EDIBLE-PODDED, OR SUGAR, PEAS 531 



other, sometimes known as the Lyons variety, is not quite so tall, 

 is five or six days earlier, and the pods are generally solitary, 

 but large and very fleshy. 



Melting Saint - Desirat 

 Pea. — An excellent and 

 beautiful Pea. It resembles 

 a Scimitar Sugar Pea, ex- 

 cepting that it is straight- 

 podded. The pods are very 

 large, tender, thick, fleshy, 

 swelling long before the seed 

 is fully developed. 



Giant Very Large- 

 Podded Sugar Pea. — A 

 climbing variety with large, 

 broad, light-coloured leaves. 

 Stems tinged with purple, 

 and usually from 3 J to 4 J ft. 

 high; flowers purplish, some- 

 times solitary and sometimes 

 in pairs ; pods very large, 

 pale green, very much twisted, 

 sometimes over 6 in. in 

 length and more than i in. 

 broad. The two sides or 

 halves of the pod are 

 generally, as it were, glued 

 together, with no space be- 

 tween them except that 

 which is completely filled 

 by the peas, the positions of 

 which are distinctly marked 

 on the outside of the pod, 

 where it bulges over each 

 pea. Each pod contains 

 from six to ten large peas, 

 slightly angular or flattened 

 in shape, and light green 

 in colour, turning to gray 

 finely spotted with brown- 

 red when ripe. The main 

 stem carries from six to 

 eight tiers of pods, and the 

 branches, which are usually two or three in number, have hardly 

 half that number. The pods of this variety are best for table 

 use when young, as when they are near ripening both they and 



Pods of Large Crooked, or Scimitar, 

 Sugar Pea (natural size). 



