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Sweet Pea
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What does Sweet Pea mean?
noun
- A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
- A term of endearment for something sweet or lovely; a child or an intimate partner, for example.
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Sunflower, sweet pea, morning glory, Japanese hop, zinnia, marigold, amaranths, four o’clock, are some of the kinds that will hold their own.
A favorite flower with many is the sweet pea, which can be grown out of doors in the summer time where you have a good depth and quality of soil.
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For instance the original "pack" may have been made in such a way that at the nth division of the germ-cells of a Sweet Pea a colour-factor might be dropped, and that at the n plus n prime division the hooded variety be given off, and so on.
There seems to be so much parallelism in the kind of variation from my experiment, which was certainly a cross, and what Mr. Masters has observed, that I cannot help suspecting that his peas were crossed by bees, which I have seen well dusted with the pollen of the sweet pea; but then I wish this, and how hard it is to prevent one's wish biassing one's judgment!