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584 Bishops Disoarf compared with other Peas. 



I perfectly coincide in your opinion of the want of more 

 numerous synonymes when well established. I can find no 

 mention either of the Chaseley Harvey, which I consider the 

 most delicious apple we possess, or of the Flanders pippin, or 

 Moll Flanders, which, as a culinary and useful apple, even 

 for the table, stands here the first on the list, though unfor- 

 tunately there is reason to fear that it too is fast following the 

 golden pippin. 



Mr. Lindley recommends, for the preservation of apples, 

 the packing of them in sand. As far as appearance goes, this 

 method is unexceptionable ; but between fruit preserved in 

 this fashion, and that which has merely been laid singly on 

 and under dry straw, and covered during frost with old car- 

 pets, &c, there can be no comparison ; the latter, though not 

 either quite so plump or so sleek, being infinitely superior to 

 the other, both in flavour and firmness. 



Yours, &c. J. C. K. 



Levant Lodge, near Worcester, Feb. 20. 1832. 



Art. XXVII. On Bishop s Dwarf Pea, as compared tvith other 

 . early Peas. By Mr. Anthony Adamson, in a Letter to Mr,. 

 John Gibson. Communicated by Mr. Gibson. 



Sir, 

 I return you, with this, one quart and three quarters of 

 Bishop's early dwarf peas. They have been saved from the 

 sowings of those I received from you upon experiment, and for 

 which I feel much obliged. I think it due to you, to send you 

 the result of the experience which I have had in comparing 

 Bishop's pea with other varieties mentioned below, all of 

 which were sown on the same day, viz., the 5th of April, 

 1831. Bishop's pea came into full pod on the 2d of July, 

 i.e., in 88 days; the early frame in 140 days; Knight's 

 dwarf marrow in 146 days; and the Spanish dwarf in 150 

 days. Thus there was a space of 53 days in favour of 

 Bishop's pea over every other variety, even the early frame. 

 The produce of Bishop's pea is fully double that of the frame, 

 and quite equal in flavour when taken early : the pods are 

 short, but abundantly numerous; and, being dwarfs, their 

 blossoms form a most elegant border. The seed from them 

 is most easily saved, even from sowings made on the 4th of 

 June. They require only short sticks, about one foot from 

 the ground ; as an early variety, they are of first-rate excel- 

 lence. This pea was raised originally from an impregnated 

 blossom of the Spanish dwarf. By the way, the Spanish 

 dwarf is an excellent pea, but not early; and, if compared with 



