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some of her seedlings blossomed the next year in January, and lo ! 

 one of them was red. From this last has sprung one sport after 

 another the Telemly strain, which now includes all the usual 

 varieties from pure white and pale primrose, through various in- 

 termediate shades to duplicates of Lady Grisel Hamilton, Salopian, 

 David Williamson, and Black Knight. I have of late years had so 

 many applications for seeds that someone suggested my advertising 

 them, and devoting the proceeds of their sale to the benefit of the 

 British Cottage Hospital at Mustapha. This I have done with 

 very satisfactory results, and the Telemly Peas have now found 

 their way to the Riviera, to Madeira, to the Cape, to Australia, 

 and to America. 



The Value of the Winter - Flowering Sweet Pea, 

 from the point of view of one who grows them for market, is indi- 

 cated in the following notes which are contributed by Mr. C. 

 Engelman : I have grown the ordinary Sweet Peas for some years 

 under glass, sowing them in the autumn and keeping them at low 

 temperatures until the early spring, when with the lengthening days 

 the heat is increased. In this way it is comparatively easy to get 

 flowers in April, but almost impossible to have them sooner, for even 

 if the plants have reached a considerable height as early as February, 

 they absolutely refuse to produce flowers. Among some Peas I found, 

 a few years ago, one plant in a row of Captain of the Blues which 

 though the flower was in every way identical with this variety was 

 of dwarfer habit and did not form a bush, but simply ran up in one 

 shoot and flowered soon after Christmas. It was sown at the end of 

 October. I got a little seed, and about 75 per cent, of this kept the 

 parent's habit, while the rest went back to the ordinary grandiflorus 

 type. The following year I heard about Mr. Zvolaneck's strain of 

 winter-flowering Sweet Peas, and purchased some of them. I found 

 these to have exactly the same habit as my own. I am therefore of 

 the opinion that all these winter-flowering Sweet Peas are simply 

 sports of the ordinary L. odoratus. Since then I have also had 

 similar sports from Miss Willmott, Dorothy Eckford, and Lady 

 Grisel Hamilton ; I have also crossed these with Mr. Zvolaneck's and 

 the Algerian kinds, which are practically all the same, and hope to 

 be able to select some strong, large-flowering kinds in the course of 

 a year or two. 



I know that some say a Sweet Pea never sports. But whoever 

 advances this theory evidently means that a single Sweet Pea plant 

 never bears two distinctly coloured flowers, such as we occasionally 



