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too, especially when planted out of doors. All seeds must 

 be sown in moist (but not wet) soil. A day or two previous 

 to sowing, therefore, see that the soil is well watered, if 

 this is necessary, then plant the seeds when it has become 

 dried off. 



The Sweet Pea is productive. A single Pea seed 

 producing a healthy plant will yield upward of one 

 hundred seeds within four months. Usually one seed 

 crop is taken annually, but it would be possible, under the 

 best conditions, to get two crops of seeds per year, but 

 usually about one hundred of the best quality of seeds, as a 

 unit per year, can easily be figured on. An ounce of Sweet 

 Peas contains from 280 to over 400 Peas, according to the 

 variety, the wrinkled varieties being the lightest. At 

 30 in. apart, we can have about 75 rows, each 200 ft. long, 

 per acre. An ounce of good seeds that germinate 95 per 

 cent, is sufficient to plant an 85-ft. row, the plants being 

 3 in. apart. If a double row is planted, the plants can be 

 set 6 in. apart down either side, so that the same quantity of 

 seed will still suffice for 85-ft. run. For planting a house 

 100 ft. by 20 ft., 1 lb. of seed of the newer Winter-flowering 

 Spencers is recommended, as these are further apart in the 

 rows, or 3 lbs. of the smaller flowered older varieties. 



SOWING 



Indoors we may sow at any time from July until March. 

 After March it is possibly not worth either the labor or 

 space to sow Sweet Peas for an indoor crop. It cannot be 

 too strongly impressed upon the beginner that the Pea, 

 like several other flowers, has its season when it is in good 

 demand, and to produce quantities of Peas the year round 

 is more than likely to satiate the taste in regard to them, 

 and so cause a decided falling off in the general call. Try 



