46 CULTURE OF THE SWEET PEA 



are used, the string method is very good 

 for the garden as the vines cling to it bet- 

 ter than to wire netting, which furthermore 

 becomes hot in the summer. At the end 

 of the season, if the stakes are worthless, 

 the whole support as well as the vines may 

 be burned. 



The foregoing method applies to sweet 

 peas grown in rows. Sweet peas are some- 

 times grown in clumps and must be sup- 

 ported. Here again sticks are often fa- 

 vored, especially where the plants occupy 

 a circle six feet or more in circumference* 

 Wire netting cut in suitable lengths may 

 be made into cylinders for clumps of any 

 sizCi 



Henry Eckford recommends a sweet pea 

 support consisting of four stakes, each in 

 two pieces three feet long. These are 

 placed ninety degrees apart around a cir- 

 cle and three-foot netting is stretched 



