. Cole's garden annual. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Iowa Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Trees Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs. A POT-PLANT OF CUPID. -From a Photograph. this si^ason there was "GUPID," THE NEW DWARF SWEET PEA. Mr. Burpee is to be con- gratulated as the intro- ducer of "Cupid," the floral wonder of the age; such a novelty was never dreamed of. He says: "It is hardly possible in a description, even aided by illustrations from photo- graphs, to properly present •this Floral Wonder.'" Cupi
. Cole's garden annual. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Iowa Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Trees Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs. A POT-PLANT OF CUPID. -From a Photograph. this si^ason there was "GUPID," THE NEW DWARF SWEET PEA. Mr. Burpee is to be con- gratulated as the intro- ducer of "Cupid," the floral wonder of the age; such a novelty was never dreamed of. He says: "It is hardly possible in a description, even aided by illustrations from photo- graphs, to properly present •this Floral Wonder.'" Cupid, a chance seed- ling was discovered in 1893 by Mr. C. C. Morse and comes absolutely not a single plant that showed any true from seed. In our crop of seven variation either in habit or color. Cupid excites wonder wherever seen—such a Sweet Pea, yet in habit so unlike a Sweet Pea: It is true that its stems are short, but it has all the fragrance of the most favored Eckfords, The flowers are the size of the Emily Henderson, but ivith more substance in the petals of both uings and standards than any other Sweet Pea. It bears two and three blossoms on the end of each stem—all oiiening about the same time so that it is unnecessary to pick a stem with a bud and an open blossom. Fancy a solid area of deep green—just as gret'n as Cypress—carpet of plants only five inches high, spreading out from the roots so as to meet when the sead is planted two feet apart in rows: then fancy this carpet of deep, living green springing into blossom in one week, all a mass of white—clear, icaxy white; Sweet Peas on stems onlv four inches long and a hundred on a plant: all white like a mass of snow Indeed, so strongly contrasted with the deep green foliage that the purity of the whiteness of Cupid's flowers seem even whiter than snow itself. Cupii) grown in a twelve-inch pot just fills the top: with its blooms of glistening whiteness it is wonder- fully attractive in the house, the public
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