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TRIAL OF EARLY PEAS. 



In the spring of this year it was pro- 

 posed by Messrs. Carter that the 

 early peas should be carefully tried, 

 and proved under our superinten- 

 dence at Waterloo Nursery, Kilburn, 

 a line open spot of ground with a 

 subsoil of stiff clay. We communi- 

 cated our intention to Messrs. Sutton 

 of Reading and Messrs. Dickson of 

 Chester, and they both kindly for- 

 warded true stocks of their early 

 peas. Messrs. Fairhead, hearing of 

 the experiment, also wished their va- 

 rieties to be tested. We procured 

 Carpenter's Express and Ddlistone's 

 Early Prolific from the raisers. The 

 peas were all sown on the 15th of 

 March, one long row of each, side by 

 side of the following named sorts : — 

 Sutton's Ringleader, Fairhead's Con- 

 queror, Dillistone's Early Prolific, 

 Carter's First Early, Fairhead's Kail- 

 way, Sangster's No. 1, Carpenter's 

 Express, Fairhead's Hardy Early, 

 Dickson's First and Best Early. 



The follow ing five varieties — Dilli- 

 Btone's Early Prolific, Sutton's Ring- 

 leader, Carter's First Crop, Fair- 

 head's Conqueror, and Fairhead's 

 Railway — all proved the same iden- 

 tical pea ; in fact so much so, that 

 they all appeared alike in height (two 

 feet), time of flowering (13th of 

 May), colour of the foliage, stvle of 

 growth, measurement of the pods, 

 their shape, number of peas con- 

 tained in the pods, the peculiar pro- 

 perty of all these five sorts in pro- 

 ducing a mass of pods from the bottom 

 to the top of haulm, and the whole 

 crop being fit for use simultaneously; 

 the entire row, if need be, can be 



gathered and used the same day ; 

 again, the flavour all alike. We 

 must, therefore, so far as our trial 

 and judgment are concerned, remark 

 that, throughout all the stages of 

 their growth, there cannot be found 

 a shade of difference. We therefore 

 consider that honour should be given 

 where honour is due, and that Mr. 

 Dillistone must have the merit of 

 sending out the earliest pea known. 

 If turned out by machinery, these 

 varieties could not be more alike. 



We now come to Sangster's No. 1, 

 Dickson's First and Best Early, Car- 

 penter's Express, and Fairhead's 

 Hardy Early. These we treated ex- 

 actly alike, one long row of each va- 

 riety planted side by side. Excepting 

 that Sangster's No. 1 and Carpenter's 

 Express have flowers of a whiter 

 colour, there is absolutely not the 

 shadow of a difference between these 

 four sorts — the same height, three 

 feet and a half; in flower May 20th ; 

 style of growth, flavour of the peas, 

 shape of pods, etc., all alike. One 

 noticeable feature in these varieties 

 is that several successive gatherings 

 may be picked day after day ; they 

 do not come in all at once. These 

 four sorts are quite ten days later 

 under ordinary cultivation. The five 

 early varieties were fit for use June 

 3rd ; these four later sorts not until 

 the 13 th. No doubt much depends 

 upon locality, snug and warm borders, 

 dry subsoil, and other similar con- 

 tingencies. 



A. Henderson and Son, 

 Pine Apple Place, Edgicare Road. 



A New Geeen eoe Confectionery, 

 perfectly innocuous, may be thus formed : 

 — Ii.iusa for twenty-tour uours 0"32 

 gramme of saffron in 7 grammes of dis- 

 tilled water ; then take 0:26 gramme ot 

 carmine of indigo, and in u?e it in the 

 same manner in 15G0 of distilled water. 

 By mixing the two liquids a large quan- 

 tity of a beautiful, strong, green dye may 



be obtained. Ten grammes of this solu- 

 tion will colour 1000 grammes of sugar. 

 This dye may be kept for a long time by 

 evaporating the liquor to dryness or 

 transforming it into a syrup. The most 

 beautiful green colour now used, is 

 formed by the dangerous preparations 

 of copper or arsenic. — Journal de Fhar- 

 made. 



