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branching ; pods large, broadening towards the end ; pea medium- 

 sized, wrinkled, and green. 



Telegraph. — This variety comes near Telephone, but is distinct 

 It grows 4 ft. high, and bears very numerous long, broad pods, con- 

 taining large peas, which, when cooked, are a deep green colour 

 and of excellent flavour. 



The Sherwood. — A dwarf kind, with broad leaves ; pods 

 straight, dark green, well filled ; seed green and wrinkled. 



Wem. — A late sort, 3 ft. in height, producing an abundance 

 of thick pods, solitary or in pairs ; seed wrinkled, oblong, and 

 light green. 



Yorkshire Hero. — Half-dwarf, bearing on the top of the stems 

 broad short pods ; seed large, green, flattened, wrinkled, and of 

 good quality. 



German Varieties 



Buchsbaum-Erbse. — A very dwarf Shelling Pea, rather like the 

 Brittany Dwarf Pea, but coming in a little earlier and having some- 

 what larger pods. The name is also applied to a very dwarf and 

 thick-set Edible-podded Pea. 



Grosse Graue Florentiner Zucker-Erbse. — This variety is almost 

 exactly the same as the old Giant Sugar Pea. It is a very tall, 

 somewhat late kind, and usually produces flowers in pairs. The 

 pods are nearly the same size as those of the Large Crooked Sugar 

 Pea, and are generally straighter than those of the Giant Sugar Pea, 

 which is now commonly grown, and which has been already described. 



Pois Jaune dOr de Blocksberg. — A Shelling Pea, rather like the 

 White Scimitar Pea, but of a more slender habit of growth, not 

 quite so tall, and somewhat earlier. It is particularly distinguished 

 by the wax-yellow tint of its pods and fresh peas, but as a fine 

 green colour is generally looked for in Peas, this is a defect. 



Kapuziner-Erbse. — In Germany, and especially in Holland, this 

 name is given to all kitchen-garden peas which have red flowers, 

 and is chiefly applied to the Edible-podded Peas, as these are 

 almost the only kinds with coloured flowers which are grown. 

 There are both climbing and dwarf varieties of these peas. 



Ruhm von Cassel Erbse. — A variety very closely allied to the 

 White Scimitar Pea, and might almost be considered identical with 

 it, only that its pods are straighter or less curved than those of 

 that kind. 



Friihe HeinricEs Zucker-Erbse. — A climbing Sugar Pea, of 

 moderate height, rather like the Ruelle Michaux Pea. Flowers 

 often solitary. A good and rather early variety, but not so 

 productive as the good half-dwarf kinds, such as the Brittany 

 Sugar Pea. 



