134 Growing Flowers 



from frost, and the plants should be thinned to 

 stand three or four feet apart. Some plants grow 

 to a height of ten feet. 



Sweet Peas 



A mixture of bone meal and soot applied to the soil 

 in which sweet peas are to be planted will help greatly 

 in securing large, long-stemmed flowers. All but 

 three or four stems on each plant should be pinched 

 off as soon as they are large enough to determine 

 which will be the best ones to leave on. 



Sweet peas should be planted in trenches eight 

 inches deep and the seed covered to a depth of one 

 inch. After the plants have attained a growth of 

 five or six inches, the soil should gradually be 

 banked up around them until it is within an inch 

 of being level with the surface of the earth sur- 

 rounding the trench. This tends to conserve the 

 moisture and quickens the growth of the vines. 



The most satisfactory way of growing sweet peas 

 is in long rows provided with rabbit-netting wire, 

 supported by strong anchor posts and intermediate 

 stakes to prevent the wire from sagging between 

 its supports. 



