Sweet Peas 



if coddled they make weak spindly growth. In 

 six or eight weeks after potting, they should be 

 shifted into their flowering receptacles, whether 

 pots, boxes or tubs, or they may be planted in 

 the border of the house. The most suitable 

 compost is formed of good loam, a little decayed 

 stable manure, sand, bone meal, and a dusting 

 of soot. In this mixture, the plants will grow 

 well until they reach the flowering stage, when 

 the roots should be fed with manure water twice 

 a week. If large blooms up to exhibition size 

 are required, the plants should be thinned to 

 two or three shoots and then staked and tied. 

 The main growths can be trained into any shape, 

 and when they have reached the top of the house 

 they can be untied, bent, and thus brought down 

 to within three or four feet of the ground without 

 injury. The variety Mrs. Cuthbertson has grown 

 twenty-two feet long, being taken down from the 

 roof when necessary. Such a plant will produce 

 fifty to sixty good flowers on each growth. 



Treated in this way a long season of first-rate 

 flowers with long stems is assured. If grown in 

 pots, tubs or boxes for decoration, the shoots 

 may be trained on a framework, or Simplicitas 

 netting, which makes a neat, tidy support and 

 will last for several years. A mulch of short 



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