BRAEGER'S SWEET PEAS 
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ATTENTION! 
This year all Sweet Pea Seeds are treated with Cuprocide (Red Copper Oxide). This treatment prevents rotting 
of seed due to fungus and weather eonditions. This is another added value that Braeger’s offer to you at no 
additional cost. 
CULTURE OF SWEET PEAS 
Sow as early in the spring as the ground can be prepared in 
rich, deeply worked soil with good drainage. Cover the seeds 
about 2 inches deep with fine soil and supply support to the 
growing vines before they grow too large. Keep well watered 
during dry periods. One ounce of seed will plant a row about 
15 feet long. 
GIANT SPENCER MIXED. This superb mixture has been 
formulated to afford unusual richness and brilliancy. It con¬ 
tains the finest named sorts, and we have endeavored to make 
it the choicest blend possible. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; M lb. 50c. 
NEW! 
GIANT SPENCER, Pastel coloi*s. We have specially blended 
this mixture to please the most exacting. Contains all the 
best pastel shades so popular for cutting. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; 
4 oz. 75c. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
This year in Braeger’s Special Collection we offer 
NINE SEPARATE PACKETS 
50c 
Finest varieties grown. 
Pinkie. Deep rose pink. 
Grand National. Fine yellow. 
Smiles. Salmon. 
Floradale. Deep cream pink. 
Pirate Gold. 
Sextet Queen. Pure white 
Chinese Blue. Pure blue. 
Welcome. Scarlet. 
Ambition. Lavender. 
Deep orange. 
Prices on SPENCERS — Separate Colors: 
Pkt. 10c; any three pkts. 25c; 1 oz. 25c. (See collection.) 
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BLUE 
Chinese Blue. By far the best of the rich blue shades—a clear, 
pure color. 
Fortune. A fine shade of rich dark blue. 
Gleneagles. A most beautiful tone of light blue with just a 
suggestion of lavender. The flowers are exceptionally large, 
the standard broad and well expanded and frilled and waved 
to an extraordinary degree. Awarded First Class Certificate, 
Scottish National Sweet Pea Society Trials. 
Reflection. Clear cornflower blue. Unusually vigorous, extra 
long stemmed. Flowers of splendid substance and beautifully 
waved. Today’s most popular and best clear blue. 
CARMINE 
Damask Rose. The brightest rose carmine Sweet Pea. This is 
an outstanding pea. 
CERISE 
Beatall. Pale blush cerise with a suffusion of salmon and rose. 
A very rich and charming Sweet Pea. 
Charming. A bright rosy cerise. This sort carries fine bold 
flowers that are beautifully waved. 
Mi-s. A. Searles. Salmon-cerise, merging into a soft oriental- 
red. A remarkable and distinct color. 
Flamingo. Orange and scarlet, heavily shaded cerise. Abso¬ 
lutely sunproof. Certificate of Merit and Silver Medal Scottish 
National Sweet Pea Society Trials. 
CREAM 
What Joy. Primrose, shading to cream. A charming tone and 
so far the nearest approach to a true yellow. 
Grand National. Considered the best of its color. An improved 
cream. 
CRIMSON 
Rubicund. Rich crimson scarlet. This is an exceptionally good 
sweet pea, lacking nothing in size, shape, stems and vigor. 
Red Boy. The very best crimson. It is a first class sweet pea 
for all purposes, especially for general garden culture 
Sybil Henshaw. Glowing blood-red. This has superseded King 
Edward Spencer as the standard crimson. 
IVORY 
Ivory Picture. Rich ivory cream, flushed pink. Black seeded. 
MAROON 
Warrior. Rich chocolate maroon. A magnificent variety which 
has held its place and popularity for a number of years. 
MAUVE 
International. Rich deep rosy mauve. 
LAVENDER 
Ambition. Rich deep lavender, with a darker shade on the 
base of the standard and wings when young, lessening as the 
bloom ages. Gold Medal and Award of Merit, National Sweet 
Pea Society Trials. 
Powerscourt. A clear pure lavender. Has been considered the 
best lavender for a number of years. 
TYPICAL OF OUR SPENCERS 
PURPLE 
Olympia. Deep rich purple of graceful form and immense size. 
Gold Medal, Scottish National Sweet Pea Trials. 
ORANGE 
Excelsior. Beautiful shade of orange-scarlet. Will please the 
most critical. 
Pirate Gold. Golden orange, deeper than Guinea Gold and 
brighter than Prince of Orange. It withstands hot sun. 
Prince of Orange. Brilliant orange. Unsurpassed in this color 
class for vigor, size of flowers and long stems. Gorgeous under 
artificial light. 
George Shawyer. A giant orange pink, the standard showing 
more orange than the wings. The flowers are perfectly formed 
and nicely placed. Award of Merit. National Sweet Pea Soci¬ 
ety and the Royal Horticultural Society. 
S.VLMON 
Smiles. Clear glistening salmon, best describes this exquisite 
variety. The large flowers are beautifully waved and fluted. 
SCARLET 
Welcome. By far the best and most brilliant, dazzling, scarlet 
Sweet Pea. For exhibition or gardens it is supreme. Absolutely 
sunproof. Silver Medal, Scottish National Sweet Pea Society. 
Honour. Rich crimson. This fine English variety bears large 
beautifully waved blossoms. 
WHITE 
Sextet Queen. Pure white flowers of perfect form and of great 
substance. Normally produces five-flowered stems when 
grown under ordinary conditions. When grown for exhibition 
on the Cordon system, will giye six flowered stems with quite 
a number of sevens. Black seeded. Award of Merit, National 
Sweet Pea Society Trials. 
Avalanche. Immense glistening white flowers. The blooms 
are very frilled. White seeded. 
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