SWEET PEAS AT WISLEY, 1921. 
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examples that they were represented by about ten per cent, of the 
stocks grown in*this trial. 
The characteristics of these groups of sweet peas are almost too 
well known to need reference. The ' Grandiflora ' types are not now 
the largest flowered. They have a hooded standard and a clamped 
keel, and are marked by a pleasing symmetrical severity of outline 
which the more airy exuberance of the ' Spencers ' lacks. The true 
' Spencers ' have a waved standard, large wings and a baggy keel, 
open at the top. The intermediate or ' Unwin ' type, with a waved 
standard and a clamped keel, does not now find favour with raisers. 
The ' Spencer ' varieties are on the whole marked by greater 
vigour of growth, and this is reflected in the greater size of the flowers, 
and in the greater number of flowers borne upon the stalks in these 
varieties than in the ' Grandifloras.' There is also, as a rule, a 
markedly smaller amount of seed set by the ' Spencers ' than by the 
older forms, and in consequence the flowering period is longer. In 
both it may be greatly prolonged by constantly removing the dying 
flowers and so preventing the setting of seed. 
It is generally supposed that the ' Grandiflora ' types of sweet pea 
are more odorous than the latter-day Spencer types, but this was 
not the case in this trial. While there is some difference in the 
strength of the scent of different varieties, many of the ' Spencer ' forms 
were quite as strongly scented as the ' Grandifloras,' and the whole area 
about the plantation was redolent with their perfume. 
Nos. 4, 19, 32, 44, 72, and 104 were very mixed and are not re- 
ferred to again. The remainder have been arranged in groups under the 
name of their dominant colour as seen in May in the garden. At the 
head of each group is printed in thick type the names of the varieties 
selected by the Judges as best for garden decoration, the awards being 
given only where true stocks or those with very little variation in 
colour or form was to be seen. Then follow fuller descriptive notes 
upon each variety in the group, the sequence of varieties being from 
paler to darker forms, or from those of redder to those of more violet 
tone. There are, of course, no pure blue sweet peas, and the whole 
of those here described are of different shades between blue and red. 
Where varieties are placed close together they are so much alike 
as to be practically indistinguishable in the garden. 
Awards, Descriptions, and Notes. 
I. Lavender. 
*2o. Hawlmark Lavender, A.M. July 16, 1921. — Raised, introduced, and sent 
by Messrs. Dickson. 
(a) Spencer types. 
35, 36. Pattie Want (Veitch, Barr). — Opening nearly white, standards 
becoming very pale lavender, wings light chicory -blue. A good grower, with 
flowers of rather undecided colour. 
* * * 
1 1 . Alfred Watkins (Barr) . — A weak stock of a beautiful pale self -lavender. 
* Plants grown for trial are known by number only until judging is 
completed. 
