THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Of the fungoid diseases, mildew is at once the most common and perhaps 

 the hardest to deal with. While there are many preparations on the 

 market for its prevention and cure, the best way to combat it is to keep up 

 the natural resistance of the plants by conserving their vigor as long as 

 possible. A soil well supplied with potash is supposed to preserve the 

 plants from attacks of the so-called streak disease, but healthy plants set 

 out on new ground annually is the surest way of avoiding all diseases. 



Various Methods of Planting. 



No one should think that rows are the best and only means of planting 

 the sweet pea. Rows undoubtedly are the most satisfactory means where 

 cut flowers and economy of labor are the main objectives, but where a 

 pleasing artistic effect is desired we may plant in clumps at the back of 

 herbaceous borders, or in beds or in curved lines, or even in tubs for 

 standing on terraces or verandas; or they may be planted to hide an un- 

 sightly wall or building. In fact, there is almost endless scope for the 

 grower's ability in forming harmonious color combinations and pleasing 

 effects in general by the proper disposition of this charming plant. 



What Varieties to Grow 



There is such a host of varieties to choose from that the prospective 

 grower may well be bewildered in making a choice. With the idea that it 

 may aid some, I will name a few of each color, which, from experience, I 

 know to be good : 



White : King White, Snowdon, Nore Unwin. 



Cream: Dobbies Cream, Primrose Beauty, Isabel Malcolm. 



Lavender: Orchid, R. F. Felton, Mrs. Heslington. 



Maroon : Nubian, Mrs. Cowdy, King Manuel. 



Scarlet: Scarlet Emperor, Vermillion Brilliant. 



Crimson : Maud Holmes, Kind Edward Spencer. 



Dark blue : Navy Paradise, Lord Nelson Spencer. 



Cream pink: Mrs. Hugh Dickson, Doris Usher, Mrs. Routzahn. 



Pink: Margaret Atlee, Hercules, Countess Spencer. 



Rose pink: John Ingram, George Herbert, Rosabelle. 



Orange pink: Edrom Beauty, Helen Lewis. 



Orange scarlet: Edna Unwin, Thos. Stevenson. 

 The following dozen kinds are bi-colors, flaked, striped and mottled, but 

 are wonderfully fine things and should be grown by everyone who can 

 afford the space: Afterglow, Prince George, Bertie Usher, Mrs. W. J. 

 Unwin, Arthur Green, Senator Spencer, Helen Pierce Spencer, Inspector, 

 Melba, Charles Foster, Agricola, and Mrs. Cuthbertson. 



To those sweet pea enthusiasts who would have a more extended 

 knowledge of their favorite flower than is possible in a brief half hour's 

 paper, I would commend them to the following books : " The Sweet Pea 

 Annual," issued by the National Sweet Pea Society of Great Britain; 



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