Everlasting Pea

Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus Latifolius) - One of the hardiest and most easily cultivated of plants, thriving almost anywhere, even in courtyards amongst Flags. There are good white varieties and some striped with deeper colored flowers than the old kind. The best white-flowered variety is The Pearl, an invaluable plant. All are peculiarly suited for rough places, and will scramble over bushes. Staking, tying, and training only spoil them. An old tree-stump, or the side of a trellis or summer-house, is where they delight to grow undisturbed.

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Beach Pea

Beach Pea (Lathyrus Maritimus) - This is a very interesting native plant, inhabiting the seashore, and not so vigorous as the preceding kinds. It is, however, pretty and worth a place on open parts of the rock garden, in gravelly or gritty soil. The stems are prostrate, 18 inches to 3 feet long, sea-green in color; flowers in summer, purple fading to blue. N. Europe, America, and Asia.

Early Everlasting Pea

Early Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus Sibthorpi) - This is valuable because it is so early, being at its best in May and June. It does not grow very tall, rarely more than 2 or 3 feet, but it bears many fine spikes of delicate flowers of a beautiful purplishred color. It has been in cultivation at Oxford Botanic Garden for many years, and is said to have been introduced by Sibthorp. It flowers a month earlier than L. rotundifolius, and may be increased by division or seed, but is not so vigorous in ordinary conditions as the commoner Everlasting Peas, and should, until plentiful, be planted in warm borders.

Lord Anson's Pea

Lord Ansons Pea (Lathyrus Magellanicus) - The most beautiful of blue-flowered Peas. It grows from 3 to 5 feet high; the flowers, many in a bunch, are of medium size, violet-blue with darker veins, opening in June and continuing until the end of July. This species is said to have been originally introduced by the cook of H.M. ship Centurion, commanded by Lord Anson, in 1744, and was cultivated by Philip Miller in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea. S. America.

Persian Everlasting Pea

Persian Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus Rotundifolius) - A very old species, it is not so common as the larger kinds, though good from its earliness and freedom of flowering. It grows about 5 feet high, the leaves are nearly round, the flowers in large clusters, bright rose-pink, about an inch in diameter, and open in early June. It is of easy culture, and increased by division. Asia Minor and Persia.

Tuber Pea

Tuber Pea (Lathyrus Tuberosus) - A pretty low-growing king, with flowers of a bright dark pink. It is found in many of our cornfields, and is cultivated in Holland for the tuberous roots, which are said to be edible. The tubers are about 2 inches long, broadest at the root end and tapering to the apex. It will be found a useful plant for the flower border, it being a true perennial, of neat habit, and very free-flowering. Europe and W. Asia; naturalised in England.

Two-flowered Everlasting Pea

Two-flowered Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus Grandiflorus) - A very handsome plant for the early summer garden, succeeding anywhere, and, as the name implies, is the largest flowered species, the blooms being as large as those of a Sweet Pea. It is at its best in June and early July, the flowers usually borne in pairs, of a rosy-purple color, the stems in good soil reaching 6 feet. It is one of the hardiest of the genus, and from its neat and free-flowering habit a very useful border plant, common in cottage gardens. It has not so far varied in color as the Everlasting Pea, but it may do so yet, and varieties of it would be welcome.

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