^^Flower Seeds for Florists^^ 
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SWEET PEAS"V“; 
All our Sweet Pea seed, both Early and Late, is treated with Red 
Copper Oxide or Cuprocide unless untreated seed is requested. We find 
this helps germination by protecting them against the germs of rot. 
In order to produce quality outdoor Peas in Chicago latitude, it is 
absolutely necessary to sow indoors February 1. A sowing made much 
later than this will be overtaken by summer heat before it even gets into 
crop. We usually pot three seedlings to a 2^/4 inch pot and keep them in 
as cold a house as is available—38 to 40 is quite O.K. By mid-April, you 
will have fine stocky plants alive with white roots—and hard enuf to 
stand a light freeze. We usually set ours out then, providing frost pro¬ 
tection with straw. By the way, have you looked into possibility of our 
new spruce Plant Bands for handling these plants? We found they 
work out fine. 
Once outdoors, the plants must be sprayed weekly to hold back the 
inevitable green fly. We use nicotine 1-400. Failure on this important 
point will result in a siege of the Aphis that will not only ruin the Pea 
crop, but will spread to other valuable stock. A good garden soil is 
suitable for these Peas; liberal manuring of the land the fall before use 
will help; moderate applications of commercial fertilizer will also pro¬ 
duce some response. Vines produce more freely if supported same as 
is done with indoor crop. 
An interesting “side use” of the lates is for planting along with earlies 
in the greenhouse. A few seeds scattered along the row of winter sown 
earlies will make only a heavy rampant growth until early in May. At 
this point, the earlies shorten up, and the lates come into crop with 
fine long stemmed stock that will last well into June. The new Spring- 
Flowering class offer real promise for this purpose. 
TWO NEW ONES —-each seemed outstanding in our preliminary trials 
the past season. We suggest you give them a trial. 
Crony (New). A pleasing intense coral or salmon rose with fine stem. 
While not an extra strong grower, its unusual color and large flower 
were outstanding. 
Price: V 2 oz., 30c; 1 oz., 50c; 4 ozs., $1.60; 1 lb., $5.00. 
Fairyland (New). A fine clear pink on cream ground. Quite attractive 
color and outstanding for growth and flower size. 
Price: V 2 oz., 35c; 1 oz., 60c; 4 ozs., $1.75; 1 lb. $6.00. 
Our “Vic” is justly proud of his “graveV’ grown spring 
peas. Sown Nov. 1, photographed April 16. Variety: 
Ball Rose Queen. 
The Six Best Late Peas General List (Except 6 Best) Hawimark Pink. 
nose-rink. 
The following six varieties we believe 
represent the best ones in their respective 
color classes. Our choice is based both 
on experience growing them for market and 
on your demand for them and we believe 
you won’t go wrong by taking them into 
consideration. 
Pinkie. Finest rose-pink; large flowered 
and long stemmed and a heavy producer. 
Pinnacle. A deeper shade of rose than 
Pinkie; about like Early Success. 
Gigantic. Finest late white; extra large 
flowered and many duplexed; Hack 
seeded. 
Chinese Blue. Bright strong clear color; 
our best late blue. 
Highlander. An unusually large flowered 
fine late lavender; decidedly improves 
Powerscourt in all respects. 
Welcome. Brilliant sunproof scarlet. 
Large flowered and long-stemmed. 
Six Best Mixture. A mixture of the above 
“All the Best” varieties of Late Peas. 
Prices on All Above Each: 1 oz., 20c; 
4 ozs., 60c; 1 lb., $1.75. 
In ordering sweet 
* Headlight. Fine sunproof orange- 
scarlet; extra for stem and bright color. 
Heavenly Blue. Good Delphinium blue. 
Hebe. Large rose-pink. 
Hero. Cerise; prefer Headlight. 
Lady Loch. Light blush pink flushed sal¬ 
mon. 
Lady Ruffles. Large ruffled soft pink. 
Loveliness. Silvery pink cream ground. 
Magnet. An improved Miss California. 
Mary Pickford. Cream salmon-pink. 
Mastercream. Extra strong cream. 
Matchless. Deep cream. 
Miss California. Large salmon-rose. 
Model. Good white. 
Olympia. Deep purple. 
* Powerscourt. Fine standard lavender; 
strong growing and good stem. 
Royal Purple. Large rich purple. 
Royal Scot. Sunproof orange-scarlet. 
Springtime. Nice light clear rose. 
The Clown. Crimson and white. 
Warrior. Deep bronze-maroon. 
Prices on all the above standard 
varieties: 
1 oz., 20c; 4 ozs., 60c; 1 lb., $1.75. 
Ball Florist’s Mixture. Carefully made 
up mixture of above kinds; good cut 
flower colors predominating. 1 oz., 15c; 
4 ozs., 50c; 1 lb., $1.25; 5 lbs., $5.00. 
peas, please state whether Early or Late class are wanted. 
’'Maytime. A rich golden cerise with fine 
long stemmed habit; lots of 4’s and ex¬ 
tra large flowers. V 2 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 
4 ozs., 65c; 1 lb., $2.25. 
*Ball Shrimp Pink. A delicate shade of 
shrimp-pink. Its fine strong habit showed 
up well again in our trials the past season. 
V 2 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 4 ozs., 65c; 1 Ih., 
$2.25. 
Ambition. Fine rosy lavender. 
Ascot. Pleasing light rose-pink. 
Avalanche. Finest white-seeded white. 
Beatall. Sparkling pink suffused salmon; 
extra for growth. 
* Begonia Rose. Rich even Begonia rose. 
Blue Bird. Fine clear blue. 
*Blue Flame. Deep bright blue. 
* Bonnie Briar. Very fine rose-pink. 
Campfire. Deep sunproof scarlet. 
Chieftain. Rich satiny mauve-blue. 
Constance Hinton. Black-seeded white. 
Crimson King. Fine sunproof crimson. 
Debutante. Soft salmon shaded pink. 
Fiancee. Quite attractive soft salmon- 
pink. 
Fluffy Ruffles. Soft cream pink. 
Giant White. Pure white. 
Gleneagles. Clear even lavender. 
Hawimark Lavender. Light lavender. 
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