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during very large pods, -well filled, and is an excellent Pea, earlier than, and an improvement 
on, Bishop’s Long-podded. 
Sudbury A 1 and Nutting's No. 1 are identical. It is a very excellent Early "White 
wrinkled Marrow, about 18 inches high, throe days earlier than Alliance (which with Climax 
and Epicurean is superseded), and with larger and better-filled pods. 
Mr. Laxton lias raised several hybrid varieties of great promise. Alpha , 
obtained by crossing Laxton’s Prolific Long-pod with Advancer, is a wonder¬ 
ful Pea, as early as Dillistone’s Early, but a blue wrinkled Marrow, with 
immense pods curved at the point like the Auvergne, the Peas large, of a 
deep green colour, about 2 feet 6 inches high, not branching. Laxton's 
Quality , a seedling from Laxton’s Prolific and Little Gem, is another 
wonderfully fine Pea, a second early blue wrinkled, with immense pods of 
a pale green colour, 4 feet high. Laxton's Manifold , of the same parentage 
as Alpha, is a second early green Marrow, with very large, long, deep green 
pods, about 4 feet high. Laxton's Supreme , a seedling from Prolific and 
Little Gem, is a second early green Marrow, with the longest pod of any 
Pea in the collection, of a deep green colour, nine and ten Peas hi the pod, 
about 4 feet high, and prolific. When permanently fixed, these Peas, and 
others in Mr. Laxton’s hands, will be most valuable acquisitions. 
Maclean's Advancer, a green wrinkled Marrow, 2 feet 6 inches in height, about seven 
days later than Sangster’s No. 1, is one of the finest and most productive Peas in cultivation, 
bearing a great profusion of long, not particularly broad, but remarkably well-filled pods 
from the ground upwards; there are from seven to nine Peas in each pod of excellent quality. • 
Princess of Wales is very similar in appearance to Advancer, but several days later, the pods 
rather smaller ; very prolific; the ripe seed of a very light green colour. Prince of Wales, 
a green wrinkled Marrow, 3 feet in height, is very similar to the preceding, prolific, a few 
days earlier, and with smaller pods than Veitch’s Perfection. 
Veitch's Perfection, a green wrinkled Marrow, is a first-class Pea, about 3 feet 6 inches 
in height. Sown at the same time, it comes into use three weeks after Sangster’s No. 1. The 
pods are very large, broad, of a beautiful green colour, with from seven to nine large Peas in 
each, of very fine quality. The leaves are large, the whole plant of a somewhat gross 
and succulent character, and rather tender. "When this Pea succeeds well there are few to 
equal it; but in cold wet seasons and poor soils it is comparatively worthless. Lord Palmer¬ 
ston, Laxton's Leader, and Laxton's Champion are all very near this. Hairs' Dwarf Mammoth 
is its parent stock, and is inferior. Maclean's Hero is a few days earlier and dwarfer, and is 
a prolific and very good Pea. Dixon's Yorkshire Hero is very similar to Maclean’s Hero. 
Maclean's Premier is a green wrinkled Marrow, about 3 feet 6 inches high, a few days 
later than, and not of such a succulent growth as Yeitch’s Perfection ; a very great cropper, 
the pods of a large size, seven to nine Peas in each, of very excellent quality; a first-class 
Pea, said to be Dr. Maclean’s best. Smithies appears to be an indifferent stock of it or of 
Yeitch’s Perfection. 
The Prince (Stuart & Mein), is a green wrinkled Marrow, with a fine vigorous consti¬ 
tution, about 3 feet 6 inches high, a few days later than Yeitch’s Perfection; it is an 
abundant bearer, with large and well-filled pods, containing from seven to nine Peas in 
each; a most excellent Pea. 
Maclean's Wonderful is a white wrinkled Marrow, about 3 feet in height, fourteen days 
later than Sangster’s No. 1 ; it is a wonderfully profuse bearer, the pods are large and well 
filled, with from seven to eight Peas in each of excellent quality; a first- class Pea, with a 
fine vigorous constitution. Prolific (Turner), a white wrinkled Marrow, is rather dwarfer 
than Wonderful, about the same in point of earliness, a very abundant bearer, and of ex¬ 
cellent quality. Nelson's Vanguard (Sutton), is a small-podded white wrinkled Marrow, 
earlier than Alliance, about 18 inches in height, very prolific, but not well filled. 
Fairbeard 's Nonpareil, a white wrinkled Marrow, is a very distinct variety, about 5 feet 
in height, and a great bearer, the pods long and narrow, with seven to nine rather small 
Peas in each, packed exceedingly close together. The dried Peas are a very distinct sample 
of a brownish white colour, rather small, and so regular that they look as if they had been 
squared in a mould. 
Champion of England, an old and well-known much-esteemed green wrinkled Marrow, 
5 to 6 feet in height; when sown at the same time as Sangster’s No. 1, it comes into use 
fourteen days after it. Forty fold and Fairbeard's Forty fold are identical, three or four days 
later, and with somewhat larger pod than the Champion of England, and evidently selected 
from that variety. 
