. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. APRIL 25. 1912. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 15. Antirrbinums Grown id Solid Beds by James Wbeeler, Natick, Mass. there are possibly two dozen different ? olors and shades of winter flowering sweet peas, although there is some con- fusion through duplication of names, which in my opinion should be looked into by the National Sweet Pea So- ciety. For instance, a grower might decide that he would try several va- rieties of white, and buy from the different sources the following: Watchung, Earliest White and Snow- bird or Snowdrift, and find at bloomi
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. APRIL 25. 1912. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 15. Antirrbinums Grown id Solid Beds by James Wbeeler, Natick, Mass. there are possibly two dozen different ? olors and shades of winter flowering sweet peas, although there is some con- fusion through duplication of names, which in my opinion should be looked into by the National Sweet Pea So- ciety. For instance, a grower might decide that he would try several va- rieties of white, and buy from the different sources the following: Watchung, Earliest White and Snow- bird or Snowdrift, and find at blooming time that he had four rows of the same variety. Also the only difference be- tween Christmas Pink and Earliest of All is the price of the seed. Mont Blanc, Christmas White and Florence Denzer, too, are identical. I want to say in connection with this that no man in this country, or in the world for that matter, has done more toward the advancement of win- ter flowering sweet peas than Anton Zvolanek, of Bound Brook, N. J. He has to the present time succeeded in producing practically all of the colors that we have among the summer bloom- ing varieties in the winter blooming section, and I am informed that he is now at work on the Spencer varieties and, in fact, has partly subdued them to the winter blooming habit. Many of the colors that Zvolanek has succeeded in fixing to type have as yet to prove salable, but as the field broad- ons we can expect a wider range of colors to become popular. Good Commercial Varieties. At the present time the old pink and white variety, Earliest of All or Christ- mas Pink, is the best seller, followed by white of the different varieties, and these followed by lavender, of which T will mention the following: Mrs. Alexander Wallace, and Wallacea, dark lavender, and I believe these are not so likely to drop their buds as Mrs. Charles H. Totty, although this is the most desirable shade of the three. In the light pink class we have Mrs. Do- lansky,
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