INDEX 



BASIC slag, 37 



Birds, 72, 75 



Bush varieties of Sweet Peas, 68 



CLUMPS, planting in, 65 

 Concentrated fertilisers, 37 



basic slag, 37 



kainit, 37 



nitrate of soda, 38 



sulphate of ammonia, 38 



sulphate of potash, 38 



superphosphate of lime, 38 

 Culture, for exhibition, 89 



for general purposes, 22 

 Cupid varieties, 68 

 Cutting back plants which 

 flowered, 59 



have 



DECORATIONS, Sweet Peas for, 66 

 Diseases. See Enemies and diseases 



EARLY varieties, 6 

 Enemies and diseases, 70 



birds, 72, 75 



green fly, 76 



mice, 71 



mould, 78 



slugs, 72 



streak, 78 



yellowing, 78 

 Exhibition culture, 89 



a word to judges, 113 



feeding, 108 



mulching, 106 



packing, no 



planting, 101 

 in clumps, 102 

 in rows, 101 



preparing and cutting the blooms, 108 



preparing soil, 98 



seed sowing, 90 



indoors in autumn, 94 



Exhibition culture (seed sowing) 

 indoors in spring, 96 

 outdoors in autumn, 95 

 outdoors in spring, 98 

 setting up the flowers, 1 1 1 

 shading, 108 

 staking, 105 

 thinning, 106 

 varieties, select, 1 1 1 

 watering the plants, 108 



GARDEN, Sweet Peas for the, 64 

 General culture, 22 



essentials to success, 23 

 Glass, Sweet Peas under, 61 

 Green fly, 76 

 Groups, the three great, 1 1 



old form, II 



Spencer form, 12 



Unwin form, 17 



HISTORY, 4 

 Bauhinus, Johannes, 5 

 Burmannis, Joannis, 5 

 Carter & Co., 6 

 Cattell, Mr., 7 

 Cole, Silas, 9 

 Cupani, the monk, 4 

 Dicks, S.B., 5 

 Eckford, Henry, 7 

 Hurst & Son, 7 

 Laxton, Thomas, 7 

 Mason, Mr., 6 

 Morrison, Robert, 5 

 Noble, Cooper & Bolton, 7 

 Ray, John, 5 

 Sutton & Sons, 7 

 Sydenham, Robert, 9 

 Uvedale, Dr., 4 



INTRODUCTION, i 

 JUDGES, A Word to, 113 



