A SEW SWEET PEA.

Northern Advocate, 2 September 1913, Page 2

A SEW SWEET PEA.

Horticulture is receiving a tre-, mendous amount of attention all over the world just at present. Flowers are becoming a necessity to most of us.- A few years ago one never anticipated that there would be such a demand for flowers in the street, as there now is, and it is only during the last few years "that it has been realised that flowers are a marketable commodity'; The flower carts that one so frequently sees about the streets give much pleasure, for even on the dullest of grey days one could not fail to feel cherished at the sight of a golden mass of bloom. In England, too, flower shows have been tremendously patronised, and the fact that the Royal Horticultural Society has a balance of £80,000, speaks for itself. Quite recently at Home, a new variety of sweet pea has caused a sensation. The "Daily Mail" says ( it caused as much excitement as; would the first appearance of a new ■ dancer or a freshly-discovered primal donna. For the first time a double 1 flower of true hereditary has been | bred; and the rage for it is so greati that the grower cannot spare one I single flower for exhibition, so precious is the seed. A number of sweet peas, especially the cream Clara Curtis and all the Foster group, arei apt to produce double flowers, andl splendid ones, too, but the "doublel frilled pink," grown by Dobbie, does| not depend upon cultivation. It ,is inherently double, and introduces a new sort of flower. It is very beautiful, and looks as though its standard and wing has been crimped."