. A bright book about seeds : we paid to have the outside red it will pay you to have the inside "read". Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 68 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. DESCRIPTION OF ECKFORD'S NEW GIANT WHITE SWEET PEA, " BLANCHE ; A white-seeded, pure white of exquisite form and immense size, hav- ing a bold, rigid, upright, shell-shaped standard of great substance; is a wonderfully profuse bloomer, and absolutely free from the objectionable notc
. A bright book about seeds : we paid to have the outside red it will pay you to have the inside "read". Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 68 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. DESCRIPTION OF ECKFORD'S NEW GIANT WHITE SWEET PEA, " BLANCHE ; A white-seeded, pure white of exquisite form and immense size, hav- ing a bold, rigid, upright, shell-shaped standard of great substance; is a wonderfully profuse bloomer, and absolutely free from the objectionable notch so conspicuous in Queen of England. It usually bears three flowers on a stem; a very chaste variety, and by far the finest Sweet Pea ever produced.—Mr. Eckford's own description. In Eckford's original sealed packets: Per pkt. 25 cts.; 5 pkts. for $ ,.; . - - .-• date of September 27, 1891, writes us as follows v= " It has been pronounced by the horticultural press all through this season by far the finest White Sweet Pea, having a fine, shell-shaped standard which is upright and rigid, and, like all the Eckford varie- ties, is free from that objec- tionable notch so conspicuous in Emily Henderson and. Queen of England, in which respect these two latter are identical. Blanche Burpee received a first-class certificate at Bir- mingham on August 4, 1894, and a first-class certificate at the great flower show at Shrewsbury, August 22 and 23, 1894. I myself, too, am quite sat isfied with the market value of this new White, as it must take its place before all others yet in commerce, and will com- mand a great sale. "Of course, if you would rather have Blanche Burpee put up in cheaper packets I will do so,—say, in packets at either 2s., , or Is., which- ever price you think it would sell best at in America,—as I remember you once said a 2s. 6d. packet of Sweet Peas was rather high for American trade. I find myself that the price pe
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