Though comparatively late, it is one of the best of the more recently introduced sorts, and well deserving of general cultivation. When the pods are gathered as fast as they become fit for use, the plants will continue to put forth new blossoms, and form new pods for an extraordinary length of time; in favorable seasons, often supplying the table for five or six weeks.
It is very tender and sugary, and little, if at all, inferior to the Champion of England.
In common with most of the colored pease, the ripe seeds, when grown in this country, are much paler than those of foreign production; and, when long cultivated in the climate of the United States, the blue or green is frequently changed to pale-blue or yellowish-green, and often ultimately becomes nearly cream-white.
Knight's Dwarf Blue Marrow.
A dwarfish sub-variety of Knight's Marrows, with wrinkled, blue seeds.
Knight's Dwarf Green Marrow.
Knight's Dwarf Green Wrinkled.
Plant about three feet high; pods in pairs, three inches long, three-fourths of an inch wide, flattish, and slightly bent. The ripe pease are of a light bluish-green color. It differs from the foregoing principally in the height of the plant, but also to some extent in the form of the pods.
Knight's Dwarf White Marrow. Law.
Knight's Dwarf White Wrinkled Marrow.