EDIBLE-PODDED, OR SUGAR, PEAS 



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rather slender and long jointed. The leaves are of a rather dark 



green, with whitish veins, and are almost devoid of spots. The 



flowers, large and white, are only solitary at the base and at the top 



of the stem. The stalks which bear the pods are slender, very stiff, 



and of medium length. Owing to the great thickness of the sides 



or walls of the pods, they do not bulge with the swelling of the 



peas, as is the case with most other varieties of Edible-podded Peas. 



The peas are white, very 



round, and rather large. 



This variety is almost 



as early as the Ruelle 



Michaux Pea. In the 



growth of the pod of 



the Butter Pea, as in the 



Edible-podded Peas in 



general, the soft portion 



or parenchyma of .the 



pod seems to develop at 



the expense of the parch- 



ment-like membrane, 



which is wholly wanting. 



There is, however, this 



difference between the 



pod of the Butter Pea 



and those of all other 



Edible - podded kinds, 



that it is the thickness 



or depth of the pod which 



takes on the greatest 



development, while in 



the other kinds, as, for 



example, the Large 



Crooked Sugar Pea and 



the Giant Sugar Pea, it 



is the breadth of the pod 



which is enlarged. 



Tall Green-seeded 

 Sugar Pea. A very productive variety raised in Brittany. The 

 stem is stout, about 4^ ft. high, bearing the pods pretty high 

 up, in five or six tiers and in pairs. The pods are thin, 2\ to 

 2$ in. long, not very fleshy, but free from membrane, and contain 

 six to eight small, round, quite green, smooth or very slightly 

 wrinkled peas. A late variety, remarkable for its abundant and 

 prolonged production 



Large Crooked, or Scimitar, Sugar Pea (Pois Come de Better). 

 A tall climbing variety, 4 to over 4^ ft. high. Stem of medium 



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Tall Early Large-pod Sugar Pea. 



