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Golden Vine. — The Golden Vine is a medium early variety 

 liaving- a white blossom and a small, round, cream-colored seed. 

 It has become popular in the United States on account of its uni- 

 formly good yields of both forage and seed and the fact that it is 

 usually easy to obtain. The small seeds also make the cost of 

 seeding less. 



French June. — This is one of the best early varieties. It 

 has white blossoms and is almost identical in seed character with 

 the Golden Vine, but it matures nearly two weeks earlier and the 

 vine is not so large. In spite of these differences considerable 

 confusion exists in respect to these two varieties, and the Golden 

 Vine is often sold as French June. 



Marrowfat. — This group of varieties is known to the seed 

 trade under the names Marrowfat, White Marrowfat, and Large 

 White Marrowfat, besides many other more distinctive varietal 

 names, such as Canadian Beauty, Arthur, and Potter. The Mar- 

 row^fat varieties have white blossoms, large, round, ciream-col- 

 ored seeds and large vines. All are rather late in maturing. 



Blackeye Marrowfat. — This group of varieties has seeds 

 very similar to those of the regular White Marrowfat except 

 that they have a black hilum, or ''eye." As a rule, the peas of 

 this group mature a little earlier than those of the Marrowfat 

 and the vine growth is less. Among the named varieties whicTi 

 belong to this group are the Paragon and the Mackay, two va- 

 rieties which are among the best yielders in Canada. 



Prussian Blue. — This is also a well-known variety. It has 

 w^hite blossoms and medium-sized, round, bluish green seed. The 

 vines are large and it is rather late, maturing about the same time 

 as the Marrowfat. The Prussian Blue is quite popular, as it 

 makes good yields of both hay and seed. 



Wisconsin Blue. — This variety is very similar to the Prus- 

 sian Blue in seed characters and also has white blossoms, but it 

 is a little later in maturing. Like the Prussian Blue, it ds quite 

 popular in the northern United States. Other rather important 

 blue-seeded varieties which might be mentioned are the Scotch, 

 Blue Imperial, and Concordia. The whole group of blue-seeded 

 field peas is grown rather extensively in the Lake region of the 



