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PETER ■'HEN PERSON &.CO., IMEW YORK 
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THE "HENDERSON” COLLECTION OF 
Giant Spencer Sweet Peas 
THE FIFTEEN VAKIET1ES 
SHOWN IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE 
-- AND DESCRIBED BELOW--- 
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 
parallel among cultivated flowers—was marvelled at by botanists? Eventually, 
however, 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, 
requiring for full development to be not less than 6 inches apart. The flowers 
are giants among Sweet Peas, measuring 2 to 2^ inches across. They are 
beautifully formed with huge standards, open and upright and immense wings 
gracefully noised. 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 
k four of these queenly blossoms are borne on long, strong stems, rendering them 
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. 
MIXED GIANT "SPENCEK” SWEET PEAS 
Composed exclusively of Giant Waved "Spencer” varieties, including several 
new hybrids of exquisite colors and shades, many of which, when sufficiently 
trued up, will be introduced as new-named varieties. Pkt. of 50 seeds 10c • 
per oz.. 25c.; per M lb., 75c.; per lb. $2.50. Delivered free in the U. 6‘. 
Henderson's Leaflet How to Grow Sweet Peas 
f 1 PACKET, 50 SEEDS OF EACH, $1.00 
PRICES: 1 1 OVEK-SIZE PACKET, 150 SEEDS OF EACH, $2.00 
l 1 OZ. OF EACH, $5.00 
Plate 
No. 
These "Packets” contain about 50 seeds; "Over-Size" packets 
about 1 50 seeds. 
Per 
Packe 
Over 
I Size 
j Packe 
Per 
Oz. 
A 
Apple Blossom Spencer. Very bright rose color; 
wings flushed with pink over cream color; large 
waved flower. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
B 
Asta Ohn. Charming lavender with a soft pinkish 
sheen; beautifully waved large flower. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
C 
Constance Oliver. Rich orange-pink, suffused over 
primrose; an unusually vigorous variety with 
immense waved flowers. 
10c. 
20c. 
50c. 
D 
Countess Spencer. Clear, soft pink deepening slight¬ 
ly toward the edges; the original giant waved 
Spencer and still one of the best. 
10c. 
20c. 
30c. 
E 
Evelyn Hemus. Primrose lightly shaded with rosy- 
buff and picotee edged with pink; beautiful large 
waved flower. 
10c. 
20c. 
50c. 
F 
Florence Morse. Very daintily flushed over white 
with pale pink, deepening into an edging of pink; 
charming large waved variety. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
G 
Helen Lewis. Bright flame orange with orange-pink 
wings; large waved flowers. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
H 
John Ingman. Rich rose-red veined with a deeper 
shade; splendid large waved flower. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
I 
King Edward Spencer. Brilliant, crimson and sun¬ 
proof; the best and largest Spencer of its color. . . 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
J 
Martha Washington. Veiled over white with a flush of 
pink, deepening into a marginal zone of soft tyrian 
rose; radiantly beautiful. 
10c. 
20c. 
50c. 
K 
Mrs. Routzahn. Cream-pink or straw color, washed 
and tinted with blush-pink deepening to rosy- 
apricot at the edges. 
10c. 
20c. 
50c. 
L 
Othello Spencer. Rich deep maroon; immense waved 
flowers; the finest variety of its color. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
M 
Primrose Spencer. Light primrose-yellow flowers of 
the largest and finest Spencer form. 
10c. 
20c. 
35c. 
N 
Tennant Spencer. Unique purplish-mauve shaded 
over rose-magenta; giant waved flowers. 
10c. 
20c. 
50c. 
O 
White Spencer. Snow-white; magnificent large 
waved flowers of the best Spencer form, unsur¬ 
passed by any synonomous variety. 
10c. j 
2 % | 
35c. 
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