SWEET PEAS UP TO DATE 



Mrs. Hugh Dickson Pink apricot on cream 



*Mrs. Routzahn Apricot and pink 



Mrs. W. J. Unwin White flaked orange 



*Nubian or King Manoel Deep maroon 



*Orchid Helio mauve 



Primrose Spencer Clear primrose 



Queen Victoria Spencer Primrose flushed rose 



*Rosabelle Rose 



Scarlet Emperor or 

 *Vermilion Brilliant Crimson-scarlet 



Senator Spencer Chocolate flake 



Stirling Stent Orange-salmon 



Tennant Spencer Purplish mauve 



*Thos. Stevenson Orange-scarlet 



Wedgwood Light blue 



VARIETIES FOR TRUCKERS AND MARKET GARDENERS 

 Truckers and market gardeners who have a market 

 for cut flowers are now awakening to the fact that there 

 is money in Sweet Peas. The writer saw a letter from 

 a trucker some time ago which stated he had made 

 $400.00 that season from quarter of an acre of Sweet 

 Peas. Therefore, to those in suitable locations this 

 is surely encouragement enough to induce them to 

 give these popular flowers a trial. We have heard of 

 growers sowing their Sweet Peas after taking off an 

 early crop of vegetables, but would rather favor the 

 method of sowing Sweet Peas on a free piece of land 

 as early in the spring as possible, putting up the trellising 

 at once, and in the space between the rows planting an 

 early crop of lettuce, radish, etc., that will be cleared 

 away before the Peas come into flower. This plan 

 could be altered according to location and latitude, or 

 they might be planted in the fall; but what we would 



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