56 RESULTS OF THE CULTIVATION OF 



PRINCEALBERT. SeedYellow. 



Sown April 25, first gathering July 6. This pea is pretty well known 

 here ; it groAvs from three to four and a half feet high, is a moderately early 

 producer, and is very prolific — this latter is its most valuable quality — the 

 flavor is excellent and sugary. I have now tried it for three years, and 

 consider it a kind on which full reUance may be placed for a main crop. 



WOODFORD'S PROLIFIC. Seed Plump, of a Green Color. 



Sown May 15, first gathering July IS. This is unquestionably the finest 

 pea I have ever tried, and possesses every desirable quahty, except that of 

 being early ; it is admirably adapted for supplying the table from the last 

 week in July to the middle and last of August ; height two feet, to two feet 

 nine mches ; extremely prohfic, the pods hanging in large heavy clusters ; 

 it therefore requires sticks. The psa as well as the pods are very large, 

 the latter often containing eight and nine large peas. Flavor fine, very 

 rich, somewhat resembling, but in my opinion superior to, the Marrowfat. 

 I have tried this pea two years ; the first year without sticks, and find that 

 it yields much more with them, the difference amply repaying the cost of 

 the sticks. The seed should be fresh ; two and three years old seed does 

 not vegetate well. This pea is a very valuable addition to the summer 

 luxuries of the table. 



SHILLINGS'S EARLY GROTTO. Seed Yellow. 



Sown May 13, ready for gatheruig July 20. This is an excellent dwarf 

 pea, not exceeding twelve to eighteen inches in height, consequently not 

 requiring sticks ; the pod and pea are rather larger than medium size ; the 

 flavor is very sugary and good, but by no means equal to the preceding. 

 It is a great favorite with me, owing to the profusion of its blossoms ; when 

 in full bloom it resembles, at a distance, pieces of linen laid out to bleach, 

 the color being of the purest while ; and as very little of the foliage is 

 then visible, it is quite an ornament to the vegetable grounds. It is 

 very prolific. There is one point, however, doubtful — several of my 

 friends who had seen it in my garden, ordered seed from London, but under 

 this name received a very different and inferior pea. I can only say that I 

 received it under this name from London, in 1845, Avith Smith's Grotto, 

 and several other sorts ; Smith's Grotto being the only other dwarf, it is 

 })Ossible that the person who put it up may have Avritten the wrong name, 

 I always saved enough seed to sow the succeeding year, hence if there had 

 been an original error I have certainly preserved the error with the pea. I 

 have now tried it three years with success, and mention these circumstances 

 because I am unwilling to give a character to a vegetable which may not 

 merit the encomium bestowed upon it. 



