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Excerpt from Hoveys' Illustrated Guide and Seed Catalogue: Novelties in Flower Seeds, 1885 Sweet pea, adonis, The color of the ower is a rich and beautiful carmine rose, slightly shaded with lighter and darker tints, entirely distinct from any other kind; very robust, and free blooming, and particularly sweet scented. 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.