THE PEA. 309 



Plant three to four feet in height ; pods Early Frame, 

 two and a half inches long by half an inch 

 in breadth. The peas, when fully ripe, are round and 

 plump, cream-colored, and measure nearly a fourth of an 

 inch in diameter. 



Sown the 1st of May, the variety blossomed June 20, and 

 the pods were ready for plucking the 6th of July. 



This well-known pea, for a long period, was the most 

 popular of all the early varieties. At present, it is less 

 extensively cultivated, having been superseded by much 

 earlier and equally hardy and prolific sorts. 



Similar to, if not identical with, the Early Early Hotspur. 

 Frame. 



Once at the head of early peas ; now con- Early "War* 

 sidered by the most experienced cultivators to 

 be identical with the Early Frame. 



A sub-variety of the Early Frame, differing Early "Wash- 

 slightly, if at all, either in the size or form of C 1 DO NCLLI. 

 the pod, color and size of the seed, or in pro- 

 ductiveness. 



Once popular, and almost universally cultivated ; now 

 rarely found on seedsmen's catalogues. 



Plant three feet in height ; pods single or in Eugenie, 

 pairs, three inches long, containing five or six 

 peas. When ripe, the peas are of medium size, cream- 

 colored, and much shrivelled and indented. 



Plants from sowings made May 1 were in blossom June 

 14, green peas were plucked July 10, and the pods ripened 

 from the 18th to the 25th of the same month. 



English catalogues describe the variety as being " the 

 earliest white, wrinkled marrow-pea in cultivation, podding 

 from the bottom of the stalk to the top, with fine large 

 pods." 



