Items for Sale

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NSPS SWEET PEA ANNUAL

2009 EDITION

Edited by Caroline Ball

Softback - 168 pages

Many photographs

£7.50

Annuals from earlier years may be available. Please contact the merchandising secretary for details at pandmhargreaves@talktalk.net


   
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SWEET PEAS

by

BERNARD R. JONES

Limited number available – now out of print

Hardback – 3rd edition 1986

192 pages

£11.50

Widely acknowledged to be the "bible" of Sweet Pea growing. First published in 1965, this edition was completely revised in 1986 and remains an invaluable work.

ENJOY SWEET PEAS

Produced by the Society

Softback – 9th edition 2008

£5.75

(sent free to new members)

First written in 1946, this completely revised and illustrated 88 page booklet contains invaluable information on cultivation of the Sweet Pea.

THE UNWINS BOOK OF SWEET PEAS

by COLIN HAMBIDGE

Softback – 1st edition 1996

96 pages

£7.70

Contains cultural and historical information in easy to follow format. Includes some lovely photos of Sweet Peas and an interesting chapter on breeding new varieties

LATHYRUS – COUSIN OF THE SWEET PEA

by

SYLVIA NORTON

Softback – 1st edition 1996

30 pages

£4.65

General Cultural information plus descriptions and details of around 45 species. Well illustrated.

   
   
NSPS CENTENARY CELEBRATION

1900 - 2000

Edited by Caroline Ball

Softback – published 2000

152 pages

£4.80

Issued to commemorate the Society's centenary. Richly illustrated, this contains historical articles on the Sweet Pea and the Society, together with interesting data about the flower. Contributors include numerous Sweet Pea experts.

   

VIDEO – GROWING AND SHOWING SWEET PEAS

Commentary by John Pratt and the late Frank Pettipher

£11.50

ALSO available as a DVD at £15 including postage and packing

200 SWEET PEA RINGS

for supporting your cordon grown plants. 1.75" diameter

£7.20


PIN BADGE - £3.20

The Society Logo and the inscription –

FOUNDED 1900

N.S.P.S.

(size approx 20mm high and 15mm wide at base)

 

 

MAGNETIC BOOKMARK - £1.55

All prices include postage and packing to the UK only. For overseas orders please add £2.00 to the prices quoted above (please note the NSPS is only able to accept orders with payment in GB pounds).

The above prices are applicable until Spring 2011

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Please ensure that cheques or bankers drafts are drawn in UK pounds sterling.
Cheques should be made payable to "The National Sweet Pea Society"

Orders should be sent to the Merchandising Secretary:

Mike Hargreaves
11 Southway
Guiseley
Leeds
LS20 8HX
E-mail: pandmhargreaves@talktalk.net

Bibliography

In addition to the books appearing under Items for Sale, other interesting books and articles of the many written on the subject of Sweet Peas/Lathyrus are detailed below. Many are out of print but are reasonably readily available in secondhand bookshops.

Beckett, Kenneth

Letts Grow Sweet Peas (Lett's Guides) – 1976

Crane, D B

The Book of the Sweet Pea (Handbook of Practical Gardening) – 1909

Donald, Henry

A Bunch of Sweet Peas – 1988, 1995

Fraser, Rev D Denholm

How to grow the Perfect Flower – 1911

Genders, Roy

Sweet Peas for Exhibition and Market Growers – 1957

Grayson, Peter

Growing Sweet Peas and other Lathyrus Species – 1994

Creating new Varieties of Garden Plants with Especial Reference to Sweet Peas – 1995

Janes, E R

Sweet Peas: a Complete Guide to their culture – 1953

Khawaja, H I T

A new interspecific Lathyrus hybrid to introduce the yellow Euphytica 37 – 1998

Lambert, Norman & Thomas, H H

Sweet Peas for Amateurs – 1927

Markham, K R, Hammett, Dr K R W & Offman, D J

Floral pigmentation in two yellow flowered Lathyrus species and their hybrids:

Phytochemistry vol 31 – 1992

Rice, Graham

The Sweet Pea Book – 2002

Unwin, D W J

Sweet Peas: Their History, Development and Culture – 1926, 1929, 1952, 1986

Wright, Walter P

A book about Sweet Peas – 1909, 1912

 

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