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House & Garden 
Another of the sweet pea novel¬ 
ties for 1921 is Flamingo, a sort 
with very large, well-waved 
flowers. The standards of the 
blossoms are light orange suf¬ 
fused with bright salmon, and 
the wings a delicate shade of 
orange-pink. Burpee 
Peach Blossom is a new color 
among sweet peas, and is de¬ 
scribed as a pale amaranth pink 
deepening around the edges of 
the standard and wings. It 
grows vigorously and bears 
large flowers on long, strong 
stems. A true self color. Cour¬ 
tesy of Burpee 
At the left is a spray of Abelia 
grandiflora, one of the hardiest 
and most free-flowering of this 
worthy family of shrubs. Its 
flowers are nearly 1" long, white 
delicately flushed with pink, 
and are produced quite continu¬ 
ously from June to November. 
Courtesy of Wm. H. Moon Co. 
The cactus-flowered zinnia below is a new 
departure from the usual forms of this 
well-known flower. As will be noted, the 
petals are quilled and radiate in such a 
way that the blossom looks not unlike a 
cactus dahlia. The colors range from 
orange, pink, yellow and rose to scarlet and 
crimson. On well grown plants the flowers 
average 4" to 5" in diameter. Burpee 
Coppersmith is a dahlia midway between 
the peony-flowered and duplex in type, ex¬ 
cellent for cutting and general decorative 
work. It is light copper or bronze colored 
with a suffusion of salmon-yellow; the re¬ 
verse of the petals is reddish bronze. It is 
of only medium height, but its flowers are 
so profusely borne as almost to smother 
the plant. Courtesy of Burpee 
The named varieties of dahlias 
are so many that one almost 
despairs of keeping up with 
them. Few garden flowers are 
more deservedly popular and 
few have better repaid the ef¬ 
forts devoted to their improve¬ 
ment and multiplication by ex¬ 
pert growers. Here is one of 
the splendid newer sorts — 
Venus, a delicate shade of sal¬ 
mon pink. Courtesy of John 
Scheepers, Inc. 
