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is not only reduced in value, but the land 

 that the variety is grown on is fouled for 

 all time. Sweet peas will volunteer for 

 five or six years, often longer. It may 

 thus readily be seen that it pays the grower 

 to be careful of his stock when sweet pea 

 land is scarce. Rogueing sweet peas con- 

 sists in taking out all wrong colors and 

 wrong types. The color rogues are fairly 

 easy to see, but it takes a trained eye to 

 pick out the type rogues; and this work 

 has to be most carefully done. Should a 

 Grandiflora plant be allowed to remain in 

 a crop of Spencers, it would spoil the lat- 

 ter in a short time. The rogues are cut 

 out with a knife below the level of the 

 ground so that the plant will not sprout 

 again and give further trouble. 



The careful grower has his stock seed 

 grown and selected carefully before he 

 plants his acreage. He knows the pedi- 



