. All about sweet peas. Sweet peas. 36 ALL ABOUT SWEET PEAS. ing, and as for the habit of slow growth, the root indicates that also, and suggests that we, too, go slow in fussing over them and trying to bring them along. Indeed, this slow growth is one cause of abundant bloom, for many know to their sorrow that their vines have sometimes rushed along with a rank growth without blossoms. 5. The habit of the vine. The Sweet Pea vine has a double tendency. It is a great brancher and it is an abun- dant bloomer. You can take advantage of this either way, and drive it into just a rank growth of sta
. All about sweet peas. Sweet peas. 36 ALL ABOUT SWEET PEAS. ing, and as for the habit of slow growth, the root indicates that also, and suggests that we, too, go slow in fussing over them and trying to bring them along. Indeed, this slow growth is one cause of abundant bloom, for many know to their sorrow that their vines have sometimes rushed along with a rank growth without blossoms. 5. The habit of the vine. The Sweet Pea vine has a double tendency. It is a great brancher and it is an abun- dant bloomer. You can take advantage of this either way, and drive it into just a rank growth of stalk and branches, or you can make it take on abundant bloom. Too much rank manure will send any tall Pea into vines. So at certain stages you can use stimulants that will set the vine into abnormal growth and stop the bloom. Probably if we did not practice deep planting, and should disturb the roots by hoeing, we should start up a new growth which would check bloom. But Mr. Eckford would say, " Press the soil. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hutchins, W. T. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, W. A. Burpee & co.
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