27 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 25

The Book of the Sweet Pea. By D. B. Crane.

{John Lane." 2s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the series of Handbooks of Tractiall; Gardening," and should be as welcome as any. The fact is that the sweet-pea repays its cost as well as any flower, and may ba said, perhaps, to flourish better in a severely limited space than any other. It is not the least of its merits that it does not resents but generously responds to, a frequent picking,—only the picking, should be done at the right time and in the right way.