SWEET PEAS IN BLOOM ALL THE YEAR ROUND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 26 June 1912, Page 38

SWEET PEAS IN BLOOM ALL THE YEAR ROUND.

As evidence of what can be done with sweet peas in some parts of the North Island, especially near the sea coast, which are free from frosts, a wellknown enthusiastic grower tells us his peas are always planted out and that he has still a row in bloom from which he can gather a bunch two or three times a week. He has had blooms continuously' since October, and his winter varieties are now showing flower, and these will provide blooms all through the winter until November, when the spring flowers come in. This is the first occasion, we believe, on which such splendid success has been achieved without growing under glass, and is another instance of the wonderfully genial climate we possess in some parts of this Northern province, and shows what may ■be done by careful culture under suitable conditions.