1935 SPRING AND FALL -<$>- THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 
SWEET PEAS FOR 1935 
O F ALL the annual flowers, there are none that have come into popular 
favor over the entire world and have been improved so much in the 
last few years as the Sweet Peas, and it is marvelous the wonderful 
improvement that has beeb made in them. From a few ordinary colors of 
inferior small flowers they have, by careful selection and breeding, covered 
almost the entire range of colors and have produced flowers measuring over 
2 'A inches across, and from the old-fashioned straight-edge type they have 
produced the ruffled and the butterfly Sweet Pea. 
The most easily grown of any of the annuals, blooming from early summer 
until killed by the heavy autumn frosts. No other flower equals them for cut¬ 
ting and few last as well. To bloom to their best, the flowers should be cut 
every day, in the evening. 
Best Giant Flowering 
Spencer Sweet Peas 
Our Spencer collections have been made up of 
the best of the new sweet peas ranging in color 
from a pure white to a dark velvety maroon, soft 
pinks, bright crimsons, blues and lavenders. 
Plant th'ese and be sure your sweet peas are the 
best in your community. 
Red Boy 
Pure crimson, deep and rich. Enormous, 
boldly expanded flowers in fours on long stems. 
A robust grower. Red Boy is well 
suited both for exhibition and for 
garden decoration. Pkt., 8c; oz., 
35c. 
Rosie — Deep rose-pink, the flor¬ 
ists' popular color. Richer and 
deeper in color than Pinkie, with 
all the vigor and robustness 
necessary to make it a first-class 
Sweet Pea. Rosie is vastly superior 
to all other varieties in the rose- 
pink class, and easily tops the list 
of varieties such as Hercules, Hebe 
and Pinkie. Pkt., 7c; oz,, 30c. 
Mermaid — A rich true lavender 
with a fine blue sheen. The flowers are 
beautifully waved and quite often the 
standard is double. Pkt., 7c; oz., 25c. 
Fluffy Ruffles — A great big flower, 
vigorous and free blooming — the first 
of the “Ruffled” Sweet Peas. A new 
type, duplexed and frilled, with long¬ 
stemmed well-proportioned sprays of 
four almost globular flowers. It ex¬ 
hibits a most consistent doubling and 
ruffling of petals. 
A lovely rich rose-pink, a gleam of 
soft salmon, and a bright creamy 
undertone blend into a harmonious 
cream-pink shade of exquisite beauty. 
It is a flower of exquisite texture and 
sweet fragrance. The vines make a 
sturdy growth and bear a profusion of 
blooms. Pkt., 7c; oz., 25c. 
Heavenly Blue—A most beautiful 
soft tone of delphinium-blue, without 
a trace of violet. Flowers of immense 
size, four to each stem. Pkt., 7c; oz., 
25c. • 
Pirate Gold— Golden orange, deeper 
than Guinea Gold and lighter than 
Prince of Orange. Pirate Gold is quite 
a new shade in this group and with¬ 
stands our hot sun better than any 
other variety in this color class. Pirate 
Gold is "a strong vigorous grower, the 
flowers are well formed and its color is 
the most pleasing of the Golden Orange 
group. Pkt., 8c; oz., 30c. 
Avalanche — This is by far the finest of all 
white winter-flowering varieties. The flowers are 
extra large, of fine form, with a magnificent and 
boldly waved standard. A vigorous grower with 
enormous flowers which are invariably borne in 
four? on very long stems. Pkt., 7c; oz., 25c. 
The Warrior — Rich ox-blood maroon. Hand¬ 
some large flowers with a sparkling sheen borne 
on long stems. Brighter and more attractive 
than the Sultan. Pkt., 7c; oz., 25c. 
Gurney’s W. N. A. X. 
Mixture of Giant 
Spencer Sweet Peas 
For those who do not care for sweet peas in 
separate colors, Gurney’s W. N. A. X. mixture 
of Spencers, will satisfy the most exacting flower 
lover. This mixture is made of the best of the 
old standard Spencers and a careful selection of 
the new creations with their heavier, longer 
stems, longer blooming period and larger flowers, 
some of them measuring two inches across. 
With four or five perfect flowers on a stem. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 12c; / 4 lb., 35c; ^2 lb., 60c; 
1 lb., $1.00. 
Early Flowering 
Mixed Spencer 
Sweet Peas 
These bloom two weeks before the standard 
Spencer varieties, but with the same large, 
waved flowers. They have replaced the stand¬ 
ard Spencers in greenhouse planting and, though 
they do not grow quite as tall, their earliness 
and long season of bloom make them invaluable 
in outdoor planting, particularly in the short 
seasoned north. Pkt., 7c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 45c; 
1 lb., $1.45. 
Cupid Dwarf Sweet Peas 
Cupid Dwarf Sweet Peas—These form a 
bush of emerald-green foliage a little over a foot 
wide and six inches high, and from June until 
late summer are literally a sheet of bloom. Pkt., 
5c; oz., 25c. 
BEST EARLY FLOWERING 
SPENCER SWEET PEAS 
Early Pal 
Here is one of the entirely new shades—it is 
the lively scintillant pleasing rich rose crimson 
Early Sweet Pea which Florists, Commercial 
Growers and Amateurs have been looking for. 
In Early Pal we have developed a combination 
of rose and crimson which holds the brightness 
and depth of color. Pkt., 10c; y 2 oz., 25c; 
Miss Annie Laurie 
See colored picture inside back cover 
Constitutes the richest tone of pure 
Rose-Pink ever produced in a Sweet 
Pea. Long stems which are maintained 
throughout its blooming period, and it 
is an abundant, prolific, and continuous 
bloomer. Pkt., 15c; / 2 oz., 35c; oz., 
60c. 
Lavanda 
It is a PURE, clear lavender—so 
clear and uniform that full blown 
blossoms and partly open buds are of 
exactly the same color, making a 
wonderful effect when bunched and im¬ 
pressing one with the fact that at last 
we really have a pure lavender Sweet 
Pea. 
The blossoms of LAVANDA are ex¬ 
tremely large and waved, perfectly 
spaced on long, stout stems. Four 
blooms on each stem, and highly per¬ 
fumed. Pkt., 15c; J /2 oz., 30c. 
Valencia 
A new sunproof bright orange of 
a softness that is particularly 
striking. The sprays invariably 
bear four large flowers to a stem, 
and are borne with the greatest 
profusion on strong vigorous vines. 
A most desirable Sweet Pea. Pkt., 
10c; 'A oz., 30c. 
Vulcan 
Dazzling scarlet-cerise. A very 
popular color and a variety that is 
always in demand. The bright and 
showy effect of the blooms is con¬ 
siderably increased by a suffusion 
of orange cast over the standard. 
Vulcan is a strong grower with 
large flowers on long stemmed 
sprays. Pkt., 10c; 'A oz. 25c. 
Blue Bonnet 
The color is a clear deep blue of 
great beauty. Flowers are un- 
usually large for a blue, and usually 
come four to a stem. Pkt., 10c; 
'A oz., 25c. 
Lady Gay 
One of the newer California varieties with 
blooms of a rich pink. The flowers are nicely 
waved and elegantly frilled. They are borne in 
fours, artistically placed at the top of long, 
strong stems. Pkt., 10c; l A oz., 25c. 
1 Pkt., each of the above 7 best early 
flowering Spencer sweet peas. Value, 80c. 
BARGAIN PRICE 65c 
One pkt. each of the above 8 Magnificent 
New Spencer Sweet Peas. Value—58c; 
BARGAIN PRICE—45c. 
Plant Sweet Peas March the First 
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