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rather slender and long jointed. The leaves are of a rather dark 

 green, with whitish veins, and are almost devoid of spots. The 

 flowers, large and white, are only solitary at the base and at the top 

 of the stem. The stalks which bear the pods are slender, very stiff, 

 and of medium length. Owing to the great thickness of the sides 

 or walls of the pods, they do not bulge with the swelling of the 

 peas, as is the case with most other varieties of Edible-podded Peas. 

 The peas are white, very 

 round, and rather large. 

 This variety is almost 

 as early as the Ruelle 

 Michaux Pea. In the 

 growth of the pod of 

 the Butter Pea, as in the 

 Edible-podded Peas in 

 general, the soft portion 

 or parenchyma of the 

 pod seems to develop at 

 the expense of the parch- 

 ment-like membrane, 

 which is wholly wanting. 

 There is, however, this 

 difference between the 

 pod of the Butter Pea 

 and those of all other 

 Edible - podded kinds, 

 that it is the thickness 

 or depth of the pod which 

 takes on the greatest 

 development, while in 

 the other kinds, as, for 

 example, the Large 

 Crooked Sugar Pea and 

 the Giant Sugar Pea, it 

 is the breadth of the pod 

 which is enlarged. 



Tall Green-seeded 

 Sugar Pea. — A very productive variety raised in Brittany. The 

 stem is stout, about ft. high, bearing the pods pretty high 

 up, in five or six tiers and in pairs. The pods are thin, 2\ to 

 2f in. long, not very fleshy, but free from membrane, and contain 

 six to eight small, round, quite green, smooth or very slightly 

 wrinkled peas. A late variety, remarkable for its abundant and 

 prolonged production 



Large Crooked, or Scimitar, Sugar Pea {Pois Come de Belier), 

 — A tali climbing variety, 4 to over 4J ft. high. Stem of medium 



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Tall Early Large-pod Sugar Pea. 



