Gardening in California 



plant, its fragrant many-colored flowers spreading a pleasant 

 odor throughout the room when it is thus grown. 



In planting the Sweet Pea seeds, form with a hoe or shovel 

 a shallow furrow about two feet wide and three inches deep, in 

 the middle of which draw the seed-drill three inches deep. In 

 this seed-drill the seeds should be planted about three inches apart. 

 When the young plants are six inches high, place a row of tree 

 limbs or a fence of wire netting alongside them so that they may 

 have something to climb over. Also spread a mulch of manure 

 about the plants; this will keep the ground cool and preserve 

 the moisture. Where a succession of bloom is desired, the seeds 

 should be sown about three times a year. Seeds which are sown 

 during Winter or early Spring should have a covering of soil 

 one inch deep while those sown in Summer or early Fall should 

 be covered to the depth of from two to two and a half inches 

 and shaded with a light covering of straw or some other light 

 material until the seeds come through the surface. 



LONICERA, (Honeysuckle). 



Lonicera. 



The Honeysuckle is an ex- 

 tensive genus, comprising over 

 eighty species of hardy decidu- 

 ous or evergreen shrubs or climb- 

 ers with tubular-shaped flowers, 

 many of them delightfully frag- 

 rant. They are well suited for 

 covering walls, arbors, and trel- 

 lises or for mixing with shrubs 

 where they give charming natu- 

 ral effects, twining, as they do, 

 around the stems and forming a 

 carpet to the ground under the 

 shrubs. 

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