532 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



shaded with blue, and, like the Eugenie, much wrinkled and 

 indented. 



Sown the beginning of May, the variety blossomed about 

 the 15th of June, pods were plucked for use the 10th of July, 

 and the crop ripened the 25th of the same month. 



English catalogues represent the Napoleon as being " the 

 earliest blue pea in cultivation, podding from the bottom of 

 the haum to the top, with fine large pods." In a trial growth, 

 it proved early and productive ; not only forming a great 

 number of pods, but well filling the pods after being formed. 

 In quality it is tender, very sweet and well flavored, resem- 

 bling the Champion of England. Its season is nearly the 

 same with that of the Eugenie, and the variety is well de- 

 serving of cultivation. 



Mr. Harrison, the originator of the Eugenie and Napoleon, 

 states that both of the peas were originally taken from one pod. 



Ne Plus Ul- This is comparatively a recent variety. It 

 tra. Cot. Gard. . , -1111 c 



JAY'S cox- belongs to the wrinkled class of peas ; is as 



early as Bellamy's Green Marrow ; and pos- 

 sesses, both in pod and pea, the same fine, deep, olive-green 

 color. 



The plant is of strong and robust habit of growth, six to 

 seven feet high, with a branching stem. It begins to pro- 

 duce pods at two or two and a half feet from the ground ; 

 and the number, in all, is from twelve to eighteen. The 

 pods are generally in pairs, three inches and a half long, 

 three fourths of an inch wide, very plump and full, almost 

 round, slightly curved, and terminate abruptly at the end. 

 Their color is deep, bright green, and the surface smooth. 

 They contain seven very large peas, each of which is half 

 an inch long, nearly the same broad ; and, although they 

 are not so closely packed as to compress each other, they 

 fill the pods well. 



