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Post by raymondo on Jun 17, 2014 17:26:30 GMT -5
Is Amish snap a real 'heritage' variety? I thought snap peas turned up spontaneously in the 1970s? T From what I can glean from the internet, snap peas have been around for a long time. The modern versions began with Sugar Snap, a cultivar developed by one Calvin Lamborn from crosses between shelling peas and snow peas. |
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Post by robertb on Jun 20, 2014 16:19:37 GMT -5
Crosses between shelling and mangetout peas aren't easy to do since there are two recessive genes involved, and this wouldn't have been understod before Mendel's work became well known. There are only a few shelling peas around with speckled seeds, as these seem to have been bred out way back. Mangetouts retain the speckled seeds until the end of the 19th Century, with single-coloured seeds appearing in the early 20th Century, or thereabouts. I can't prove this, but I suspect there was little or no crossing of the two types until Edwardian times.
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