. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. ated,but Gorgeous is better in this re-spect than is Meteor. For lightingup dark corners this glownng blossomis admirable. x-Vmong the lavender striped sweet-peas the Gray Friar has been a fav-orite since its introduction a fewyears ago. This last season a va-riety called the Pink Friar was intro-duced and it, also, is likely to become a favorite. It is a large, fine-hoodedblossom, white, delicately penciledwith rose red. If one is selectingseveral pink and white varieties thisshould be include
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. ated,but Gorgeous is better in this re-spect than is Meteor. For lightingup dark corners this glownng blossomis admirable. x-Vmong the lavender striped sweet-peas the Gray Friar has been a fav-orite since its introduction a fewyears ago. This last season a va-riety called the Pink Friar was intro-duced and it, also, is likely to become a favorite. It is a large, fine-hoodedblossom, white, delicately penciledwith rose red. If one is selectingseveral pink and white varieties thisshould be included. Several new varieties of the dwarfCupids were introduced last some reason, possibly because Iam so near the coast, these dwarfs donot do well in my garden, blightingand mildewing much worse than thetall sorts. Pink Cupid blossomedbut the other new Cupids all failed. The new bush variety, however,blossomed nicely, but the flower isnot very attractive. I think we areas likely to enjoy our sweet-peasfully as much in growing them onthe tall vines as in getting them fromthese dwarf A Display of White Sweet-Peas. If 5^ou want early sweet-peas j^oushould plant the strain of BlancheFerry advertised as Earliest of is a low growing form, some- 244 NOTES ON THE NEW SWEET-PEAS. • f Royal Rose Sweet-Peas. what taller than the uevv bush sweet-peas, but needing no support. Theplants come into bloom very earlyand will furnish an abundance ofblossoms until the flowers of theother varieties appear. Last year American grown seed ofseveral Eckford novelties was offeredby the seedsmen for the first these the bright rose Prince ofWales sweetpea proved to be a large-fiowered, free-blooming variety, andit is a decided acquisition to the Lady Mary Currie, orange-pinkshaded with rosy-lilac, also proved tobe a valuable sort. In my gardenthe blossoms of the Colonist wererather small, while the deep maroonBlack Knight was ver}^ satisfactory,more so I thought
Size: 1339px × 1866px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectnewhampshirehistoryp
