SWEET PEAS, SYMPHORICARPOS 535 



a week or so of warm weather the plants broke again from below, 

 soon made up for lost time, and flowered fully ten days earlier than 

 the outdoor-sown plants. 



General Outdoor Culture 



In sections where Sweet Peas do well outdoors it really doesn't 

 make much difPerence how you sow them and what you do to them. 

 It's the climate that makes them such wonderful masses of flowers, 

 and when you haven't got the climatic conditions to assist you, no 

 matter what you do nor how good the sorts you plant, they wiU 

 prove a failure. What you can do to help things along is to plant 

 early and in a deeply cultivated seed bed so the roots can get down 

 into the cool soil. A mulch as soon as hot weather sets in also is 

 of benefit. To sow thickly means waste of seed as well as weak 

 growth — plants with just one stem and a few flowers on the very 

 end of it. 



Even supposing that you cannot always sell the cut flowers, or 

 that they have short stems, if you use principally white, light pink 

 and light lavender shades, they often prove useful, especially for 

 design work. Seed doesn't cost much, nor does a good-sized row 

 take up much space, nor can it be said that every season is an un- 

 favorable one for Sweet Peas. The florist who has use for flowers 

 during the early Summer months should always include them in 

 his list, if for no other reason than that with them on hand, when he 

 wants a few blossoms he will know where to get them. 



SYMPHORICARPOS (SNOWBERRY) 



The white Snowberry, because of its graceful hab t and because 

 in FaU and early Winter it is covered with white berries, is a very 

 desirable shrub. Another good feature is the fact that it will do 

 fairly well in shady places. The florist can also make use of the 

 cut branches during Fall, for they will go weU in baskets. If you 

 have large wreaths to make up of brown Magnolia leaves, the 

 foliage of the Snowberry with its white berries is just the thing to 

 add; and if you have a wreath or cross on a base, you couldn't do 

 better than to fill the entire base with it. In order to obtain the 

 most berries or fruits and the most graceful growth, you must cut 

 the plants back severely each Spring; this holds good even with the 

 plants in the shrubbery border. If not pruned back weU and cleaned 

 of the old, hard wood inside, the plants soon wiU lose their beauty. 

 S. orbiculatus vulgaris is the red form, better known as Coral Berry 

 or Indian Currant. It is not nearly as showy as the Snowberry, 

 yet it is valuable as a shrub. It, also, needs looking after with the 

 shears each Spring. 



