322 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



"Warner's This variety grows somewhat taller, and 



peror. y Thomp. is a few days earlier, than the Prince Al- 



EARLYEMPEEOE. 



larger. It is an abundant bearer, and, on the whole, must 

 be considered a good sub-variety of the Early Frame. 



Woodford's Plant of robust habit, three feet and a half 

 high. The pods are three inches and a 

 half long, and contain, on an average, seven 

 peas, which are of a dark olive-green color, 

 rather thick in the skin, and closely packed, so much so 

 as to be quite flattened on the sides adjoining. 



Sown May 1, the variety blossomed June 28, and peas 

 were gathered for the table July 17. 



This is a very characteristic pea, and may at once be de- 

 tected from all others, either by the ripe seed or growing 

 plants, from the peculiar dark-green color, which, when 

 true, it always exhibits. It is well adapted for a market- 

 pea, its dark-green color favoring the popular prejudices. 



EATABLE-PODDED OR SUGAR PEAS. 

 String-peas. Skinless Peas. Pisum macrocarpum. Dec. 



In this class are included such of the varieties as want 

 the tough, inner film, or parchment lining, common to the 

 other sorts. The pods are generally of large size, tender 

 and succulent, and are used in the green state like string- 

 beans ; though the seeds may be used as other peas, either 

 in the green state or when ripe. " "When not ripe, the pods 

 of some of the sorts have the appearance of being swollen, 

 or distended with air ; but, on ripening, they become much 

 shrivelled, and collapse closely on the seeds." The vari- 

 eties are not numerous, when compared with the extensive 

 catalogue of the kinds of the Common Pea offered for sale 

 by seedsmen, and described by horticultural writers. The 

 principal are the following : 



