HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1912 
$5G0D. Prized 
Sweet Pea Quartet 
Plant Them This^ai 
Plant these wonderful Peas that won for Mrs. Fraser 
the thousand pounds sterling prize at the great Lon¬ 
don contest held last July in the Crystal Palace. 
Won against the keenest kind of competition of over 
10,000 exhibitors. By a special arrangement, we 
have secured a stock of these prize winning varieties, 
which are— 
Paradise Carmen — clear, lovely car¬ 
mine waved. 
they worked three days for the Squire at 
that. 
Three men at two dollars for three days, 
that was $18. It seemed to Mr. Mantell 
that he and Robert and Raffles had ex¬ 
changed a stupendous amount of muscle 
and a good deal of skill for that little wad 
of money. As a matter of fact, a dollar 
was beginning to look very valuable to 
Mr. Mantell; but strangely enough it 
didn’t stand so near the top of the list of 
life’s prizes as it had a few weeks before. 
He knew many men in the city who would 
pay ten dollars for a meal they could enjoy 
as he enjoyed his dinner — they still called 
it that—in the evening. He knew men 
who had paid thousands for machines and 
chauffeurs, who never in the year got such 
a day’s exultation as he had that day in 
the snow-laden, silent woods. 
The first scratches were beginning to 
fleck off the veneer of a superurban civili¬ 
zation. Mantell had not been encased long 
enough to become pathologically and in¬ 
exorably conformed to the mold. He was 
already becoming re-naturalized. 
Following this spree of work Mantell 
had a period of sobering up. He had fol¬ 
lowed the pace set by the rest of the men, 
and the excitement and his grit kept him 
to it. The men had liked his courage and 
given him a helping hand where possible, 
and he had soon learned how to slide and 
lift the hundred and fifty pound cakes into 
position with the least expenditure of 
muscle. But his body was unused to the 
exertions that were demanded of it. Tis¬ 
sues and cells and delicate structures were 
undergoing too rough and rapid a change. 
They went on strike, and for a week Mr. 
Mantell limped more or less as he walked 
about, and showed a preference for put¬ 
tering little carpenter jobs around the 
house and barn, and getting the places 
ready for the stock. 
There was some excitement about the 
selection and arrival of the “critters.” The 
Squire went with Mr. Mantell and helped 
him select a cow, from a herd that had just 
been tested for tuberculosis, so that he 
would be sure to start right. They found 
a large, gentle Jersey Grade, at $65, which 
the Squire said was “worth the money. 
She’ll give more milk than you need in the 
house,” he said, “but the pigs never get 
too much.” 
A suitable horse was very difficult to 
find. They looked over several, but the 
Squire shook his head. Finally he drove 
up one morning in his cutter, tumbled Mr. 
Mantell, in his oldest suit of clothes, into 
it, and in town took him to see what he 
considered a bargain, a handsome, chunky, 
black horse which a saloon-keeper who 
had got into some trouble had to let go to 
raise “quick money.” 
“You can buy him right,” said the 
Squire, “he’s got to sell. Offer him a note 
at his bottom figure and then you can get 
ten or fifteen dollars off for spot cash. 
He’d rather have the money; I don’t mind 
squeezing these fellows, darn ’em; they’ll 
get every last cent a man’s got, and try to 
get him to borrow more. Don’t show him 
Constance Oliver — delicate pink suf¬ 
fused with cream, waved. 
Arthur Umvin — rose shaded with 
cream, waved. 
Tom Bolton — dark maroon, waved. 
As you see them illustrated here, they 
are much reduced in size. Why don’t 
you stir up some friendly competition 
with your neighbors this year with this 
quartet ? 
Here is our offer, which is backed up 
by Boddington’s Seal of Quality — and 
you know what that means. Buy your 
seeds now and plant them early — the 
earlier, the better. 
I packet of the above 4 prize winners 
for 35 cents. 
3 collections or 12 packets in all for 
$1.00. 
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you 
Boddington’s 1912 
Garden Guide 
which contains a complete description 
of the sweet pea competition. 
This Guide is a decided departure from 
the usual so-called “Seed Catalog.” 
The cultural directions written by suc¬ 
cessful gardeners who have the love 
of flowers in them — gardeners who 
know. 
The “tell you how’’ cultural direc¬ 
tions are especially fine — no elaborate 
discouraging directions — just common 
sense advice, like your neighbors tell 
you over the back fence. 
If you want this Guide and not the 
Sweet Pea Quartet we will gladly send 
it to you, free, just the same. 
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