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held on long stems well above the foliage is to be expected, 

 and in certain warm, well-drained soils it is practicable 

 to sow seed the autumn before. This puts the sweet 

 pea a little out of the running for the hirer of a summer 

 cottage, unless he can have access to the place early 

 in the season, but sown thinly and once fairly rooted 

 and kept free from dead flowers and pods, the vines 

 will go on yielding quite through September, though on 

 the coming of hot weather the flower stems shorten. 



I often plant seeds of the climbing nasturtium in the 

 row with the sweet peas at a distance of one seed to the 

 fist, the planting not being done until late May. The 

 peas mature first, and after the best of their season has 

 passed they are supplanted by the nasturtiums, which 

 cover the dry vines and festoon the supporting brush 

 with gorgeous colour in early autumn, keeping in the 

 same colour scheme with salvia, sunflowers, gaillardias, 

 and tritomas. This is excellent where space is of 

 account, and also where more sweet peas are planted 

 for their early yield than can be kept in good shape the 

 whole season. Centaurea or cornflower, the bachelor's 

 button or ragged sailor of old gardens, is in the front rank 

 of the worthies. The flowers have almost the keeping 

 qualities of everlastings, and are of easy culture, while 

 the sweet sultan, also of this family, adds fragrance to 



