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Worth While Sweet Peas 



OUR Sweet Peas are somewhat of a 

 mystery to our friends who cannot 

 understand how we manage to have a hedge 

 of Sweet .Peas that has such dense green 

 foliage, that begins growth so early in the 

 spring, that grows faster and farther than other 

 Sweet Pea hedges, that is covered all summer 

 long with blossoms clustered four to eight 

 on a stem, and that stays green even after 

 the first frosts. But the greatest mystery 

 to the uninitiated ones is the fact that we 

 don't have to plant our Sweet Peas every 

 year. 



The solution-of, or rather the key to, the 

 mystery is that we have perennial or per- 

 petual Sweet Peas, Lathyrus latifolius. They 

 really aren't Sweet Peas, for the vines are 

 larger and more thrifty and have more 

 foliage and flowers, but the flowers do not 

 have the fragrance of the true Sweet Pea. 

 The main difference, however, is that they 

 grow big and green all summer and until 

 freezing weather when they die down only 

 to come up as thrifty and as vigorous as ever 

 when the first warm days of spring come. 

 . Our gardenside row of perpetual or ever- 

 blooming Sweet Peas gives us far more 

 satisfaction than does our row of Spencers. 

 They bloom more and bloom longer than the 

 Spencers, the clusters of flowers are larger 

 and borne on longer stems, the individual 

 flowers are large and showy even though 

 lacking somewhat in fragrance, the vines are 

 heavier foliaged and make a better looking 

 hedge, and, best of all, we don't have to go 

 to the trouble of starting them every spring. 

 They're already there and they start them- 

 selves. 



Perennial Sweet Pea seed can be purchased 

 like any other Sweet Pea seed from almost 

 any seedsman. As the seed is rather slow in 

 germinating, soaking in water overnight before 

 planting hastens the appearance of the seed- 

 lings above ground. 



During the first season not much top 

 growth is made, most of the development 

 going on in the roots which often grow so 

 large and fleshy as to make transplanting 

 practically impossible. The second summer, 

 however, the tops grow up strong and with 

 each succeeding summer become larger and 

 more vigorous. As with all Sweet Peas it is 

 necessary to keep the flowers picked if a 

 succession of bloom is wished. No particular 

 winter care is needed but a covering of 

 coarse manure is good. 



For those who wish a beautiful and per- 

 petual hedge of Sweet Peas with the minimum 

 of expense and trouble, the perennial Sweet 

 Pea is the one to grow. 



Morgantown, W. Va. R. E. Allen. 



Farmogerm — A Testimony. — "Useless to 

 try to grow Sweet Peas in poor dry soil" truly 

 and sagely say the experts; and three years 

 of utter failure fully convinced me. Last 

 spring, however, I read of farmogerm, and the 

 new methods of starting Sweet Peas in dirt 

 bands, and took courage to try once more. It 

 was mid-March before I had the inspiration 

 but the snow lay deep on the ground two weeks 

 after the seeds were inoculated and planted in 

 their little boxes. The inoculation was the 

 simplest of processes. The seeds were soaked 

 in the farmogerm jelly the time prescribed on 

 the bottle (one hour, I think it was), dried 



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