are necessary for good root 
formation. 
Make a furrow in the center of trench 6 inches wide and 3 deep. Sow 
the seed in this furrow in two rows, 4 inches apart and 2 inches apart 
in row. Cover with about an inch of fine soil and tamp down firmly. 
If soil is damp and heavy tamp more lightly than if dry and loose. 
After tamping, rake another inch of soil over seed. Do not cover seed 
more than 2 inches deep altogether. 
Cultivation. When vines are 5 inches high, fill up the 4 inches between 
the rows with fine soil, drawing the soil to each side, covering the vines 
to within an inch of their tops. Do not cover up the vines entirely. 
After the vines have grown another 5 inches repeat the operation; at 
this time hoe up the soil outside the rows to a level with the soil around 
the vines, so that what w as originally a trench becomes a ridge. Sup¬ 
port the plants with brush or wire, keep the roots well watered and 
blossoms picked. 
Enemies. For slugs and cut worms a little air-slacked lime around 
the young shoots will protect them more or less and sometimes the worms 
can be attracted and killed by putting a bunch of green grass dipped in 
Paris Green near the Sweet Peas row. 
For plant lice or aphis use "Black I^eaf 40." Nico-Fume Liquid or some 
other tobacco extract spray. 
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