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Selected from Hair’s Dwarf Mammoth. Introduced prior to 1865. 
(Gar. Chron.) : 
§§ Pods more or less recurved. 
No. 16. ComMANDER-IN-CHIEF. (Greg. 1883.) 
Synotiym. Carter’s Commander. in-chief. 
Plant about four feet high; foliage ample, rather deep-green, 
scarcely glaucous, or washed with white; stem slightly angular, 
often branched at base, rarely above; nodes rarely more than four 
inches apart ; peduncles one to three inches long ; pods of the same 
shade as the foliage, usually single, two to three inches long, one- 
half inch wide, blunt at the apex when fully developed; peas six to 
eight in a pod, pale-green, slightly oblong, compressed when full- 
grown, three-eighths of an inch in longest diameter ; seeds pale-green, 
shading to cream colored or bluish-white, much shrivelled, about 
one-quarter of an inch in longest diameter. An ounce contained 122 
seeds. | 
Not very prolific, late, maturing its crop very slowly. 
New in this country in 1877. 
No. 17. Kyieut’s Tart Marrow. (YVil.) | 
Synonym. (Fr.) Pois de Knight, P. ridé de Knight sucré, P. 
du Brézu. (Vil.) 
Plant five feet or more in height; foliage medium, stipules 
slightly glaucous, washed with white; stem little branched; nodes 
seldom exceeding three inches apart ; peduncles one-half inch to one 
and a half inches long; pods slightly paler than the foliage, very 
often in pairs, slightly recurved, blunt at the apex when fully de- 
veloped,two to three inches long, five-eighths of an inch wide, plump; 
peas four to seven in a pod, whitish-green, squared by compression 
when full grown, about seven sixteenths of an inch in diameter ; seeds 
creamy-white, very much shrivelled, averaging about three-eighths 
of an inch in diameter, radical obscure. An ounce contained 100 
seeds. 
Not prolific, very late, maturing its crop remarkably slowly. 
Originated with Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., of Downton 
Castle, England. Offered by Thorburn in 1828. . 
Class B, Half Dwarf; plant two to four feet high under average 
conditions. 
* Seeds cream-colored or white. 
+ Seeds smooth or but slightly indented. 
§ Pods straight, or nearly so. 
No. 18. Puitapeipaia. (Thor., 1882.) 
Synonym. Philadelphia Extra Early, Extra Karly Philadel-— 
phia, Cleveland's First and Best, Cleveland's Rural New Yorker, 
Dexter, Thorburn’s Extra Early Market, Landreth’s Extra Early, 
Kerry's First and Best, Sibley’s First and Best, Thorburn’s First 
and Best, Henderson’s First of All, Hancock. 
Plant one and a half to three feet high; foliage scanty, light- 
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