SWEET PEAS.
PRESENT TREATMENT. To maintain to the end of the season the quantity and quality of your sweet pea blooms, you must pick off the faded flowers regularly. Leave them on ever such a short time and future blooms will be fewer, while those you do get will be short stemmed and have a washed out appearance. If the plants seem likely to outgrew their support cut each stem bock to e strong, outward growing shoot 18 in below the iop of the stake. Don’t postpone th<s until the plants overtop the support, cr you will have to cut into harder stems and subsequent growth will not be as successful. Cut back a few plants at' a time so that you are never without flowers. We have often seen this method bring renewed youth to declining sweet peas, resulting in many more first-class flowers. Even if you have not .made a practice of removing side shoots, you must do so from now onward. The natural tendency will be to form these wholesale, and as they bear only short stemmed, puny flowers, remove all but two well placed, strong side shoots on each stem.
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Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 10
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