. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. rgio. The American Florist. 1139. BURBANK'S AMARYLLIS —A MEDIUM SIZED FLOWER. scheme through thoroughly, and in- creased the material in the petal to allow for the folds. The waved flower reigns. While my pen flows along the paper in shaping these words, the thought crosses my mind: 'Has the sweet pea other revolution- ary secrets in her keeping? Shall I have to modify the first sentence of this paragraph when I write an in- troduction to the twenty-fifth edition of the present work? I know not. All I know is that
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. rgio. The American Florist. 1139. BURBANK'S AMARYLLIS —A MEDIUM SIZED FLOWER. scheme through thoroughly, and in- creased the material in the petal to allow for the folds. The waved flower reigns. While my pen flows along the paper in shaping these words, the thought crosses my mind: 'Has the sweet pea other revolution- ary secrets in her keeping? Shall I have to modify the first sentence of this paragraph when I write an in- troduction to the twenty-fifth edition of the present work? I know not. All I know is that in this, the tenth year of the twentieth century, the waved sweet pea reigns. It reigns supreme, unchallenged. It has taken the sweet pea world by storm, and by the appeal of its wonderful beauty has brought thousands of new devo- tees into the fold. All the world yields to its beauty and ; The original sweet pea of this new giant waved type was found In 1900 at Althorp Park, Northampton, Eng., by Silas Cole, gardener to Countess Spencer, after whom it was named. Mr. Cole seems to think it was the result of a cross of Prima Donna with another seedling made in 1899. The fact, however, that the same waved form of flower, although of smaller size (Gladys Unwint was found by W. J. Unwin, of Histon, Cambridgeshire, Eng., and also identically the same variety as Cole's Spencer, was found in a row of Prima Donna in the gar- dens of Henry Eckford, would seem to prove that this new type has been entirely "created" by Nature without any immediate aid from man—a sort of natural, or rather ought I to say, unnatural, and most remarkable evo- lution? My friend, Robert Sydenham, of Birmingham, Eng., purchased the original stock of Countess Spencer from Mr. Cole and sent the seed to us in 1902 to grow for him. He in- troduced this variety in England in 1904. With his kind permission we first offered it the following year (1905) in America, and at the same time introdu
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