. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1909. The American. Florist. 647 Spencers. Tliis is iipparciitly a tran- sient difficulty. I was glad to iiutice that the field ot Countess of Spencer which was just being harvested showed more seed than last year. Other new ones hardly appeared this year to have enough seed to save seed what color the sweet peas had! I am cherishing a very generous hope that ail the way to the Atlantic this llowcr Is again doing justice to itself. You almost eclipsed my last article In the AMERICAN FLORIST by the picture of "
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1909. The American. Florist. 647 Spencers. Tliis is iipparciitly a tran- sient difficulty. I was glad to iiutice that the field ot Countess of Spencer which was just being harvested showed more seed than last year. Other new ones hardly appeared this year to have enough seed to save seed what color the sweet peas had! I am cherishing a very generous hope that ail the way to the Atlantic this llowcr Is again doing justice to itself. You almost eclipsed my last article In the AMERICAN FLORIST by the picture of "Two Famous Sweet Pea ;. SHOW OF THE NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Carter's Swci't Pra Ardiway. stock from. I handled large plants that had been full of bloom, but nearly every flower stem had dropped its blossoms. A well formed pod could hardly be found in a quarter of an acre of them. In two years this I think will be remedied. We may well be impatient to have them offered to the trade they are so charming. Burpee & Co.'s advance list is out but outside of those already described in the seed trade columns of the AMERICAN Florist I am restrained from writing of them. I came home from the seed ranches with my thoughts full of the new varieties I had seen, and I was allowed to gather a little seed of each, so that I almost forget that they are not "out" yet. It is a pleasure to keep ahead of other folks, but I must observe the stubborn necessity of going no faster In my written articles than the seed condi- tions allow. But the trade cannot be too sanguine in its expectations. Splendid things are surely coming. They are far enough along so that we shall not lose them. Some one in the Gardener (London) recently said that Mr. Eckford took plenty of time to fix his novelties. The last few numbers of the Gardener have told us nothing about the present season's bloom. I am hoping the next number will be- gin to tell us of the shnroa and start i
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