THE 
Zz EVERLASTING PEA. 
Lathyrus latifolius. 
ZONE of the old-fashioned flowers, 
as it is the new fashion to call 
them, can fairly stand before the 
half-dozen sorts of everlasting 
peas that may be met with in 
gardens where fashion is unknown 
and beauty is pre-eminent. When 
they have held their ground a 
few years, and have made great 
bosses of rampant growth, crowned 
and crowded with flowers, they are 
altogether glorious. They are a 
little too riotous in temper, too 
exuberant in spreading themselves 
about, for the very trim garden 
where straight lines prevail and 
: the knife and shears are kept con- 
stantly at work ; and yet it must need a curious frame of 
mind in any one who, having seen a clump of everlasting 
peas in flower, should after that desire to limit their 
growth or put them out of the garden altogether. 
The rambling botanist who cares not for garden flowers 
will scarcely turn aside from these, for they will remind 
him of some of the glorious wildings of the pea tribe he 
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