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No. 67. Minimum. (Greg. 1883.) 
Synonym. Laxton’ s Minimum. 
Plant about six inches high; foliage pale green; stipules slightly 
glaucous; stem sometimes branched ; nodes rarely more than an inch 
apart ; peduncles, one fourth to one inch long; pods paler than the 
foliage, usually single, one and a half to two inches long, one half 
inch wide, blunt at the apex when fully developed ; peas three to six 
in a pod, pale green, compressed when full grown, tliree-eighths of an 
inch in diameter; seeds creamy white, very much shrivelled, about 
one fourth of an inch in diameter, radical very distinct. An ounce 
contained 181 seeds. : 
Prolific, considering the extreme dwarfness, rather early, maturing © 
its crop very promptly. 
No. 68. Kyigur’s Dwarr Marrow. (Vil.) 
Plant about one and a half feet high; foliage medium; stipules 
slightly glaucous, much, and leaflets slightly washed with white; 
stem stocky, rarely branched; nodes rarely more than two inches 
apart ; peduncles one inch to two inches long; pods very often in 
pairs, paler than the foliage, straight, or slightly recurved, two to 
three inches long, five-eighths of an inch wide, rounding very grad- 
ually to the apex ; peas three to five in a pod, whitish-green, oval, 
compressed when full grown, one-half inch in longest diameter ; 
seeds much flattened and shrivelled, three-eighths of an inch in Jong- 
est diameter, radical rather distinct. An ounce contained eighty- 
eight seeds, 
Not very prolific, medium in season, maturing its crop promptly. 
One of the varieties originated by Thomas Andrew Knight at 
Downton Castle, England, between 1823 and 1828. It was offered 
by Thorburn in 1828. 
** Seeds green, bluish-green, green and cream-colored, or bluish- 
grecn and cream-colored. 
t Seeds smooth, or but slightly indented 
§ Pods straight or nearly so. 
No. 69. Birur Perer. (Thor. 1882.) 
Synonyms. JcLean’s Blue Peter; Blue Tom Thumb. (?) 
Plant ten to sixteen inches in height ; foliage very deep green, 
glaucous, leaves towards the top of the stem much reduced in size, 
with the leaflets closer together, foliage slightly washed with white; 
stem sometimes branched both at the base and above; nodes very 
close ; peduncles one-half inch to two inches long; pods paler than 
the foliage, often in pairs, two to three inches long, five-eighths of 
an inch wide, very blunt at the apex when fully developed ; peas six 
to eight in a pod, whitish-green, ovate, flattened, compressed when 
full grown, about five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter ; seeds dull 
green, bluish-white, or cream-colored, very slightly shrivelled, about 
five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, radical distinct. An ounce 
contained 118 seeds. 
