THE PEA. 533 



Sown the first of May, the variety blossomed the last of 

 June, and afforded peas for use the 15th of July. 



It is one of the best tall Marrows in cultivation. The ripe 

 seed is mixed white and olive. 



A sub-variety of Bellamy's Early Green Mar- Noble's Ear- 

 row. It is a much more abundant bearer. Marrow. Cot. 



Gard. 



producing from eighteen to twenty pods on a 



plant, which are singularly regular in their size and form. 



Plant from two and a half to three feet in Prince Al- 

 height, usually without branches ; pods gen- EARLY PRINCE 



J & ALBERT. EARLY 



MAY. 



RLY 



erally in pairs, two inches and a half in length, 

 half an inch broad, tapering abruptly at both ends, slightly 

 bent backwards, and well filled ; pea, when fully ripe, round, 

 cream-colored, approaching to white about the eye and at 

 the line of the division of the lobes, and measuring about a 

 fourth of an inch in diameter. 



Sown May 1, the plants blossomed June 15, and pods 

 were plucked for use July 6. 



The Prince Albert was, at one period, the most popular of 

 all the early varieties, and was cultivated in almost every part 

 of the United States. As now found in the garden, the va- 

 riety is not distinguishable from some forms of the Early 

 Frame ; and it is everywhere giving place to the Early Dan 

 O'Rourke, Dillistone's Early, and other more recent and 

 superior sorts. 



A very dwarfish variety, from six to nine Queen of the 



Dwarfs. Cot. 

 inches high. Stem thick and succulent ; foliage Gard. 



dark bluish-green. Each plant produces from four to six 

 pods, which are of a curious, elliptic form, and contain 

 three or four large peas. Ripe seed white, of medium size, 

 egg-shaped, unevenly compressed. 



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