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were passed over by the Committee as inferior to the sorts named 
above, it is unnecessary to describe them. Some few sorts did 
not flower. 
EEPOET ON THE VAEIETIES OE THE aAEDEN-PEA 
aEOWN AT CHISWICK DUEING 1872. 
By Dr. Hogg. 
It is now twelve years since the last trial of peas was made by 
the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Society ; and since then 
there have been many additional varieties introduced, some of 
which have been proved to be distinct, and some to be merely old 
varieties under new names. 
What has been very observable in the trial of which this is 
the Eeport, is, the great degeneration in character and quality 
of some of the older varieties, which, in the trial of 1860, were 
the most choice. This is attributable to the varying tendency 
of peas, if the seed saved for the preservation of the variety is 
not very closely and very carefully selected. It is not, however, 
to be thought that these older and choice varieties have become 
extinct. They still exist under other names, which have been 
given to them by those who have bestowed upon them the care 
necessary to preserve their original character. But there is no 
reason why the old name should be abandoned in respect of these 
pure stocks. Much more reason is there that it should be so in 
regard to the spurious and degenerate sorts that are still permitted 
to be grown under the original name, and which have no semblance 
whatever to the true variety. 
In the preparation of this Eeport this view of the subjecthas been 
followed, and those varieties which have been presented under new 
names, but which are merely pure stocks of an older variety, have 
been included as synonyms. 
It has been considered unnecessary to repeat the descriptions 
and figures of those varieties already reported on in vol. i. of the 
Proceedings of the Society ; but to show the corresponding and 
correlative dates of the various stages of growth of all the varieties 
grown in this trial, these only have been given, the descrip- 
tions and figures being found in the volume alluded to. 
