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along a border. Clumps made by setting plants a foot apart in a 

 ring a yard across look charming. They can be sown where they are 

 to bloom if desired, but most good growers prefer to raise the plants 

 in pots or boxes under glass towards the end of winter, and plant 

 them out with a good ball of soil and roots about mid- April. The 

 ground ought to be well prepared for them (see Bastard trenching 

 under Kitchen Garden, and Soil) in advance. Sticks should be put 

 to them early. When they have got up the sticks and started 

 flowering in earnest, soakings of water and liquid manure may be 

 given in dry weather; this, with regular picking of the flowers, will 

 insure blossom for many weeks. A coat of short decayed manure 

 spread along the surface will do good. Sweet Peas thrive in almost 

 any kind of soil when the cultivation is thorough, but they do not 

 give of their best in shallow, dry soil. 



The following are splendid varieties of Sweet Peas: 



Etta Dyke and Nora Unwin, white. 



Clara Curtis and Primrose Paradise, cream. 



Evelyn Hemus and Mrs. C. W. Breadmore, Picotee euge, cream 



ground. 



Paradise Ivory, ivory. 

 Marie Corelli, magenta-rose. 

 Elsie Herbert, Picotee edge, white ground. 

 Princess Victoria and Mrs. Hardcastle Sykes, pale pink. 

 Countess Spencer and Constance Oliver, deep pink. 

 Mrs. Hugh Dickson and Mrs. Henry Bell, cream-pink. 

 Earl Spencer and Stirling Stent, salmon. 

 Zarina, salmon-pink. 



Mrs. A. Ireland and Arthur Unwin, bicolor. 

 Cherry Ripe and Chrissie Unwin, cerise. 

 Eric Harvey, pink and white. 

 Tennant Spencer and Helio-paradise, mauve. 

 Asta Ohn and Flora Norton Spencer, blue. 

 Mrs. W. J. Unwin and Aurora Spencer, red flake. 

 Suffragette, blue flake. 

 Doris Burt, cerise-scarlet. 

 Scarlet Monarch and George Stark, scarlet. 

 Helen Lewis and Edna Unwin, orange. 

 Sunproof Crimson an*d Maud Holmes, crimson. 

 Nubian and Maroon Paradise, maroon. 

 Mrs. Townsend, white, blue edge. 



The descriptions show what a great range of colours we have in 

 the Sweet Pea, but the number of tints is not exhausted, as those 

 will find who visit Sweet Pea shows or large trial grounds. 



Sweet Scabious. See Scabious. 



Sweet Sultan. See Centaurea and Annuals. 



Sweet William. See Dianthus and Biennials. 



Sycamore. See Acer. 



Symphoricarpus, Snowberry (symphoricar-pus, from sumphoreo, 

 to bear together. Ord. Caprifoliaceae). Hardy, free-growing 

 shrubs, the most popular gf which is racemosus; it has rose flowers 



