The Modern Culture Of Sweet Peas

Author : Thomas Stevenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267726172
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Culture of Sweet Peas (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Modern Culture of Sweet Peas What a debt of gratitude we Sweet Pea lovers owe to him and his untiring efforts for the many wonderful breaks in colour he obtained, long before Dick, Tom and Harry were trying their hand at the cross-fertilisation of the Sweet Pea. For many years he practically kept the whole thing in his own hands, but when once he did put a new variety on the market there was very little chance of it breaking away again, either for good or bad, and but for the advent of the variety Countess Spencer, I feel sure the Sweet Pea trade would be working in a much closer groove than it is at present. But it was not to be; and we now have varie ties innumerable, all of which have some outstanding merit of their own, either in shape, size, quality, or colour, and if one individual does not like a particular variety, there are probably hundreds that do. Last season many enthusiasts were of opinion that we had almost come to the end of our tether in new breaks of colour, but after visiting the shows and trials this season, I am quite convinced that whatever good things we may have already, there are still more to follow. Those who saw Mr. Bolton's bunches of Charles Foster at the 1910 show of the National Sweet Pea Society must have felt that we had indeed got a good thing here. The same may be said of his Red Maroon variety (no. 230 in the trials), with a yellow keel - a decided break in the dark varieties. This is the kind of new variety that we require, and it will be welcomed on all hands, being quite unique in colouring and in form - not a Pea new in name only, that, when distri buted, will be a disappointment to everybody owing to the fact that it is only a shade lighter or darker in colour (according to the cultivation it has received) than some already existing, and possibly cheaper, variety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.