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TABLE XLV. ORIGIN or THE EARLIER COLOR VARIETIES OK THE SWEET PEA* 



1700 



1718 white- 



(cRBE or CrBE) 

 1731 white 



white 



white 



1793 



1800 



1817 



1824 yellow white 



(= primrose?) 

 1840 white 



1845-49 



1850 



1860 yellow 



( = primrose?) 

 1805 



purple and blue CRBE 



Painted Lady 

 (-pink and 

 white) CRbE 



I 



Painted Lady scarlet CRbe 



Scarlet In- 

 vincible 



1870 

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yellow, white Painted Lady, Scarlet In- 



Crown Prin- vincible, 



cess of Prussia scarlet, scar- 



(pink and rose let striped 



pink). with white. 



black, Imper- purple 



ial Purple, striped 



black with with white, 

 light blue. 



Blue Edged 



Blue Edged 



1880 

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yellow, white Painted Lady, New Painted Black, Black purple striped Blue Edged- 



1 In each case the color of the standard or banner is given first and of the wings second; the descrip- 

 tive terms and variety names are identical with those in the original descriptions. 



2 Described by Bailey and Wyman as purple-lilac in color ( = purple picotee) . 

 ' Quite similar to Blue Edged according to Beal ( = purple picotee). 



4 = "white merging into pink and purple, wings white with purplish cast, wings edged with blue" 

 ( = purple picotee) . 



* No description available; mottled seeds? 

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