CHAPTER X 



ENEMIES AND DISEASES 



THE Sweet Pea has claims upon the attention of cultivators 

 for many virtues ease of management, cheapness of seeds, 

 freedom and persistency of flowering, and certainty of satis- 

 factory results if the conditions are favourable so that 

 if it were afflicted with many and varied enemies and 

 diseases the grower would scarcely be justified in grum- 

 bling to any serious extent. Happily, however, it enjoys 

 a freedom from really bad attacks, and, with perhaps one 

 exception, all the troubles which do cause anxiety are 

 such as can be combated without any substantial outlay of 

 money or time. Preventive measures are possible in all 

 instances, and where the necessity arises for the adoption 

 of remedies, then these are such as can be procured and 

 applied without any loss of time or inconvenience. Taking 

 the enemies first, there are, roughly, only four which are 

 generally troublesome, and to three of these attention has 

 been drawn in previous chapters. They are mice, birds, 

 and slugs ; the fourth is green fly. Let us briefly refer 

 to each. 



