. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Early Snowstorm A Very Profuse Bearer. NEW EARLY OR WINTER-FLOWERING SPENCERS. Here are varieties that offer you a big profit. Sowings under glass in August flower ia time for your Thanksgiving trade. September sowings produce the finest of flowers by Christmas. Grown in the open, they flower several weeks ahead of the Standard or Summer-flowering Spencers; yet they bloom quite as long as the Standard Spencers. Having a survey over the whole trade, we foresaw the splendid future of early winter-flowering varieties years back. Since 19C8 we have bee
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Early Snowstorm A Very Profuse Bearer. NEW EARLY OR WINTER-FLOWERING SPENCERS. Here are varieties that offer you a big profit. Sowings under glass in August flower ia time for your Thanksgiving trade. September sowings produce the finest of flowers by Christmas. Grown in the open, they flower several weeks ahead of the Standard or Summer-flowering Spencers; yet they bloom quite as long as the Standard Spencers. Having a survey over the whole trade, we foresaw the splendid future of early winter-flowering varieties years back. Since 19C8 we have been crossing the Spencer-flowering Sweet Peas with the Early or Winter-flowering Grandiflora. The magnificent Australian variety, "Yarrawa," has also been used as a parent flower in our recent crosses, with results truly unique. The varieties below are all true, thoroughly fixed in type, and because of their unusual development in color, both as to beauty and distinctiveness, they will appeal strongly to your trade. « |t ,. ,, Nine of these varieties were snmtded ninelcen Certificates of Merit by tlie fol- lowing : PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Philadelphia. AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY, San Francisco. THE INTERNATIONAL SHOW, New York. RiirnoA'c Farit/ ^nnwclnrm A truly magnificent pure white variety: the best of the DUI|Jt:«:5 LQIiy kJlluyraiulllI white-see; $ BurOPP^ Farlv Kina a glowing, rich, bright crimson. Flowers ytMMfiK,x. J LUiij 111115 are of great size, perfect form, averaging fully two inches in diameter, and are produced freely in threes and fouis on sirong stems of great length, ^ 75 cts,; $1,25; $ Eordhook Pink and Whil^O ^he most popular color in early- luiuiiuun nun dim Wniie flowering Sweet Peas. Similar to the old Blanche Ferry, having a bright rosy pink standard with creamy white wings, lightly suffused rose. Fowers often measure fully two and one-half inches in diameter, while the form is perfect. It IS an espec
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