SHELLING PEAS 



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to twelve tiers of pods. This variety must be classed between 

 the Leopold II. and the Scimitar Pea, having the pod of the 

 Scimitar and the size and earliness of the Leopold II. It has 

 the peculiarity of maturing 

 all its pods at about the 

 same time. 



White Scimitar Pea 

 (Pots cfAuvergne). Stem 

 almost always branching, 

 and averaging about 4 ft. 

 in height ; leaflets and 

 stipules oval, rather pointed, 

 light green, sometimes tinged 

 with yellow ; flowers almost 

 always in pairs, white, 

 medium-sized, commencing 

 to bloom at about the twelfth 

 joint of the stem ; pods 

 long and slender, at first 

 slightly curved backwards, 

 then becoming straight, and 

 finally curved forwards in 

 the shape of a pruning- 

 knife. The concave curved 

 line, corresponding to the 

 edge of the knife, is that 

 along which the peas are 

 attached inside the pod. 

 This is the front part of 

 the pod. The opposite or 

 convex part is the " back " 

 of the pod, and the peas 

 are never attached to the 

 pod on that side. The pod 

 of the White Scimitar Pea 

 is very well filled, and con- 

 tains from nine to eleven, 

 and sometimes twelve, 

 medium-sized peas, which 

 are remarkably round, 

 rarely flattened, and, when 

 ripe, are white, slightly 



tinged with salmon colour. Etampes Wonder Pea. 



This variety comes into flower from eight to ten days later 

 than the Early Emperor, and yields a very constant supply 

 of pods for more than a month. It is a very good kind, 



