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The results of the past season would lead us to recommend the 
American Wonder as an early pea both for market and garden culture, 
This variety is claimed to be a cross between McLean’s LittleGem and 
Champion of England, produced by Mr. Charles Arnold of Canada, 
The plant is from six to ten inches high, erect, frequently branched 
at the base; foliage dark green; flower stems very short. ‘The first 
blossom appears at about the sixth joint, but when the earlier pods 
are picked green later blossoms appear clear to the ground. The pods, 
about five to the plant, are two and a half inches long by five-eighths 
wide, containing from four to eight roundish slightly flattened pease, 
one-third of an inch in diameter. The ripe pease are light green or 
cream-colored, three-eighths of an inch in longest diameter, much 
wrinkled. In earliness it was surpassed by very few, and in quality 
by none. Owing to its extremely dwarf habit, the rows,*p!anted but 
two feet apart, gave ample room for picking. | 
Of the later varieties none were so productive, considering the height 
of the plant, as Hair’s Green Dwarf Marrow. It grows but two feet high, 
is stocky and much branched both at the bottom and above. On one 
plant we noted nine terminal shoots from a single seed. Ten plants 
in order averaged 32 pods to the plant. Pods three inches long by 
five-eighths wide, containing from five to seven oval, flattened, much 
compressed pease, five-twelfths of an inch long by half an inch wide. 
Ripe pease light green or cream-colored ; three-eighths of an inch in 
longest diameter, flattened, much wrinkled. In our test this variety 
was bushed, but we think it sufficiently dwarf to thrive without 
bushing. 
Of the latter tall-growing sorts none were more satisfactory than 
Champion of England and McLean’s Advancer, both of which pro- 
duce pease in great abundance and of excellent quality. Laxton’s 
Marvel and Culverwell’s Telegraph are remarkable for the length of 
their pods, which are from three to four inches long, and which con- 
tain eight or nine, and rarely ten and eleven pease. In our test they 
were not strikingly productive. 
Our list included four varieties of the sugar or edible pod pease. 
The pods picked when quite young and cooked in the same manner as 
string beans make a palatable dish. The flavor is neither like that of 
the ordinary pea nor bean, and is perhaps slightly inferior to both, but 
as helping to form a variety they are quite acceptable. 
While making examinations of the growing pease during June and 
July, the pea-weevil Bruchus Pisi, L. was often found concealed 
within the blossoms, and after the crop had ripened it appeared that 
a large proportion of the seeds were infested with this insect. In Sep- 
tember the full-grown weevils were found crawling out of the pack- 
ages of pease gathered for seed, and examination showed that the 
greater part of the larve had developed into perfect insects, many of 
which had emerged from their cells. 
The pea-weevil is supposed to be a native of the United States, and 
appears to have been first noticed in Pennsylvania, whence it has 
gradually spread through the Middle and Eastern States. It is a small 
oval beetle, rather more than a tenth of an inch long, of a rusty black 
color. While the pods are young and tender the beetles deposit their 
tiny eggs singly in punctures upon their surfaces. This is done mostly 
during the night or in cloudy weather. The grubs, as soon as they 
