"Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight,
With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white." - Keats
"Whatever may be the last stage of the evolution of this flower, wherever its beauties may break forth with each fresh year, and wherever its praises are sung, there the memory of Henry Eckford will always be reflected in its colours, and his name be associated with its fragrance."
"The Sweet Pea has a keel that was meant to seek all shores; it has wings that were meant to fly across all continents; it has a standard which is friendly to all nations; and it has a fragrance like the universal gospel, yea, a sweet prophecy of welcome everywhere that has been abundantly fulfilled" - Rev. W. T. Hutchins 1900 (At the Sweet Pea Bi-centenary Celebration)
"There is a delightful Freemasonry among lovers of Sweet Peas, doubtless due in great measure to the sweetness and beauty of the flower." - S. B. Dicks 1911
"Those who were so confident of raising a Yellow Sweet Pea are by no means so numerous as formerly." - T. A. Weston 1915
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