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Regs SS O55” 
inches long ; pods same color as foliage, two to four inches long, five- 
eighths of an inch wide, shortest and usually single toward the base 
of the plant, frequently in pairs toward the top, tapering gradually 
to the apex ; peas one to eight in a pod; the pods toward the base 
usually very poorly filled, pale green, flattened, ovate, about one- 
half inch in longest diameter; seeds much shrivelled and flattened, 
showing two shades of cream color, about three-eighths of an inch 
in longest diameter, radical obscure. An ounce contained eighty- 
six seeds. 
‘Prolific, rather late, maturing its crop very slowly. Introduced 
prior to 1868. (Gar. Chron.) 
No. 36. Laxton’s Marvet. (Thor. 1882.) 
Plant two to three feet high; foliage ample, often wavy, rather 
deep, slightly bluish green ; stipules slightly glaucous, little washed 
with white; stem medium to large, often branched at the base and 
» above; nodes rarely more than three inches apart; peduncles one- 
half inch to two inches long, remarkably strong; pods often in pairs, 
paler than the foliage, three to three:and a half (rarely four) inches 
long, five-eighths of an inch wide, rounding gradually to the apex ; 
peas six to nine (rarely ten and eleven) in a pod, whitish green, slightly 
flattened, somewhat compressed when full grown, nearly one-half- 
inch in longest diameter; seeds shaded toward white, slightly ob- 
long, flattened, thickest toward the hilum, about seven-sixteenths 
of an inch in longest diameter, radical obscure.. An ounce contained 
eighty seeds. 
Prolific, late, maturing its crop rather promptly. 
** Seeds green, bluish green, green and cream colored, or bluish 
green and cream colored. 
t Seeds smooth or but slightly indented. 
§ Pods straight or nearly so. 
No. 87. Eartresr or Aut. (Thor. 1882.) 
Synonym. Lazton’s Harliest of All. 
Plant about two feet high, lacking in vigor; foliage light green ; 
ieaflets and stipules rather small, stipules very slightly washed with 
white; stem very slender, sometimes branched; nodes rarely more 
than-four inches apart ; peduncles one and a half to six inches long ; 
pods paler than the foliage, usually single, two to two and a haif 
inches long, one-half of an inch wide, blunt at the apex when fully 
developed; peas three to five in a pod, pale green, roundish, com- 
pressed when full grown, three-cighths of an inch in diameter ; seeds 
dull pale bluish green, shading to nearly white, about one-fourth of 
an inch in diameter, radical distinct. An ounce contained 142 seeds. 
Not prolific, but remarkably early, maturing its crop very 
promptly. | 
Introduced about the year 1881, by Thomas Laxton, of Bedford, 
England. 
