No. 33.) pon 961 
No. 52. Witson (Vil.) 
Synonym. G. /. Wilson pea (Vil.) 
Plant two to three feet high; foliage deep green ; stipules usually 
neither glaucous nor washed with white; stem stocky, angular, 
sometimes branched at the base and above ; nodes rarely more than 
three inches apart; peduncles one-half inch to two and a half inches 
long; pods scarcely paler than the foliage, usually in pairs, some- 
times slightly recurved, often poorly filled, two to three inches long, 
five eighths of an inch wide, rounding gradually to the apex, plump 
when well filled; peas four to seven ina pod, whitish green, oblong, 
sometimes compressed when full grown, rather more than one-half 
inch in longest diameter ; seeds mostly cream colored, occasionally 
pale bluish green, flattened, much shrivelled, fully three-eighths of 
an inch in longest diameter, radical obscure. An ounce contained 
seventy-one seeds. 
Rather prolific, late, maturing its crop very gradually. 
No. 53. Yorxsuirre Hero. (Sib. 1883.) 
Synonyms. Zurner’s Wonderful, Carter's Prince of Wales, 
Carter's Princess of Wales, McLean's Favorite. (Gar. Chron.) 
Plant two to three feet high; foliage abundant, deep green; 
stipules somewhat glaucous, usually washed with white ; stem often 
branched at the base and above ; nodes rarely more than two inches 
apart ; peduncles one and a half to two, inches long; pods paler than 
the foliage, often in pairs, two and a half to three inches long, about 
five-eighths of an inch wide, not very well filled, tapering gradually 
to the apex; peas three to five in a pod, whitish green, slightly flat- 
tened, one-half inch in longest diameter ; seeds pale green, shading 
to nearly white, very much shrivelled, flattened, fully three-eighths 
of an inch in longest diameter, radical obscure. An ounce contained 
seventy seeds. 
Very prolific, late, maturing its crop rather promptly. 
No. 54. Lirrre Wonper> (Fer. 1883.) 
Synonym. Carter's Little Wonder. 
Plant two to three feet high; stipules slightly glancous; stem 
branched at the base, rarely above; nodes rarely more than two 
inches apart ; peduncles two to tour inches long; pods paler than 
the foliage, frequently in pairs, three to four inches long, three- 
fourths of an inch wide, rather blunt at the apex when fully devel- 
oped; peas four to seven in a pod, ovate, whitish green, compressed — 
when full grown, fully one-half inch in longest diameter; seeds pale 
green, bluish white or cream colored, much flattened and shrivelled, 
three-eighths of an inch in longest diameter, radical not very distinct. 
An ounce contained seventy-nine seeds. 
_ Very prolific and very late, maturing its crop very gradually. 
Introduced into this country about 1878. 
No. 55. Omeca. (Hen. 1883.) 
Synonym. Lazton’s Omega. 
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