. Burpee's farm annual 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 128 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. SWEET PEAS,-*-THE coming flower. Every flower lover welcomes them for their perfect and simple loveliness. Irresistibly graceful in form, charming in color, exquisite in fragrance, they delight all with their modest \ct gay beauty. Having foreseen the wonderful popularity destined for Sweet Peas, we steadily prepared ourselves, until now we are accepted headquarters for seed of the
. Burpee's farm annual 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 128 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. SWEET PEAS,-*-THE coming flower. Every flower lover welcomes them for their perfect and simple loveliness. Irresistibly graceful in form, charming in color, exquisite in fragrance, they delight all with their modest \ct gay beauty. Having foreseen the wonderful popularity destined for Sweet Peas, we steadily prepared ourselves, until now we are accepted headquarters for seed of the best varieties. Below we offer the choicest Novelties for 1S93. - On pages 150 aud 151 will be found the Novelties of recent introduction and the old favorite varieties. The Coming Flower. Not far away are the plots of Sweet Peas, which call for special mention, not only on account of the magnificence to which these lovely flowers have here been brought, but also because of the importance which these flowers promise to assume iu the ornamental gardening of the near future. Mr. Burpee thinks that the sweet pea has never re- ceived the consideration from horticulturists and flower lovers to which it is entitled, and he con- siders it the flower of the The im- provements made in sweet peas by hybridization and high cultivation are greater than in the case of any other annual flower, excepting pansies. The fact that their beauty is beginning to impress the world at large is shown by the fact that contracts for furnishing sweet pea seeds have already been made for the coming season aggregating over twelve thousand pounds. By his efforts to improve and make more popular this lovely flower Mr. Burpee has undoubtedly made his house the headquarters for them. The trial beds show many beautiful varieties of every imaginable hue.âFrom The Philadelphia Inquires, Oct. 8, 1892. For main article from The Ixquirer, see pages 4, 5, 6, 7, and Novelties for 1893. APPLE BLOSSOM. A ve
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