520 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



bright yellow color, beautifully transparent, with whitish 

 eyes. 



If sown the 1st of May, the plants will blossom the 8th 

 of July, afford peas for the table about the 25th of the 

 same month, and ripen from the 10th to the middle of Au- 

 gust. 



It is not a productive variety, and is seldom cultivated in 

 England or in this country, but is grown extensively on the 

 shores of the Baltic, and exported for splitting or boiling 

 whole. 



Dickson's Plant five feet high, stocky, vigorous, and 



Trans ' very prolific ; pods ten to twelve on a stalk, 



^f ITOBMMS. ' long, round when full grown, curved, hooked 



at the extremity, but not so much so as in the Auvergne, 



to which, in many respects, it bears a strong resemblance. 



The pods are remarkably well filled, containing from eight 



to ten peas of medium size, round, and very white. 



Planted the 1st of May, the variety blossomed June 25, 

 and pods were gathered for use the 12th of July. 



This pea is highly deserving of cultivation as a second 

 early variety. 



Dillistone's The plant is of slender habit of growth, pro- 



'^Gard. duces a single stem two feet high, and bears, 

 on an average, from seven to nine pods : these are smaller 

 than those of the Dan O'Rourke, generally single, but occa- 

 sionally in pairs, almost straight, and contain seven peas 

 each. The seed, when ripe, is white. 



Sown at the time of the Dan O'Rourke, the plants were a 

 mass of bloom three days before the last named had com- 

 menced blossoming, and the crop was ready for gathering 

 seven days before the Dan O'Rourke. 



This is undoubtedly the earliest pea known, arid is quite 



