TO AID IN DISTRIBUTING AND POPULARIZING THE GIANT WAVED “SPENCER" SWEET PEAS 
WE OFFER $200.00 IN FIVE PRIZES 
To Amateur Exhibitors at the American Sweet Pea Society's Exhibition 
To be Held in Boston, Mass., Summer of 1912 
FOK THE " HENDERSON PRIZE ” COLLECTION OF GIANT WAVED " SPENCER'' SWEET PEAS 
THE 15 VARIETIES—12 SPIKES EACH—OWN FOLIAGE—GROWN FROM OUR SEED 
A FIRST PRIZE of $100.00 A SECOND PRIZE of $50.00 A THIRD PRIZE of $25.00 A FOURTH PRIZE of $15.00 A FIFTH PRIZE of $10.00 
The Society's Rules to Govern and Their Judges to Decide. Detailed Information: Dates of Exhibition, How to Pack and Forward, Label Cards, Etc. 
Will be Furnished All Intending Exhibitors Who Will Write Us by June 1st, 1912 
The "Henderson Prize” Collection of 15 Giant Spencer Sweet Peas 
Sweet Peas, gay and fragrant, are perhaps the most universally popular 
flowers cultivated. Inexpensive, easily and quickly grown from seed, thriving 
in town or country gardens, supplying an abundance of continuous bloom for 
months—an adornment to garden, house or corsage. Is it any wonder that 
they are everybody's flowers, and have been for years and years, even though 
for a century and a half their tardiness in developing improved varieties—without 
arallel among cultivated flowers—was marvelled at by botanists? Eventually, 
owever, the physiological reason was understood, and artificial cross fertiliza¬ 
tion was undertaken, then Sweet Pea “blood was broken.” New colors and 
forms began to appear in rapid succession, until finally, about 10 years ago, a 
climaxing type appeared in the famous gardens of Earl Spencer, Northampton¬ 
shire, England. This newcomer, extremely beautiful, the fairest-formed and 
largest Sweet Pea ever grown, was named “Countess Spencer” and from this 
has sprung the glorified modern race of Giant Waved “Spencer” Sweet Peas. 
The characteristics of the Spencer Sweet Peas, grown under congenial | 
conditions are: robust growth, the plants attaining a height of from 6 to 10 feet, I 
requiring for full development to be not less than 6 inches apart. The flowers I 
are giants among Sweet Peas, measuring 2 to 23^ inches across. They are r 
beautifully formed with huge standards, open and upright and immense wings . 
gracefully poised. Both standards and wings are daintily waved, the undula- ! 
tions reflecting high lights and casting shadows in the depths, thus showing a 
varied harmony of tones which greatly enhances the coloring. Three and often f 
four of these queenly blossoms are borne on long, strong stems, rendering them K 
unsurpassable as cut flowers for vases, bouquets and other decorations. Their ■? 
long continued profusion of bloom is phenomenal, but accounted for by the fact . 
that a majority of the flowers of true Spencers fall as they fade—before the 
seed pod is formed—thus continuing the succession of bloom—for as all know 
when Sweet Peas set pods, the flowering diminishes. 
Henderson's Great and Grand Sweet Pea 
GEORGE WASHINGTON 
This glorious crimson-scarlet self we believe surpasses all the World’s Sweet 
Peas of similar coloring in size of flower, form, substance and in brilliant purity, 
untarnished by burn or scald, though grown unshaded under most trying sun. 
The flowers of gigantic size are true Spencers. Letter J on opposite plate, 
Pkt. 10c.; Oz., 25c. 
C—Apple Blossom Spencer. Rose; blush wings. Pkt. 
E —Asta Ohn Spencer. Soft lavender and pinkish-mauve . . “ 
F —Aurora Spencer. Striped white with rosy-orange. “ 
I —Countess Spencer. Soft pink, rose-pink edges. a 
N —Flora Norton Spencer. Bright, light blue. “ 
O —Garnet Spencer. Large-waved purplish-maroon. ” 
G—Helen Lewis. Reddish-orange; wings rose-orange .... “ 
H—John Ingman. Carmine-rose with deeper veins. “ 
10c.; 
10c. 
10c. 
10c. 
10c. 
10c. 
10c. 
10c. 
Oz., 
25c. 
25o! 
25c. 
25c. 
35c. 
25c. 
25c. 
25c. 
Henderson's Great and Grand Sweet Pea 
MARTHA WASHINGTON 
A radiantly beautiful Spencer Sweet Pea, most daintily colored pearl-white 
from throat to center, then appears a veiled flush of pink deepening in intensity 
as it merges into the marginal zone of soft tyrian-rosc. The standard and wings 
are adorned alike, front and back being tinted and colored just the same, a 
remarkable and pleasing characteristic; thus the flowers present the same 
exquisite color effect whichever way they face, in vase, bouquet or on the plant. 
Letter M on opposite plate . Pkt. 10c.; Oz. 25c. 
D—Mrs. Routzahn Spencer. Apricot-buff, flushed soft pink Pkt. 10c.; Oz. 25c. 
L — Primrose Spencer. Cream-yellow or primrose. “ 10c.; “ 25c. 
B — Tennant Spencer. Rosv-heliotrope. “ 10c.; “ 25c. 
A—Waverly Spencer. Purplish-maroon. “ 10c.; “ 25c. 
K — White Spencer. Pure satiny-white. “ 10c.; “ 25c. 
PRICE 
for the “HENDERSON PRIZE" COLLECTION of GIANT SPENCER SWEET PEAS One Packet 
$ 1.00 
Henderson's Leaflet How to Grow Sweet Peas howlhe'^ Free to Customers when asked for 
