. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. "t^ .51: "-^7 ' OcxoBEU 7, 1915. The Florists^ Review 61 Threil ''Superfine'' New Spencers for 1916 An Average Spray of "FIERT CROSS reproduced from a Fordhook PhotoBraph. "Fiery Cross" "Fiery Cross" is a most appropriate name for a most uausual novelty. Daring tlie seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Scotland was continually at war, the method employed by the chiefs to gather the clans to re- pel invaders was by means of a flery cross, which was taken from hamlet to hamlet by the speediest man avail- able.
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. "t^ .51: "-^7 ' OcxoBEU 7, 1915. The Florists^ Review 61 Threil ''Superfine'' New Spencers for 1916 An Average Spray of "FIERT CROSS reproduced from a Fordhook PhotoBraph. "Fiery Cross" "Fiery Cross" is a most appropriate name for a most uausual novelty. Daring tlie seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Scotland was continually at war, the method employed by the chiefs to gather the clans to re- pel invaders was by means of a flery cross, which was taken from hamlet to hamlet by the speediest man avail- able. The fiery cross was simply a blazing pine branch. "Fiery Cross" has all the appearance of live fire, the color being a scorching -fire-red, or scarlet, without any shading and which scintillates and glitters in bright sun- light, thus adding a glowing, fire-like sheen which radi- ates over the flower. Unlike most of the orange-scarlet varieties, it does not scorch or burn even during extended periods of intense sun- shine, therefore it can be grown in all soils without shading. The beautifully waved and fluted flowers are borne freely in threes and fours, well placed on long stout stems. "Fiery Cross" was recommended for the Silver Medal variety of National Sweet Pea Society of Eaglaad, July. 1914. which was awarded July, 1916. It received an Award of Merit at the exhibition held by the American Sweet Pea Society at the San Francisco Fair, June 10, 1915, as be- ing the outstanding variety in the Show. Also Certificate of Merit at the Sweet Pea Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticul- tural Society, June 23, 1916; and Silver Medal at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the American Sweet Pea Society, New- port. R. I., July 15, 1915. Prices for "Fiery Cross" Sweet Pea In sealed packets containing ten seeds each: Per pkt., 25c; $ per dozen pkts.; $ per 100 pkts. In lots of 500 packets or more, $ per 100 pkts. If 600 or more packets are ord
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