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Title: Cadwell & Jones, successors to R. D. Hawley & Co., catalogue for 1895 of seeds and implements
Identifier: cadwelljonessucc1895cadw (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Cadwell & Jones; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Cadwell & Jones
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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58 CAD WELL d' JONES DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. Sweet • Peas. We are very glad to greet our floral customers this year with these pages devoted t© this beautiful flower. Its increasing popularity finds us rnoie than willing to keep pace with any demand our friends shall make on us for adding to our stock of varieties. Little need be said for a flower that speaks so well for itself. It has passed beyond the period of its native, rustic beauty, and u->wt no annual shows the perfection of the florist's art more won- drously. The many titled names it bears shows that it has been received at court." No flower is more graceful for a corsage bouquet, and no lady's hand can hold a sweeter or richer treasure. And into the sick room, and everywhere where flowers are messengers of good will, the Sweet Pea is now the most welcme. Its practical points weigh wTell. It is an easily grown annual. Once learn the simple rules of its culture, and success is assured. A mixed row is a complete flower garden in range of color, its long woody stems are unequaled. It has almost no pests to contend with. Its fragrance is unsurpassed. It is taking on new merit every year in color, mark- ings, and form. Brief Rules for Culture. 1. Plant early—as early as ground can be worked, regardless of frost. April 1 is none too early. 2. Plant deep. Make either twTo fur- rows five inches deep and ten inches apart, and plant seed in them inches apart, or make a treuch five inches deep and twelve inches wide, dropping the seed in two straight rows ten inches apart, \% inches in the row. 3. Cover the seed just one inch at first, and when it is up, little by little, fill the earth in. 4. In addition to a deep rich soil, wood ashes are an excellent fertilizer for sweet peas. Bone flour adds to the bloom. Nitrate of soda hastens results. But avoid green stanle manure for pea vines. If well rotted all right, but otherwise put it on in the fall. If late bloom is wanted stimu- late less. 5. Bush or trellis strongly six feet high. White- birch tops are best. Set them with a crowbar. 6. Run the row north and south. They love water by the pailful. Cut vines back to six feet if they run higher. 9. Pick blossoms without stint, and buy fresh seed every year.
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