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respect of improvement in recent years, the pea has kept pace with 

 the potato, and a number of sorts that were held in high esteem 

 only from ten to twenty years ago — to go back no further — have 

 been quite superseded by later sorts of extraordinary fine quality. 

 A large proportion of the finest garden peas in cultivation were 

 raised by systematic cross breeding by the late Dr. Maclean, of 



Easte's Kentisii Invicta. 



Colchester, who devoted many years of his valuable life to this 

 interesting and useful labour. Another successful worker, who has 

 scarcely yet acquired fame in this department, is Mr. Thomas 

 Laxton, of Stamford. Many of the most celebrated sorts of peas 



