February 8, 1908. 
TUB GARDENING WORLD. 
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Sweet Pea Lord Nelson. 
Sweet Pea Lord Nelson. Maclaren and Sons. 
Messrs. Sutton and Sons. 
From Messrs. Sutton and Sons comes 
one of the very finest noveMes of the year 
—Sutton’s Queen. Its magnificent frilled 
flowers measure over 2 in. across the stan¬ 
dard, and the unrivalled combination of 
pure pink on deep cream ground give the 
richest and most refined colouring at¬ 
tained in Sweet Peas. Under the provin¬ 
cial names of Mrs. Rotnera and Miss 
Hilda Chamberlain, this variety has 
gained an Award of Merit from the 
N.S.P.S. and a First Class Certificate at 
Wolverhampton. 
Mr. Robert Sydenham. 
Mr. Sydenham intended sending out 
five novelties this season, and had a 
lovely plate of them prepared and sent out 
with his catalogue, but unfortunately he 
has been disappointed in not being able 
to procure a supply of Evelyn Hemus, and 
in consequence they are reduced to four. 
Besides Burpee’s White and Primrose 
Spencer he is offering two fine varieties of 
the old type, both raised by Mr. Holmes, 
of Norwich. These are—Miss Millie Mas- 
lin, a rich, deep rosy crimson, much 
darker in colour and a finer flower than 
Prince of Wales. 
Herbert Smith, named after Mr. Syden¬ 
ham’s secretary, and who has been ap¬ 
pointed one of the members of the Floral 
Committee of the N.S.P.S., is a lovely 
bicolor, an improved or larger Evelyn 
Byatt, or between that and St. George. 
Both these varieties are good growers, and 
Mr. Svdenham has great hopes of them. 
Miss Hemus. 
Miss Hemus, the raiser of Paradise, is 
putting on the market a number of 
novelties, the best known of which are 
Evelyn Hemus and Paradise Carmine. 
Evelyn Hemus, Award of Merit R.H.S , 
Award of Merit N.S.P.S., First Class Cer¬ 
tificate, Woodbridge, etc. A grand 
variety; colour, cream, edged with terra 
cotta, waved standards; a flower of great 
size and of exquisite refinement. This is 
one of the finest novelties we have, but 
unfortunately the crop of seed is very 
short. 
Paradise Carmine, Award of Merit 
R.H.S., First Class Certificate, Wood- 
bridge, is somewhat in the way of John 
Ingman, but a very fine stock of it. 
Others of Miss Hemus’s novelties are 
Paradise Cream, Paradise White, Para¬ 
dise Ivory, Paradise Regained, Lucy 
Hemus, Hester, etc. 
Mr. Silas Cole. 
Mr. Cole is sending out Lady Althorp, 
a lovely flower of Spencer form and 
colour white with a metallic sheen of 
fawn which tones off to white with age. 
Mr. Cole is also sending out his virginal 
stocks of Countess Spencer, John Ingman 
and Helen Lewis, and as he is the origi¬ 
nator of the 1 Spencer type, and this is the 
first time these varieties-are being offered 
by himself to the public, readers should 
order early not to be disappointed. 
Mr. Horace Wright. 
Mr. T. Stevenson’s Rosie Adams,' which 
received the Award of Merit of the 
N.S.P.'S., is being put on the market by 
Mr. Horace Wright. This is a lovely 
waved variety, rich mauve in wings and 
standard, but in the latter shading to 
rose, quite distinct, very large and one of 
the finest novelties of the season, but 
stock is very limited: 
As frequently happens, a sport makes 
its appearance in more than one estab¬ 
lishment simultaneously,- and the more 
places in which it sports during one year 
the more names the variety is likely to 
have. It seems that the sport occurred in 
Ireland and in England at the same time. 
The first one reaching America was being 
sent out as Burpee’s Brilliant Blue, while 
at home Messrs. House and Son called it 
Lord Nelson, and that now is the name 
adopted by the National Sweet Pea So¬ 
ciety and others. It is simply a biilliant 
and brighter form of Navy Blue, and if it 
keeps its character, the well known 
variety of that name is bound to dis¬ 
appear in the course of a few years when 
this has had time to get scattered about 
Mr. H. J. Jones. 
Mr. H. J. Jones has catalogued no 
fewer than 12 novelties, the best of which 
is Mis. R. C. Pulling, an immense Spen¬ 
cer, pure white beautifully tinted red. A 
splendid variety and most distinct. 
The best of the other varieties are : — 
Acme, a grand blush white; Bob, a 
fine variety with deep red standard and 
tinted rose wings; Keston Red, a much 
improved Scarlet Gem; Mrs. Tom Fagg, 
slightly waved variety, colour rich mauve 
over the land as the result of plenty of 
seed being available. 
We had flowers of it sent us by Messrs. 
R. H. Bath, Ltd., The Floral Farms, 
Wisbech, on the 26th July last year, and 
from these our illustration has been pre¬ 
pared. The standard is very dark violet- 
blue, but the wings have a much brighter 
blue effect, though it very largely de¬ 
pends upon the incidence of light, and a 
bunch of cut flowers may give different 
shades under different intensities or 
brightness of light, but the effect is 
much brighter than that of the well known 
Navy blue. As to the general form of 
the flower, we can refer our readers to the 
illustration. We need only add that it is 
now listed by the National Sweet Pea 
Society as the best of its colour. 
tinted pink; Winnie Cleve, a rich mauve 
slightly tinted blue. Mi\_ Jones's other 
novelties are Florence Crutcher, Mrs. E. 
Herbert, Mrs. P. J. Foley, Mrs. J. Miller, 
Negro and Peacock. 
Mr. Perrier. 
From Mr. Perrier come two varieties 
that we find listed in several catalogues, 
namely:— 
Constance Oliver, cream ground suf¬ 
fused with pink, which deepens towards 
