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LATHYRUS 



Striped and Flaked. 

 {Red and Rose). 

 Aurora Spencer. 

 Yankee. 

 *Jessie Cuthbertson. 



{Purple and Blue). 

 Prince Olaf. 



Fancy. 

 Sybil Eckford. 



Bicolor. 

 Mrs Andrew Ireland. 

 *Jeannie Gordon. 



Marbled. 

 *Helen Pierce. 



LathVrus — continued. 



*Lady G. Hamilton. 

 Masterpiece. 



Violet and Purple. 

 Rosie Adams. 

 *Duke of Westminster. 



Majenta. 

 Menie Christie. 



Mauve. 

 The Marquis. 

 *Mrs Walter Wright. 



Maroon and Bronze. 

 *Black Knight. 

 *Hannah Dale. 

 *Tom Bolton. 



Picotee Edged. 

 Elsie Herbert. 

 Mrs C. W. Breadmore. 



There is a dwarf or Cupid strain of Sweet Peas, 

 the height of which is scarcely a foot, and therefore 

 well adapted for massing in a bed, or as a pot or 

 hanging basket plant, or as an edging. There are 

 several colours. 



Yet another class is known as The Bush 

 Sweet Pea. This is intermediate between the tall 

 kinds and the Cupid. The climbing habit is 

 quite absent, and the plant forms a bush 18 ins. 

 high and self-supporting, as the tendrils bind the 



stems together. 



The colours are various. 



L. sati'vus azur'eus, the Chickling Vetch, is an elegant 

 little plant with bright blue flowers, that grows 

 about 3 ft. high. It is, however, of small 



