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any additional because of the poor returns for the past 

 season. With these exceptions, the great bulk of the 

 growers are satisfied with the returns in this particular line 

 of stock, and while one or more may drop out, others will 

 come in, so that the crop will always be fully equal, if not 

 superior, to any in the past. 



INDIANA 



The cultivation of Winter Sweet Peas is extensive 

 in Indiana, and is widely distributed among many florists. 

 The grower who does not have them to offer is an exception 

 rather than the rule. There is a reason for the alteration 

 of crops in the greenhouses at a time when there is perhaps 

 no other flower which would produce as prolifically in the 

 same length of time. Again, the Sweet Pea is very adapt- 

 able in its uses. Nearly every small grower is fortunate 

 in having a quantity on hand when funeral work or counter 

 trade is flourishing. 



August is the month in which most Winter Sweet Peas 

 are sown, and are offered in the Indiana market at any time 

 from Thanksgiving to Easter. Many of the more success- 

 ful Carnation growers are having an abundant crop of 

 Sweet Peas for Easter. It is generally found that no great 

 harm is done by the Sweet Pea vines trailing about the 

 posts in the Carnation houses, and they produce at a time 

 when Carnations are at a low ebb and often almost un- 

 available. 



The varieties are, of course, enumerated under the 

 Spencer types. Mrs. A. A. Skatch, Bridal Veil, Pittet's 

 new Rose Queen, Mrs. Chas. Totty, and the new lavender 

 Anita Wehrman, are the favorites in this community. 



It is a self-evident fact that any flower that maintains 

 a prominent position in the flower world for a protracted 



