. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. October 7, 1920 The Florists^ Review ^^'i , .,?. A Heavy Crop of Sweet Peas at the Height of the Season in a House at Glen Ellyn. nuiiiidor. The liaid oiios will 1)10111 swell if the outer covering is broken witli a sharp knife without diatiirhiiig tlie eye of the seed. Sowing the Seed. Sweet pea seed may be drilled directly in j)ernianent quarters or sown thickly in a well prepared seed bed and trans- planted, or potted if the bed is not ready. A pound of seed will drill ap- proximately 400 feet. By the trans- l)lanting method, if the plants
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. October 7, 1920 The Florists^ Review ^^'i , .,?. A Heavy Crop of Sweet Peas at the Height of the Season in a House at Glen Ellyn. nuiiiidor. The liaid oiios will 1)10111 swell if the outer covering is broken witli a sharp knife without diatiirhiiig tlie eye of the seed. Sowing the Seed. Sweet pea seed may be drilled directly in j)ernianent quarters or sown thickly in a well prepared seed bed and trans- planted, or potted if the bed is not ready. A pound of seed will drill ap- proximately 400 feet. By the trans- l)lanting method, if the plants are set about two inches apart, the same quan- tity of seed will easily reach twice as far. In drilling, some of the seed will rot or plants will damp off after getting through, making it necessary to sow thickly to allow for such loss. Thinning out after the plants are up will do for low-priced seed, but those "good old days," when we could better afford to be indifferent about results, are gone. For early crops, the ]>lants should stand two or three inches apart in the row. The late stock does not have time to grow so large and should be planted one to two inches apart. During warm weather the seedlings must be potted or planted in permanent quarters within two weeks from the dale of sowing, but in cooler weather four to six weeks may elapse. About a week or ten days will be gained by potting to 2-inch pots. If allowed to harden up in the pots, they will never make good plants. yweet peas are planted in rows from one to five feet apart, according to thf date of planting. Tlii' early jilanting jtroduces lateral growths freely if the spacing is liberal, while stock planted as late as ]\Iarch flowers from terminal growths only and there are but one or two of these to a plant. The planting can be done either cross wise or lengthwise of the bed. We find the work of jiicking and supporting de- cidedly easier with the lengthwise rows. On the other hand, figures show a
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