THE GARDENING WORLD. February j, 190;. 
In colour the standards are scarlet, over¬ 
laid with orange, and the wings rosy crim¬ 
son. 
Mr. Bolton is also offering a mixture 
of Countess Spencer form Sweet Peas, 
containing a wide range of colour. 
Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft, Hither 
Green, Lewisham, has long been known 
as an enthusiastic and highly successful 
horticulturist, his name being especially 
associated with Chrysanthemums. It is 
pleasing to note that lately he has been 
turning his attention to the raising of new 
Sweet Peas. This year he is distributing 
his first four novelties. Of these, the first 
three have all the delightful waved form 
of Gladys L'nwin. E. C. Matthews is a 
giant velvety maroon, and may very pos¬ 
sibly surpass all previous introductions 
of this shade. This variety is well worth 
a trial. 
Mrs. A. J. Norris, a deep glowing rose 
flower, and Mrs. Chic Homes, a deep rosy 
mauve, are other waved forms, quite fixed. 
Lady Lennard is a white waved flower, 
but it is too soon yet to say how it com¬ 
pares with Nora Unwin. Mr. Jones says 
that last year 95 per cent, came true, so 
this year it may very reasonably be ex¬ 
pected to prove quite as true as is wanted 
by anyone. 
Mr. Breadmore, High Street, Winches¬ 
ter, Hants, holds the stocks of several 
extra fine varieties, but this year he is 
only distributing one, Tweedy Smith, a 
deep rose and pink bicolor. 
In addition to the six waved varieties 
from Mr. Unwin, we have also another 
novelty from him, Zoe, a rather deep blue 
variety, that does not fade in the sun. 
Messrs. I. House and Sons, Westbury- 
on-Trym, Bristol, are distributing Nigger 
and Lord Nelson. The former, as ex¬ 
hibited, did not prepossess one in its fa¬ 
vour. It is a deep purple maroon and the 
raisers claim that it is the darkest Sweet 
Pea yet in commerce. Surely a less vul¬ 
gar name might have been given it. 
Lord Nelson is a deep blue variety after 
the style of Navy Blue, of which it is said 
to be an improved form. 
Mildred Ward, from Mr. Sydenham, is 
an improved form of that old favourite, 
Gorgeous. The colour is less liable to be 
destroyed by the sun. 
Such arc the_ Sweet Pea novelties of 
1907; a large number indeed. Some of 
them, perhaps, are not of sufficient merit 
to be wanted by* any except those who 
grow a very large number of varieties, 
and some of the very highest merit are 
probably too much alike to be all re¬ 
quired. 
As many readers may be confused by 
the large choice of novelties, I will name 
those which I consider to be the most 
wanted: Horace Wright, Frank Dolby, 
Nora Unwin, Olive Bolton, Paradise, Mrs. 
Charles Mander, E. C. Matthews, Mrs. 
R. F. Felton or Mrs. Collier, A. J. Cook, 
E. J. Castle, and Mrs. Charles Foster. 
Several further varieties, such as Blush 
Queen, Pink PearL and the three remain¬ 
ing Eckford novelties may also prove of 
value. 
Mr. Henry H. Gibson writes: Burpee's 
Brilliant Blue, in' heavy, deep, well- 
manure'd soil, has standards of darkest 
navy blue and wings of Oxford blue, 
edged Gentian blue. In light soils the 
standards show a shading of purple, 
poverty of soil increasing the nurple. Mr. 
Gibson is the raiser of the variety. 
*€/tina 3&<fter. 
SUTTON’S GIANT WHITE RAY. 
The China Aster, like the Chrysanthe¬ 
mum, continues to develop into new forms 
under the fostering hand of the florist, and 
it needs only the eye of a keen observer 
or plantsman to select promising forms 
and to submit them to still further treat¬ 
ment in order to get better flowers, more 
of them, or a variety of colours amongst 
the new type. During recent years an at¬ 
tempt has been made to break away from 
the trim formality of the flowers in which 
florists of the old school used to take de¬ 
light. These trim flowers are useful in 
their way and look remarkably neat when 
displayed on show boards like Carnations 
•r Chrysanthemums, but within recen 
times people have come to recognise th> 
value of planting their gardens with some 
thing that will be elegant,. artistic am 
decorative, as well as merely trimly beau 
tiful. 
One of the most recent types is Sutten’ 
Giant White Ray, which is altogethe 
different from the strains known under thi 
names of Comet and Ostrich Plume, whicl 
are also amongst recent acquisitions. In 
deed, the newest type has most affinit; 
with the quilled Asters, but differs in hav 
ing longer and stronger quills expanding 
to the mouth from a slender base ant 
[C»fyright , Sutton and i 
Sutton's Nevi Giant White Ray Aster, 
