CONTENTS 



(For Classified Index see Pages 143-147) 



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Chapter I — Market Conditions 12 



Chapter II — Cost and Profits 24 



Chapter III — Houses 36 



Chapter IV — Cultivation 47 



Chapter V — Sectional Treatises 78 



Chapter VI — Varieties 95 



Chapter VII — Cutting, Packing and Marketing 99 



Chapter VIII— Raising New Varieties 105 



Chapter IX — Outdoor Cultivation (with a section on "Up-to-date 

 culture in England") 109 



Chapter X — Pests and Diseases 121 



Chapter XI — History of Winter-flowering Sweet Peas 128 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Anthracnose disease of Sweet Peas 123 



Arkwright, Rev. Edwy n, and his T^Iemly Sweet Peas 135 



Beal, Prof. A. C 18 



Branching of Summer and Winter-flowering types of Sweet Peas ... 73 



Burpee, W. Atlee 141 



Canada, house of Sweet Peas in 43 



Diseases of Sweet Peas : 



Anthracnose 1 23 



Mosaic 125 



Sclerotinia 122 



Eckford, Henry, the late 141 



Exhibits of Sweet Peas at flower shows 13, 22 



Grandiflora and Spencer types 88 



