62 RICHARD FROTSCHEE’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
Carter’s Telephone. Extra Early, or First and Best. 
England which is about of the same Large White Marrowfat. Simi- 
season. ' lar to the last variety, except that it 
Dwarf Sine Imperial. A very grows about two feet taller. and is less 
good bearer if planted early, pods are : productive. 
large and well filled. | Dwarf Sugar. A variety of which 
Royal Dwarf Marrow. Similar. the whole pod can be used after the 
to the large Marrowfat, but of dwarf | string is drawn off from the hack of the 
habit. | pod. Three feet high. 
Black-eyed Marrowfat. This. Vall Sugar. Hasthesamequalities 
kind is planted more for the market as the foregoing kind, only grows taller, 
than any other. It is very productive, | and the pods are somewhat larger. 
and when young, quite tender. Grows | Neither of these two varieties are very 
about four feet high. ' popular here. 
THE. PEA.BUG: 
_ All peas grown near Philadelphia have small holes in them, caused by the 
sting of the Pea Bug, while the pod is forming, when it deposits its egginit. Later 
the insect perfects itself and comes out of the dry pea, leaving the hole. 
The germ of the pea is never destroyed, and they grow equally as well as those 
without holes. Market gardeners in this neizhborhood who have been planting 
the Extra Early Peas for years, will not take them without holes, and consider 
these a trade mark. 
