. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 366 The American Florist Mar. 11, The origin of that great Australian novelty, Yarrawa, is very interostins- Arthur Yates, of Sydney, explains that for ii\any jcars sweet peas \vere lool<ecl upon as one of the most difficult plants to grow successfully in the warmer sections of Australia. The regular summer flowering types bloomed in the late spring when they were liable to sudden bursts of hot weather and heavy winds, which often shortened their flowering season to a few weeks. Occasionally they failed to bloo
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 366 The American Florist Mar. 11, The origin of that great Australian novelty, Yarrawa, is very interostins- Arthur Yates, of Sydney, explains that for ii\any jcars sweet peas \vere lool<ecl upon as one of the most difficult plants to grow successfully in the warmer sections of Australia. The regular summer flowering types bloomed in the late spring when they were liable to sudden bursts of hot weather and heavy winds, which often shortened their flowering season to a few weeks. Occasionally they failed to bloom at all. However, the introduction of such varieties as Earliest of All. Mont Blanc, and later, the Telemly and new- er American grandiflora varieties, quite revolutionized sweet pea culture in Australia, as these early varieties flowered in the winter and early spring, giving a supply of flow- ers for several months when prac- tically no other flowers were available This was a great advance and sweet peas soon became one of their most popular flowers. However, the quality of the winter flowering varieties was so much below the standard of the modern Spencers that the Australian growers were not satisfied, and efforts have been made with considerable suc- cess by a few enthusiasts to raise by selection and cross-fertilizing a supe- rior type of the winter flowering vari- eties of the grandiflora section. However, a decided advance was in view, as in 1908 there appeared in the garden of a John Young, of Sydney, in a patch of new summer flowering Spencers, one plant of true Spencer type, but quite distinct from all oth- ers. It was different in its vigorous habit and upright growth, earliness and color, and was in full bloom when the others were only a few inches high, and had gone to seed before the nor- mal type had commenced to show flow- er buds. The seeds from this plant were carefully saved and sown the fol- lowing autumn, when it came quite true to the parent, and instead
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