. Bailey's seeds : above them all. Page 38 BAILEY'S ANNUAL SPRING CATALOG FOR 1930 Bailey's Unrivalled Giant Flowering Spencer Sweet Peas. Bailey Giant Spencer Sweet Peas BAILEY'S GIANT FLOWERING SPENCER SWEET PEAS These varieties cover practically every range of color available to date in Sweet Peas. Barbara, Fine Salmon Constance Hinton, Mammoth White, the best pure white ELEGANCE, New Blush Lilac, suffused pink Fiery Cross, Orange Cerise, very desirable Hawlmark Pink, a wonderful flower Hercules, a mammoth rosy pink Illuminator, Salmon Orange, overlaid ceris> .->ink. Improved Frederic
. Bailey's seeds : above them all. Page 38 BAILEY'S ANNUAL SPRING CATALOG FOR 1930 Bailey's Unrivalled Giant Flowering Spencer Sweet Peas. Bailey Giant Spencer Sweet Peas BAILEY'S GIANT FLOWERING SPENCER SWEET PEAS These varieties cover practically every range of color available to date in Sweet Peas. Barbara, Fine Salmon Constance Hinton, Mammoth White, the best pure white ELEGANCE, New Blush Lilac, suffused pink Fiery Cross, Orange Cerise, very desirable Hawlmark Pink, a wonderful flower Hercules, a mammoth rosy pink Illuminator, Salmon Orange, overlaid ceris> .->ink. Improved Frederick Austin, Gigantic lavender Margaret Atlee, Giant Buff Pink MARY PICKFORD, New Dainty Cream pink, suffused salmon Matchless, Cream Sweet Peas are undoubted- ly the most generally jult- vated flowering annuals in America today, and justly so. The Spencer or Orchid Flow- ering Types are such an im- provement aver tie oldcj/ sorts that there is no com- parison and for that reason we stock the Spencer varie- ties exciusively. Bailee's Spencer Sweet Peas are grown under contract by the most reliable growers and are carefully selected for quality of bloom and bril- liancy of color. CULTURE. The Sweet Pea delights in a soil inclined to be clayey, and as the little beauty is a gross feeder, a good supply of well-rotted manure should be mixed with the ground. Fall is the best s;ason to prepare the soil. A good many failures are caused by manuring in the spring, for the reason that all pea vines ' like a moist ground, and the heat originated by the manure combined with the heat from the sun is too much for the young vines, which turn yellow and die. The best season to sow the ssed is as soon in the spring as the ground can be worked. Late sowing produces rank growth, but few flowers. Dig a trench a foot deep by 16 or 18 inches wide and mix in it 6 inches of top soil with old manure. In this plant your seed in two rows, dropping one every inch or two; then cover with two inches of soil, g
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