. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. .-•'^i^u^^^iS^''^ confess I have no appetite for the Black-Eyed Marrowfats, and others of that class, and do not want it on my table, so long as I can just as well have wrinkled sorts, that are as much superior to them as cream is to skim-milk. Besides this the wrinkled sorts have larger and better-filled pods, and peas of very much Cultural Directions.—233 larger size, while the plants perhaps are only 12 or 18 inches high. Our children, for instance, would pick thiee baskets of ' Stratagem, or Yorkshire Hero, etc., as quickly and easily as
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. .-•'^i^u^^^iS^''^ confess I have no appetite for the Black-Eyed Marrowfats, and others of that class, and do not want it on my table, so long as I can just as well have wrinkled sorts, that are as much superior to them as cream is to skim-milk. Besides this the wrinkled sorts have larger and better-filled pods, and peas of very much Cultural Directions.—233 larger size, while the plants perhaps are only 12 or 18 inches high. Our children, for instance, would pick thiee baskets of ' Stratagem, or Yorkshire Hero, etc., as quickly and easily as they could fill one of the Black-Eyed Marrowfats. Earliest of All, Maule's Improved Extra Early.—These two sorts are the only ones of the very early smooth kind, with which I have been entirely pleased. Pods are good-sized and well-filled, and the peas of very good quality. A few days earlier than Little Gem, and decidedly prolific. Good for both market and home use. Alaska, Daniel O'Rourke, Philadelphia Extra Early, First and Best.—In these we have other and very popular market Bliss' Everbearing. varieties of the first early smooth class. All of this kind are somewhat similar in general characteristics, and grow from i % to 2 feet high. Black-Eyed Marrowfat.— Very popular with farmers for general use, and as a field variety. Good bearer; pods large and well-filled. A late, smooth variety. Blue Peter, McLean's Blue Peter, Blue Imperial, Dwarf Blue Imperial, Blue Beauty.—These blue- seeded smooth varieties bear numerous and well-filled pods ; and the peas are large and handsome, but not equal in flavor to the wrinkled Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Greiner, Tuisco, 1846-. Philadelphia : Wm. Henry Maule
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