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tive flower. Other countries are now grad- 

 ually taking more sweet peas and the fu- 

 ture may bring a larger export business. 

 In the United States only a small propor- 

 tion of sweet peas is grown. However, 

 the public is beginning to grow more of 

 that flower every year, and especially the 

 newer Spencer types. On an everage 

 the acreage of sweet peas in California 

 is about 2000 acres with about 50 per 

 cent Grandifloras, and 50 per cent 

 Spencers. The value of this crop to the 

 growers is about $250,000. The crop ob- 

 tained from an acre of sweet peas varies 

 very largely according to season, but an 

 average yield of Grandifloras would be 

 about 800 lb. per acre; that of a good 

 strain of Spencers about 250 lb. per acre. 

 Owing to the peculiar formation of the 

 floral parts, the Spencers are not so prolific 

 as the Grandifloras. In the latter the keel 



