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This group was originated by the Reverend Edwyn Arkwright, in 

 his garden at Telemly, on the hill of Mustapha near the city of Algiers, 

 in Algeria, Africa. For a number of years our great American variety, 

 Blanche Ferry, was grown. This variety has always been known as an 

 early variety, and it flowered about the end of March in the locality 

 mentioned. 



The Reverend Mr. Arkwright, in an article in the Sweet Pea Annual 

 for 1907, says: 



" About seven years ago a sport showed itself in my garden as early 

 as February and was promptly isolated from all others. The next year 

 I had some plants flowering in January, and among them one red one, 

 a cross apparently from Mars, on which a blossom or two had come out 

 in May of the previous year. From these parents I have now ten or 

 twelve of the usual colours, ranging from white to purple, and including 

 duplicates, or shall I say imitations, of Honorable Mrs. E. Kenyon, Jeannie 

 Gordon, Lady Grizel Hamilton, Mars, Black Knight, etc., which begin 

 to flower about Christmas time and last for five months. 



" That they form a distinct group is evident from the fact that Eck- 

 ford's sweet peas, which I sow at the same time, i. e., at the end of Sep- 

 tember, do not flower till May. Moreover, the leaf is considerably nar- 

 rower than in Eckford's varieties and more pointed and the stem appears 

 to have more woody fibre." 



Engelmann group {Lathyrus odoratus Praecox) 



Another group of winter-flowering sweet peas has been offered by 

 C. Engelmann, of Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Mr. Engelmann 

 says, in the Sweet Pea Annual for 1907 : 



"It is nearly four years since some plants of Captain of the Blues 

 sported with me and gave winter-flowering varieties of quite distinct 

 habit. Ordinarily stocks sown in autumn will not bloom under glass 

 until the following April, but the newcomers commence to bloom from 

 six to ten weeks after seed sowing, and continue to form branches and 

 produce flowers all through the winter. 



" I have now winter-flowering representatives of such varieties as 

 Dorothy Eckford, Lady Grizel Hamilton, and Miss Wilmott, as well 

 as a number of crosses between these and the ordinary type and Mont 

 Blanc, so that almost all sweet pea colours are represented. 



" In 1906 I sowed my winter-flowering varieties at the end of August 

 and beginning of September, and the resulting plants commenced to 

 flower in October and were splendidly in bloom at the end of November 

 and early in December, and they should continue to flower until the 

 ordinary sweet peas come into flower." ■ 



