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forming buds, but for nearly two weeks we picked two bunches a day where 
we had been getting twenty or more. 
What is neck drop? Less than half an inch of the stem, just at the bend, 
wilts, while the rest stands straight and stiff as ever. Vines that at night 
promised a fine cut show in the morning sometimes a few, sometimes one- 
half or three-fourths of the opened or opening blossoms hanging lifeless. It 
is always the best peas; short stems don’t often drop. 
Mr. Long: Do you mulch your sweet peas? 
Mrs. Eves: I have mulched, but I did not see that they were 
any better. 
Mr. Taylor: What do you use for a trellis? 
Mrs. Eves: Oh, almost anything. 
Mr. Taylor: Do you change the location every year? 
Mrs. Eves: I have been on the land four years, and I have 
grown them on the same place every year. 
Mr. Smith, (Wis.): I have never grown sweet peas or any other 
kind of flowers for the market, but we always have an abundanrice of 
flowers on our place and all the tender annuals. Several years ago 
I planted sweet peas on a little strip of ground for about four or 
five years in succession. They kept getting poorer and poorer after 
the third year, and the last year I planted them there they did almost 
nothing, the leaves turned yellow and the buds dropped off. So I 
changed the location and put them in a new place where they had 
never been grown before, or at least not for quite a number of years, 
and the result was entirely satisfactory. They grew strongly, and 
we had an abundance of blossoms all through the season. I think 
that might, perhaps, be the solution of the falling of the blossoms 
the lady spoke of. 
Mrs. Eves: My best sweet peas were exactly in the same place 
where they had been growing for four years. 
Mrs. Hanson: I have grown mine in the same place for four 
years. Many people asked me how I managed to grow such fine 
sweet peas, but they have been grown in the same place for four 
years. By standing on my tiptoes I could reach the top flowers. 
Mrs. Eves: Some of my worst soil had the best late flowers. 
Mr. Smith: What is your soil? 
Mrs. Eves: We are at a place where all the wash goes in and 
there is gravel under it; there is gravel within six or eight inches of 
the surface. In some other places there is clay; there is quite a 
variety of soil. 
Mr. Yahnke: I would like to ask Mrs. Hanson what kind of 
soil she has. 
Mrs. Hanson: I think it is a sandy loam. 
