. Boddington's quality bulbs, seeds and plants / Arthur T. Nursery Catalogue. BODDINGTONS ^yUa£cVl/ SEEDS The Prize-'Wmnmg Quartette of Sweet Peas ONE THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING FOR A BUNCH OF SWEET PEAS (From The Florists' Exchange) The Sweet Pea show organized by the London Daily Mail was held at the Crystal Palace, London, today, July 28. The first prize of /" ($4,) was awarded to Mrs. J. H. Fraser, The Manse, Sprouston, Kelso, N. B.; the second prize of ^100 ($) to H. W. Richards of Ryde, Isle of Wight; and the third prize of /"50 ($) to Rev. J.
. Boddington's quality bulbs, seeds and plants / Arthur T. Nursery Catalogue. BODDINGTONS ^yUa£cVl/ SEEDS The Prize-'Wmnmg Quartette of Sweet Peas ONE THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING FOR A BUNCH OF SWEET PEAS (From The Florists' Exchange) The Sweet Pea show organized by the London Daily Mail was held at the Crystal Palace, London, today, July 28. The first prize of /" ($4,) was awarded to Mrs. J. H. Fraser, The Manse, Sprouston, Kelso, N. B.; the second prize of ^100 ($) to H. W. Richards of Ryde, Isle of Wight; and the third prize of /"50 ($) to Rev. J. H. Fraser, of the same address as (and presumably the husband of) the fortunate winner of the champion prize. The varieties in Mrs. Fraser's exhibit were: Paradise Carmine (Hemus), carmine waved; Constance Oliver (Lumley), delicate pink, suffused with cream, waved; Arthur Unwin (Unwin), rose, shaded with cream, waved; Tom Bolton (Bolton), dark maroon, waved. They won because they were the best grown, best in size, color and condition, and because they carried four flowers on each stem. The second and third prize exhibits ran the winner a very close race. The 38,000 bunches sent in, of which only about 10,000 appeared on the exhibition tables, came from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Guernsey and Jersey, but the southern section of the British Isles, sweltering in an unparalleled drought and heat wave, had practically, no chance against Scotland, where cooler and moister conditions have PARADISE CARMINE, ARTHtJR UNWIN, TOM BOLTON, CONSTANCE OLIVER We beg to state, we have secured some very exclusive stocks of these four varieties, described and illustrated above, and make the fol- lowing special offer of The Prize-Winning Quartette, Paradise Carmine, Constance Oliver, Arthur Unwin, Tom Bolton. Collection, one packet each for $0 35 1 Majigd Free. " three packets each for * °° J. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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