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introduced sorts, and well deserving of general cultivation. 

 When the pods are gathered as fast as they become fit for 

 use, the plants will continue to put forth new blossoms, and 

 form new pods, for' an extraordinary length of time ; in 

 favorable seasons, often supplying the table for five or six 

 weeks. 



It is tender and sugary, and little, if at all, inferior to 

 the Champion of England. 



In common with most of the colored peas, the ripe seeds, 

 when grown in this country, are much paler than those of 

 foreign production ; and, when long cultivated in the cli- 

 mate of the United States, the blue or green is frequently 

 changed to pale blue or yellowish-green, and often ulti- 

 mately becomes nearly cream-white. 



A dwarfish sub-variety of Knight's Mar- Knight's 



. , -111,1 j Dwarf Blue 



rows, with wrinkled, blue seeds. Marrow. 



Plant three feet high ; pods three inches Knight's 

 i m, n i i i i i Dwarf Green 



long. JLhe ripe peas are ot a light bluish- Marrow. 



green color. It differs from the foregoing 



principally in the height of the plant, but also, to some 



extent, in the form of the pods. 



Plant three feet high ; pods three inches Knight's 

 long, and well filled; pea, on an average, D rr^ ite 

 about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, Law - 

 flattened, and very much wrinkled ; color 

 white, and sometimes of a greenish tinge. It is a few days 

 earlier than the Dwarf Green. 



A sub-variety of Knight's Tall Marrows, Knight's 



. , , . . , . . _ TaU Blue 



with blue, wrinkled, and indented seeds. It Marrow. 



resembles the Tall White and TaU Green 

 Marrows. 



