By the Eighteenth Century several different colours were available and its propensity to mutate has given rise to a myriad of colours and forms, all characterised by its distinctive perfume. The Sweet Pea’s botanical name is Lathyrus odoratus and it is an annual plant, growing from seed, flowering and setting seed again within twelve months before dying off.

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Book 10F contains the first instance where the term ‘F1’ is used to denote the first filial generation. Experiments were being carried out on a bigger scale and more progeny were being scored (150 to 200 per cross in some cases). As with the poultry breeding, Bateson began with commercial varieties of sweet peas, which showed variation in plant form and flower colour. Many of these varieties were obtained from seed companies, in particular Suttons of Reading, and are named in the early records. One of these, Blanche Burpee, is a true breeding white variety, which when crossed with another white variety, Emily Henderson, produced progeny with purple flowers and led to the discovery of complementation.The first of the tall, large flowered, frilly Sweet Peas which we know so well today was introduced in 1901 and named ‘Countess Spencer’. All subsequent varieties with this form are known as Spencers and they are the most popular form grown today. Old Fashioned Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is).

When we say there are a few different types of sweet peas we are referring to their key characteristics and flower form.Book 08 contains details of a cross they were clearly looking for: a 3:1:1:3 Mendelian segregation. From this point on the scoring and classification of progeny becomes much more detailed and systematic, and tables of classified progeny begin to appear. Two of the key books provide summaries of sweet pea crosses - MS Add.10161/1/5/16for 1904-1909 and 1914and MS Add.10161/1/5/17for 1908-1939. The latter is labelled ‘ Lathyrus ledger’, signed inside by R.C. Punnett, Whittinghame Lodge. It is important because it contains summary records of the sweet pea crosses carried out from 1908 through, in some cases, to 1931, with additional notes for 1936-1939. These summaries are cross referenced to the main series of sweet pea notebooks. Inside the cover of this ledger is a list of letter codesreferring to phenotypic characters, e.g. A1 - purple/red (flowers), A2 - long/round (pollen), A3 - erect/hooded (flower shape). Many of the crosses in the notebooks are then identified only by these codes e.g. A1 x D2.