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ters of two, which facilitates the picking. Like all wrinkled varieties, the quality of this remarkable pea is most excellent.
BURPEE’S QUANTITY.
Champion Of England.—This is a large growing late sort, and is very productive, with peas of delicious flavor. The vines grow to four or five feet in height, and this past summer I ate them in perfection fully a month after the other varieties had disappeared from the table.[1]
- ↑ Mr. Darlington’s remarks on the varieties of peas would be incomplete without reference to two remarkable now peas, obtained by crosses made some years since, but only now (1888) being introduced. These peas have been called Burpee’s Quantity (which is illustrated above), and Burpee’s Quality,—the former because it is the most productive of all, as many as ninety pods having been counted upon a single vine—the latter, because,
