546 THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Early Maple. A small slender variety, with purple-coloured 

 flowers, remarkable for nothing except its very great earliness. It 

 comes into flower about the same time as Sangster's No. I. 



Exonian. A tall, very early, and very productive variety ; 

 leaves dark green ; seed pale green and wrinkled. 



Gardener's Delight. A climbing, tall variety ; stems very 

 branching, but rather slender ; few leaves ; pods short, broad, always 

 in pairs, and containing from five to eight large peas, which become 

 white and wrinkled when ripe. Continues bearing for a long time. 



Giant Emerald Marrow. Very closely allied to Knight's Tall 

 Marrow, but distinguished from it by the light green of its leaves, 

 which glisten like those of Button's Emerald Gem. It is a rather 

 late kind, with large white wrinkled peas. 



Hair's Dwarf Mammoth. A half-dwarf variety, exceedingly 

 vigorous. Stem thick and strong, about 2\ ft. high, and often 

 branching ; pods in pairs, long and broad, very slightly curved, 

 and well filled ; peas green, wrinkled. 



Hay's Mammoth (Tall White Mammoth, IV ard's Incomparable). 

 A vigorous-growing climbing Pea, attaining a height of 6J ft. 

 Stem thick and stout, generally branching ; pods, usually in pairs, 

 long, broad, nearly square at the end, but very much narrowed 

 towards the stalk ; peas white, wrinkled. This is a late variety, 

 but continues bearing for a long time, often until very late in 

 autumn. 



John Bull. A very handsome, half-dwarf Wrinkled variety, 

 with fine long pods and green peas. It comes in a little earlier 

 than MacLean's Best of All Pea. 



Kelvedonian. A tall, half-early variety, less productive than 

 Duke of Albany ; pods broad, long, straight ; seed green, wrinkled. 



King Edward VII. A very distinct kind, 19 or 20 in. high ; 

 leaves light green, curled ; pods dark green, slightly curved ; seed 

 green, wrinkled. 



Laxton's Marvel. A half-dwarf variety, with long, slightly 

 curved pods ; and large green wrinkled peas. 



Laxton's Omega. A half-dwarf kind, dark green in all its 

 parts, very late, and named so as to indicate that it closes the 

 list of Peas. The pods are thin, long, slightly curved, blunt, well 

 filled with green peas very closely set together and not very much 

 wrinkled when ripe, but rather square and hollowed on the sides, 

 and in colour light green. 



Little Gem. A very dwarf kind, 12 to 16 in. high, vigorous* 

 and usually very branching. The pods are rather small, but broad, 

 straight, and well filled. The peas, when ripe, are pale coloured, 

 bluish, and wrinkled. 



May Queen. A tall early variety ; leaves light green \ pods, 

 broad and blunt at the end ; seed green, wrinkled. 



