540 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



Sown May 1, the variety blossomed June 28, and peas 

 were gathered for the table July 17. 



This is a very characteristic pea, and may at once be de- 

 tected from all others, either by the ripe seed or growing 

 plants, from the peculiar dark-green color, which, when true, 

 it always exhibits. It is well adapted for a market-pea, its 

 dark-green color favoring the popular prejudices. 



EATABLE-PODDED OR SUGAR PEAS. 

 String-peas. Skinless Peas. Pisum macrocarpum. Dec. 



In this class are included such of the varieties as want the 

 tough, inner film, or parchment lining, common to the other 

 sorts. The pods are generally of large size, tender and suc- 

 culent, and are used in the green state like string-beans ; 

 though the seeds may be used as other peas, either in the 

 green state or when ripe. " When not ripe, the pods of some 

 of the sorts have the appearance of being swollen or distended 

 with air ; but, on ripening, they become much shrivelled, and 

 collapse closely on the seeds." The varieties are not numer- 

 ous, when compared with the extensive catalogue of the 

 kinds of the Common Pea offered for sale by seedsmen, and 

 described by horticultural writers. The principal are the 

 following : 



Common Stalk about two feet high, dividing- into 



Dwarf Su^ar. 

 Law. vil. branches when cultivated in good soil ; flower 



DWAKF CROOKED- -, , 1*1 -i t i 



PODDED SUGAR, white ; pods single or in pairs, six-seeded, three 

 inches long by five eighths of an inch broad, 

 crooked or jointed-like with the seeds, as in all of the Sugar 

 Peas, very prominent, especially on becoming ripe and dry ; 

 pea fully a fourth of an inch in diameter, white, and slightly 

 wrinkled. 



The variety is quite late. Sown the beginning of May, 



