T he Spencer Hybrid 
CALLED GIANT ORCHID-FLOWERED 
Sweet Peas. 
Henderson's Novelty Collection 
of 12 Spencer SWEET PEAS. 
S WEET PEA evolution has resulted in the creation of a glorified, giant 
race known as “The Spencers,” the characteristics of which are plants 
of healthy, vigorous growth, attaining under congenial conditions a 
height of from 6 to 10 feet and requiring to be grown a foot apart in the row. 
The flowers, freely and continuously produced throughout the season, are 
also correspondingly large, measuring 2 to 2\ inches across. The wings 
are large and gracefully poised in open formation, while the gigantic stan¬ 
dards, round and upright, are frilled, the undulations diminishing fanlike 
into dainty waves at the margin, the effect of which is high lights and shad¬ 
ings, giving a harmony of varied color tones suggesting the title — Giant 
Orchid-flowered Sweet Peas. Three and often four of these queenly blos¬ 
soms are borne on a strong stem nearly a foot in length, rendering them 
unsurpassable when cut and vased, as well as for corsage bouquets. The 
Spencer Sweet Peas are destined to supersede all older types as rapidly as 
corresponding colors can be trued up and sufficient seed produced. We 
are now able to offer nearly two dozen Spencer varieties that come fairly 
true, but there are hundreds of other sports and selections in existence— 
duplicating every color, shade and combination in the older sweet peas, 
and including some shades and combinations heretofore undreamed of. 
At the National Sweet Pea Societies Show held in London the past season 
several hundred exhibits of Spencer Sw-eet Peas were staged—placarded 
with about 250 variety names; but not over 50 of these were really dis¬ 
tinctive. For instance, there were 11 names for White Spencers, 12 names 
for Primrose Spencers, 10 for Blush Spencers, 21 for Pink Spencers, 29 for 
Rose Spencers, 18 for Crimson Spencers, 17 for Lavenders, etc. This 
multiplication of names for alike or “ too-near-alike” varieties results from 
enthusiastic discoverers and selectors of Spencer Sports naming their own 
babies, believing them the only of their color in existence. American 
sweet pea experts have also in hand several hundred “Spencer Selections,” 
some of which we know are duplicates of foreign varieties under other names, 
and many of the balance we strongly suspect will prove duplicates. The 
fact is, Silas Cole, the hybridizer and originator of the Spencer Sweet Peas, has 
"broken the blood” and the same "new” varieties are liable to breakout in 
various parts of the world at about the same time. For this reason, and in 
deference to the ethics of horticultural nomenclature—“priority to the first 
named”—we will offer Spencer Sweet Peas only under color until the proper 
name for a variety is authoritatively decided upon. 
{The names of varieties alike or “ too near alike" are given in parentheses.) 
Blush Spencer (Beauty. Lorna Doon, Lady Althorp, etc.). Exquisite flushed 
white, tinted soft pink. Pkt. 25 seeds, 10c. 
Cream and Apricot Spencer (Nell Gwynn, Miss Bostick, Paradise Ivory, 
etc.). Cream flushed with apricot-pink. Pkt. 25 seeds, 15c. 
Rosy-Buff Spencer (Mrs. Routzhan, Constance Oliver, Lucy Heinus. etc.). 
Pinkish buff, suffused and edged rosy-pink. Pkt. 25 seeds, 15c. 
Henderson's Kainbow Collection 
of 8 Spencer SWEET PEAS. 
(Shown in colors on the opposite page.) 
Coral-Rose Spencer (Miss E. F. Drayson, Robert Fellows, etc.). Coral-rose. 
Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Heliotrope Spencer (The Marquis, Mrs. Chas. Manders, Tennant Spencer, 
etc.). Rosy-mauve. Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Maroon Spencer (Dudley Lees, Hannah Dale, Prince of Asturias, Othello 
Spencer, etc.). Rich chestnut-maroon. Pkt. 25 seeds, 15c. 
Blue Spencer (Flora Norton Spencer, Anglian Blue, etc.). Bright blue. 
Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Bicolor Spencer (Apple Blossom Spencer, Mrs. Andrew Ireland, Kitty Crier, 
etc.). Rose-pink standard, blush wings. Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Pink-striped Spencer (Ramona Spencer, Mrs. Chamberlain Spencer, Silver 
Wings). Striped and suffused pink on white. Pkt. 25 seeds, 15c. 
Orange-striped Spencer (Elegance, Aurora Spencer, etc.). Striped and 
flushed orange-rose on white. Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Red-striped Spencer (Paradise Red-flake, Winnie Jones, America Snencer, 
etc.). Striped carmine-red on white. Pkt. 15 seeds, 15c. 
Blue-striped Spencer (Hester, Princess of Wales Spencer, etc.). Striped deep 
blue on white. Pkt. 25 seeds, 15c. 
(The names of varieties alike or “ too near alike ” are given in parentheses.) 
Countess Spencer, No. H. The grand original from which this new race has 
sprung. Bright pink, deepening towards edges. 
Pkt. of 40 seeds, 10c.; oz., 25c. 
Orange Spencer, No. A (Helen Lewis, Herbert Smith, Maggie Stark, etc.)* 
Fiery-orange standard, rosy-orange wings. Pkt. of 40 seeds, 10c.; oz., 25c* 
Rose-Pink Spencer, No. B (Enchantress, Lovely Spencer, Paradise, etc.). 
Warm rose-pink shaded. Pkt. of 25 seeds, 10c. 
Pink-edged Spencer, No. C (Florence Morse Spencer, Bobby K., Elsie Her¬ 
bert, etc.). Blush-white, edged pink. Pkt. 25 seeds, 10c. 
White Spencer, No. D (Etta Dyke, Paradise White, Lady Leonard, etc.). 
Large waved white. Pkt. 25 seeds, 10c. 
Lavender Spencer, No. E (Asta Ohn, Princess Alice, Lady Cooper, Mrs. Chas. 
Foster, etc.). Lavender-blue, tinged rosy-mauve. Pkt. 25 seeds, 10c. 
Primrose Spencer, No. F (Clara Curtis, Devonshire Cream. Paradise Cream, 
etc.). Primrose-yellow. Pkt. 25 seeds, 10c. 
Rose-Red Spencer, No. G (John Ingman, Paradise Carmine, Mrs. Wm. King, 
etc.). Rich crimson-rose. Pkt. 40 seeds, 10c.; oz., 25c. 
Price of Henderson’s Novelty Collection of Spencer Sweet Peas, 
1 pkt. each of the 12 varieties described above for SI.50. 
Price of Henderson’s Rainbow Collection of 8 Spencer Sweet Peas 
shown in colors on opposite page and described above—with 1 pkt. of Mixed 
Spencers—for 75c. 
The Complete Collection of 20 Spencer Sweet Peas, jhi^e Ind f^k? B °^ixED N spENclBs C io^ ECTI0NS ° ffer $2.00! 
Mixed Spencer Hybrid or "Giant Orchid-Flowered'' Sweet Peas. 
Composed exclusively of Countess Spencer hybrids, including several new exquisite colors and shades, many of w'hich, when sufficiently trued up, will be 
introduced as new named varieties. Pkt.. of 50 seeds, 10c.; per oz., 25c.; per } lb., 75c.; per lb., S2.50. 
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