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A dwarfish sub-variety of Knight's Marrows. Knight's 



Dwarf Blue 

 with wrinkled, blue seeds. Marrow. 



Plant about three feet high ; pods in pairs, Knight's 



Dwarf Green 

 three inches long, three fourths of an inch wide, Marrow. 



KNIGHT'S DWABF 



flattish, and slightly bent. The ripe peas are 



of a light bluish-green color. It differs from 



the foregoing principally in the height of the plant, but also 



to some extent in the form of the pods. 



Plant three feet high ; pods in pairs, three Knight's 



Dwarf 'White 

 inches long, three fourths of an inch wide, Marrow. 



Law. 



straight, or nearly so, well filled, and termi- KN^GHT-S^DWARP 

 nating abruptly at both ends ; pea, on an KLED MAEKOW '- 

 average, about three eighths of an inch in diameter, flat- 

 tened, and very much wrinkled ; color white, and some- 

 times of a greenish tinge. Jt is a few days earlier than 

 the Dwarf Green. 



A sub-variety of Knight's Tall Marrows, Knight's 



Tall Blue 

 with blue, wrinkled, and indented seeds. It Marrow. 



resembles the Tall White and Tall Green Marrows. 



Plant from six to seven feet in height, of Knight's 



Tall Green 



strong growth ; pods large, broad, and well 

 filled ; the seed, when ripe, is green, and much 

 wrinkled or indented. 



Planted the first of May, the variety blossomed the last 

 of June, and supplied the table the middle of July. 



The peas are exceedingly tender and sugary ; the skin 

 also is very thin. " From their remarkably wrinkled appear- 

 ance, together with the peculiar sweetness which they all 

 possess, Knight's Marrows may be said to form a distinct 

 class of garden peas ; possessing qualities which, together 

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