444 FORAGE PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE 



height, color of flowers, size of pods and especially in the 

 size, shape and color of the seeds. The seeds may be 

 either globose or more or less shrunken and angular. The 

 angular form is due to a higher sugar content and conse- 

 quent greater shrinkage in drying. The color of the seeds 

 when of a single tint may be yellow, pea-green, brown or 

 black. Yellow or green seeds may be marbled with brown, 

 or speckled with blue-black or brown or both marbled and 

 speckled. The embryos are yellow in yellow seeds, and 

 green in green seeds. 



The earliest varieties will mature seed in 73 days in 

 Canada, while the very late ones require 109 days. 



Among the better known varieties are the following : 



Arthur. This variety has round yellow seeds of 

 medium size. It is an early, productive variety which 

 originated at Ottawa, Canada. It is now one of the 

 most important varieties in Canada. 



Golden Vine. The Golden Vine, also called the French 

 June, is perhaps the most widely grown variety of field 

 pea in the United States. It is a medium-early pea, hav- 

 ing a white blossom and small round cream-colored seeds, 

 and makes good yields of both forage and seed. 



Marrowfat. This name has been loosely applied to a 

 class of large cream-seeded varieties rather than to a 

 definite variety. This variety has a white blossom and 

 is medium to late, maturing about a week later fhan the 

 Golden Vine, and makes large quantities of forage with 

 fair yields of seed. 



Canadian Beauty. An early variety resembling Mar- 

 rowfat, maturing at about the same time as the Golden Vine. 

 It makes a large growth of vine and fair yields of seed. 



Blackeye Marrowfat. The seeds of the Blackeye Mar- 

 rowfat are similar in appearance to the regular Marrowfat 



