PAVONIA 



red bractlets, which are linear, erect, hairy, whorled, am 

 nearly 2 in. long. Within the cup-shaped group of Ijract 

 lets lies a cartridge-shaped mass of dull brown, ti^litl 

 rolled petals. From the body of petals protrudes tli 

 stamina! column, which may be 3 in. long and bears nu 

 nierous violet-blue anthers. 



. M„ <;<'„,• ,<; . Mnrr.,ot the trade, is GcEthea Makoyina, 

 I 1 M 'I': :i Brazilian plant with a dark purple 

 . I ..ff by about 5 large, broad, showy 

 I ' "Illy difference between Pavonia and 

 Im :i li. Ill 111.- bractlets, which are narrow in the 

 ucr ;iTi<l liroad in the latter. 



. intermedia, St. Hil., Pig. 16.55, is a Brazilian plant 

 by the U. S. Dept. of Agric. for economic reasons, 

 bractlets are intermediate in breadth between the 

 gciicrii I'avuiiia and Goethea. 



ultifl6ra, A. St. Hil. (P. moti, E. Morr.). Robust, 

 :)ably shniiiliv, usually with a simple stem: Ivs. alter- 

 ■. C.-liI in. X i',,-2 in., obovate-lanceolate, serrulate: 

 in a sliort. terminal corvmb. Brazil. B.M. G398. F. 



PAWPAW. 



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cii Pripnij 



PEA, The garden Pea is the most important member 

 of the genus Pisum (which see). It is native to Europe, 

 but lias been cultivated from before the Christian era 



for the rich m. iK. Th.- fn M ..r >t..,-k Pea differs little 

 from till- -,n-ii. Ti r. II I VI. 1.1 III lis violet rather than 

 white tl<.«.i> nil. I .1- Miiiill LTin seeds. There are 



IVas". WliiKt I'm., air L'li.uii lii..Mlyf..r their seeds. 



iikled seeds. The latter are the ric-lier. Iml 

 I likely to decay in wet, cold ground, and I 

 not so well adapted to very early planting. 



I be classified as climbing, half-dwarf <.r 

 1. I.. -. I . .limb and doing best \y],. u m. 

 r ' •> arf or those not r..r. r -.: ;; 

 . I. s may be classiti.-.i . i 



and late: examph - ■ ; ;... 



!i lu li.L pictures, lC>:'iG, 1(!57. lb.'.,-, n.-;.. . ! 



Vilmorin's classiBcation (Les Plautes Potagferes) is as 

 follows ; 



A. The Pea round (smooth). 

 B. Plant climbing, 

 c. Seed white, 

 cc. Seed green. 

 BB. Plant half-dwarf, 

 c. Seed white, 

 oc. Seed green. 

 BBS. Plant dwarf. 



c. Seed white. 

 cc. Seed green. 

 AA. The Pea wrinkled (divisions as above). 

 The Chinese gardeners about New York city grow a 

 Pea which is described as follows by the writer in Bull. 

 07, Cornell Exp. Sta.: "The Pea {Ga-lon-ow) of the 

 Chinese gardens behaves like a little improved or per- 

 haps ancient type of the common Pea. It is the same 

 species as ours. It differs chiefly in having somewhat 

 knotty or constricted pods, as shown in the illustration 

 (Fig. 1659). The pods 'shell' very hard, and there is a 

 tendency to develop a broad border or margin along 

 the lower side. The Peas are small and are variable 

 in color, and they generally turn dark in cooking. In 

 quality they are sweet and excellent, but they do not 

 possess any superiority over our common varieties. 

 The seeds which we have obtained from the New York 

 Chinamen are mixed. In color, the Peas run from nearly 

 white to dark brown. The brown seeds, however, have 

 given us much earlier pickings than the light ones. In 

 one instance the seeds were sorted into three grades- 

 light, medium light, and dark brown — and all were 

 planted in sandy soil on the 20th of April. On the 5th 

 of July the dark-seeded plot gave a good picking, while 

 the light-seeded, and even the medium plots produced 

 much taller plants and verv few of the pods had begun 

 to fill. The dark- and medium-seeded plots produced 

 plants with colored flowers — the standard being rose- 

 purple and the keel bhack-purple and splashed. The 

 light-colored seeds, on the other hand, gave pure white 

 flowers, larger leaves and broader pods. These facts 

 are interesting in connection with the evolution of the 

 garden Pea and its relationship to the red-flowered field 

 Pea." 



Left to themselves, the varieties of Peas soon lose 

 their characteristics through variation. They are much 



1657. Pea. Nott Exceli 



influenced by soil and other local conditions. There- 

 fore, many of the varieties are only minor strains of 

 some leading type, and are not distinct enough to be 



