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Aug' 13/55/ Examined Pods of all my Peas. The most remarkable were the Pois nain for smallest about half of largest; (but on other hand Hairs Dw' Mammoth has a pod often as large as the very largest of Mammoth)— Danecroft was remarkable for glossiness, Woodford Green Marrow, for extreme greeness & reticulated surface.— In shape, The Queen of Dwarfs remarkable for oval form — American Dwarf for the end being so much truncated; Thurston Reliance (& to somewhat less degree the true Pois Geant sans Parchemin) for being pointed at extremity. & Ne Plus Ultra for thickness & very rugged surface. Then we come to the class of Pois sans Parchemin, we have Sugar Peas, often much curved & looking like Pachenet —; the Pois sans Parchemin a grand cosses, curved à

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& with Peas showing very remarkably on the concave side. Then we have Lewis wonderful purple podded Pea. (The Peas of which when boiled were tinged with purplish) & the Pois Geant (true) pointed at end but not so much as the Thurstons Reliance.—

(NB The Queen of England Pea, which much resembles Thurstons Reliance is not pointed at end.) It is very interesting finding so many of the Peas sans Parchemin, in which Pod becomes an element of use, varying in appearance of Pod.