SWEET PEAS UP TO DATE 



characteristic form and size. All would have been 

 right had the various seed-growers not been in such a 

 hurry to rush those unfixed sports upon the market, 

 much to the disgust of many amateur growers. 



A peculiarity about the "Spencer" sports is that 

 they generally come in duplicate: i. e., the same 

 color in Spencer and grandiflora types. Take, for 

 instance, Helen Lewis and John Ingman: with Helen 

 Lewis sport there was also a very large grandiflora 

 sport of the same color, similar in appearance to Lady 

 Mary Currie, and with John Ingman appeared a variety 

 of much the same color, but also of grandiflora type. 

 The result was that both were saved, and as the old 

 type is so much more prolific in seed-bearing, the result 

 became worse instead of even remaining stationary. 

 However, observant growers are now becoming more 



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