Plant three feet in height, of robust growth; foliage dark-green; pods narrow, nearly straight, but exceedingly well filled, containing seven or eight peas of medium size, which, when ripe, are small, smooth, and of a bluish-green color.
Planted May 1, the variety will flower about July 1, and the pods will be fit for use the middle of the month.
The variety withstands drought well, and the pods hang long before the peas become too hard for use. It is an excellent pea for a second crop.
Beck's Prize-Taker. Trans.
Prize-taker. Rising Sun.
Plant four and a half to five feet in height; pods roundish, curved or hooked near the end, well filled, containing seven to eight middle-sized peas of a fine green color when young, and mixed olive and white when ripe.
Sown May 1, the variety will blossom June 25, and the pods will be suitable for plucking about the 12th of July.
It is one of the best varieties for the main crop. Similar to, if not identical with, Bellamy's Early Green Marrow.
Bedman's Imperial. Cot. Gard.
The plant generally produces a single stem, which is from three to four feet high; the pods are usually in pairs, but sometimes single, three inches and a quarter long, five-eighths of an inch broad, somewhat curved, and terminate abruptly at the points. Each pod contains six to seven peas, which are of an ovate form, and about a third of an inch in their greatest diameter. The ripe seed is pale-blue.