Sweet Peas for Seed 



The size of this house is 120 ft. by 30 ft. The number of plants set out in it is 

 1200 (four plants in each of 300 10-inch pots). These plants are taken up as single 

 stems, all side growths, except flower stems, being taken out. The seed is sown in the 

 first week in October, and the first flowers are cut from the plants in the middle of 

 Apiil; the last at the end of July. The varieties, so far as we know, have been 

 wholly the Summer flowering Spencers. The biggest cutting at one time was 2400 

 spikes. The plants are not forced in any way, fire heat only being used to keep out 

 frost. The crop is solely for the production of flowers for exhibition and for seed. 



