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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Under the name of White- flowered and White-podded Sugar 

 Pea, a variety is grown in Germany which is very late, very 

 branching, with stems from 5 to 6 ft. high, almost white or wax 

 yellow in colour, and bearing large broad leaves of a light green 

 colour ; the stipules are marked with a circle of the same purple 

 colour as the stem at the place where they clasp it. The flowers 

 are in pairs and pure white ; they do not commence to bloom 

 before about the sixteenth joint of the stem. The pods are 

 straight, pointed at the end, about 3 in. long, and pale yellow, 

 almost butter-colour ; they contain seven or eight peas, which are 

 white and round when ripe. This is a rather productive variety, 

 but very late and of only middling quality. It is very liable to 

 degenerate, and then has green stems and pods. 



B. Half-Dwarf and Dwarf Varieties 



Early Dwarf Brittany Sugar Pea. — A half-dwarf variety, 

 from 2 to 2 J ft. high. Leaves rather slight, small, and gray and 



glaucous green ; stem 

 rather short jointed to- 

 wards the base ; flowers 

 white, medium - sized, 

 usually in pairs, and 

 commencing to bloom 

 at about the twelfth 

 joint of the stem, im- 

 mediately below which 

 there are generally two 

 branches of no great 

 size, bearing from two 

 to four tiers of pods 

 which are most com- 

 monly solitary. The 

 main stem ordinarily 

 carries from seven to 

 ten tiers of pods, which 

 are produced in pairs, 

 are of a pale, grayish, 

 green colour, and are 

 not much over 2 in. in 

 length ; they are narrow, 

 tolerably swollen and 

 fleshy, quite free from 

 membrane, each con- 

 taining from five to 



Early Dwarf Brittany Sugar Pea. Pods (natural size). Seven white peas, of 



