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in pairs, white, and rather large ; pods straight, slender, somewhat 

 pointed at the end, very free from membrane, each containing from 

 six to eight medium-sized peas, rounded or slightly compressed in 

 shape, round and white when ripe. This variety very seldom 

 branches, but carries from fifteen to eighteen tiers of pods, which 

 are produced in succession, so that some of them may be quite ripe 



and dry at the base of the 

 plant, while flowers continue 

 to appear on the upper part 

 of the stem. The flowering 

 is often prolonged for more 

 than two months. 



Tall Early Large-pod 

 Sugar Pea. — Raised at 

 Verrieres by crossing the 

 Forty Days Edible-podded 

 Pea with the Large Crooked 

 Sugar Pea. It is a tall Pea, 

 but not so tall as its two 

 parents, stakes 3 ft. 3 in. long 

 being quite sufficient for it. 

 The flowers are white, usually 

 solitary, the pods long, broad, 

 and very fleshy, resembling 

 those of the Crooked Sugar 

 Pea. The seeds are very 

 large, round and white. In 

 earliness it comes between 

 the two varieties from which 

 it has sprung. The pods are 

 fit for use even when they 

 are quite fully grown. Like 

 the Crooked Sugar Pea it 

 produces as a rule only soli- 

 tary pods ; but it begins to 

 bloom near to the ground and 

 may thus carry quite a number 

 of tiers of pods, without re- 

 quiring extra long stakes. 

 Tall Butter Sugar Pea. — This variety is very clearly distin- 

 guished from all other kinds of Edible-podded Peas by the swollen 

 appearance of the pods, which very soon grow to be thicker than they 

 are broad They are from 2 to nearly 3 in. long, and the sides, which 

 are very fleshy and succulent, are nearly i of an inch thick. The 

 pods are pretty deeply curved, and are sometimes solitary, but most 

 usually in pairs. The stems grow from 3 J to about 4 ft. high, and are 



Forty Days Edible-podded Pea. 



