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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



list of some of the best and most popular varieties of Garden Peas 

 previously in cultivation : — 



Popular Garden Peas in 



Early varieties. 

 ♦Dillestone's Earlj' - , Ringleader 



Double-blossomed Frame 

 ♦Sangster's No. 1, Daniel O'Rourke 



Early Emperor 



Danecroft Rival, or Early Dane- 

 croft 

 *Advancer 



Tom Thumb 

 ♦Little Gem (?) 



Second early varieties. 

 *Prizetaker, Defiance, Rising Sun, 

 or Bellamy's Green Marrow 

 Dickson's Favorite 

 ♦Champion of England 

 Auvergne 



FairbeardsSurprise and Fortyf old 

 ♦Harrison's Glory and Perfection 



Burbidge's Eclipse 

 *Blue Prussian 



Cultivation about 1864. 



Main- crop varieties. 

 ♦Blue Scimitar 



♦Bedman's Imperial, Imperial Blue 



Woodford Marrow 



James' Prolific 

 ♦Veitch's Perfection 

 ♦Yorkshire Hero, Hair's Dwarf 

 Mammoth 



Late varieties. 

 ^British Queen, Ward's Incompar- 

 able 



Tall Green Mammoth 

 ♦Ne Plus Ultra, Jeyes' Conqueror, 



General Wyndham 

 ♦Knight's Tall White Marrow 

 ♦Knight's Dwarf White and Green 



Marrows 



and out of these I believe the varieties marked with an asterisk (*) 

 are still grown on a considerable scale, and that few only in the 

 list have become altogether displaced. 



Comparing the above with the recent introductions referred 

 to, it will be seen that we have added to our useful Peas good 

 first early round and wrinkled blue-seeded varieties, a good 

 early indented green marrow, and several fine early dwarf 

 wrinkled and round varieties for garden and market culture. 



Amongst second earlies we have gained both in size and fill- 

 ing of the pods, and in fertility and hardiness. In the main- 

 crop sorts perfection in size and beauty of pod has been nearly 

 approached, and in the direction of new late Peas we have reduced 

 the height without loss of quality, by the introduction of the 

 dwarf er types of Ne Plus Ultra, and in the British Queen race 

 we have advanced somewhat in earliness and size of pod. Great 

 further gains have doubtless been obtained in the fine varieties 

 recently certificated by this Society, but whose good qualities 

 have not yet been fully realised ; and although it has often been 

 urged that we are getting too many new Peas, it is necessary 

 that a good many should be brought forth, in order that, after 

 a crucial trial of years, which can only be carried out by the 

 public as consumers and by growers in quantity, the fittest 



