SWEET-PEA. 9i( 



SWEET-PEA, OR VETCHLING. Lathyrm 

 Odoratus, 



Natural Order Papilionacei, or Leguminosce : a Genus 

 of the Diadelphia Decandria Class. 



** Here are Sweet- Peas on tip-toe for a flig-lit, 

 With Avings of g-entle flush, o'er delicate white, 

 And taper fing^ers catching^ at all thing's 

 To bind them all about with tiny ring's." 



Keats. 



The Sweet-Pea, the emblem of delicate pleasures, 

 was unknown in the British gardens until the first 

 year of the eighteenth century, when it blossomed 

 in the garden of Dr. Uvedale, at Enfield, in 

 Essex, who is supposed to have been the first 

 cultivator of this favourite flower in England, 

 which has now spread itself over the whole of 

 Europe, entering every garden where the florist 

 is disposed to 



" lend a staff to tlie still gadding; Pea." 



Linnoeus tells us that the common dark variety is 

 a native of Sicily, and that the more delicate- 

 coloured kind, which is distinguished by the name 



