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to the apex; peas four to eight in a pod, pale green, ovate, com- 
pressed about one-half inch in longest diameter; seeds dull green, 
shading in specimens to:creamy white, somewhat shrivelled, fully 
three-eighths of an inch in longest diameter. An ounce contained 
seventy-two seeds. 
Moderately prolific, medium in season, maturing its crop rather 
oradually. : 
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No. 79. Srraracem. (Sib. 1883.) 
Synonym. Carters Stratagem. 
Plant about one and a half feet high; foliage rather abundant, 
remarkably compact toward the top of the stem, more or less waved 
and twisted, deep green, washed with white towards the base of the 
plant ; stem remarkably strong, angular, often branched above, rarely 
below ; nodes rarely exceeding two inches apart, very close towards 
the top of the plant; peduncles one-half inch to two inches long, 
very strong; pods same color as the foliage, usually single, often 
somewhat irregular in shape, two and a half to four inches long, 
three-fourths.to seven-eighths of an inch wide, rounding very grad- 
ually to the apex; peas four to nine in a pod, very pale green, 
‘slightly oblong, much compressed when full grown, about one-half 
inch in longest diameter; seeds pale green, shading in specimens to 
creamy white, much flattened and shrivelled, fully three-eighths of 
an inch in longest diameter. An ounce contained eighty-one seeds. 
Originated with Carter & Co., England. The Telephone is said 
to be one parent. The other is not known. (Rural New Yorker.) 
88 Pods more or less recurved. 
No. 80. McLran’s Dwarr Prottiric. (Lan.) : 
Plant one and a half to two feet high; foliage dark green, glau- 
cous, more or less washed with white; stem stocky, sometimes 
branched at the base, often above; nodes rarely more than two 
inches apart; peduncles one-half to two inches long, pods paler than 
the foliage, usually in pairs, two to two and a half inches long, one- 
half inch wide, very plump, rather blunt at the apex when fully de- 
veloped; peas four to seven in a pod, pale green, slightly oblong, 
much compressed when full grown, nearly half an inch in longest 
diameter ; seeds pale green or cream-colored, much shrivelled, nearly 
three-eighths of an inch in diameter, radical rather obscure. An 
ounce contained 108 seeds. 
Moderately prolific, rather late, maturing its crop promptly. 
Originated with Dr. Mc Lean of Colchester, balan prior to 
1865. (Gar. Chron.) pi 
CLASSIFICATION OF THE VARrETIES OF P. * MAcrocaRPoN, THE EDIBLE 
Poppep Pra. 
As the varieties of P.*macrocarpon are not numerous, we are 
able to make their classification more simple than those of P.*sati- 
vum. We divide the varieties first according to the height 
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