SwKET Peas. 



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uncommonly well, and that was on a rough wooden trellis, sur- 

 rounded by half -grown grass, a few feet from a dingy uninterest- 

 ing wooden house, on the side where no one ever came. In an 

 ordinary well-kept flower-garden, where the beds are laid out by 

 themselves, it may sometimes appear to advantage, but it seems 

 w^holly out of place in a strictly formal bed. 



80.— Apple Blossom. An abnormal 4 flowered truss. 



" All that has been said refers to the growing plant and flower. 

 More properly, the use of the sweet pea bloom is in the boucjuet. 

 No place then is so exalted but that it adds an extra light, and 

 none is so humble that it is not at home." 



II. Varieties Grown at Cornell in 1895. 



An attempt was made the past season to obtain all the sweet 

 peas w^hich were offered by American seedsmen. Nearly all of 

 them were planted April 30th, but a few later arrivals were sown 



