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square from pressure and fill the pods completely. The main 

 stem carries from six to ten tiers of pods, and the branches 

 seldom have more than two tiers. This variety is about as early 

 as the Early Frame Pea. The peas, when ripe, are small, squarish, 

 slightly tinged with salmon colour, and sometimes green. 



MacLean's Blue Peter Pea. — A very dwarf variety, but not 

 so compact in growth as the Early Dwarf Frame Pea. The joints 

 of the stem are longer, being 

 about equal in length to the 

 stipules. Leaves a very dark 

 glaucous green, those at the end 

 of the stem being very much 

 reduced in size, closely crowded 

 together, and a very dark green ; 

 flowers rather small and slightly 

 tinged with green, sometimes 

 solitary and sometimes in pairs, 

 and commencing to bloom at 

 the seventh or eighth joint of 

 the stem, two or three days later 

 than the Early Dwarf Frame 



MacLean's Blue Peter Pea. 



Pods (natural size). 



Pea; pods rather broad, a little over 3 in. long, each containing from 

 five to eight peas, which are somewhat oblong in shape, very large, 

 and, when ripe, retain their pale green, slightly bluish, tint. Owing 

 to its dwarf size this variety may be used as an edging like the 

 Early Dwarf Frame Pea, to which it is superior in productiveness. 



Pride of the Market Pea. — A dwarf variety, with thick, 

 short, pretty close-jointed stems ; the leaves, especially the stipules, 

 are very large, of almost yellow-green colour. The flowers are a 

 greenish white, solitary, hidden amongst the foliage, commencing 



