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PEAS— EARLY WRINKLED KINDS 
A MONG these we find sorts of truly superlative 
quality and of so thoroughbred character that they 
seldom disappoint. Little Marvel is all the name implies. 
Within sixty days from sowing seeds the sturdy eighteen 
to twenty-four-inch vines will bear, on an average, eight 
pods, produced in pairs. They are three inches long and 
are tightly filled with seven large peas of superb flavor, 
yielding about eight quarts of pods per fifteen-foot row. 
Sutton’s Excelsior (illustrated above) yields four-inch 
pods a week later. It grows slightly taller than Little 
Marvel and is, perhaps, the heaviest yielder of pods in 
this class, ten quarts for every fifteen feet of row being the 
average record. Sutton s Excelsior has light green pods 
and peas. About five days later sees Thomas Laxton 
at its best. This is the most thoroughbred American 
sort to date. Borne on three-foot vines, the pods some- 
what resemble those of Sutton’s Excelsior , but both 
pods and peas are dark green. 
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