hey ripen. They contain, on an average,
seven peas, which are of a dark olive-green color, rather thick in the
skin, and closely packed; so much so as to be quite flattened on the
sides adjoining.

Sown May 1, the variety blossomed June 28, and pease were gathered for
the table July 17.

This is a very characteristic pea, and may at once be detected from all
others, either by the ripe seed or growing plants, from the peculiar
dark-green color, which, when true, it always exhibits. It is well
adapted for a market-pea; its dark-green color favoring the popular
prejudices.

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EATABLE-PODDED OR SUGAR PEASE.

String-pease. Skinless Pease. Pisum macrocarpum. _Dec._

In this class are included such of the varieties as want the tough,
inner film, or parchment lining, common to the other sorts. The pods are
generally of large size, tender and succulent, and are used in the green
state like string-beans; though the seeds may be used as other pease,
either in the green state or when ripe. "When not ripe, the pods of some
of the sorts have the appearance of being swollen or distended with air;
but, on ripening, they become much shrivelled, and collapse closely on
the seeds." The varieties are not numerous, when compared with the
extensive catalogue of the kinds of the Common Pea offered for sale by
seedsmen, and described by horticultural writers. The principal are the
following:--

COMMON DWARF SUGAR. _Law. Vil._

Dwarf Crooked-podded Sugar.

Stalk about two feet high, dividing into branches when cultivated in
good soil; flower white; pods single or in pairs, six-seeded, three
inches long by five-eighths of an inch broad, crooked or jointed-like
with the seeds, as in all of the Sugar Pease, very prominent, especially
on becoming ripe and dry; pea fully a fourth of an inch in diameter,
white, and slightly wrinkled.

The variety is quite late. Sown the beginning of May, the plants
blossomed the last week in June, and pods were gathered for use July 17.

It is prolific, of good quality as a shelled-pea, and the young pods are
tender and well flavored.

EARLY DWARF DUTCH SUGAR. _Vil._

Early Dwarf de Grace.

Plant about twenty inches high, branching; leaves of medium size,
yellowish-green; flowers white; pods two inches and three-quarters in
length, half an inch wide, somewhat sickle-shaped, swollen on the sides,
flattened at the lower end, and containing five or six peas,