320 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



of excellent quality. In England, the variety is cultivated 

 in single rows, three feet apart. In this country, where the 

 growth of the pea is much less luxuriant, it may be grown in 

 double rows, three feet and a half apart, and twelve inches 

 between the single rows. 



Taylor's Early. Similar in habit, production, and early 

 maturity, to the Early Dan O'Rourke. 



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Thurston's " Six to seven feet high ; the pods are broad 



Cot. Gard. &&& flat, like the pods of the Blue Cimeter, 



and contain seven or eight very large peas ; 

 ripe seed white, large, and unevenly compressed. 



This is a quite distinct and useful pea ; an abundant 

 bearer ; and the pods are of a fine deep-green color, which 

 is a recommendation for it when grown for market. It cornea 

 in at the same time as the Auvergne and Shillings Grotto, 

 but is of a more tender constitution. 



Tom Thumb. Plant of remarkably low growth, seldom 



much exceeding nine inches in height, stout 

 and branching ; pods single, rarely in pairs, two inches and 

 a half in length, half an inch broad, containing five or six 

 peas, which are cream-yellow, and measure a fourth of an 

 inch in diameter. 



Planted the 1st of May, the variety blossomed the 12th 

 of June, and the pods were of suitable size for plucking 

 July 4. 



In the color of its foliage, its height and general habit, the 

 variety is very distinct, and readily distinguishable from all 

 other kinds. It is early, of good quality, and, the height of 

 the plant considered, yields abundantly. It may be culti- 

 vated in rows ten inches apart. 



Mr. Landreth, of Philadelphia, remarks as follows : " For 

 sowing at this season (November, in the Middle States), we 

 recommend trial of a new variety, which we have designated 



