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should be inclined to pronounce this the best j^ea in cultivation, but 

 it is hard to say, among so many good, wliicli is really the best. 



Ne Plus Ultra is a tremendous grower, never making less than 

 six feet, and I have known it go eight feet or more on rich ground, 

 and carry the stakes right away and come down with a crash with its 

 weight of pods during stormy weather. Many a fine crop of peas is 

 lost, or nearly so, through insufficient staking ; these tall varieties 

 need to be well supported, both because of their enormous fruitful- 

 ness and the effect which a gale of wind has upon them. This pea 

 will continue for weeks producing its handsome pods, and it is one of 

 the best late peas we have. 



British Queen is well known. It requires stout stakes, as it 

 rises full six feet, and sometimes more. I have often known it to 

 continue in good bearing from the 1st of September to the 1st of 

 November, and then break down through frost rather than exhaus- 

 tion. The first time it ever failed, to my knowledge, was last 

 summer, when it got burnt by drouglit, and soon gave over ; even, in 

 that case we had a good supply, and the quality was admirable. 



If I were restricted to four sorts, I should take, 1, Early Emperor ; 

 2, Princess Royal; 3, Yeitclis Perfection ; 4, British Queen. 



In some districts pea sticks are scarce and dear, and the dwarfest 

 kinds are more profitable than those that are tall. The following are 

 a good succession of dwarf growers: 1, Sufto?i's Pingleader, 2^ feet; 

 2, Bishop's Long-podded, 2 feet ; 3, Princess Royal, 2\ feet ; 4, Gil- 

 son's Glory, o feet; 5, Yorlcshire Hero, 2w feet ; 6, Knight's Dwarf 

 Green Marrow, 3 feet. 



Districts lying warm and dry, with a light early soil, will suit for 

 two very excellent varieties, namely : McLean's Little Gem, a fine 

 early pea, rising only 1 foot, and Advancer, a first-rate marrow, and 

 the earliest of all marrows, rising 3 feet. In my trial ground last 

 year, these two varieties were quite destroyed by frost in the month of 

 April, and were in all their early stages the most tender among a 

 collection of thirty sorts. 



The following are also good varieties : Eley's Essex Rival, very 

 productive second early, 4 feet ; Prince of Wales, a tiue second early, 

 wrinkled pea, 4 feet ; Carter s Surprise, very productive for main 

 crop, 4 feet (this beats Fairheard's Surprise') ; Premier, large, pro- 

 ductive, 4 feet ; Royal Blue, very distinct, 3| feet ; Auveryne Mar- 

 row, grand scimitar-shaped pods, fine flavour, 4 feet ; Sutton's Berlc- 

 shire Hero, a tremendous pea, 6 feet. But the first seven will do 

 for any one who is not infatuated, which is unfortunately the case 

 with the writer. S. H. 



