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namely, a prolific quick-growing kind that yields its small peas all 

 at once to accommodate itself to the modern method of harvesting 

 with a thresher. For home use, it is possible that an acceptable 

 sort may be derived from the lower row of dishes, especially 

 should the plants be half-way standard or medium in size and not 

 require brush or trellis. 



Autumn-Grown Peas. 



The less said the better is one way of considering the growing 

 of peas during autumn. A block of thirty-two hills was planted to 

 peas after the removal of a crop of "Malamo" corn in August. 

 While aware that peas did not like the hot weather of midsummer, 

 there was hope that by the time seedlings were in their first leaves, 

 the cool nights and shorter days of autumn might bring a crop 

 and thus add one generation to the cross. The peas used for 

 planting were freshly grown in a spring crop near by, and con- 

 sisted of the second generation from the blend of ''French Can- 

 ner" upon "American Wonder" (41/4), Nineteen hills received 

 smooth, cream-colored seeds; six received wrinkled cream-color- 

 ed ; four, smooth, green, and three, wrinkled green seeds. 



As before stated, the "French Canner" is a tall, slender, late 

 variety with small, smooth cream-colored seeds, while the "Ameri- 

 can Wonder" is a dwarf early type, bearing comparatively large, 

 wrinkled green, or "bluish" peas. The following table gives the 

 results as to size of plants, the crop being so small as to be a neg- 

 ligible quantity : 



Dwarfs. 



19 hills, 17 



6 " 4 



4 " 2 



3 " 2 



32 25 39 20 



Even with the "medium" being included with the "standard," 

 there is a high percentage of the "dwarfs." 



A second block of ground (where thirty-two hills of "Mala- 

 kosby" corn had been harvested) was planted with peas at the 



