were
gathered for use the 12th of July.

This pea is highly deserving of cultivation as a second early variety.

DILLISTONE'S EARLY. _Cot. Gard._

The plant is of slender habit of growth, produces a single stem two feet
high, and bears, on an average, from seven to nine pods: these are
smaller than those of the Dan O'Rourke, generally single, but
occasionally in pairs, almost straight, and contain seven peas each. The
seed, when ripe, is white.

Sown at the time of the Dan O'Rourke, the plants were a mass of bloom
three days before the last named had commenced blossoming, and the crop
was ready for gathering seven days before the Dan O'Rourke.

This is undoubtedly the earliest pea known, and is quite seven or eight
days earlier than the Dan O'Rourke, which has hitherto been regarded as
the earliest variety. A striking feature of Dillistone's Early is, that
its changes take place at once. It blooms in a mass, its pods all appear
together, and the whole crop is ready to be gathered at the same time.

In the Chiswick Garden, England, where a hundred and sixteen varieties
were experimentally cultivated, during the season of 1860, under the
supervision of Robert Hogg, LL.D., this variety was beginning to die
off, when the Dan O'Rourke was yet green and growing.

DWARF MARROW.

Dwarf White Marrow. Dwarf Marrowfat. Early Dwarf Marrowfat.

Plant from three to four feet in height, generally with a single stem,
but sometimes branching; pods somewhat flattened, generally single, but
sometimes produced in pairs, three inches to three inches and a half
long, three-fourths of an inch broad at the middle, tapering with a
slight but regular curve to both ends, and containing about six
closely-set peas: these are cream-colored and white; the white
prevailing about the eye, and at the union of the two sections of the
pea; not perfectly round, but more or less compressed, slightly
wrinkled, and measuring nearly three-eighths of an inch in diameter.

Planted the 1st of May, the variety blossomed the last of June, and
afforded pease for the table the 15th of July.

The Dwarf Marrow is hardy and productive. Though not so sweet or well
flavored as some of the more recent sorts, its yield is abundant and
long continued; and, for these qualities, it is extensively cultivated.
The variety, however, is rarely found in an unmixed state; much of the
seed sown under this name producing plants of stronger habit of growth
than those