EDIBLE-PODDED, OR SUGAR, PEAS 



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which most usually produces solitary pods somewhat larger than 

 those of the ordinary kind, and has larger and darker-coloured 



Very Dwarf Dutch Frame Sugar Pea. Pods (natural size). 



leaves, but it possesses no special merit to recommend it in 

 preference to the form which has just been described. 



OTHER FRENCH VARIETIES 

 A. Shelling Peas 



Pois Bivort. A climbing variety, of moderate height and 

 early, with smooth white peas. It hardly differs from the Early 

 Emperor Pea. 



P. Blanc cT Auvergne. A late kind, with a tall, very branching 

 stem. Flowers white ; pods very small and narrow, but well filled ; 

 peas white, square in shape. This is a good variety for feeding 

 cattle, but comes in too late in the season to be of any great use as 

 a kitchen-garden plant. 



P. Cafe. A Canadian variety of the cattle-feeding class, tall 

 and late, with red flowers and brown peas, which are somewhat 

 elongated and flattened in shape. 



