Best by Test for over Sixty Years 
TAIT^S THOROUGHBRED GIANT WAVED 
SPENCER SWEET PEAS 
The dainty form and exquisite colors of the Sweet Pea made it generations ago 
one of the best-loved flowers, but its popularity has grown immensely during the 
last decade owing to improvements which have really brought about a transforma¬ 
tion of the flowers. The introduction of the Spencer type has more than doubled 
the size of the blossom, beautiful undulations and flutings have been developed, and 
the stems have become very long and stout. So eagerly is the coming of the 
Sweet Pea awaited, that enormous quantities are forced for market by florists, 
finding sale at fancy prices before the outdoor crop is available. Almost anyone 
living near a city will find the cultivation as profitable as it is simple, especially 
if care is taken in gathering and bunching, so that the delicate blossoms and 
tendrils are not bruised. 
Sweet Peas may be sown either in the fall or early spring. For the best results, 
the soil should be deep and heavily manured, and if possible the situation should be 
one which permits the vines to get air and sunshine on both sides, although there 
is no difficulty in growing them against a fence. The usual custom is to dig a 
trench ten inches deep, into which put four inches of well rotted manure and cover 
with two inches of good soil. Sow the peas on top of this about half an inch apart, 
and cover with two inches of earth. Before covering, it is a good plan to scatter 
tobacco dust liberally on the peas as a preventive of lice. As the plants develop 
the earth is gradually drawn to them until the furrow has been filled, the roots 
being thus kept from the surface heat in summer. ^ We think it is a good plan to 
make a little trench parallel with the row, flooding it occasionally during dry 
weather, and a mulch of leaves or lawn sweepings will be found very helpful; 
sprinkling of the vines does harm rather than good and watering should be done 
at the roots only. Sweet Peas make a great deal of vine under proper conditions 
and it is always best to thin them out to about an inch in the row as soon as they 
are well out of the ground. If the blossoms are picked regularly, they will bear 
until killed by either extreme heat or frost, the flowering season being naturally 
longest in cool climates. In most parts of the South, it is very easy to bring Sweet 
Peas into bloom very early in the year by sowing in October or November, and it is 
a pity more gardeners do not take advantage of this simple method of gaining a 
month or more. A light dressing of manure over the surface will prevent the ground 
freezing too deeply, and they rarely suffer from such cold as we have in the South. 
Hardy annual. 6 feet. 
FOUR BEAUTIFUL SPENCER SWEET PEAS 
Ambition sweet Pea received the Gold Medal and 
- Award of Merit of the National Sweet Pea 
Society. The flowers are of a beautiful shade of lavender, 
with a trifle darker shade at the base of standard and wings. 
Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 35 cts. Postpaid. 
Rosie ^ magnificent Sweet Pea of a brilliant rose color 
- that attracts the eye with its beauty and charm. 
The blooms are extra large and borne on long stems. Pkt. 
15 cts., oz. 35 cts. Postpaid. 
Flomdnle ^ most exquisite Sweet Pea of a lovely soft 
- pink with faint shading of salmon that 
heightens the brilliancy and warmth of color. The flowers 
are of large size, and borne on long stems. Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 
35 cts. Postpaid. 
An exceedingly beautiful and distinct Sweet Pea 
- with large flowers on strong stems. The color is 
a beautiful shade of glistening salmon shrimp pink. Pkt. 15 
cts., oz. 35 cts. Postpaid. 
One package each of the four varieties 50 cts. postpaid. 
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