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is 120 ft. by 30 ft., and about 30 sprays per plant are cut 

 for exhibiting at shows. The great majority of the spikes 

 have four blooms each, some have even five or six blooms, 

 and a small proportion have three, the stems being about 

 18 in. long, on the average. These blooms, so beautifully 

 exhibited as they are at the chief flower shows in the British 

 Isles, furnish an invaluable advertisement for the firm, 

 over and above which it may be safe to estimate that half 

 an ounce of seed is harvested from each plant, making 600 

 ounces in all. That quantity of seed of first class varieties, 

 at $8 an ounce, would, in America, represent a splendid 

 income, and even at $4 an ounce would pay handsomely. 

 It is a matter for wonder that some of the leading seed 

 houses do not grow choice Sweet Peas for seed in this way 

 in the United States. 



In the Introduction it has been pointed out that prices 

 ranging from 6c. to 25c. apiece are being asked and got for 

 novelties at Chicago and elsewhere, and in regard to this 

 matter of cost the expression of an Irish friend and raiser 

 of Peas deserves to be quoted, as follows: " I must say 

 that so long as the public receives good, sound seeds of 

 fixed varieties at prices ranging from 60c. for 10 seeds of 

 new varieties, to 6c. for 25 seeds of others, folks have nothing 

 to complain of, and I would like to see the trade fall into 

 line, and one and all stick to these or very similar prices. 

 No really striking novelty is dear at 60c. for 10 seeds, . . 

 . while 25c. foi 12 seeds of other novelties is enough." 

 — (" Sweet Pea Annual," 191 1, page 32.) 



Here is a little sum for those who delight in figures. 

 Suppose a man has one Sweet Pea seed of a novelty in 

 April, 1915. He sows it and a healthy plant results. The 

 flowers and pods from this plant may yield, say, 100 seeds. 

 In April the following year he sows these hundred seeds, 



