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THE VEGETABLES OF NEW YORK 



from Boston. Eng.. the home of John, who introduced it 

 in 1895. It was tested by the South Dakota Station in 

 1903. for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and was 

 commercially listed in 1904. It seems to have com- 

 peted with Duke of Albany in both England and Amer- 

 ica, the earlier pea probably showing some signs of dete- 

 rioration which were lacking in the new strain. It 

 ,ed very commendatory notice from the Royal 

 cultural Society. It was considered almost insepa- 

 rable from Duke of Albany in its early days and as grown 

 lure recently appears to differ from it only in slightly 

 shorter, less uniform, slenderer pods and smaller peas 

 and seeds. It was not as well colored as Duke of Albany. 

 in either pods or peas, but was. possibly, a little better in 

 yield. Except for its rather slenderer pods it could pass 

 anywhere as Telephone. 



Prodigious Refs. 58, 59) apparently originated 

 with Cooper -Taber. being introduced by them as Prince 

 Edward in 1901 after some preliminary exhibiting at 

 English shows, and simultaneously in America under 

 the name Prodigious by Maule. 



It was grown at this Station under both names, 

 and the two strains seemed to differ in height of vines, 

 Prodigious being several inches shorter, but flowering 

 a node higher. These differences, however, were no 

 more marked than pod, pea, seed and vine variations 

 between the three strains of Prince Edward grown from 

 seed from the University of British Columbia and two 

 American seedsmen. The evidence does not overthrow 

 the claim that the Prodigious and Prince Edward were 

 identical when introduced; but merely confirms the 

 conclusion that any variety of peas grown by different 

 seedsmen, both making careful selection but with 

 different ideals, will soon differ decidedly, both from 

 each other and from the original stock grown without 

 selection or roguing. 



Averaging the characteristics and measurements 

 of the three strains of Prince Edward and one of Pro- 

 digious it would seem that the double-named variety is 

 much like Telephone, or perhaps more like Alderman, 

 but with shorter pods, not longer, which are borne on 

 more rigid stalks than those of either variety. The 



SENATOR 

 The seeds of peas in this group are all well wrinkled, 

 and with one or two exceptions contain both cream- 

 colored and green-colored forms in varying proportions. 

 One or two varieties have all cream or all green seeds. 

 Many varieties of this type antedate Senator, but 

 are less known than that variety and often vary con- 

 siderably from it in width of pod, which is intermediate 

 between the narrow, slender-pod Evergreen and the 

 broad one of Heroine. In general, the group corresponds, 

 in the wrinkled peas, to the Scimitar group in smooth 

 peas, in having noticeably curved pods. As Senator 

 best represents the group, it is first described, in some 

 detail, though chronologically, as the other varieties are 

 arranged, it should follow several of them. 



S» nator. Refs. 9. 10: Burpee Cat. 1904. Sen- 

 ator originated with Webb previous to 1894 as a Prince 



season is the same, and the Prodigious strain gave better 

 crops, the others no better than Telephone. 



Quite Content. Refs. 66, 67; Burpee Cat. 1910. 

 Quite Content, when introduced by Carter in 1906 was 

 undoubtedly the largest podded pea in existence; and 

 the name bespeaks the introducers' satisfaction with 

 their achievement. The variety came from an Alder- 

 man x Edwin Becket cross, and is similar in most 

 respects to Alderman, but with much longer pods, 

 parallel -sided, fully as broad and plump, but from their 

 greater length appearing more slender. It was brought 

 to America in 1910 and quite widely distributed; but 

 like so many English peas of exhibition type, has generally 

 proved disappointing. Grown at the Station, from the 

 American introducer's seeds, it has been no better than 

 Telephone. 



\. C. Refs. 86; Marshall Cat. 1918. Like Quite 

 Content, of which it is an improvement, V. C. was 

 introduced in 1916 by Sutton as " the largest podded 

 pea in commerce." It reached America very soon, being 

 listed in 1918, but has been disappointing, like most 

 English peas of the extremely large-podded type. As 

 grown at the Station, from the English introducers' seed, 

 its pods occasionally reached, or even exceeded, 5 inches 

 in length, but were too few in number and too poorly 

 filled to satisfy the grower. The pods are, however, 

 of good color and the peas the largest of any grown here. 

 It is tall of vine and late in season. 



idmiral Beatty. Refs. 94; Stumpp & Walter 

 Car. 1922. Admiral Beatty was raised by Laxton before 

 1920 when it received an Award of Merit from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. It was brought to the 

 United States in 1922. It is said to have come from a 

 Gradus x Alderman cross; and is intermediate in many 

 ways between its two parents and an improvement on 

 Alderman. 



With us it grew from 3 to 4 feet tall, with a slender, seldom 

 branched stem, abundant medium green foliage of which the leaf- 

 lets were square tipped, but stipules pointed. It flowered at the 

 12th node and the resulting pods were rarely more than 4 inches 

 long but otherwise like those of Alderman. The peas were fewer 

 in number and not as large. The season was decidedly earlier and 

 the crop better than that of either Alderman or Gradus. 



GROUP 



of Wales x Culverwell Giant Marrow cross. It has 

 been widely distributed in England, and perhaps more 

 widely in the United States, where it was introduced in 

 1904, and is known in France. It has been grown here 

 from seed from three sources, one lot said to be Improved 

 Senator. No considerable differences were noted, but 

 the improved type was stouter-stemmed, more branched, 

 bore more paired pods, and gave a better yield of pods, 

 which however were not as well filled as those of one of 

 the other strains, nor were the peas as large. The 

 seeds of the Improved Senator were more wrinkled, 

 smaller and all green, but the peas were of no better color 

 than those from the mixed cream and green lots. 

 The general description of Senator follows: 



Seeds moderately large. 110-120 to the ounce, only moderately 

 wrinkled, cream and, largely, light green, round oval, indented. 



