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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Purple-podded Pea. — A curious but not very useful variety, with 

 dark purple-coloured pods. The seed is large, gray-green, becoming 

 brown when cooked, which lessens its value for table use. The pods, 

 when boiled, lose their purple colour, and become almost green, but 

 they are tough and leathery, and uneatable even before they are 

 fully grown. 



II. Wrinkled Peas 



Pois rides 



A. Tall Climbing Varieties 



White-seeded Peas 



Gradus Pea. 



Gradus Pea. — A 



fine early Pea with stems 

 2j to nearly 3 ft. high, 

 carrying four or five tiers 

 of solitary flowers. The 

 pods are large, straight 

 or slightly curved, about 

 4^ in. long, and contain 

 from five to seven large 

 wrinkled white or slightly 

 green Peas. This is the 

 earliest of all wrinkled 

 Peas, and is remarkable 

 for the great size and 

 fine appearance of its 

 pods. 



Laxton's "The 

 Shah" Pea.— A climb- 

 ing Pea with a very 

 slender stem, which is 

 almost always single or 

 with one or two small 

 branches, and rather long 

 jointed. Leaves slight, 

 light green, tinged with 

 gray ; stipules a little 

 darker than the leaves, 

 and distinctly marked 

 with gray blotches ; 

 flowers white, medium- 

 sized, solitary, or rarely 

 in pairs, and commencing 

 to bloom at the sixth 

 or seventh joint of the 

 stem ; pods very slender 



