. 1902 year book : everything for the farm and garden. Nursery stock Massachusetts Worcester Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. A Single Plant of Cupid Sweet Peas Exactly Engraved from a THREE m CUPIDS. We quote the introducers' descriptions: BOREATTON CUPID. " Flower of good size, fine bold form, and rich dark coloring. Standard quite broad and well spread, of smoothly rounded form, edges slightly reflexed or curving backward; self-colored in a rich wine-brown, with heavy veinings of a still
. 1902 year book : everything for the farm and garden. Nursery stock Massachusetts Worcester Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. A Single Plant of Cupid Sweet Peas Exactly Engraved from a THREE m CUPIDS. We quote the introducers' descriptions: BOREATTON CUPID. " Flower of good size, fine bold form, and rich dark coloring. Standard quite broad and well spread, of smoothly rounded form, edges slightly reflexed or curving backward; self-colored in a rich wine-brown, with heavy veinings of a still darker shade. It is of beautiful texture and smooth, glossy, satin surface. Wings lie rather closely to the semi-erect keel, spreading in the lower portion, with edges heavily rolled; deep mauve, underlaid and suffused with rosy purple. Keel heavily striped with rich purple. Plants always of true Cupid growth, dense and spreading, with rich, deep- green ; COUNTESS OF RADNOR CUPID. " Of true Cupid type, the plants hug the ground, verbena-like, completely covering a space six- teen by twentv-foui inches in diameter, and never growing more than six to eight inches high. From this mat of deep-green "cniage are thrown up hundreds of stems of dainty flowers of perfect form and largest size. The flowers are of immense size, larger than the tall Countess of Radnor, and are borne three and four on a stem. Standard very large, broadly expanded, and of a delicate lavender, suffused in the centre with soft rose. Wings unusually broad, widely spread, and not recurved; of a clear, light-lavender shade throughout. A charming companion to the dark beauty of Boreatton Cupid, and contrasting splendidly with the intense brilliancy of Firefly ; FIREFLY CUPID. "Like the others, this is, of course, of true Cupid growth, dense and spreading. Flowers of good size and deep, rich shading Standard quite large, broad and erect, widely spread; of pointed form when ful
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