THE GARDENING WORLD. 
79 
February 8, 
1908 . 
Sweet Pea 
Sutton’s 
Queen. 
One of the most distinct novelties that 
will be put into commerce this year is 
undoubtedly that named Sutton’s Queen. 
The primary and chief distinction is that 
the beautiful pink shading overlies a 
creamy ground. In most other pink 
'varieties coming under our notice, the 
■ shading or colour, whatever it is, over- 
, lies a white ground. For instance, we 
have a large number of varieties of dif¬ 
ferent shades of pink coming under the 
Spencer type, but in most of them there 
is a white ground colour. This would 
also apply to older varieties in different 
shades, either of rose or pink. The blos- 
jsoms measured 2 in. across the standard 
and are more or less waved, though it is 
not so strongly waved as some of the 
varieties which made their appearance at 
the show of the National Sweet Pea So¬ 
ciety in July last. The wings are also 
waved to some extent and widely ex¬ 
panded. 
In another vein of thought, we should 
describe this variety as having the same 
relation to Countess Spencer and paler 
varieties as the Carnation Mrs. Burnett 
would have to Enchantress. Our first im¬ 
pression was that the shade of pink was 
tinted with salmon, but the creamy 
ground, of course, introduces an element 
that quite deceives the eye on first impres¬ 
sions. In any case, we thought highly of 
the variety w'hen shown by Messrs. Sutton 
and Sons, Reading, at the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Hall on the occasion of the great 
Sweet Pea Show, and we secured a photo¬ 
graph of it from Messrs. Sutton. Our 
readers can glean from this the beautiful 
appearance of the flower better than from 
description. It received an Award of 
Merit from the National Sweet Pea So¬ 
ciety, and a First-class Certificate at the 
Wolverhampton Floral Fete last year. 
We hope it will prove a very fertile 
variety, so that seeds may soon be obtain¬ 
able to supply everybody with a variety 
which can scarcely fail to please, whether 
for home decorations or for exhibition. 
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detrtaum }IUs<ja.sUa dhameleou. 
The old Sweet Sultan has been under¬ 
going a considerable amount of develop¬ 
ment or evolution in recent years, and 
this variety is one of them. As is well 
known, the Sweet Sultan includes the 
three colours, purple, white and yellow 7 . 
The new types have rather larger flower 
heads and vary in the number of ray 
florets, but the chief feature that charac¬ 
terises them is the way in w 7 hich the ray 
florets are cut into deep fringes. When 
two or three rows of these florets overlap 
i one another the effect is very cheerful 
when used as cut flowers in vases. The 
variety named Chameleon has yellow and 
rose coloured flowers and the blooms are 
similar in size t'o the other new varieties 
1 of this type, a practically giant strain of 
Sweet Sultan. This new variety is being 
offered by Messrs. James Carter and Co., 
High Holborn, London. 
Sweet Pea Sutton’s Queen. 
