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high, and the pods are well filled with very large peas; but when 

 boiled, nothing can be compared with them for tenderness and flavour. 

 This variety comes in during the months of July and August. 

 Two or three sowings at intervals of about three weeks should be 

 made of this pea. In April another fine pea is sown to follow 

 Veitch's Perfection, which is called Ne Plus Ultra (fig. 147). It grows 

 six feet high and is an abundant bearer, the flavour, however, being 

 second to that of Veitch's Perfection. By a succession of these we 

 obtain peas till November, if birds do not forestall us, or if fungus 

 does not attack the haulm. 



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FIG. 146. Pea, Veitch's Perfection, \ diam. 



FIG. 147.- Ne Plus Ultra Pea, \ diam. 



The Champion of England, Veitch's Perfection, and Ne Plus Ultra 

 are called marrow or wrinkled peas, because the ripe seed is wrinkled 

 on the surface. Amongst the varieties of peas, the white wrinkled are 

 esteemed as having a finer flavour than the green wrinkled peas. 



It is a good plan every year to try one or two additional kinds 

 selected from the seedsmen's catalogues according to the plausibility 

 of the recommendation, but on no account do we omit to grow 

 Daniel O'Rourke, Champion of England, Veitch's Perfection, and Ne 



