. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 108 lirijUmRrADRaR-PnilAKLPHIAM m RELIABLE-F10W[RSE[DS DREER'S SELECT SWEET PEAS. There are hundreds of both Orchid-flowered and Standard varieties of Sweet Peas, many of which are practically identical and still others which lack either size, purity of color, vigor or some other characteristic which all first-class sorts should have. It would be an easy matter for us to greatly ext
. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 108 lirijUmRrADRaR-PnilAKLPHIAM m RELIABLE-F10W[RSE[DS DREER'S SELECT SWEET PEAS. There are hundreds of both Orchid-flowered and Standard varieties of Sweet Peas, many of which are practically identical and still others which lack either size, purity of color, vigor or some other characteristic which all first-class sorts should have. It would be an easy matter for us to greatly extend our list; but we think it best to confine our offers to such sorts as are really first-class, and every variety __ we offer is entitled to a place in the front , '' rank of Sweet Peas. We also offer the very latest introductions, which are fully described with other Specialties on pages 58 and 59. How to Grow Sweet Peas. The soil for Sweet Peas should be rich and deep. A good rich loam, with plenty of well-rotted manure in it, is the ideal soil for raising good plants that will produce plenty of blooms of good substance. .Soils that are at all heavy are best dug in the au- tumn, and during the winter months a gcod dress- ing of hardwood ashes or air-slaked lime should be given it. They should be in a pcsilion fully ex- posed to the sunlight and air on both sides of the row. Much depends on the stale of the weather as to when the seed may be sown out of doors; but they should be sown as early in the seascn as the ground can be worked, which is usually between the mid- dle of March and the middle of April in the latitude of Philadelphia. It is best to make a trench or furrow about six inches deep, in the liotlom of which sov.' the seed. Cover with about an inch of soil, pressing it down firmly. As soon as they are above ground, thin out to two to four inches apart; when too close thev do not attain their full devel- opment. They should be staked up tiiher with branch
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