SHELLING PEAS 



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this Pea is the manner in which the pods swell, long before the 

 peas attain any size, and, while these are very small, becoming 

 inflated to such an extent that the width is greater than the depth. 



Three-podded Pea« — A late variety, with stout stems, about 

 4 ft. in height bearing five or six tiers of flowers, mostly produced in 



Tall Three-podded Pea. Tall Squaie Mammoth, or Normandy, Pea. 



bunches of three at the tops of the stalks and set freelv; the pedicels 

 often provided with a foliaceous and toothed bractea. ' The pods are 

 small, thin, 2h to si in. long, pointed, much curved at the end, well 

 filled with eight or nine small, round, smooth, bluish green peas. 



Tall Square Mammoth, or Normandy, Pea.— Stems thick, 

 very stout, almost always branching, from 5 to 6J ft. high ; leaves 



