. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The larcrest and finest S'^eet Pea yet introduced. (Firsi Prize AnfencHn Sweet Pea -iof i»*ty ) {silver Naimnat Swcei Pea So^,iety of Great Britain, London, July. 1914.). MXRGARET ATIEE. Ele'-trn«nf this « each. Life size as grown by ordinary culture. NoTF,—The n^me was rhogpn as an ap- preciation to Mr. Burpee. Mrs. Marcaret Atlee being his aunt. Wp are issu'ne a ci'cuUr offering si^veral rth**' "^wppt Pea Ni^ve'ties and will mail it to the Trade in a few days. MARGARET ATLfE. Life size of bloom a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The larcrest and finest S'^eet Pea yet introduced. (Firsi Prize AnfencHn Sweet Pea -iof i»*ty ) {silver Naimnat Swcei Pea So^,iety of Great Britain, London, July. 1914.). MXRGARET ATIEE. Ele'-trn«nf this « each. Life size as grown by ordinary culture. NoTF,—The n^me was rhogpn as an ap- preciation to Mr. Burpee. Mrs. Marcaret Atlee being his aunt. Wp are issu'ne a ci'cuUr offering si^veral rth**' "^wppt Pea Ni^ve'ties and will mail it to the Trade in a few days. MARGARET ATLfE. Life size of bloom as grown for e.'chibition by special culture. Electros of this at 75c. each, Margaret *tlee is a rosy salmon rirk on a creamy huff y- U' d: a rith soft color, and « xtri m ly attracitve. boih as It dividu I flowers and m the bunch. Tht* stand- ard is la ge a"d wavy ard inclined to double under favor- able conditicns. The winps arr equally laiRe wavy ard well Sft. It tuns nlmost unif-rmlv four blO'S- ms to the st- m: well poised and vrac- ful. In a I resjx-cis. it is the grandest Swee Pt^a we have ever grown, either from ior- eign introdurtions or .American varieties. Margaret Atlee has finally yif'dod ussuffirient seed to warrant et appeared in our Contraci Lists. Messrs. Lowe & Shawyer the largest flower growers in Great Britain, simp'y insisted on having some of it la>t season and we let them have a pound out of our p'aT ting stock lobeusfd for growing rut fl-wers fortheC^vent Garden ^^arket. They had a packet of it the vear previ( us and con-^idered it the very finest thing they had ever seen in Sweet Peas. With thtm it is a leader as a tloMst flower. , -, ^ . .^, hver so many people who have seen bouquets of Margaret Atlee have exclaimfd. 'Are those icalU Sweet Peas?" Undf r o'd parv culture thev are de'irate and refined to b dpgree. Under sp'^cial culture for exbiUfon flowers they produce unusua'ly large thii k petMs and eno mrus stems and 1 =Vr-s. It
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