THE PEA. 315 



Green Marrow. It possesses no qualities superior to that 

 variety, and is not so early. 



Plant from four and a half to five feet Milford Mar- 

 high, producing from twelve to sixteen pods, 

 each containing six or seven large peas, which are roundish, 

 and somewhat compressed, half an inch long, and nearly 

 the same broad. 



Its season is near that of Bellamy's Early Green Marrow. 

 Planted May 1, it blossomed June 28, and the pods were fit 

 for plucking the middle of July. 



Plant three feet and a half or four feet high ; Missouri 



, Al -11 . . Marrow. 



pods three inches long, containing about MISSOURI MAKBOW- 



six peas, rather closely set together. When 

 ripe, the pea is similar to the Dwarf Marrow in form, 

 but is larger, paler, more wrinkled, and much more regu- 

 lar in size. 



Plants from seed sown May 1 were in blossom the 30th 

 of June, and pods were gathered for use the 14th of July. 

 It is a few days later than Fairbeard's Champion of England, 

 and nearly of the season of the Dwarf Marrowfat, of which 

 it is probably but an improved or sub-variety. 



It is of American origin, very productive, of good quality, 

 and well deserving of cultivation. 



Plant three feet and a half high ; pods Napoleon, 

 three inches long, containing five or six 

 peas. When ripe, these are of medium size, pale blue or 

 olive, sometimes yellowish, shaded with blue, and, like the 

 Eugenie, much wrinkled and indented. 



Sown the beginning of May, the variety blossomed the 

 15th of June, pods were plucked for use the 10th of July, 

 and the crop ripened the 25th of the same month. 



English catalogues represent the Napoleon as being " the 

 earliest blue pea in cultivation, podding from the bottom of 



