REPORT ON THE VARIETIES OF GARDEN PEAS. 341 



1. DiUistone's Early . . 



The plant is of a slender habit 



stem 2 feet high, and bears on 



straight, and containing 7 peas in 



. HuEST&M'Mu 



an average from 7 to 

 occasionally in pairs, 

 ach. The seed when 



i 



npe IS 



Sown on the 19th of February, the plants were a mass of 

 bloom on May 19th. On the 5th of June the blooms dropped 

 slats appeared, and on the 32ud of June the whole crop 



3 undoubtedly the earliest pea known, and is quite s 

 to eight days earlier than Sangster's No. 1, which has 1 '' 

 oeen regarded as the earliest varietv. A striking fea 



