THE PEA. 323 



Stalk two feet high, dividing into common 



branches ; pods single or in pairs, six- DV ato. ^vS** 

 seeded, three inches long, crooked or joint- 

 ed-like with the seeds, as in all of the Sugar Peas, very 

 prominent, especially on becoming ripe and dry ; pea fully 

 a fourth of an inch in diameter, white, and slightly 

 wrinkled. 



The variety is quite late. Sown the beginning of May, 

 the plants blossomed the last week in June, and pods were 

 gathered for use July 17. 



It is prolific, of good quality as a shelled-pea, and the 

 young pods are tender and well flavored. 



Plant twenty inches high, branching. Early Dwarf 

 ,_, _ . , Dutch Sugar. 



Ihe pods are two inches and three-quarters 



in length, somewhat sickle-shaped, and contain five or six 

 peas, which, when ripe, are roundish, often irregularly 

 flattened or indented, wrinkled, and of a yellowish-white 

 color. 



The variety is the lowest-growing and earliest of all the 

 Eatable-podded kinds. If sown at the time of the Common 

 Dwarf Sugar, it will be fit for use twelve or fourteen days 

 in advance of that variety. It requires a good soil ; and 

 the pods are succulent and tender, but are not considered 

 superior to those of the Common Dwarf Sugar. 



Stalk four to five feet high ; flower red- Giant Eatable- 

 dish ; pods thick and fleshy, distended on po 

 the surface by the seeds, which are widely distributed, 

 curved, and much contorted, six inches long, and some- 

 times nearly an inch and a half in diameter, exceed- 

 ing in size that of any other variety. They contain but 

 five or six seeds, which, when ripe, are irregular in form, 

 and of a greenish-yellow color, spotted or speckled with 

 brown. 



It is a week later than the Large Crooked Sugar. 



