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From the results noted in the table it appears that the pods of Lax- 
ton’s Karliest of All was earliest, furnishing peas fit for table use in 61 
days, and that those of Laxton’s Omega and Veitch’s Perfection were ~~ 
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latest, being fit for the table in eighty-six days. McLean’s Premier _ 
continued fit for table use during thirty-three days, the longest time 
noted, while those of Early Alpha were fit for use but nine days. 
Ferry’s Extra Early, Thorburn’s First and Best and Ferry’s First 
and Best ripened their entire crop in eighty-four days from planting, 
while Carter’s Little Wonder required 122 days to ripen its latest pods. 
McLean’s Premier was most prolific both in pods and peas, yielding - 
4,637 pods on 100 plants, and averaging 698 grains of ripe peas per 
plant. The American. Wonder was least prolific, yielding but300 pods ~ 
on 100 plants, and averaging but forty-four grains of ripe peas per 
plant. We should state in justice to the latter variety that it was the 
most dwarf of any tested, the “ Minimum” excepted, which accounts for 
its light yield. Were the rows planted as closely as the height would 
admit, the yield upon a given area would probably not be less than in 
other varieties of equal earliness. 
Brown’s New Dwarf Early Marrowfat contained the largest number 
of peas to the pod, and Hair’s Dwarf Green Marrow the smallest. 
Seeds of two wrinkled varieties were sent us for trial by Messrs. B. 
K. Bliss & Sons of New York, under the names “A. No. 1,” and 
‘© A. No. 2.” We-have not reported them, as but one plant of each 
variety vegetated. 
Seeds of three varieties from Japan were sent to us by Messrs. Hiram 
Sibley & Co., under the names “ Bari,” ‘‘ Narosis” and ‘* Volo.” 
The first two failed, of the third, two seeds vegetated. The plants 
were of a distinct species from the common garden pea; and in ap- 
pearence resembled the vetch. They were identified as the Chick Pea, 
Cicer arietinum, L. | 
On May-12th we made a second planting, sixty-three so-called varie- 
ties, of which fifty-eight were duplicates of the first planting. Com- 
paring the results of the two planting, we find differences which we 
cannotexplain. Wenote, forexample, that the second planting showed 
a decidedly smaller percentage of vegetation than did the first, although 
the seed was in most cases taken from the same packages. ‘This vari- 
ance, which was far from uniform in the different varieties, amounted 
upon the average to twenty-three per cent., although two varieties 
vegetated better in the second planting than in the first. 
We find that the order of the edible maturity in the varieties of the 
two plantings does not entirely agree. Thus, of the second planting, 
Carter’s First Crop, Daniel O’Rourke, Laxton’s Karliest of All, Early 
Alpha, Cleveland’s First and Best, Sibley’s First and Best, Hancock 
and Philadelphia Extra Early, were all noted at edible maturity on 
June 30. On July 1, we noted American Wonder, Blue Peter, Hen- 
derson’s First of All, Ferry’s Extra Early, and Ferry’s First and Best. 
Kentish Invicta was noted July 3. 

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