. Burpee's seeds that grow for 1900 : wholesale catalogue for seedsmen and dealers only who buy to sell again. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Burpee's THREE CUPIDS for 1900 Now first offered,—see preceding page. New Dwarf Sweet Pea —BOREATTON CUPID. Flowers of good size, fine bold form, and rich dark coloring. Standard quite broad and well spread, of smoothly rounded form, edges slightly refiexed or curving backward ; self- colored in a rich wine-brown, with heavy veining
. Burpee's seeds that grow for 1900 : wholesale catalogue for seedsmen and dealers only who buy to sell again. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Burpee's THREE CUPIDS for 1900 Now first offered,—see preceding page. New Dwarf Sweet Pea —BOREATTON CUPID. Flowers of good size, fine bold form, and rich dark coloring. Standard quite broad and well spread, of smoothly rounded form, edges slightly refiexed or curving backward ; self- colored in a rich wine-brown, with heavy veinings of a still darker shade. It is of beautiful tex- ture and smooth, glossy, satin surface. Wings lie rather closely to the semi-erect keel, spread- ing in the lower portion, with edges heavily rolled ; deep mauve, underlaid and suffused with rosy purple. Keel heavily striped with rich purple. Plants always of true Cupid growth, dense and spreading, with rich, deep-green foliage. (Cable word, " ;) Sweet Pea—Countess of Radnor Cupid. In the new Cupids, several of the lavender tints have been obtained, but this is decidedly the best, gig"" In going over these new Cupids the past summer in California, with the origi- nator, Me. Lestee L. Moese, we decided that this is so much finer in color and larger in size of flowers than the Lady Nina Balfour Cupid, which he had also obtained, that we would not introduce the latter. Of true Cupid type, the plants hug the ground, verbena-like, completely covering a space sixteen by twenty-four inches in diameter, and never growing more than six to eight inches high. From this mat of deep-green foliage are thrown up hundreds of stems of dainty flowers of perfect form and largest size. The flowers are of immense size, larger than the tall Countess of Radnor, and are borne three and four on a stem. Standard very large, broadly expanded, and of a delicate lavender, suffused in the center with soft rose. Wings unusu
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