Sweet Peas 



seriously intend to take up the raising ox new 

 Sweet Peas. The seeds of the plants produced 

 in this, the first or F i generation, must be care- 

 fully saved and carefully kept separate and 

 labelled. Next sowing time they, or a part of 

 them, must be sown and planted at least a foot 

 apart eighteen inches is better in the lines. 

 In this generation, called F 2, new forms will 

 arise and it is possible the 'large scarlet, giving 

 plenty of " fours," which was the object in view 

 when setting out, may appear. If it does, it must 

 be carefully marked and the seed saved for sowing 

 again next season to see if it is fixed, and will 

 breed true to the improved type. Of course it 

 may or it may not. It if does not, some other 

 selection may give something of promise, and 

 the process of growing to prove must be carried 

 on the following season. It will be seen from this 

 that the process of raising is a prolonged one, 

 and after the new variety has proved to be fixed, 

 a stock must be worked up for sale which may 

 take other two or three years. The process of 

 raising new Sweet Peas is very much like that of 

 raising new Daffodils. It is the first years that 

 are the trying ones. After persistently making 

 crosses for four or five years, if one continues 

 making a few each year, thereafter the reward 



