SWEET PEA ELECTION
With their recently-issued autumn catalogue, Messrs Bobbie and Co., Edinburgh, sent out a postcard asking those interested 1 to send them a list of what they considered the best twelve sweet peas for exhibition and home decoration. The voting resulted as follows: 1 Flamingo 4,227 votes 2 Youth 4,332 votes 3 Pinkie 4.040 votes 4 Powercourb 4,035 votes 5 Magnet 3,756 votes 6 Gleneagles 3,432 votes 7 Mrs A. Searles 3,411 votes 8 Constance Hinton ... 3,204 votes 9 Warrior 2,883 votes 10 Mrs T. Jones 2,280 votes 11 Sunkist 2,202 votes 12 Grenadier 2,1(8 votes The runners-up wore tho following six in older named; —Picture, IMiat Joy, George Sbiiwyer, Charm, Sybil. Henshaw, Olympia.
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Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 13
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116SWEET PEA ELECTION Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 13
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