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curled or rolled forward at the edges. Different varieties 

 vary in the extent of this hooding. In extreme cases, 

 the standard appears to be pointed in outline and the 

 apparent size is small. The waved form has the edges 

 of the standards beautifully fluted. The garden and the 

 winter-flowering groups have varieties with flowers of the 

 open, hooded and waved forms. The dwarf type has 

 flowers of open and hooded forms, and if this type were 

 in greater demand outside of California, doubtless varie- 

 ties of it could be produced with waved flowers. 



400. Some present-day varieties of sweet peas are : 

 Summer Bloomers 



America 

 Apple Blossom 

 Arthur Green 

 Blanche Ferry 

 Countess Spencer 

 Charles Foster 

 Czarina 

 Dorothy Ecford 



Gorgeous 

 Helen Lewis 

 Henry Eckford 

 Illuminator 

 King White 

 King Edward VII 

 Katherine Tracy 

 Loyalty 



Mrs. Collier 



Nubian 



Orchid 



Othello 



Sybil Eckford 



Salopian 



Vermilion Brilliant 



Wedgewood 



Winter Bloomers 



Christmas Pink 

 Christmas White 

 Earliest White 

 Gladys Unwin 

 Florence Denzer 

 Mrs. F. D. Dolansky 



Mrs. Wm. Sim 



Mrs. Alexander Wallace 



Mrs. Charles H. Totty 



Mrs. W. W. Smalley 



Rose Queen 



Wm. J. Stewart 



Zvolanek's " Orchid-flowered " 



401. Botanical characters. Annual climbing herbs 

 with pinnate leaves and showy, papilionaceous flowers. 



Habitat. Sicily. 



402. Commercial importance. The sweet pea has 

 rapidly become a popular cut-flower. Since the introduc- 



