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CULINARY PLANTS. 



Chap. TX. 



the pod is bowed upwards. In the Queen of the Dwarfs and in Scimitar 

 peas the pod is almost elliptic in shape. I here give drawings of the four 

 most distinct pods produced by the plants cultivated by me 



*ig. 41.- Pods and Peas. I. Queen of Dwarfs. II. American Dwarf. 

 IV. Pois Geant sans parchemin. a. Dan O'Rourke Pea 

 c. Knight's Tall White Marrow, d. Lewis's Negro Pea. * 



III. Thurston's Reliance. 

 &. Queen of Dwarfs Pea. 



In the pea itself we have every tint between almost pure white, brown, 

 yellow and intense green; in the varieties of the sugar peas we have these 

 same tints together with red passing through fine purple into a dark 

 chocolate tint. These colours are either uniform or distributed in dots, 

 striae, or moss-like marks ; they depend in some cases on the colour of the 

 cotyledons seen through the skin, and in other cases on the outer coats of 

 the pea itself. In the different varieties the pods contain, according to 

 Mr. Gordon, from eleven or twelve to only four or five peas. The largest 

 peas are nearly twice as much in diameter as the smallest; and the latter 

 are not always borne by the most dwarfed kinds. Peas differ much in 



