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quality ; it also retains its tender marrowy character longer than 

 most other varieties. Being an early pea, and not a marrow, I 

 have substituted the name Early Ringwood for that of Ringwood 



9. Early Frame . . . Hurst & M'Mullen. 



In adopting the name " Early Frame " I mean to include all 

 the forms known under that name, whether they are called single 

 or double-blossomed, for in fact there are none that are absolutely 

 '♦ single" or absolutely " double-blossomed." These expressions 

 are not meant to indicate any peculiar structure of the flower as 

 regards the number of the petals, but merely that the blossoms 

 are produced singly or in pairs on the same peduncle. Great 

 efforts have from time to time been made to preserve the single- 

 blossomed character, and notwithstanding the care that has been 

 bestowed upon the selection, growers have hitherto failed in 

 rendering it permanent. There is, however, no real advantage to 

 be obtained even if that character were secured, for the supposed 

 earliness of the single-blossomed frame-peas is now far exceeded by 

 other varieties that have been introduced of late years. 



The variety I shall now describe under the name of Early 

 Frame is one received from Messrs. Hurst & M'Mullen under 

 the name of Marshall's Double-blossomed Frame, a very excel- 

 lent and carefully selected stock of Early Frames. 



The plant is 3 to 4 feet high, and has a single stem of rather 



is decidedly the best form of Early Frame I have met with. 

 The seed was sown on the 19th of February, and the plants 

 bloomed on June Ist ; on the 18th of June the slats appeared, 

 and the crop was ready for use on July 7th. 



10. Early Warwick . . Noble Cooper & Bolton. 

 Syn. Race Horse ; Essex Champion. 



What is now grown under the name of Early Warwick is very 

 different from the variety to which the name was originally 

 applied. When first obtained at Evesham in Warwickshire, it 

 was a single-blossomed pea and somewhat earlier than the 

 double-blossomed Frame of those days, but it gradually lost its 

 single-blossomed character, and has now become identified with 



