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and for sowing under walls, or iu any 

 place where sticks cannot be conveniently 

 used. It is more prolific than any strictly 

 early pea. 



JEakly Rixgwood (synom-mes, Ring- 

 wood Marrow, Flanagan's Early, Beck's 

 Marrow). This is one of the very best of 

 pi'olific peas, and combines some of the 

 quaUties of a marrow pea with thatjof eai-ly 

 produce. The plant rises three and a-half to 

 four feet, tlie pods grow in pairs and singly, 

 from within a foot of the ground to the 

 extremity of the plant. The pod is of 

 the same shape as Sangster's No. 1, but 

 quite straight in the back and about twice 

 its size ; each pod contains six to eight 

 large pe.is. This variety bloomed May 

 31st, slatted June 16th, fit to gather 

 July 6th. It is, therefore, as early as 

 Early Frame, or earlier if the diiference 

 of a day is of any value, the last named 

 variety bemg fit to gather on the 7th of 

 July. In the case of a crop to be gathered 

 for a Saturday's market, the gain of a day 

 is of no small importance, especially when 

 instead of the commonplace pod of Early 

 Frame, the produce is, in many respects, 

 equal to a marrow. A great objection to 

 iLarly Rhigwood is the pale coloiu' of the 

 pod, which ought not to affect it, except 

 for market purposes. 



Eahly Feame. There are several 

 varieties bearing this name, but they are 

 all surpassed, except in productiveiiess, by 

 t!ie kinds already named. It may be as 

 well to reiuiirk, that there ai-e no dis- 

 tinctive merits discoverable when single 

 blossomed and double blossomed kinds 

 are grown together ; nor indeed are the 

 best selected stocks absolutely true to 

 either designation. This is a prolific pea, 

 habit robust, plant three t ? four feet 

 high. FloAcred June 1st, pods fit for 

 use July 7th. 



Eaely Warwick (gynonymes, Ra e- 

 liorse, Essex Champion), of no pai-ticular 



merit now, though at one time deservedly 

 held in high estimati ii. 



Bishop's Loxg Podded. This is an 

 improvement on Bishop's Dwarf, grows 

 two feet, bears eighteen to twenty pods on 

 each plant, pods sa xe size and shape as 

 Dillistone's Early, but rather straighter in 

 the back. Bloomed May 30th, slatted 

 June 2ath, ready to gather July 9th. 



ArvBEGXE (synonymes. White Sabre, 

 White Scimitar)'. The best second early 

 pea of the frame class in cultivation. 

 Plant four to five feet, rather strong habit, 

 bears from twelve to fifteen pods, gene- 

 rally single, sometimes in pairs. The pods 

 ai-e four and a-half inches long, over half 

 an inch broad, tapering at t!ic point, very 

 much curved, and resembling a scimitar. 

 The pods contain from nine to twelve peas, 

 each very closely compressed. Bloomed 

 June 11th, ready for use July 10th. 



In this category we pass over Early 

 Kent, Danecroft Rival, Telegi'aph, Dick- 

 son's Favourite, and Shilling's Grotto, as 

 not possessing merit such as to place them 

 in advance of any of the varieties named 

 and described above. They have their 

 several excellences, but must each of 

 them occupy a secondary place when com- 

 pared with varieties that resemble them 

 in their best points. As the best varieties 

 occasion no more trouble in their culture 

 than the worst, we must adopt them to 

 the exclusion of inferior kinds, no matter 

 in how many resjDects they may generally 

 resemble them. In order to enable our 

 readers to compare the relative earliness 

 of the varieties here described, we subjoin 

 a table, and add this reminder, that earli- 

 ness and productiveness do not invariably 

 go together, v.'hat we gain in bulk of crop 

 we generally lose in time, and what we 

 I gain in time is balanced by comparatively 

 I scanty produce. To select a succession 

 from the subjoined will be a matter of no 

 1 difilcidty. 



Sown. Bloomed. Slatted. Gathered. 



Dillistone's Early Feb. 19 May 19 June 5 June 22 



Sangster's No. 1 



Early Emperor 



Tom Thumb 



Early Ringwood ... 



Early Frame 



Bishop's Long Pod 

 Auversrne 



22, 



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 .June 1 , 

 .May 30 

 .June 11 



.July 



12. 

 16. 



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 20., 

 23 



29 

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 3 

 6 

 7 

 9 



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