In a discussion on peas before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mr. Ware said : " Among peas, the American Wonder, which originated in Canada, is rightly named. The vines are very small indeed - there are more peas than vines; it is a sweet, wrinkled variety, and a great acquisition. A succession of green peas is necessary to a perfect table, and this can be obtained, as with corn, by planting a succession of varieties. For the earliest, Mr.Ware recommended Dan O'Rourke, or any of its class, then American Wonder." Mr. Atkinson remarked that there is very little difference in the ripening of Carter's First Crop and the American Wonder peas; the latter is much superior to the former, and he would plant only the latter. After the first planting he would plant only Champion of England. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder had planted ten or fifteen varieties of peas, and found Dan O'Rourke a little the earliest. Breck's Excelsior is a splendid variety - about as early as the Dan O'Rourke. His selection of peas would be the same as Mr. Ware. John B. Moore could not conceive how any one could eat any other than a wrinkled pea. The American Wonder is all that has been claimed for it, and so nearly as early as the Dan O'Rourke that it is not worth while to plant the latter.

McLean's Advancer is good. Yorkshire Hero is more satisfactory than Champion of England; it is of equally good quality, a better cropper and not so tall.