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in 1793 at The Sign of the Orange Tree in Fleet Street. He offered black, 

 purple, scarlet, white, and Painted Lady peas. 



In Martyn's edition of Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, 1807, the sweet 

 pea, with its varieties, is classified with the Lathyri: 



"With two-flowered peduncles: 



" Lathyrus odoratus Sweet Lathyrus or pea 



L. Spec. 1032, Reich. 3. 465, Hort. Cliff. 368, Upsal. 216, Curtis Mag. 60 



Floribus albus White-flowered sweet pea 



Alis carinaque albis, vexillo carneo Old Painted Lady pea 



Alis carinaque carneis, vexillo rubro New Painted Lady pea 



Alis carinaque pallide coeruleus, vexillo atropurpurea .... Common sort 

 Carina pallide violacea, alis faturate violaceis, vexillo atropurpureo 

 Peduncles two-flowered, tendrils two-leaved, leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 legumes hirsute. 



" The sweet pea, as it is commonly called, is an annual plant which 

 rises from three to four feet high by means of its long, clasping tendrils. 

 The flower stalks come out at the points, are about six inches long, and 

 sustain two large flowers which have a strong odour; and are succeeded 

 by oblong, hairy pods having four or five roundish seeds in each. 



" In the common sort the corolla has dark purple standards, with the 

 keel and wings of a light blue. Other varieties are the white; the pink 

 with a white keel and wings pale blush color; the rose-coloured standard 

 with keel and wings pale blue ; these that have a mixture of red with white 

 or a pale blue are called Painted Lady dies. ' There is also a variety of the 

 common dark sort with the keel pale violet and the wings dark violet, etc." 



Page, in his " Prodromus " (181 7), mentions a striped variety. 



Thorburn, in 1824, catalogued the following varieties of sweet peas: 



" Painted Lady — Lathyrus odoratus fl. carnea 

 White — Lathyrus odoratus fl. albo 

 Black — Lathyrus odoratus fl. obscuro 

 Purple — Lathyrus odoratus fl. purpureo 

 Scarlet — Lathyrus odoratus fl. roseo " 



A yellow sweet pea is designated as Lathyrus apliaca. In 1827 the same 

 firm offered a striped variety. 



Roland Green, whose " Treatise on the Cultivation of Ornamental 

 Flowers " (Boston, 182S) was the first distinctly florictiltural book pub- 

 lished in North America, speaks of sweet peas as follows: 



"Pea, sweet (Lathyrus odoratus) — There are many species as to color 

 and fragrance. These are annual. The Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus C. 

 folius) is perennial and produces many clusters of showy flowers, and 



