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the plants blossomed the last week in June, and pods were 

 gathered for use July 17. 



It is prolific, of good quality as a shelled-pea, and the 

 young pods are tender and well flavored. 



Plant about twenty inches high, branching ; Early Dwarf 

 . Dutch Sugar, 



leaves of medium size, yellowish-green ; flowers Vil. 



, , EARLY DWARF DK 



white ; pods two inches and three quarters in GRACE. 

 length, half an inch wide, somewhat sickle-shaped, swollen 

 on the sides, flattened at the lower end, and containing 

 five or six peas, which, when ripe, are roundish, often 

 irregularly flattened or indented, wrinkled, and of a yellow- 

 ish-white color. 



The variety is the lowest-growing and earliest of all 

 the Eatable-podded kinds. If sown at the time of the 

 Common Dwarf Sugar, it will be fit for use twelve or 

 fourteen days in advance of that variety. It requires a 

 good soil ; and the pods are succulent and tender, but are 

 not considered superior to those of the Common Dwarf 

 Sugar. 



Stalk four to five feet high : leaves large, Giant Eata- 

 ble-podded, 

 yellowish-green, stained with red at their vu. 



GIANT SUGAR. 



union with the stalk of the plant ; flower red- 

 dish ; pods transparent yellowish-green, very thick and 

 fleshy, distended on the surface by the seeds, which are 

 widely distributed, curved, and much contorted, six inches 

 long, and sometimes nearly an inch and a half in diam- 

 eter, exceeding in size that of any other variety. They 

 contain but five or six seeds, which, when ripe, are irreg- 

 ular in form, and of a greenish-yellow color, spotted or 

 speckled with brown. 



It is about a week later than the Large Crooked 

 Sugar. 



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