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ON HYBRIDISING CULINARY PEAS. 
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become a striking decorative subject in a 
choice collection of stove foliage plants. It 
has gained Certificates both from the Royal 
Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies.—M. 
increase the food of these millions, and, there¬ 
fore becomes a public boon. 
In crossing and breeding Peas, I have kept 
in view great productiveness and elegance of 
ARABIA CHABRIEEL 
ON HYBRIDISING CULINARY 
PEAS. 
T would be difficult to overestimate the 
value of the culinary Pea. So much are 
Green Peas esteemed that in most estab¬ 
lishments to have abundance of Peas 
from the beginning of June till the middle 
of October is to have everything, so to 
speak, so that to the person responsible 
for keeping up such a continual supply any 
and every facility is of importance. But it 
would be limiting the value and usefulness of 
the Pea to view it only as an esteemed and 
indispensable vegetable at the table of the rich. 
Both green and in a dry state it forms a very 
important part of the food of millions, so that 
any improvement in its productiveness goes to 
pod, taking for my model Ne Plus Ultra, and 
steadily rejecting all pointed pods like Tele¬ 
graph, Stratagem, &c., except where advantage 
was to be derived in size either of pea or pod. 
Of course in breeding every advance must be 
carefully noted and utilised. No one admires 
those grand Peas that I have just mentioned 
more than I do, and I have taken every advan¬ 
tage of them in ray crossing, endeavouring to 
put their fine qualities into better shape, and 
by increasing the size of the peas to fill the 
pods—for while any part of the pod remains 
unfilled, as is the case in the kinds alluded to, it 
is so much useless tax on the energies of the 
plants. Culverwell’s Giant gives us an advance 
in size of pod, but that too wants filling. 
With the view to accomplish some of the 
