SHELLING PEAS 



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Couturier Dwarf Pea.— Stems short, very branching, with 

 small gray-green leaves. The flowers are white, usually in pairs. 



Couturier Dwarf Pea. 



commencing to bloom at the eighth 

 joint of the stem. The pods are 

 small, straight, thin, short, but well 



filled. The 



Pods (natural size). 



Very Dwarf Brittany Pea. 



Peas are 

 round, and 

 regular in 

 shape; 



when ripe quite smooth, and slightly 

 tinged with salmon colour, like those 

 of the Scimitar Pea, which they re- 

 semble, except that they are smaller. 

 It is midway in earliness between the 

 two preceding and the Brittany Dwarf. 



Very Dwarf Brittany Pea. — A 

 ver>' dwarf Pea, with slender, rather 

 dark green leaves. Stems very short 

 jointed, of zigzag growth, commencing 

 to flower at about the twelfth joint. 

 The two joints immediately below 

 generally produce branches which are 

 often sterile. Flowers in pairs, white, 

 well opened, but very small ; pods 

 seldom over 2 in. long, dark green, very 

 slender, and slightly curved like a 

 pruning-knife blade, each containing 

 from five to seven peas, which are 



